Practice #63 - First Shirtless Day Of The Year

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This past summer, I got really into going barefoot and shirtless, literally just walking

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around the park barefoot shirtless, sun's out, getting tan, healing my feet, feeling

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amazing, grounding every day, and I loved it. My health was peak. And then winter time

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started to come and I stopped doing that because it was too cold. And then the coldest week

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of the year came upon us, negative degree temperatures, sub-zero. And I started taking

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up this habit. I started going on a walk around the park, like an hour-long walk every day.

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And I started that just before the week of the coldest temperatures. And I was like,

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I'm going to do this every day. And the coldest week of the year came, negative 30-degree

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winds blowing by. I was like, I can still do this or I can just stay home. I was like,

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no, I'm doing this. So I bundle up extremely. I'm wearing like three pairs of socks, two

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pairs of pants, like a sweatshirt, a shirt, a coat, gloves, neck warmer, hand warmers,

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all kinds of things. And I am bundled up. Like you cannot see any skin on my body except

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for my eyes. Literally, I am fully bundled up. And so I go on this walk. I'm like immobile.

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All I can do is move forward. And if I want to look and turn, I literally have to turn

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my entire body to see because I can't like, because I have my hood on also, two hoods

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on, all that stuff. And so I go on this walk around the park. And I go the same route every

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time. I literally go down the park all the way around and then back home. And on the

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route, there's this little hill that I like to go over, climb over, because it's kind

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of like different type of terrain instead of just walking on the asphalt, like the sidewalk.

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And so I walk up this thing and I'm just like, making new footprints in the freshly blown

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snow. And I'm just like, huh, going up. And then the next day happens. And I'm going up

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right next to my other footprints, creating the same exact footprints just parallel to

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them going up, going up. And then the next day happens. Same story going up, going up,

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except these footprints are starting to fade away because it's windy. And then the next

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day, oh, fresh snow. So I go up again. And then the next day, repeat. And I just repeat

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this for weeks. And like I was doing this. And then over time, you start to see like

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the same footprints. Like I pretty much memorized my footprint, this other guy's footprint,

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and then another dude's footprint. There's like three people that are walking around

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the park around this time every single day. And I can, I know their faces. And so we're

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all just like walking at different times, but I've seen them around. And we just go

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on a walk every day. And then recently, the snow started to thaw, started to thaw. And

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I'm just like, okay, I'm going up this hill. Same thing, except no footprints to see. And

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every single time I look at the same exact spot up the hill. And just the other day,

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the sun was beaming. It was super sunny out. It was the warmest day all year. It was 50

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degrees. And it was sunny. And so I'm like, Oh, I don't even need a coat. And so I pretty

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much just wear my pants and my sweatshirt. And I don't wear a shirt underneath my sweatshirt.

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And so I'm just wearing this pants and the sweatshirt and I don't wear underwear, but

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that's a different story. And I started walking and I actually start to sweat. And so I'm

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like, okay, I'm taking off the sweatshirt. So I'm now I'm shirtless. So this was my first

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shirtless day of the year, which I'm like, let's go finally after literally months of

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dealing with this dreaded snow and cold. I can go shirtless and get a tan finally, or

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at least get some sun in my body. And it feels amazing. So I'm going down, walking down,

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and then I get to the part where I'm at the hill. And so I'm going up and I'm like, Oh,

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wow. And I get a flashback. I get a flashback from the net the sub zero days, the negative

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30 degree days, literally just a couple weeks ago. And I'm just like, Wow, I've come a long

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way. I've come a long way in my life. And just in the temperatures, it's now warm enough

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to not wear a shirt. Future is looking bright. So I'm going up this hill walking up shirtless.

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And I'm just like, Wow, this is an amazing experience. I was just extremely bundled

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up in like four layers of clothing just a couple weeks ago. And now I'm completely shirtless.

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And I'm comfortable to sun is beaming on me. So I go around that time, finish the walk.

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And I feel amazing because shirtless and barefoot is the way to go. Now I wasn't barefoot, but

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I was wearing barefoot shoes, which are basically like, if you're interested, look up earth runners.

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That's what I wear, like the extremely minimalistic ones, like the primals, I'm pretty sure it's

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what they're called. But that is amazing grounding and getting the sun.