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This article explores how cold water immersion (CWI) influences mental health, examines its application in treating specific conditions such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, and delves into the scientific mechanisms underlying these effects.
Setting goals is important, but ambitious targets without supporting habits get old fast. Incorporating helpful habits into your daily routine can enable you to shift the parameters of your comfort zone, increasing the strength and resilience of your mind and body.
“I make far fewer excuses now. I just get on with it. And my health is better than it was. I’ve just come out of a relatively rough period, but as you know, I got straight back out there and I was glad to be in [the cold] for two minutes. And it’s nice to know, I thought I was back to square one, but I’m not, I’m still fairly cold-adapted.
Stephen Manderson, also known as Professor Green is a rapper, singer, songwriter, and, most recently, mental health activist from London. His relationship with the cold went public when he appeared on Channel 4’s Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof (2022) as one of eight celebrities who took on extreme cold water challenges to help tackle different aspects of their mental health.
Resolutions and goals are good but building habits are better. You don’t have to wait for a new year, check out five healthy habits you can start this week.
When you think about being exposed to the cold, happiness probably isn’t the first feeling that comes to mind. However, research has proven that the colder you are, the happier you are!
We all have mental health, increasingly, we’re becoming more aware of what impacts it and how modern living doesn’t quite align with our caveman brains. 19.86% of adults globally are experiencing a mental illness (mhanational.org) and this figure is increasing.
Not unfamiliar to our own team, Brass Monkey was developed as the option founder Dan, wish he could have found when searching for solutions to his own mental health frustrations.
After a year of cold showers, a trip to Poland with Wim Hof and one dodgy chest freezer ice bath later, I knew the cold could help me. That’s why Brass Monkey was founded, from the need to conveniently access the deep cold to improve my own mental health.
