Hello and in today's

The podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode,

we're going to be talking about what some of the benefits of discomfort might be.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in with the sound of the bells. So I'd like to start this conversation by talking about cold showers. If you've been listening to other podcasts over the years or have just been attuned to different personal development trends recently. You know that cold showers, taking

cold showers is high on the list. It's one of the current practices that people are putting into their rituals,

and there seem to be a lot of research-based health benefits to cold showers,

or simply cold exposure. Some of these benefits include

improved immune system function, reduced stress, increased energy, and on and it's quite compelling.

However, let the record show that I got into cold showers

before it was a trend and before it was cool and it was thrust upon me

against my will. My cold showers started when I was in Burma and we didn't have hot running water.

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Now coming from my privileged upbringing I didn't have to experience cold showers.

So to go from what I was used to, warm, hot, steamy shower, as long as I wanted to be in there.

Two showers that were often very cold, felt icy cold,

especially early in the morning,

that was an abrupt shift and I didn't like it.

In fact, I spent the first couple of months taking showers in Burma by trying to reduce the amount of time I was under the water to about 10 to 15 seconds.

The way that would look, I would strip down, jump in the water just to get wet enough

so that I could rub soap on my body,

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