PREPARED FOR THE PLUNGE

Plunging into the depths of ice water will be a shock to the system and can be beneficial — or, if totally unexpected, devastating. The same is true with any practice, whether it is for you or not.

It is your own personal intent about your practice that creates the effects on your cells, your organs, and all parts of you. If not intended and prepared for, everything goes into a shock response — freezing and shifting into automatic reaction to unexpected outside stimuli.

Yet if prepared, through awareness and notification of mind, breath, and readiness, it is as if all systems are awaiting and anticipating the arrival of a dose of something good — but different — to be utilized, categorized, and processed for benefit.

That awareness alone helps to bypass the unknown — the fear response that uses the majority of incoming information to protect. Awareness of all — within your physical body and of the whole of the universe — the symmetry, the functionality, the beauty of the rhythmic flow of all things — allows you to gain benefit from the unexpected and to allow the flow to serve you rather than shock you into fr

Relax into the universal flow that connects all, serves all, and even the shocking events — like an icy plunge — will be of acknowledged benefit to you.