Dr. Jenny Taitz

And so there's a specific practice where the human body has this amazing feature that if your face specifically is submerged in cold water and you're holding your breath, you automatically lower your heart rate and your blood flow is redirected from non-essential to essential organs.

And so

If you're feeling totally overwhelmed and something really horrible happened to you today, or you're really feeling unable to like kind of turn off rumination or thought spiraling.

If you took like a salad bowl full of ice water, set a timer on your phone for 30 seconds, held your breath, stuck your face in the ice water.

If you were wearing an Apple watch, your heart rate would come down.

It's like a control alt delete feature.

that we all have.

I should also just say a disclaimer that if you have cardiac issues, this does change your heart rate pretty quickly.

So it's not advisable if you do have a heart condition, but it's also a larger theme that in a matter of seconds or minutes, we can change things.

We can totally, if you literally don't want to do that, even just having the mindset of, I could feel better quickly.

Like a lot of times right in the thick of how we're feeling,

We assume I will feel this way forever and it's going to get worse.

It's like, actually, I could feel different in seconds in my body and in my mind.

And things are constantly changing.

I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change.

You can have opinions.

You can have like a strong stance.

there's so many ways that we see ourselves in the world and other people that might have nothing to do with our reality.

And so, you know, past painful experiences can create some sort of narrative in your mind of like, I'm not good enough, or I'm unlovable.

Or if people really knew me, they wouldn't care about me.