My Daily Life Shock

What does it feel like to wake up every day and be faced with life and the modern condition? Like its easy to get off track with yourself and become distracted from what your body is telling you quietly? Yeah, I've been there before. The feeling that there's too many sensations, you're overwhelmed and you'd just want to smash into your pillow and yell into it but you don't because you're stuck in the social politeness script and reframe from expressing your "less desirable" emotions to other people around you, but mostly to yourself, I know that all too well.

What I found to be my no nonsense solution to the whole human condition of being placed in a society that doesn't really understand its own primal nature, is to exactly go there every day. That is where I introduce the cold plunge ice smash ritual I just started doing years ago when I lacked a proper tool to break the ice and simply didn't care about how I was gonna get in despite the ice blocking my way in so I found my foot to be very powerful of a force to smash the ice.

That is where I discovered a very potent connection to preserve my nature. That is my DIY Chest Freezer plunge setup. Since I didn't have access to cold plunges at gyms years ago, I found that I could build my own at home. And much colder... 😁🥶

Meet a plunge that freezer at 0 degrees and builds a layer of ice you smash with your feet, with sandals of course, and you get to treat your body to its more core desire which is to fuck some shit up. That's what my empire was build upon. For people who refuse to accept the predictable script of you have a body but you're clunky inside it because you follow the dance of society on autopilot without stopping to consult your own instincts and forge your own path.

Of course, the cold is merely a tool in your life, not the main landline. But we all have some things we always enjoy doing which brings us closer to ourselves and that is one of mine. If you find yourself in these lines, this place is for you. Velin is for you.

Welcome home, here, where like minded people connect in a place of shared interests and passions for our crafts, our care for our bodies and our desire for mastery. 🙏

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<<The cold is ruthless, but mercyful>> - Velin Founder.

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Why do I say its ruthless but merciful? Because as ruthless as it may be, its mercyful because it strips you of illusions which would otherwise make you suffer. That's why. You get it how it is, and for that, a clarity emerges for you. And clarity is something you want more of.