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Unknown
So I was in Detroit, Michigan at Auschwitz. I had never heard of a fit's before. So if you're like me and that's an unknown to you, it's basically a bathhouse with saunas and a cold plunge pool, as well as sometimes some spa services.

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Unknown
So I had gone in the dry sauna for a while, sort of in and out based on what I could tolerate. And then I just said, I want to go in the pool. So I made my way over there and as I was entering into the pool, I took my watch off this one right here, and I glanced at it.

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Unknown
So at 6:39 p.m., set it down on the side of the pool. And then I went into the water. And so when I was in the water, definitely at first I was really uncomfortable, the feeling of like, why am I doing this? I want to hurry. I want to get out like that hurried feeling of, no, no, no, I want to do this.

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Unknown
And I was in that space for a bit and I noticed I looked over, there was somebody else, from the group that I was in over by the side of the pool where I was, but further in and she looked relaxed and trying to really focus, and I thought, that looks like a good idea. So I, you know, face the side of the pool.

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Unknown
And I close my eyes and I just relaxed. But I wasn't relaxed at first. I was still noticing the cold or the cold. And then at some point, because I had caught on a cold lunch before, I knew that I didn't want to just keep focusing on the cold. So I started to relax a little bit more and notice what was feeling good about the water.

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Unknown
I notice how my legs were a little bit buoyant, and the water that my legs feel soft in the water. And as I kept focusing on that, the more pleasing feelings I stopped focusing and how cold it was. And then eventually I started to not feel cold at all. And around this time some other people came into the pool.

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Unknown
Another couple women and some woman was saying, I can't do this, I can't do this. I don't like cold. I can't say it's not good for me. I can't handle it. And they were in and they were out. And then another group came in and they sat and they chatted and they were in for a bit. And I felt like maybe that distraction and talking and maybe they've done this before too, was helping them to just sort of be leisurely in the water.

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Unknown
And when you're out. And then some other people came in and they hung out. And then I decided at some point I felt something, a little bit of a shift internally where I started to feel old again, but not heightened cold. It was just a little bit of a deeper pool I could feel. And I thought, you know what, maybe I'll get out now.

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Unknown
So I started to walk out of the pool. I went over to where my watch was on the side of the pool, and I'm still in the water. And I glanced at my watch and I look and I think, I think my brain's not working right. I can't, it's at the right time. Am I seeing that right now?

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Unknown
And I'm like, no, actually my brain is working. Okay. I got in at 6:39 p.m. and I was exiting at 7:11 p.m. and I thought, oh, that is weird, cool and strange. And so I got out of the water in disbelief, thinking, I don't know how that just happened. And then I went into another sauna for a bit.

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Unknown
I went and changed, and as I was changing, it dawned on me. I was able to be in the water for 30 minutes. Not because I have some super great skill. I'm a woman. I'm a mom. I'm a typical person who happened to be able to be in the water for 30 minutes because a couple things. One, I realized I was focusing on what felt good in the water, what I could find that felt good in water more than I was focusing on the cold and the part that created resistance.

00:03:45:09 - 00:04:11:16
Unknown
And the second part of this was that I was like a child with an open mind, trying something for the first time, I had let go of any preconceived notions of what I could or couldn't do, or what was safe for me, or wasn't safe because I had lunch before. But I was typically in the water for about 10 to 11 minutes, and so my brain registered as that's the time frame I can do.

00:04:11:18 - 00:04:29:24
Unknown
And I also had been served some information somewhere along the way that it's safe to be in the water up to 11 minutes after that, you could go into hypothermia. No clue if there's any validity to that, but my brain sunk in on that, said you that too. When I was in that water, all of those thoughts were gone.

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Unknown
They were out of my way. And I was truly like a child with an open mind, trying something for the first time. So my question to all of you, that is, what can you do? Or what could you do if you let go of what you thought you could or couldn't do or should or shouldn't do, and just became like a child with an open mind?

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Unknown
Thank you for sharing, Andrea. Yeah. You're welcome. I love that story. I think the first thing that comes to mind is that so the the only thing you were focusing on is what felt good. Yeah. Well, at first I wasn't right. Like, we don't I didn't like things happen to us and we go right into it. So I don't feel good.

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Unknown
And, you know, we all do. And I could feel that happening. But I also knew that if I could just relax enough and focus on something that felt better, I would be able to relax more and more and more and be able to get more from that experience much. So, I think it holds true for everything, right?

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Unknown
Like it's like when we experience something and we become afraid, we become nervous. We tell ourselves how this can't be, and we start to fight the reality of what we don't like. Right? It can be with a partner, it can be with family. It can be with something we're trying. It can be with a sport, an activity, anything.

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Unknown
We go into resistance, we can start to seek out what feels better. We start to feel better. Doesn't mean everything's fixed. We just start to feel better. Once we start to feel a little more relaxed. So we feel better. And if we can then open up our minds to not staying attached to. I can't usually do this. I'm only able to do that.

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Unknown
We can let that go. Now. We open up to see what's truly possible for us versus what we've limited ourselves to for so long. Yeah, so I'm thinking about the thought process. So was it ever, you know, when you're like doing maybe a plank and you're counting down 60s and you're doing it. So I hit 60s, I'm like, okay, 60 more, and then you hit 60s, you're like, okay, 60 more.

