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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

3 more rounds of Wim Hof breathing today before going to bed. I almost went down to the beach and did another winter-bath, but I'm glad I showed some restraint regarding this. I have already had a cold shower and a winter-bath today, so no need to become burned out already, even though I would probably have becomed very high from it, but I rather tried to cool things down with some more breathing before going to bed. I didn't expect to become so turned on by the Wim Hof method again as I had a slow start this winter, so I better just build it up gradually again.

Fifth winter-bath this season. Nice! So good! :-)

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, 10 min of weight-lifting, and a cold shower. So glad the inspiration on the Wim Hof method is back again :-D But the weight-lifting is the most awesome part of it right now. Holy smokes. So fun.

3 more rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and then a cold shower. Hurra. I'm back on the Wim Hof vibe.... Hehe.... And the days are gradually getting lighter again, so this is a nice way of moving into the spring.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and then I went outside and sat in the sun by the sea and mediated for a while. So nice. After yesterdays bath I can really start to feel that winter is giving me energy again. There was some unexpected resistance this time, but it is so nice to tune into the clearity and sharpness and stillness of the winter again.

Fourth winter-bath this season. So I repeated my 10 min weight-lifting routine in the evening, and felt so fired up after it that I started thinking about doing a winter-bath today as well. Today it was really fresh and awesome, and I had that urge and longing for it that I had a lot of last winter. It feels so fresh and good right now. Like my whole system has had a really nice reboot. Seems like I was just a bit hesistant to get into this again, but I'm about to find the groove and passion for it again. Didn't expect it to be like this since I've been taking cold showers for the whole year, but I guess they are a bit different after all. This is also my 16th day without cannabis, and maybe it does actually take some effort to get out of that comfortable haze. Now I feel fresh, clean, strong, confident, and passionate.

10 min weight-lifting, a cold shower, and then finishing up with 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing. Gosh. I really love this weight-lifting routine that I'm having. 10 min of high intensity full-body exercises. Seems like I can easily do that every day.

Third winter-bath this season. A friend invited me to join for a winter-bath this evening. I hesitated but I joined. Doesn't feel like I have the same drive on this as I had last winter. I was more frustrated about the pandemic and everything last winter, and winter-bathing offered a huge release regarding those frustrations. There are a lot less frustrations to release these days. But now that I'm just out of the shower after my third winter-bath I feel super-fresh. So maybe I just haven't got into the groove about it yet. It certainly is a very fresh and up-lifting thing.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, 10 min of weight-lifting, and a cold shower.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, 10 min of full-body weight-lifting exercises, 20 min of vinyasa flow yoga, and a good and long cold shower. Gosh. I really love the kettlebell snatch that I'm doing. My whole body gets stronger from it. I'm noticing new little things all the time. Like how my grip strength improves. Or how many muscles are activated when you drop the bell to the floor again after having had it over the head - it activates so many muscles when you have to break it at the end so that it doesn't slam into the floor. That is where the grip strength gets the most activated as well. The exercise also activates some really strong psychological forces when you have lifted the bell over your head and the body is fully activated. It is a very strong power pose. I have a really efficient 10 min high intensity program now.

3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing today. Nothing else. Very tired today. Glad I'm having some days off work. 13th day without cannabis.

Second winter-bath this season. I celebrated New Years Eve together with some good friends. We had a really awesome music-jam, and at midnight when we went out to see the fireworks I took a bath in the sea. Pretty awesome to be in the sea while the fireworks exploded everywhere. I was pretty ecstatic afterwards. I also did 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing twice yesterday, and some weight-lifting. I worked day-shift yesterday, and I was in a really awesome flow. No practice today yet, except I have been jamming with my friends a lot.

Cold shower, 3 rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and weight-lifting today. Really awesome day. 10th day without cannabis. I'm pretty sure flow-states when I'm at my job are waaaaay more accessible when I'm not in a perid where I frequently smoke. My job just seems so much more interesting again. The flow I was in today was just really amazing.

A new breakthrough in my guitar-playing. Holy smokes! This has gradually been developing over some months now, but I can finally see that my guitar-playing is really starting to grow. I'm not just repeating old patterns anymore, but I'm continuously adding on new things to my vocabulary. I have enough tools in my toolbox now that I can alternate back and forth between so that it never gets boring to play, and all the different tools mutually continue to strenghten each other and gives me a lot of inspiration to add on new things. I'm not exactly sure why I don't feel stuck anymore, but I think it has a lot to do with realizing I can just trust my inclinations and I don't need to form a picture in my head about where this is supposed to lead. I can just practice whatever I feel inspired to practice, and now I have enough skills to alternate between so that it just continues to grow. There is of course some very clear patterns that I'm repeating, which is the foundation for everything, but on top of that I'm just adding on whatever I'm inspired by that particular day. I also like to repeat everything that I have learned so far, so that I quickly play through my whole vocabulary in order to rehearse it and strengthen it. My mental attiude towards this has also changed. I think I have become more honest about how stuck and frustrated I feel at times, but I'm learning not to feed those sensations and instead bringing in a much wiser thought in my head that tells me the right things in order to keep me motivated and relaxed about the process. It feels like I'm on the brink of this thing really opening up now. This is one of my biggest dreams - to experience flow and growth in my guitar-playing. And it feels like I'm already living that dream. Everytime I pick up my guitar these days I find it very enjoyable. That is all I have been asking for. As always it is about getting out of my head and into the present and just enjoying the process. Holy smokes how frustrated I've been about this before. Haha. Always struggling trying to get somewhere based on some picture in my head about where I'm supposed to be. Guitar-playing can totally be a much better thing to go deeper with than all these things I've been exploring this pandemic: rollerskating, skydiving, kayaking, rock climbing, etc. It will totally fullfill, and more, whatever I was searching for in all those things. I just figured lately that what I need is a daily creative discipline with something, and *boom* when I decided I was going to focus on guitar for a while now regarding that, suddenly I was starting to think and feel so much better about the whole thing. I've been playing pretty consistently now for a long time, but this thing has really been growing now over the last months. Not long ago I was telling a friend about my ambitions and frustrations with guitar, and it simply said: It sounds like you need discipline. And that really hit home. And now I'm just really starting to experience how fun and creative a guitar-playing discipline can be. I'm also a very competitive person. I always try to beat my friends in whatever we do. Haha. But I've always sucked so hard in guitar-playing compared to so many of my friends who are gifted muscicians. But now I can totally see that I'm going to do whatever it takes to catch up with them. It just take focus, discipline and to keep on nurturing my ambitions. Guitar is also I really cool thing I can use in my job as a social worker, so whatever skills I develop here will totally enhance my career. In fact I already use guitar in my job every so often whenever I'm working with a patient who likes to play or who likes to sing mantras or listen to me sing mantras as a way of getting help to relax. Basically I just need to continue this good habit of not beating myself up anymore about it and instead continue to enjoy it as I have been doing lately.