First thing first: Take a breath and please don't worry about this post, but do take note. (Sorry -- if that's the right word -- for the long, careful post. Skip to the fourth paragraph, if you wish.) Second: I am neither a Western Medical Doctor nor a Oriental Medical Doctor. (I am. however, a health professional; a person with a body, mind & energy; and someone who researches what he is curious about.) And I think this could be important for your health. In the powerful class about how to love ourselves before and after sleep time, Jim expressed an appropriate, healthy respect toward the idea of changing energy with a cold shower, or at least a 30 second finish to a warm one. He accurately said it may not be for everyone. The helpful sheet on this that I now use daily, before and after bed, is compact and doesn't present those cautions. Western research agrees with the benefits. Western and Eastern approaches both say we may need to do it carefully or even give it a pass. In the West there is data that for some people, a cold plunge/shower can be dangerous for their health (and for others, not). I'm more familiar with the Eastern view. There, it's said that intense coldness can cause serious health crashes (non-tech term), especially, again, for certain health profiles. This is especially true for people who have "Kidney Meridian" imbalances, especially "Kidney Yang Deficiency" (which I have). In this hallowed healthcare, "Kidney" is associated partially with those organs, plus bladder, and also with: the entire nervous system; rest, exhaustion and overwhelm; the emotion, fear; low back pain; knee pain; bones and teeth; inner quiet and its lack, hearing; urination; sexuality; our will; and our fundamental life energy. Considering that list, I though that, as a population, ADHDers might be more prone than neuro-typical folks to these imbalances. And "Oriental MD A.I." fully and avidly agrees, and offers the specific reasons. I hesitated to say this. My inner critic used to imagine that heeding my great aversion to an otherwise therapeutic intense chill suggests that I may just be resistant and I should just do it. (I mean, I've walked on fire!) And I wouldn't want to dissuade anyone unnecessarily from the potential benefits.

This is the final call from Cohort 2. This is them on the day the six weeks ended. 42 days ago, they sat exactly where you're sitting right now. This is the doorway. The same one every person in that video walked through. The replay of day 6 will be available soon! @Heather Jensen went from giving her best energy to a draining day job to taking back her mornings for her novel and screenplay after 43 years of bedtime procrastination. @Lynn Berry went from "too old, too fat, too arthritic, and too afraid to change" to opening her own Reiki practice at 72, befriending the body she came in afraid @Tracy Weiss went from rock bottom and almost hopeless to "I'm a whole new person, and I like myself now." @Sammy Boyster went from crash-landing into the program with no housing and a job that didn't fit to a job that works for her, stable housing, and finances back on track. @Darci Wert went from thinking about getting rid of her things so it'd be easier to clean her space after she died to launching a coaching business. @Sara Ellisson went from suicidal thoughts and the belief she had to struggle to prove her existence to choosing to stay, minute by minute, for little Sara inside her. @Sean Frost went from a frantic ball of energy flying blind in survival mode to slower, steadier, and able to live with the difficult thing without quitting. @Randy Keats went from almost joining another "ADHD productivity program" to finally looking deeper inside. @Beth St Claire went from a "time-wasting, unmotivated, avoidant woman" to productive, creative, and inspired, with her own personalised manual to take her forward. @Deb Brouwer went from burnt out and suspecting she was broken to understanding it was a reset, not a fix, with her arms held by community.