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Unknown
Was it like that incremental push or were you just kind of in a meditative state of just like, I'm just here now and that's it? Yeah. You know what? I wasn't actually trying for anything. So it shifted my energy. I wasn't and and I know exactly what you're talking about because that's a great way to, like, move through our threshold.

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Unknown
Right. To hit that. And I hit that. I did that. And in this case it was more based on what feels good here, what feels better. And I kept doing that, and I wasn't even realizing what my recipe was. I was just instinctively doing it. I was seeking it out. Yeah. And that was creating a level of peace within me that put me in a different state.

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Unknown
Yeah. So it's been a while. I was there with you, but it's been maybe a month and a half since that day. Have you been able to kind of transfer this realization of focusing on the good in other parts of your life? I have to some degree, it's easy to fall back into old habits. They're they're well wired, so it takes time to move through them.

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Unknown
But I have referred to it in my mind in certain moments where I, I've gone into resistance over something. And I would have to say the other part of that is, is, pushing myself, not pushing, but, what's the word I'm looking for? Yeah, maybe a little bit of pushing, like reminding. That's it. Just reminding myself, like, wait a minute.

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Unknown
And actually bring myself back to the space of how good it felt in the water. Because actually, Tina sounds odd, but when I got past the part of the water feeling so cold and it no longer felt cold, I truly, truly could feel the comfort of the water in the flow of the water, which put me in such a peaceful state that that's the peace.

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Unknown
When I take a moment to think of that peaceful state, it brings me in the here and now more into that state. Does that make sense? I think so, like you are reminded of what it felt like. So it's just kind of that reminder of how good it felt in your daily life to kind of take you there also.

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Unknown
Yeah. So like if something is going off in my life in the here and now, I can actually, if I'm willing and I remember because we can get caught up in the resistance of that situation. But when I remember I can sit and relax and actually just feel what it felt like to be in a really peaceful place and state and actually start to take on those feelings again in the here and now.

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Unknown
So now when I get up and walk away from what I previously, when I sat down, I had this angst and upset. I, I get up and walk away feeling more level, and content. Yeah. Now I show up that way with the people around me and in my situations, and I have a very different outlook and interactions.

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Unknown
So as an outsider looking at you that day, it looked like you were meditating. And I think you are an experienced meditator as well. Have you ever felt that way from meditate. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. The thing is experience in the sense that I have meditated, but I don't think of myself as some like, I don't know, well established meditator.

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Unknown
Like, it's more like I have woke up in the morning and I have put on a song that relaxes me and I meditate for ten, 15 minutes, like it's simple and basic. It's not so involved and high level. Just to be honest with you, I don't want to be thought of as some guru and I'm just a typical person meditating.

00:10:16:20 - 00:10:38:21
Unknown
But yeah, so I've had that experience. But I do find, I really like the feeling of peace. So I gravitate toward things that put me in the space of peace. Yeah. And I think I was probably in some form of meditative state, if just focusing on what felt good counts as that, which I think in those that case it it.

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Unknown
Yeah, I when I was doing cold plunges, I felt like it was easier to get into a meditative state. In the Copeland versus just, you know, sitting on a chair or a pillow or something and just doing it regularly because the cold, it's a, sensation that's just all around you. And it's so easy to just focus on that one thing because it's all you can feel.

00:11:06:02 - 00:11:25:12
Unknown
Yeah. So yeah, yeah. For me, cold plunging was like meditation on steroids. Like it was much easier to get into a meditative state in the cold plunge, because you also kind of know that if you don't get there, then you're going to be really cold. But if you can get to that meditative state, then you'll be comfortable. Yeah, yeah.

00:11:25:14 - 00:11:45:23
Unknown
Yeah, exactly. It's so much more black and white in that situation. I had heard of a story a good friend of mine, when she first started hunting. She, invited a whole bunch of women together to cold plunge with her. And so, one of the women she invited, is, a police officer in New York City.

00:11:46:00 - 00:12:12:24
Unknown
And she said before she went into the water, she said I love because my friend looked at this woman and she said, you don't look like you're nervous at all. She's like, I love pool plunging. I seek out, quote ledges, she said, because I have seen things that you cannot imagine during my working hours. And she said, and when I cold lunch, it is the only place I can let it all go, because she's so focused.

00:12:13:01 - 00:12:27:16
Unknown
Right. And so it it all sleeps. Yeah, I think that's great. I totally agree. Yeah. So.

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Unknown
Where should we take the conversation now? I don't know. Right. I know we, I don't know. We don't have to even have this be very long, right? Like, people like short podcasts. Yeah. Unless you can think of something that feels more organic to ask or feels good, if we can just say some words to start to wrap it up.

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Unknown
Do you think that cold plunging is for everybody.

00:13:01:19 - 00:13:22:24
Unknown
Yeah. Why not. I think anybody can do it if they open their mind to it. I think it's like anything, it's just the thing to do. And if if you're willing to get in there and try it and open up, get to the space where you can open up your mind enough to be willing to go beyond the initial shock of it.

