

I started taking cold showers about a month before I ever picked up on the breathing. So without further ado, here are some thoughts:ġ.) The three pillars work best when they're ALL practiced in tandem. I wanted to write up a quick Q&A regarding what I wish I'd known at the beginning of this journey. Simply put, the benefits far outweigh any cons, and it's worth it to me to make this a daily practice for the rest of my life. I decided to keep at it and learn more.įast forward one year, and I've got a consistent practice of all three pillars of the WHM, and I'm "all-in" on the method.
#REDDIT WIM HOF METHOD SKIN#
I felt the sensation of cold-my skin could detect that cold beads of water were falling on me-but I didn't feel the negative perception of cold. Until, one day, as I was in my daily cold shower, I realized I didn't feel cold. A couple of weeks in, I determined that the practice was enjoyable as a sort of challenge to myself, but I planned to ditch it. I started by ending my daily showers with a dash of cold. And I definitely wasn't willing to shell out money for the Fundamentals course.īut still, I had practiced mindfulness meditation, and I saw cold-showers as sort of "mindfulness-adjacent," so I thought I'd give it a shot. I had no interest in spending 20 minutes a day sitting on the ground breathing, and daily cold-showers sounded like an unwanted exercise in masochism. Initially, I didn't plan on taking this very far. For those skeptical about starting the Wim Hof Method:
