Saturday, 16 September 2023

A Horrific Cold Water Bathing Experience

A Terrifying yet Satisfying experience of

Cold-Water Bathing

The weirdest experience of my life till date.

I’m always trying to explore new things, new experiences and a lot more things which I’m unaware of. Sometimes I love these new things which I do but sometimes I’m messed up with this. But this time I tried something which I never thought I would ever try. Cold Water Baths in Winter at the temperature on which we don’t even want to feel water.

It was 29th of December when I went mad and decided to start cold water bathing for the next 30 days. The place where I reside is the city of extreme temperatures. It was 9 degree celsius on my first day. A perfect goosebumps moment. I was numb what to do. But the pledge was taken. There was no going back. So, I made myself strong and straightaway pulled one mug of cold water which went through my head to the bottom. I didn’t make a single noise but it was really tough to take that. The first mug was shaking but from that the fear was gone half a bit. So, I continued and felt refreshing. From then on, I realized the benefits of this. I will express my experiences to you all.

Reason why I started this:

● I am mad (for everyone), anyway I don’t care.
● I read some articles about cold water bathing and got excited but at the same time felt fear flowing throughout my veins.
● I wanted to remove this fear from my mind.
● To lead myself towards an energetic life and also wanted to increase my will power (I know no one has ever told you that cold bathing increases will power).

What I experienced:

Words will fall short if I start typing about this amazing experience but anyway, I will tell you the major changes that happened during and after this.

I felt all the negativity aka problems I had in my mind, came to a pause while bathing. Like someone in my head saying: “It’s a new day. Conquer it.” Well, that was my own voice chirping inside my head. So, what, who will say all this? Of course, I am the only one inside my bathroom. Coming on to the experience,
I felt serious positive vibes that were enough to push me towards
living a joyous day.
Alarm clocks are myth. For me, this is the real alarm bell to wake you up. Although we don’t bath on bed. Never Mind.
It helped me become more energetic and fresh throughout the day. However, I used body deodorants too.
I stopped being lazy. It increased my will power that was the most important thing which I badly needed at any cost. I know this is a gradual process and it was a big step towards it.

There are a lot of scientific benefits of this as well (e.g., calming itchy skin, increasing circulation, glowing hair and skin and many more). I hope you can google that. I just shared what I felt from inside.

What difficulties I faced:

The first day was the second toughest thing for me. Believe me, it was still backbreaking to take that cold spray on your body.
My grandfather passed away amidst this so I got bald. This was the toughest thing I faced. It felt like my head was inside freezer when the water was going through my head. It was that choking.
I got cold and fever in the second week. But the hunt was on though everyone forced me to step back.
Once, I had to bath at night. Doing that was horrific.
Being consistent was a real challenge. Luckily, I passed that test.

My suggestion to all:

I will suggest you to try cold shower at least once in winters. It will not do wonders but I smell positivity in this process. You’ll feel the energies too. Your working ability will improve you’ll feel the increasing will power. You’ll feel motivated once this fear is gone.

Though take care of your health along with that. It is not necessary to do that.
Drink warm water to remain well. Wearing cap and socks can help. There are some cons of this as well, beware of that.

And lastly if you are having bath less days, ignore this article and please
just start bathing, at least, doesn’t matter it is hot, cold or frozen water. Just don’t skip bathing.

I hope you loved this weird but satisfying experience. If you want think it was worth reading, please hit that like button and follow me for more experiences in future like this.

Friday, 8 September 2023

When Nostalgia hits you Hard

Cherishing best moments from the Past

The feeling of listening Milky Chance music and watching old photos.

One of my favorite stress-reliever activity is watching old photos/memories in my gallery. Yes, many say “we don’t need to stuck our minds in the past” but I say “for some time, to re-live and re-cherish the best days (till present day) we lived, is a serious stress-buster. It makes us love our lives more.”

Seeing old photos/memories (very colorful and full of life) makes me think now, if I am missing something big in this — what can be a beautiful life. What the world has seen in the past two years is traumatic. COVID-19 has changed our lives in many ways. That’s why while seeing old pics (the life without masks except those of batman and spiderman), I doubt if we’ll ever live like before. But the almighty has planned everything, all we have to do is to trust the almighty and hope for a better life ahead. No matter how hard it gets, we, humans, will find a way through anyhow.

Well, recently I have been listening to Milky Chance, a German rock band. Why I wrote that is because this band has got a beautiful vibe. It’s inexpressible actually what I feel when I listen to their songs. It actually takes me to a life where I haven’t reached yet, physically. I can feel the vibes that I am at an unknown yet unimaginable and beautiful place. Like, riding bicycle with my unfit-but-passionate guys in my mid-thirties at some gorgeous mountainous road or sitting with my partner at the stunning Miami beach with a glass of red wine and enjoying the sunset. Many more thoughts like these wander my mind while listening to Milky Chance’s songs. One more song which joins this list is — Sunset Lover by Petit Biscuit. One of the most soothing and wonderful music I have heard.

Thoughts come across my mind that I have to leave my bed immediately and do something out of my comfort zone to a create a life that I wish to live. I get a lot of things I have dreamt of doing in my mind. I want to live a life where I experience every bit of everything. By writing this I mean, I want to live in a village as well as experience best city life. I want to experience hottest as well as coldest place of the world. I want to feel the magic of meditation as well as endure the chaotic times. I want to go for clubbing as well as seek inside spirituality. That’s why it is “Every bit of every thing”. I don’t want to regret a small bit lying on my death bed saying “I would have done this or that.” I want zero regrets partnering me on my death bed.

So now, I’ll take a pen and a paper and write down my long term and short term goals, set up a deadline to it and start working for it. And I’ll create a bucket list of my DO’s and will keep on updating it. Sadly, this is the end of the article because this passage was particularly for my personal journal. So sorry that I will not share my goals with you all. To get the updates on my bucket list, you’ll have to sneak peek inside my diary which I know you won’t-or - cannot.

That is all from my side. Have a great day ahead.

Patience is the name of the Game

3 P’s you require to become Successful

The P you need to cover the distance between the two P’s, i.e. potential and performance is, patience.

Many, in fact all of us have potential in any particular skill. What we lack is delivering it at the right time i.e. performance.

This article is unique in it’s own way as I thought of writing something motivational with my unique touch. I decided to cover up the important factors required for success but there’s a condition. All the motivational words used in this article starts with P.

In the generation of reels & shorts, every gen-z wants success in no time. This won’t happen. This type of success does not exit, at least, currently. We are so result oriented that we skip to analyze our progress. Analyzing our progress plays an important role in improving ourselves. All we want is performance and if we do not get it, we quit. That means we lack in patience. In the big run, patience has to be there.

If we want to achieve something big, we have to stick to the process & have to be patient. That is when, you’ll be able to perform with your truest potential. You, only you can unlock ‘that’ version of yours. Though consistency does not starts with P but it can never be put out of equation. Just trust the process and you’ll see amazing improvement in your journey.

P.S. — Talking about the important P’s, we cannot sideline persistence and passion. We may face many challenges in our journey, what we need is to stick to it no matter how hard it gets. That’s when we have to be persistent. At the same time, we have to passionate towards our goal. We have to have that hunger to strive for success. And if we have the passion in our work, then becoming persistent can get a bit tad easier.

We’ll wrap this off here. It’s been fun writing this article. I hope you enjoyed as much. Thank-You for being patient reading this boring article.

Good Day!

Restrict Insta Usage and Become productive

A Quick 5-Day IG Break & The Outcome

How much does INSTAGRAM impact our mental life!

Do you know, Instagram, the most-used & the most-addictive app of our generation can affect your mental state? I’ll not state in which way, whether positive or negative but I’ll share my 5-day experience with you all & the rest I’ll leave it to you.

Before starting, I wanna tell you I’m a social media manager and spend many hours of my day on Instagram. So, some days back, I was working a lot on my clients, making contents, posts, putting stories, editing videos & a lot more. Though I was productive at that time, something in my head was not right. I was feeling tired, mentally. Mental tiredness is something which always gets sidelined in our country, India. We do not go (or wanna go) deeper in this. We think we are mentally strong enough to cope with anything, but I guess we are wrong. This is a real issue which needs to be looked after carefully.

This work is really hectic as you have to be on the screen most of the day. So, I decided to take a 5-day break from all social media applications and see what happens. I am quite sure many of you reading this would have done this once before. Whether during your exams or for some other reason. We all know how time-consuming social media (especially Instagram) is. But we hardly approach the mental side of this thing.

I scheduled all my work and put a stop on using the app. I wanna tell you while using my phone for any productive purpose, my fingers would nearly open Instagram, almost everytime. This particular situation comes under muscle memory. Your muscle learns what you do on a daily basis. I am thinking of writing a particular article on muscle memory. Coming back to the topic, I somehow resisted using it. I did zero screening as well for these many days. I was focused on my work. My daily routine went like — Getting up early — going for practice (I am an Athlete) — helping my mum with her stuff — producing ideas for future content — doing some other work for my start-up — writing — reading. In these 5 days, I was unaware of what was going on in the online (social media) world. I stuck to this routine and now will share the outcomes during this process.

Well, all I wanna say is that it was all worth it, really. I felt more productive and less distracted in my doings. I felt more open towards the outer world. I felt mentally stable. Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t mentally unstable before that. But my mental state was quite well positioned. I was more focused towards my goal. I had a lot more time for productivity. I got more creative. Ideas (productive ones) started flowing in my not-so-busy mind. I had more energy to use it for a better purpose. Not lying on this one, I felt happier.

We all get excited while watching reels on our favorite topics or interests. We love to see what others are doing and how much they are enjoying. This will give you happiness or joy for a very short term but for long term happiness, you will have to seek within & do something productive for yourself and others. On the other hand, watching others’ life on Instagram make many of us jealous of their lives and with that, we often question ourselves “When will I live like this?”

I wanna share what happened next. When this break ended, I opened my notifications-filled Instagram. I felt much more excited using the app this time around. The starting minutes were great but what lay ahead really pushed me to write this article. I was sitting on my couch enjoying Instagram tirelessly. I was watching stories of my friends. Some of them attend DJ concerts, some enjoy vacations, some post their achievements and certificates, and others showcasing their physically fit appearance. Honestly telling, I started doubting myself if I was on the right path or not. I started overthinking about my future. I got disturbed and distracted from my target. I started creating useless thoughts in my mind. I started comparing my lives with others’ lives and thought which is better. This is what I really felt.

This break gave me a lesson for a lifetime. Never ever get influenced by others’ lives and always keep your aim in mind and hustle hard to achieve it. Comparison sucks, really. Everyone’s purpose is different so search for yours and work for it. Always and always focus on your goals and never get distracted from that. It is your journey, live it in your own way. I am not promoting Royal Stag, by saying “it’s your life, make it large”, ha-ha. From now on, I’ll practice these types of breaks more often when I feel mentally retarded.

Hope you are still reading this boring yet effective article. May you get rid of all your distractions and unlock your best version soon. Keep hustling and enjoy as well as trust the process.

Happy Day, Readers! :)