18/10/2019
Cold showers improve circulation. But why do we need good circulation? To fall in love maybe :)?
Below some quotes from the book “Pleasure: a creative approach to life” by Alexander Lowen physician and psychotherapist.
"...Affection is a reaching out to others and the world from an excited state of pleasurable anticipation. It represents an expansive reaction in the body. It is based on a flow of blood to the surface of the body resulting from the dilation of the peripheral blood system. This flow of blood to the surface creates a sensation of physical warmth. Affectionate feelings are characterized by their warmth. We speak of an affectionate person as being a warm person. The other physical manifestations of pleasure are also present. The musculature is soft and relaxed, the heartbeat is slow, the pupils are contracted, and so on.
The warmth of affection is mainly in the skin, which is strongly suffused with blood. This produces a desire for some physical contact with the person who is the object of these feelings – a clasp of the hands, an embrace, or a kiss.
The opposite feelings, namely, those which can be designated as hostile, are also determined by the flow of blood, but in an opposite direction. The blood leaves the skin and the surface of the body, producing a sensation of coldness. All hostile feelings are cold. The hostile person withdraws his affection and turns cold toward another individual. He loses any erotic desire he may had and is repelled by any idea of physical contact. All hostile feelings represent, therefore, the withdrawal of feeling..."
