Learning to overcome your emotional aversion to difficult things - even if that's holding your breath and taking a cold shower - is the first step to getting over depression and anxiety.

And it couldn't be more simplier than that, could it?

I did cold showers all January, but the breathing mimics anxiety for me so I do my own kind of pranyam.

He's certainly given the world a strategy that works for many - I'll skip on the ice though thanks. I have a 4x3 wetsuit, booties and hood for that.