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Some people describe a spiritual journey as a process of opening yourself up to everything that made us who we are. To a consistent pilgrim on such a journey, that includes an eventual re-visiting of everything we ever tried to hold on to that wouldn't stay around, everything we ever tried to push away that wouldn't leave and everything experienced that we chose to ignore.
They are called attachments because somewhere within us, we still carry them with our true freedom being ever hobbled by their weight.

I think that meditation is that process of preparing oneself for the chance of returning to each attachment, each addition to our hobblings, but where our initiating responses to them were formally mixtures of greed, anger or delusion, they can be potentially re-met again but this time with the compassion, love and wisdom that was missing in our origin stories.
Perhaps your 30 minutes of shower time describes part of this process.

I'm always amazed at how much physical pain that arises in daily life can get diminished under the pressure of a really hot shower.
I mean just how fragile can my nerve pathways be if the pain signals that have been yelling at me all day, can be tricked into silence with a little hot water?