SHACK 964 MOUNTAINS

The Armchair  Mountaineer 

 

It came to me that I have like a mountain inside of my mind so to speak and that the cold is one of my teachers, this is a seed idea I heard from Wim Hoff the Ice man in one of his interviews. This immediately resonated with me.

The cold water showers and going out not so wrapped up presented doubts and warnings and some trepidation I might harm myself, cause a serious stroke, heart attack or get pneumonia all this coming from my frailty and perceived weakness as a child and lay over to adult years.

It is like a mountain to climb, a steep arduous rock like climb in my mind the fear, the resistance, it seems to squeeze my brain as it were and it physically tightens me up, I find myself bucking the old patterns, I want to break free of them, they are so constricting and narrow. 

So in this way the cold is my teacher and challenges me to go outside the box, and the mountain is a construct of perceptions, brain washing and the fear and warnings build this almost insurmountable mind construct which in reality has no substance once it is faced and climbed or walked through, many times it means 'do it immediately without procrastination' a title of book written 'feel the fear and do it anyway.

Knowing myself I am like a bull in china shop so to speak and some intelligence is needed and that is not cautionary and fear but listening to my body and being quiet in this process to feel myself through it.

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