I hate cold water and other reasons why I run into the sea
I’m swimming under water
My body undulating like an eel on the ocean bed
It is calm and cold…
and risky.
There is noise up there,
Commotion.
I can hear it. Rather I feel it.
Things seem to be happening.
And down here, it is lifeless and lonely;
My breath is what keeps me going,
yet, it is depleting,
but still, it keeps me going for now; How long do I have l
Sometimes I just need to feel life, with every one of my pores open. When I came out of the water, I felt completely energized. I felt luminous. Then I got dressed again and walked into the forest just above the beach.
Marina Abramovic • Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Wim takes cold to terrifying extremes (his retinas froze once while swimming in a lake under sheets of ice), but you can start with a cold water “finish” to showers. Simply make the last 30 to 60 seconds of your shower pure cold. Among others in this book, Naval Ravikant (page 546), Joshua Waitzkin (page 577), and I now do this. Josh does it with h
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