Wim Hof argues that winter is the best time for cold showers because they strengthen your immune system and fight depression. He says the practice is simple: take one daily and use your mind to switch your body into a powerful state.
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I've been reading a lot about the comments and one of the things that stood right out of there was what to do when winter comes and the motivation is not there to go into the cold. In the summer it's really nice, it's nice sunshine, you go out, it's not so cold. But when it is cold, going into the deeper cold, that's quite difficult. And I can understand that. But I tell you, right in the winter you get the most of profit. It's a— you get the most of result by doing this. The cold trains your immune system to be boosted, and that's what you need to get no flu, no colds, no inflammation, depression. All that is not going to happen. How that physiologically works is a whole book. The thing is, the result of going into the winter and having your motivation— your motivation should be, hey, I want to tackle the flu, the cold, the depression in the winter. Can I do it? Yes. What do you got to do? Just take the damn cold shower. I'm sorry, damn cold shower. It's a heavenly cold shower. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing. I make of every winter a summer. Behave as if you are in the summer. Think about that. That is the power of your mind being able to switch your body into a powerful being. Make of your winter a summer. That should be your motivation. Wow. Amazing exercises. Not only physical, absolutely the mind. The sky was not the limit. The mind, it is. You can take it on this winter. Let's go.
