This is how cold feet get warm again

What you need:

• Hot water bottle
• two pairs of socks
• Pillow resp. a stool or chair
• 1 small tub or bathtub
• Water (as hot as you can take it)
• electric foot heating bag
• Training in autogenic training

1. If you are in bed lying against cold Feet want to proceed, the hot water bottle has proven itself. Alternatively, you can moisten cotton socks and put on dry (angora) socks.
2. Pat your feet with your hands.
3. Massage your Toes and don't leave out the areas between your toes.
4. Put your feet up (on a pillow or more). If you want to lie down longer, you should put your legs up so that your knees bend horizontally and your lower legs horizontally on a pillow or a chair, etc. can drop. Align your thighs vertically with the floor on which you are flat
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   move lie. Just putting your feet up helps, because then your blood will circulate better and your feet will be warmer. If you want to be more active against cold feet, do gymnastic exercises with your feet.
5. Move your feet (with your legs stretched in the air) as dynamic as possible: circling your feet Bend your feet, straighten them again, claw in toes and spread them apart again, feet (and legs shake); Change direction in all exercises and move one foot in the opposite direction to the other.


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6. Stand up straight and bend your knees slightly. Take turns rolling your cold feet from the heel to the tips of your toes. Roll your foot as well as possible. Repeat several times.
7. If your feet have already got a little warm, jump on the spot, first lightly, then more and more energetically, either with your legs / feet closed or alternately come up with one foot, so just run up the agency. With small movements as fast as possible, you will achieve greater success. You can do this exercise undisturbed at home. It is best to put underlay on the floor so that you do not harm a potential subtenant.
8. Fill a tub with water as hot as you can handle it. If the water cools before your feet are warm enough, add hot water. You can also put your feet in a second tub of cold water in between, so try the alternating bath method. You can of course add hay flowers, bath salts and oils and other substances to the water that are shown to promote blood circulation and stimulate; but every person responds differently to such substances and often the effect is disappointing, whereas the effect achieved thanks to hot water is predictably effective for everyone.
9. Fill a bathtub with cold water until about two-thirds of your calf is covered with water. Stomp back and forth, always pulling your feet out of the water (in the so-called Stork walk). With this treading water, the pub, you start with already warm feet. After about half a minute, you should feel very cold. Then get out of the water until your feet are warm again. Then step on the water again. The cold water leads to a contraction of the upper blood vessels and together with the muscle activity, pinching activates the circulation. Instead of cold water, they can also "tread" streams or snow.

This way, cold feet are warm again in the office and elsewhere

1. Put your feet next to each other on the floor and do not cross your legs so that your blood can circulate as well as possible.
2. Put on the second pair of stockings you brought with you as a precaution, the shoes with lining and thick soles, preferably before your feet have really gotten cold.
3. Place your feet next to each other on a platform so that your legs do not rest too hard on the edge of the chair. which also affects blood circulation, especially when your feet are off the ground are sufficient. If the latter is the case, screw down the desk chair.
4. Put thermosoles in your shoes.
5. Get an electric foot warmer bag.

• In the long term, you should do regular cardiovascular training. In this way, you promote the blood circulation in your entire body, including your feet, which you cannot look at in isolation from the entire organism anyway.

• Autogenic training also leads to the goal of individuals. However, autogenic training requires (months of) practice. It will not work straight away to lie down, concentrate and “talk” yourself into warm feet with the suggestive sentences: my feet are very real, very heavy.

• And maybe heed the following advice: If people pay too much attention to a discomfort, then they will feel it more clearly.