THE COLD IS YOUR BEST FRIEND
"The cold is a noble force.” – Wim Hoff Again, before embracing the cold, consult a trained martial artist or professional doctor. But once you get the go-ahead, get ready to become stronger in every way! Here’s why: Truth calls us to break free of the comfort zone but wrongful desire keeps us stuck inside it to a point where the soul becomes enslaved to the body, and why do we run to wrongful desire in the first place? It’s to escape, right? Well, imagine if you tried to hide in a cave and I lit the cave on fire. The pain would force you to come out of your hiding spot, wouldn’t it? This is what the cold does to your soul. It forces your soul to come out and face the noise. The cold is an extremely powerful remedy because it forces you to feel the present moment, like forcing a tortoise out of his shell. When the cold hits, your soul has no other option but to submit to the pain, and in feeling the pain of the biting cold, your soul is forced back to the present moment, and this is where huge healing takes place because you have no choice but to feel the shame you’ve been trying to hide from. And, remarkably, in this process, your bad deeds are cancelled out by the pain (Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) said that “with the suffering of a believer, God erases his sins even though it may be the small pain of a thorn prick”). Try standing in a cold stream of water. The pain of the freezing water will be excruciating because it is forcing your soul to face the shame that it’s trying to hide from. This is why you’ll feel like crying and as though you can’t bare it. Your mind is trying to resist, but the heart wants you to keep going. In the cold, you’ll be able to notice with more clarity the two forces at war with each other, truth and wrongful desire, where truth wants you to endure, but wrongful desire wants you to cuddle up in bed and watch “you know what.” But that’s the beauty of it. When in the cold, it’s painful. It’s everything that you don’t like – everything you fear. It’s hard, gruelling, and feels like your body will