So in an hour or so, after I've had dinner and some time to relax, I will take my last cold shower of the month, and with it, I will complete the cold shower discomfort challenge that I gave myself for January.
Looking back on that first, terrifying shower, I am proud of myself for having seen this thing through. There were no transcendental breakthroughs, no silver bullet health benefits, nothing flashy. What I gained was something more subtle and, I hope, more durable. There is a big part of me that doubts my ability to follow anything through to the end, and I was able to quash that, not completely, but significantly. I am proud of myself.
Will I continue to take cold showers after midnight tonight? Yes, I think I will. I enjoy the refreshing and invigorating feeling it gives me. But I think I will also take warm showers. And I think that I'll probably be toggling the temperature from cold to warm and back again within the same shower.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I will also be much more willing to plunge into cool or cold bodies of water in the future. That in itself will add some spice to my life, so that's a sweet bonus as well.
I still haven't decided what my discomfort challenge for February will be. I've got to figure it out before I go to sleep though! I'll likely post on it tomorrow morning. In the meantime, here are the final songs for the Cold Shower Playlist...
- Everything Went Numb by Streetlight Manifesto
- If and When We Rise Again by Streetlight Manifesto
and to cap it off tonight, I will go with
- Break on Through by The Doors
No one knows about this blog yet, but I think that I feel comfortable revealing it to some people now that the first month has been a success! See y'all in February!
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