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Today: 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing and then a cold shower. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

21st winter-bath this season Yesterday: 10 min of weight-lifting. Today: Winter-bath down at the beach, 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing and then 10 min of weight-lifting. Gosh. This combination is so good. I've really found the perfect little high-intensity full-body weight-lifting program for me. It is fun, sustainable, and I'm getting stronger and stronger for very little investment of time. This together with the Wim Hof method is really perfect for this winter.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing today. Unfortunately I need to sleep some more now before going to work night-shift, so I won't have time for my cold-exposure, but that makes me extra glad that the breathing felt really deep and profound today.

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3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, 10 min of weight-lifting, and a cold shower, today. Super-nice :-)

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and a cold shower, today. So nice. The cold showers are really efficient as well. They certainly gives a really good cold exposure. Not better or worse than ice-bathing, just a different approach to it that gives a different feel. It is very nice to have different tools to alternate between - it makes it easier and more fun to keep it going. Seems like I'm not going about this as intense as I did last winter, but the need for emotional healing demanded more of me last winter. Now I'm much better off, and I can more enjoy the foundation that was built last winter.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and a cold shower, this morning. So nice :-)

20th winter-bath this season So this day has been so good. After last journal post I went for a drum-circle in nature in an island you can access via a bridge from town. 10-12 people (many of them are friends) were there. First we sat inside of a bunker from the war - an old cannon-house, and we had a really cool jam insida of that thing. I played a lot of didgeridoo. After we were done with the drumming we made a huge bon-fire were we spent a lot of quality time around together, we also did a little bit of drumming around that fire - outiside in nature with a really beautiful view over the ocean, before the inner circle of us continued down to join the bhajan / mantra-singing at the local yoga-studio (which is also a really cool café and concert scene). The bhajan was really beautiful. Oh my gosh. Such a beautiful group of people. I feel in love with these people. After I came home I saw a lot of cool musical stuff on youtube while I had pauses to play my own guitar. I even made a new melody that fits very well with a Shiva-mantra. Felt so nice to sing my own melody while I was playing guitar. Then I went and took an ice-bath. And that was totally awesome. And now I'm sitting here. Writing about my day. Wow.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, 10 kettlebell snatches on each hand with a 20 kg kettlebell, and a cold shower. I intend to continue with ice-bathing, but it was nice to get some juice back on my cold showers again as well.

10 min of weight-lifting this morning, and then a cold shower. So nice :-D

19th winter-bath this season 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and an ice-bath down at the sea, this morning. So nice. This gives me such a reboot, mentally and emotionally. Whatever I get caught up in, it is like it gets washed out, and I return back to freshness and clearity.

Yesterday: Only a cold shower. Today: 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing and a cold shower. Gosh, those cold showers are actually more demanding than ice-bathing.

18th winter-bath this season Haha. Soooo gooood. This is the strongest medicine I've found so far <3

17th winter-bath this season What a day! Lots of practice today. And lots of music. Started the day with 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing and 10 min of weight-lifting. Then a friend came and visited me and we had a jam-sessions together on drums. Went for a walk in the forest after that and found a nice spot where I sat down and meditated for 20 min. Then I went and had a coffee with another friend and we also had a drum-session together. Came home and played more drums while I was playing Krishna Das kirtans on youtube, which lead into playing guitar and singing mantras. And then I did 30 min of yoga and went and did my bath down at the sea. Been playing a lot of guitar lately. Often several hours per day. So it was really nice to do some yoga again to balance out some of the tensions that I've been collecting because of that. I think more yoga will certainly bring more flow and confidence to my guitar-playing. Anyways, the ice-bath at the end of this long session of really cool flow was just totally awesome. So fresh and invigorating. And if my creative processes can sometimes make me a little bit too hyper and ungrounded, wow, ice-bathing can certainly calm me down again.

16th winter-bath this season. 10 min weight-lifting, a bath down by the sea, and then 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing. So nice :-)

10 min weight-lifting, 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and a cold shower, this morning. Sweet :-)

15th winter-bath this season Just came home from my second bath today. So nice :-)

14th winter-bath this season 10 min weight-lifting, ice-bath, and then 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing. So nice. 4th time my friend is joining. He is getting addicted it seems like. So nice to just power through the winter like this.

13th winter-bath this season 3rd bath with my friend. He is in deep shit love trouble. Hehe. It will be interesting to see if this is something that can help him. For me - the water almost doesn't feel cold anymore. It is pretty crazy. The whole thing is more and more just a sensation that I find very pleasant. I almost didn't start to breathe heavy today either, but a little bit of heavy breathing, but somehow I hope that doesn't go away. I crave that sensation of shock when I first enter the water. It is so nice to just relax into the heavy breathing.

12th winter-bath this season No practice yesterday. Today: 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing and a bath down at the beach. It was extra nice this time. Almost didn't want to get out of the water. My mind was getting so still. Seems like I'm much better conditioned for this this year because I've been cold showering for a year. I was surprised I met such a resistance in myself for starting up again this year since I thought cold showering for a year would make it a lot different this winter than last, but now that I have been getting back into the groove it seems like the cold showers has had a great effect after all. It is like it doesn't really cost me anything at all to go and do a cold plunge. And I don't feel like I need any restitution afterwards. So awesome.

11th winter-bath this season So I took a bath again with my friend who joined me yesterday. He seems really intent on this. I'm very impressed by his attitude. It is really nice to experience community while in the water together. When I came home I took a warm shower and then I did 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing. So nice.

Ninth and tenth winter-bath this season. Early in the evening I did a bath down at the beach together with a friend who wants to take up winter-bathing again. It was so fun being the two of us. He is one of my closest friends, and it was really awesome to share with him that fire that our session ignited. Later at night I felt like meditating so I meditated for 30 min in silence sitting in half-lotus, and after that I did 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing. Then I went and did my second bath for the day. That was beyond awesome. Immediately after the bath I did two yoga-poses and sat in meditation for a few minutes before dressing. That was really something. Like really soaking in the effect and becoming totally relaxed and surrendered into the situation before calmly taking the clothes back on. And then I came home and took a good and long warm shower. So awesome.

Eight winter-bath this season. Went down to beach and did my bath, came home and did 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing and 10 min of weight-lifting, and then I took a warm shower. So sweet. The nice thing about the Wim Hof method this winter is that I have very few traces left of my previous bi-polar tendencies, so I don't get all manic about the effect it gives me. It feels more balanced. Just something that makes me feel refreshed, healthy, and in balance.

Seventh winter-bath this season 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and then I went down to the beach and did my bath. Wow. So nice again today. It just feels so fresh and healthy. My mind goes completely still and I just feel like my whole system gets a re-start. Every bath now I see that I'm getting more and more climatized to it again. Like more and more really enjoying the cold and feeling at home being in the water. So grateful.

Sixth winter-bath this season. 2 sessions of 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, yesterday, but no cold-exposure. And today again, I did my sixth winter-bath for this season, and altogether 2 sessions of 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing - first early in the day and now just right after my bath. The bath today was so magical. This is obviously something one has to climatize to again, even though I have taken cold showers the whole year, but today, wow, it was really something. I was really getting back to that sense of deep relaxation while in the water (and not just afterwards), and I was turning my attention to all the nature surrounding me. The forces of nature felt really beautiful. It was a really intense sense of relaxation and power at the same time. I didn't hurry to put my clothes back on again afterwards, but I really took my time and did it very mindfully and relaxed. When I was walking home I felt like a hero. Ganesha Warrior Power was exploding in my heart. This is really powerful shit. So grateful I re-discovered it this winter <3