08/10/2023
¥ AID Muscle Recovery, Relieve Pain & Boost your Mood
The last 4 weeks I explore on my own body the benefits
around combining cold water immersion, breathwork, and commitment practices. I can feel after 4 weeks the profound effects on blood pressure and the changes on the autonomic nervous system, which controls automatic physiological processes like heart rate. By combining breatwork, with coldexposure and meditation increases my overall energy, boosts my immune system, improves my sleep, helps my body heal faster.
Exposing your body to cold water causes the blood vessels in submerged areas to narrow (known as vasoconstriction), which directs blood to your organs.
Plus, water exerts pressure (known as hydrostatic pressure) promotes blood flow to major organs like the heart, brain, and lungs, according to research. When more blood moves toward your major organs, it’s able to gather more oxygen and nutrients.
As soon as you emerge from the cold water, those same blood vessels expand (known as vasodilation). When that happens, the oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood gets pumped back to your tissues, helping remove waste products, such as lactic acid, and lower inflammation, per research.
Using cold water immersion on a regular basis may also have long-term benefits for your heart and blood vessels. Around every blood vessel is a muscle, so just like doing a bicep curl strengthens your biceps, cold water immersion strengthens your blood vessels.
And the best of all, strenghtens your inner spiritual muscle. Becoming more at ease, energized and happy.
The beauty about cold water immersion is, by putting yourself consciously into survival mood, your autonomous nervous gets activated. There is no space to think about work, relationship issues or anything else.
By consciously hijacking your brain and focus on relaxation and ease instead of pain you build up over time more resilliance to meet life more effortless.
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