Good advice there. I think the key there is to start out not with ice cold water, but simply adjust the temperature of the water to a comfortable cool, and then gradually week by week continue to adjust the temperature little by little. In this manner you give your body time to gradually adjust over time. What you will find by doing this is that at some point in the future very cold water doesn't quite affect you in the same manner that it does now. This is the manner in which I had to do this as very cold water on my back would send me jumping through the roof...Lol. Now I can turn the cold up quite a bit and it's not quite as bad as it use to be. In Light, Ron Daniel Gutmanas <noxerus@...> wrote: --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Ben Collier" <bencollier49@y...> wrote: > Hi All > > I've been taking the cold showers for 3 weeks, for approximately 3 > minutes each time, but have found myself with a constantly running > nose the entire time, which isn't very nice. > > Is this normal? > > All the best > > Ben Dear Ben, Sounds like, just like myself, you are just quite sensitive to changes in temperature. I would reccommend you to warm up your showers just enough for them to stop causing your nose to run. After a short while, once you feel that your body has adjusted to that temperature, start *gradually* lowering it (not throughout one shower, but from day to day) until you achieve an appropriate cold temperature. It is always better to start lifting weights with light objects and slowly work up to heavy ones than to immediately start with heavy ones - from personal experience (not with weight lifting :), the second way is a lot slower, and the results are for more fragile. Good luck! Daniel Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT Click Here --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BardonPraxis-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]