How do you manage to take cold showers?

I feel Cold showers make your senses more accurate and brings them back to the current moment. You create a resistance at very basic level for your brain, just like pushing yourself away from PMO everyday. You try to abstain from cold showers everyday but if you overcome this mental barrier, I believe you would have higher chances to say goodbye to those urges and your streak would increase from your original best.
Not only that, you feel more energetic since all the blood in your body gushes to keep your body warm and thereby increasing blood flow keeping you healthy rather than appearing pale cold-blooded creature fapping in front of PC.

And @Sarah Walker I don't understand how did your chest feel more tight in case you'd have cold shower. I go to gym everyday in the morning and take cold showers after it, but I never felt those"muscle tightening" effect in me. What would you say about that?

 

Ufff, people get so easily offended nowadays... When did I claim that I know you or your life so well? I just assumed, just as well as you can assume things about my life. Yes, I can say I haven't done much in my life (yet) and I'm pretty ashamed of myself for that actually. I was expressing my point of view, I didn't force it down your throat. But please tell me, how would living a billion years make you any more happy? Wouldn't you get bored of doing the same things all over and over again? And that thing with "welcoming death", no, I'm not welcoming death, I'm just okay with the idea. It will come no matter how much we wish it won't, so why not get used to the idea, and live in peace without the fear of death?
But anyway, it is of no use arguing. We have two totally different visions upon life, and we're not likely to change each other's. So let's just leave that. I wish you all the best.

 

No shit Sherlock.

 

Er, so...
On the original topic:
I read on NoFap that cold showers were supposed to be so good, so I tried. 5min showers (you get used after the 1st min). I got a cold after the third or fourth day.

I discovered that doesn't happen is if I just douse myself with hot (or lukewarm) water afterwards. Just to get the warmth back in my body. The goal isn't to freeze yourself, the goal is to overcome that fear of shocking yourself. It's a temporary discomfort, but the act of willfully putting the shower on the coldest setting and turning it on while you're under there - that's something. It's willpower-exercise. And if you douse yourself with warm water afterwards, you won't harm yourself in the process. I live in Estonia, right now we have -25 degrees celsius outside. It's cold. And the cold showers aren't harming me. So that's one reason.

Secondly, you'll feel rejuvenated, like jumping into the snow after a good sauna session. A good cold shower feels like the refreshment I always expect from a cigarette, but never get. I'll expect to feel differently and I won't - after a smoke I'll feel pretty much the same, only smellier. A cold shower will leave me feeling different.

thirdly, there are loads of health benefits. Scientific, lots of studies backing it. Some people begin with that. For me, that's the third main reason.

 

I live in Russia and I am doing cold showers everyday. I've noticed that I can tolerate cold weather better now. Got aloof attitude towards cold kind of. It's about -15C (5F) now

 

Just a couple of posts ago you were acting as if what you said was a "fact", and now you agree with me that it was nothing but your opinion? Hm, alright.

 

I take cold showers almost daily. And our water is super cold. It gets easier the more you do it. I don't think twice before doing it now.

I will say, however, my skin gets really dry now and tends to peel.

 

I have a cold shower, squeal like a little girl for about 10 seconds then relax after a minute... Then stare at myself in the mirror for 3 minutes because apparently I'm a vain bastard.

 

I'd suggest you keep your showers mild and combine them with a little wim hoff breathing method! Does wonders!

 

Basically dont expose any part of your body in the cold shower too long. No more than 10-12 seconds (Esp not the head).