This is really sparking a fire in me. Great video! Excellent tool for helping to really anchor into a deep abiding calm. I've been dabbling in exposing myself to cold in the shower, but yesterday I felt like it was time to "up the game", and decided to g for it. I love it. I didn't last long but I knew just like everything else, it's a process. One step at a time. To let one's body inform. Like apnea diving which is a bit of an obsession rn. This is a new place for me. Until recently if I wanted to get somewhere, I'd try to bypass the steps. Patience patience patience. Deeper insights of how I only cheat myself this way. I don't want to miss a thing anymore! This video has answered key questions, such the effect on my depleted metabolism (and the wisdom of abstaing on low calorie days), and opened up new insights for me like enhancing the practice with the right mindset. The decision to "go for it" speaks to the topic of motivation, which for me refle ts my state: a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. What I've come to know about myself is that positive reinforcement only takes me so far. The bags on the balloon are simply still too weighed down. A boost of gorgeous energy from a high energy individual will lift me off the ground, but not far and not for long unless I'm getting regularly streams of it. And a new sense of sovereignty won't allow me to be dependent any longer. Through reflections in the field of late, the message is clear: This is yours and yours alone. It's time to find your own answers, your own truth. To clear those bags and get aloft on your own wind. Support as needed, of course, but, my ship my journey. Find it inside. This is what I've been seeking for some time and am only just finding the courage to do, with help from my friends of course. I should say, the pendulum has brought me back to the courage. So I now know that it usually takes a good whooping to scare me back to the path. So be it. I welcome it gratefully, it is guiding me home. Speaking to fat loss specifically, it's taken me injuring my gastrointestinal tract and related organs to the point of alarm that's been the motivator there. Making myself sick enough that I simply cannot eat like I used to. I picture the scene from Shawshank Redemption (wouldn't be complete without at least one movie reference) where the fella is crazed and ready to cut his fellow inmates throat and Andy, the steady one finally gets through to him when he lowers his voice and says gently "look at his neck Brooks, it's bleeding". Look at what you're doing to yourself. I just can't keep myself in prison anymore, I need to become ready at any given moment to answer the call of higher self. And that's my why: There's nowhere else I need to be than SGOB. Nowhere I'd rather be. How could I? Why would I want any more of that blind madness? This morning I woke up anxious. The first thing I do is start the breathing (thank you for the reminder of Ujjayi breathing; learned this decades ago but forgot. Will be sharing my experiences with this profound technique) and settle back into my space. Higher self sends me uplifting moments from my life when I felt expansive and free; reminding me what's beyond the dark cloying cloud of fear. She's got my back, so now I got to have hers. Healthiest love affair I ever had. May the earth calm and steady you. May the water wash away your fears. May the wind cool and calm you. May Sol light your path and dry your tears. 🙏