Your Body Speaks Your Mind

 If your mind is thinking and you are feeling, then your body is making chemicals and hormones whilst being influenced by chemicals and hormones. Without these chemicals and hormones there would be no feelings and vice versa. We are body and mind! Therefore just as a sedentary lifestyle  leads to physical defects, so do emotions repressed, they manifest from within. The emotions that are most repressed are grief, fear and rage.

You can boost your immunity, positively impacting your emotions by :

 Eating nutritious foods high in vitamins and minerals

 Getting enough sleep

 Getting enough exercise

 Watching funny movies or reading funny articles, because laughter is the best medicine

 Listening to music

 Getting frisky with your partner, alone or whatever

 And finally, the one that takes will power but has, oh so many benefits, an ice cold shower

Ice Cold Titbits :

Reduce Stress

 Cold showers train your nervous system to be more resilient to stress. Research has proven that winter swimming produces oxidative stress, and repeated exposure increased tolerance to environmental stress. Exposure to repeated intensive short-term cold stimuli is often applied in hydrotherapy, which is used in physical medicine for hardening. 

Promote Fat Loss

 The level of two hormones increase in our bodies when we shiver from a cold shower or exercise. And these hormones, FGF21, found in brown fat ( brown fat burns energy off and white fat leads to obesity ) and irisin, which is produced by muscles, are capable of converting ordinary fat cells to beneficial brown fat cells. It is estimated that 10 to 15 minutes of shivering can provide the same results as an hour of moderate exercise.

Ease Depression

 Lowering the temperature of the brain is known to have neuroprotective and therapeutic effects, and can relieve inflammation, a known mechanism in depressive illness. Exposure to cold activates the sympathetic nervous system and increases blood level, the release of norepinephrine and the production of beta-endorphins, giving one a sense of well-being. A cold shower sends an overwhelming amount of impulses, due to the high density of cold receptors in the skin, from nerve endings to the brain resulting in an anti depressive effect.

Improve Immune System

 Shivering causes an increase in metabolic rate and activates the immune system.

Improve Circulation

 Exposure to cold forces the body to redirect blood to vital organs by circulating blood more efficiently.

Improve Lymphatic System

  The contractions of the muscles over the whole body caused by a cold shower forces the lymphatic system to push lymph fluids throughout the body, stopping them from pooling, as it would in a compromised or inefficient system and removes  waste from cells to help you fight against disease.

Improve Sleep

 Wide-eyed is a well known effect of the ice cold shower. But, after the initial shock of the shower, the body relaxes and calms, making sleep better and deeper. Insomniacs are often advised to take a cold one.

Instil Discipline And Will Power

 It takes great mental strength, to regularly, do something one is resistant to. Over time this discipline and will power will become a habit that will echo throughout your life.

 Your body will get stronger as you train it to adapt to stressors.

Embrace The Cold