One of the first beauty stops I knew I had to do was visit a Jjimjlbang. I had heard so much about it from my travel buddy Julie. There were a few things I was looking forward to like the body scrubbing, hot springs, and great steam rooms, but the idea of getting naked was not on my to-do list.
First stop the showers. Before entering the steamed pools, you have to scrub down, from head to toe. There are over a dozen shower heads, and washing stations. Then you enter spa heaven furnished with hot tubs, showers, saunas and massage tables. You have pools at all different temperatures, infused with unique ingredients like Green Tea to enhance skin, Korean rice wine for stamina, traditional herbs such as ginseng for overall health.
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I suddenly realize that I like being naked. I like being naked with these women. Instead of quietly slipping into the next pool, instantly submerging myself to my shoulders, I surprise myself and begin frolicking and splashing about with Si Eun, leaping from pool to pool.
I was having some serious anxiety about being naked, but I wanted the whole package, so I followed Auntie Joyce into the bathhouse wearing my orange pajamas, a classic outsider move. No one wears clothes into the bath house. But anyway.
Despite our conservative nature, showering and changing in the presence of our fellow female classmates or the female gym instructor was not viewed as being dirty or immoral.
We were all female, we all had the same parts, it was just a mater of good hygiene and self respect to shower after a gym class. There was nothing sexual about our nudity.
My granddaughter has said that it is the same way at her high school, that the more wholesome girls are the ones who will take showers after gym class and remove their swimsuits to shower after swim practice. It is the morally ambiguous girls who refuse to shower after gym classes or who keep their swimsuits on in the shower after swim practice.
The main spa area is tiny in comparison, but its compact nature makes it feel much less intimidating. It contained all of the requisite pools, a sauna, and a hot tub. As I showered a man was getting a scrub (the sound of a giant hairbrush being scraped against granite), very much out in the open.
Korean body scrubs are a type of body treatment that originated in Korea. The process involves a deep exfoliation of the skin using a special scrubbing mitt. The mitt is made of viscose fabric and is used to scrub the entire body vigorously. The process is typically done in a wet room or shower area, and the therapist will use warm water to rinse off the dead skin cells as they are
Ā removed from the body. The result is smooth, baby-soft, and rejuvenated skin.
Christmas is bang in the middle of summer in Sydney, Australia, where I live, so that was mostly fine. It was hot, often over 110 Fahrenheit hot. Sometimes I'd go for a run, get all sweaty and annoyed and just dive into the cold shower. A salve, pure relief.
One study reports that by increasing the availability of endorphins and another hormone, norepinephrine, cold showers can ease symptoms of depression. (Obvious caveat here: I absolutely do not believe depression can be cured with cold water.)
A part of me hoped cold showers might help me increase my metabolism or recover faster from training (I'm a keen rock climber), but mostly I wanted to try something different. To have something new to talk about when conversation dried up at school pickups. I'm a shallow man with shallow needs.
It was relatively easy at first. In my experience, most challenges like this are. Possessed with the psyche of trying something new, I stood in cold showers for five minutes at a time and emerged shivering and proud. I marched into the shower like a madman, frantically rubbing my belly like a hysterical hiker searching for ticks. I just gutted it out.
It goes like this: I turn on the shower. I get naked. I stand in front of the cold, spraying water for a few seconds reflecting on my life decisions. In some ways, this is the worst part: before the shower. That's when you have to make the "choice."
It was during a work trip to New York in March that I discovered not all cold water is created equal. My soft summer body was crucified at the hands of New York's freezing-ass winter ice water. I was shocked to my core. I couldn't believe how cold it was. But I persisted, clumsily squeezing out single-serve hotel shower gel as I jogged on the spot like a confused caveman, somehow trying to shift my internal temperature into something bearable.
In October, I went on a family trip to the southern part of Chile, where, I assume, the water in my brother-in-law's shower was piped directly from the icy, snow-capped mountains that surrounded us. The water in Chile was Baltic, to the point where I would get literal brain freeze if I stayed in for too long. Complete agony.
We'd just gotten back from a once-in-a-lifetime experience: scaling the summit of Villarica, one of Chile's most active volcanoes. It was brutal. It took us eight hours to get to the summit and roughly four hours to get back down, navigating snow and icy conditions the entire time. We were geared up to the max, crampons and ice axes, and it was a genuine struggle to get to the top. On the way down everyone eagerly discussed getting home and jumping into a nice warm shower. My heart sank. I knew I would be starved of this well-earned thermal feast.
Did I feel any long-term benefits? I'm unsure. This is an experiment with a sample size of one. I didn't take many sick days in 2022, but outside of that, I'm not convinced cold showers changed anything. I'm not convinced they aid recovery, or cure dementia, or whatever it says on the tin.
Am I contradicting myself here? Absolutely. But my feelings about this cold shower experiment are complex, rooted in weird ideas about trying difficult things and not giving up, even if there's no good reason to forge ahead. Basically I've watched way too much anime.
More importantly, after cold showers, I always felt like I had achieved something. I never had that groggy feeling you get when you spend too long in a piping hot shower. It was good to have done something difficult. That was nice.
But I also believe willpower is finite. Could the mental energy required to endure cold showers for a year have made it more difficult to achieve the other, less stupid goals I set for myself in 2022? Is it a coincidence that I [checks notes] put on 10 to 12 pounds, felt more anxious and exercised markedly less during the same period? It's impossible to say.
A part of me believes the resolve I poured into having daily cold showers left my willpower reserves wanting, making it tougher to continue eating healthy, or head to the gym regardless of my motivation levels. Normally, those were habits I followed through on without question. This year? Not so much.
Regardless, I know I will find it difficult to stop. At this point, taking cold showers is a habit so ingrained I know my inner voice will fight back against going back to "normal." As stupid as it sounds, warm showers will feel like cheating to the little voice in my head. I suspect one year might not be enough for that little bastard.
Because ultimately these things become normalized. Like quitting sugar or caffeine, taking cold showers is difficult, especially at first, and the effort required to maintain the habit never truly goes away, but it does fade. It's much easier now. Cold showers aren't necessarily challenging anymore; what was once an active struggle is just noise. A low-frequency hum you'd barely notice until someone shuts it off.
I requested the Full Body Scrub. And yes, I know it's winter, but skin does not stop shedding when it's cold out (quite the opposite, actually), and so with all my sweater-layering and lax showering schedule (what, I don't sweat as much in winter, don't judge me), I could use a little polish.
But allow me to rewind a bit to the actual process. The 90-minute body scrub (there are 60-minute and 30-minute ones as well, mind you) involved not just a head-to-toe exfoliation, but also a shampoo, massage, and a cucumber facial (for $125, it's well worth it). After sufficiently sauna-hopping, I adjourned to the scrub stalls at one end of the bath area where I was greeted by a kindly elderly Korean lady wearing a modest black two-piece, wet-zone suit. Lying stark naked on a vinyl-covered massage table, she placed a folded hand towel over my eyes, swiped on some body oil and then promptly tossed a bucket of warm water over me, like I was a freshly-caught sea bass on the deck of a ship.
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They are separated by gender and typically have hot tubs, showers, Korean traditional kiln saunas, and massage tables. Jjimjil is derived from the words meaning heating. In other areas of the building or on other floors there are unisex areas, usually with a snack bar, ondol-heated floor for lounging and sleeping, wide-screen TVs, exercise rooms, ice rooms, heated salt rooms, PC bang, noraebang, and sleeping quarters with bunk beds or sleeping mats.[2] Many of the sleeping rooms have themes or elements to them. Usually jjimjilbangs will have various rooms with temperatures to suit guests' preferred relaxing temperatures.[3] Walls can be decorated with woods, minerals, crystals, stones, and metals to make the ambient mood and smell more natural. The elements used have traditional Korean medicinal purposes in the rooms.[4] be457b7860
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