
HOMEMADE SQUEEZING DEEP THERAPY HOW TO
When combined with extreme breathing and the extreme mindset it requires to do this, submerging in super-cold water is the fastest way to learn how to override the body’s autonomous systems.

Finding what works for you is the beauty of having a DIY freezer cold tub at home. IN fact, it’s recommended you ease yourself into the cold by starting with higher temperatures. We need an aggressive way to break our self-defeating bad habits, and this is one way to just drop right into an all-out internal self-improvement confrontation which tempers both body and mind in the process. The willingness to subject ourselves to extreme cold is part of a conscious effort to change addictive behaviors and another powerful tool in our chronic pain toolbox. This is part of the appeal because we want to feel and we want to have a connection with our body, and we want to be in control more often in our lives.

Or perhaps to have a different kind of pain. The cold shocks the pain away and provides you with a new sensation that begins to retrain your brain with what it feels like to have no pain. This incidentally also shocks away all your worries and thoughts about your pain, because you are forced to become aware else be defeated by the fight-or-flight animal-mind response. Use the cold to retrain your brain and ease your pain The burning goes away and is replaced with a form of bliss for the body if you can coerce yourself to become one with the cold. If you so choose, you can over-ride your instinct to run by bringing your self-awareness directly into your entire body to consciously calm it down. Either you’re going to feel like it’s burning and want to jump out, or you can embrace the cold and feel how it wakes you up. The results I’m having are remarkable. The goal is ten minutes submerged at 50☏ every day, and I’m pushing both the total time submerged and temperature a bit closer every week.Ĭold exposure provides a cardiovascular workout, promotes rapid body-wide anti-inflammation effects, and brings your consciousness vs body-mind system into stark reality. Starting submerged for only two minutes in 57☏ water, I worked my way up to 07:45 (mm:ss) in 52☏ water after eight weeks. This DIY cold tub therapy at home is the next order-of-magnitude of on-demand chill-factor! Even on days when I didn’t have a chance to soak in the cold tub, I still start my day with cold showers – which I’ve been doing for many years already.

I put a 20-cubic-foot freezer in the garage about the middle of May and try to get a cold soak in every day as part of my chronic pain management practice. I’ve been practicing Wim Hof Method by fully submerging myself in super-cold water.
