Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander.

Typically this is a place of bringing together the world's leading experts on all things health and wellness

to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement. And today we are going a solo episode that is focusing in on why and how one ought to be doing

cold exposure therapy, i.e. taking a cold shower, jumping into a cold plunge, cold leg, whatever

you got, whatever you're into.

We're going to tap and do some of the breathing practices related to that and why this stuff matters.

So we're going to start off with a little quote

that I gathered from Ram Doss,

and I just got this from one of his discourses,

one of his talks.

He says, I will believe you are who you think you are if you pretend to believe I am who I think I am

Gets into his whole idea of your somebodyness.

You are raised to believe you are a somebody

since you are a little person.

You start off as this infinite being as a baby

and before that, whatever you were before that. It it's interesting to think what did your face look like before you were born

Who were you before you're born like a Cohen makes your mind feel tingly?

So then at some point we get a name and we get a role or an identity and we're taught to be a

carpenter or an architect or a stockbroker or something in school

and then we go to college and then we get grades and you were an A student or a B student

you're on a role or you're in the varsity hockey team or whatever so we have all these different roles identities that we attach to

and we fit ourselves inside of that container that box it's called our somebody in Ram D Talk, and at some point part of your hero's journey, Joseph Campbell Talk, it'd be unwinding that somebodyness taking the adventure, the call to adventure, and going outside of who you think

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