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Unknown
You're going to get something from it. And even if you don't get beyond the shock, you still did that cold plunge, even if it was for like 10s. And that's pretty exhilarating. Like, any part of stepping into cold water, I think is cool. Cold water helps to start to clear some of our energy blocks. So in that space you go in for 10s, you did a little something, you go on a little longer, you did something more, I will add.

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Unknown
And then I have Cool Plunge, like I said before, but I do this other thing pretty much every time they take a shower I turn the water on cold. These quotes, it will go at the end and I'll say certain things, kind of like mantras or incantations, whatever to myself. And, and I do that for I don't really know how long, I don't really time it.

00:14:08:18 - 00:14:25:15
Unknown
And it's still, I'm done saying my things, but I know that I'm clearing my energy when I get out of the shower. I feel energized and alive versus I.

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Unknown
Do it sometimes, but I almost feel like I'm cheating myself of the energizing feeling. Right? Hold on. And you cut out for me. So I just want you to repeat that again. You're saying you feel energized and alive. Okay, yeah. So when I take a cold shower at the very end of my warm shower, I start to feel energized and alive.

00:14:48:00 - 00:15:14:17
Unknown
It's like it clears my blocks. It clears my energy, so I can feel really good. And it's very rare that I'll take a warm shower and stop at a warm shower. If I have the option of making the water cold, I will, because I love that feeling of feeling like alive and vibrant. There are times if I'm not feeling well, I know it's better to wrap up with a warm shower so I can just be cozy and relax, and it's a different energy.

00:15:14:19 - 00:15:43:14
Unknown
But, yeah, so I do have an inclination toward cold water, or I feel like it's just invigorating to me. Yeah, yeah. But as you were talking, you reminded me of my cold, plunging phase, which I think was at the end of 2022. I had just gone through a breakup, and I think I just felt stuck in my life and I didn't know what to do.

00:15:43:20 - 00:16:16:14
Unknown
And cold punching was coming up. So I bought a tub and I started cold, plunging every day. And it really changed my life. I think the routine of it was very helpful for me to do it every single day, and just the fact that I put myself into this very uncomfortable situation and came out on the other side better, it gave me that initial push that I needed to know that, like, I can I can still do hard things and I can still grow and I can still move forward.

00:16:16:16 - 00:16:45:13
Unknown
So it's it's just as simple as cold plunging. And it might not be a big deal to some people, but for me, it really did give me just that initial little boop. That kind of helped me along my way. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it it and it also like physiologically it was giving you more energy and it was energetically opening up channels that were probably blocked from heavy thinking and heavy situations that you encountered from the previous relationship and just with your own thinking.

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Unknown
So yeah, so serving I would say that again, I'm learning how to meditate. Yeah. Right. Right. Without even having to call it meditating. It's some people are like meditating. I can't do that. But you put yourself in cold water if you want to be in there for at least a minute, there's something in you that's shifting into a different mode without realizing it.

00:17:06:06 - 00:17:42:22
Unknown
Yeah, totally. Okay, well, I've really enjoyed this conversation today. Andrea. So if someone's listening and they like your vibe, let's go over briefly about what you do and where people can find you to listen or learn more about you. Yeah, absolutely. So first, I've also very much enjoyed this conversation. Thank you for inviting me. And it's in terms of finding me, my, website is Andrea Chapman anderson.com, but actually I have I have a free gift for anybody, who is interested.

00:17:43:02 - 00:18:20:23
Unknown
And to back up a little bit, I'm a health and emotional wellness family manager and coach, a conscious parenting consultant and an author, specific to parents who have kids whose brains are wired differently. And, basically, I help families connect more deeply with their kids, create more peace and calm in their relationships. And then once there's a different connection with parenting kids or teens, what ends up happening is parents are able to get in and support their kids in a different way, which means now the kids are more receptive to input and ideas to potentially helping themselves to thrive.

00:18:21:00 - 00:18:46:11
Unknown
So it it creates a whole different dynamic that then helps child attune to uplevel more. And the way I do this is through mindset and also through food specific foods that help to calm our nervous systems as well as, regulating nervous system regulating tools so that they can feel safe within their bodies and within their relationships.

00:18:46:13 - 00:19:26:16
Unknown
So my free gift to go back to that is for simple recipes that help you to feel more calm and to eat these calming foods more often. So, where you can get that? It's Andrea and Aria Chapman. Man Anderson and Barrasso. So and.com/for the number for simple recipes. Yeah. So grab that if you're resonating with this idea and otherwise.

00:19:26:18 - 00:19:49:05
Unknown
Oh yeah. One other place you can check me out if you feel like it's, Instagram at Andrea Chapman Anderson. So again, Tina, thank you so much for this time. It's been great. Thank you Andrea I'll make sure to link those as well in the description so people can click it and make it easy. But I really appreciate you taking your time to be here and talk to me today.

00:19:49:05 - 00:20:00:18
Unknown
So thanks again. I this was really fun and I hope everyone goes and does a cold plunge after this. Yeah. Thank you again. Take care. I'm going to stop recording.