Most Replayed Moment: Wim Hof's Simple Breathing Technique For Focus, Tranquility and Resilience

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What is that first step to
'Cause there's so many people that are going through different forms of grief, or they have that trauma that you've described that goes back a long way.
If they're listening to this now and they've stumbled this far into the conversation and they're thinking, I'm so far away from that wim.
I'm so far away. I've got my shirt and tie on. I've got
I'm in this city. I I know I'm unhappy. I can feel it in my bones, but I know I no other way. What is the first
Step.
Absolutely the breathing exercises.

These breathing exercises in two thousand fourteen were capable to show
Just
Like scientifically.
uh hormonally
Uh looking at the nervous system.
The depth.
Uh which we entered.
With these breathing exercises in this comparative study showed that we were able to tap into the atomic nervous system and innate immune system, which was considered to be impossible.
In science.
And now it is there.
It's not only the autonomic nervous system and the innate immune system, it's also the ability naturally to solve what is deeply
stored up in our tissue which could not be processed in the moment when it happened. Trauma.
Wim, I've got some of those studies in front of me. I I read through all of them, um, ahead of our conversation, and they are, quite frankly, um
Remarkable.
They're quite frankly remarkable. They are
Uh
peer reviewed studies that have been published. Um
went through very sort of scientifically rigorous
processes to make sure that they were valid.
And in these studies we see breakthroughs that I think in the past people thought were impossible. But if we just focus in then on that breathing, because you you described that as the first step. If I have never breathed in my life,
I've never done it, I've never heard about it. I'm a s I'm skeptical to it. I think breathing is just something we don't think about.
Um
What do you mean by
Breathing.
And what kind of breathing. And can you explain to me like I'm an idiot.
What it's doing.
Mm.
Yeah, what it is do. For example, I'm uh uh now busy with cardiologists and they saw in heart films that if you stop breathing after exhalation for one and a half minutes, five times more blood flows into the brain and to the heart.
This one it's never been shown. And now it has been shown.
through these breathing uh techniques. I mean, this really goes so deep
We are able to make uh these uh through these breathing techniques
Uh uh change our blood.
Chemistry.
Uh bring up the pH levels way up.

It's not happening because it's depending on the CO two level in our blood.
And we breathe.
Yeah.
Like thirty times like this? You become a little bit
Woji.
Be a little bit dizzy. Why? Because the CO two levels go way down.
You blow it off.
Carbon dioxide.
Have we forgotten how to to breathe like that? Is that is Oh yes. Is that the natural way of breathing? No, not exactly.
Okay. Wha what uh what is exactly is that we
Uh
I've forgotten to
Feel deep emotions.
Uh to be
Uh in connection with danger.
Danger. It's a deep m emotion.

Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, the cold.
It's it's deep.
But they uh we are built to receive it.

And uh uh with that comes alive the deeper mechanisms in our body.
And be a uh if that long term is not exercised.
Those deeper mechanisms and among that is not only the emotion, it's also the immune system.

We become more flaccid.
We become insensitive.
Look at the insensitivity in our society.
Gaza is happening.
Yeah, well protest here. We should stop that shit.
We should stop those wars because kids little kids.
are here jeopardized and we cannot even feel it anymore.
You know, that this insensitivity in us is a i is a plague.
Is a plague because we serve a system that w runs well on people being obedient and being flaccid, not really sensitive. Because you if you are really sensitive, you don't go to uh to a slave job every uh uh every day and come back stressed.
And the other day you do it again and again again and again again and again again.
What we should uh do within ourselves is
Learning how to connect into the depth. And this is what I give through the cold, we bring these deeper emotions alive, and then you will not abide to that what makes you weak. Well to that what uh uh uh uh kills your purpose.
We gotta stand up as humanity more more now than ever.
And here we are.
And uh Wim, how do you do that?
Very simple.
Do this breathing techniques.
Do it uh uh on your bed.
Yeah, uh on a sofa or very controlled, because you will go past your conditioned mind and body.
The the shallow breathing we do. We say that is breathing. That's not breathing.
That is uh automatic uh reflex of your body doing something.
Now you take over consciously
You start to breathe deeper.
You go past these patterns.
uh depicted by a conditioned body. And that conditioning is only serving the system, but not necessarily you. I want you to take over the steer wheel.
I want you to be conscious and then uh go with that consciousness into deeper breathing, break the patterns of your conditioning.
And subtly.
Yeah.
Uh your uh deeper traumas, your deeper feelings are able to come to the surface, being stored up, being stashed away forever.
And uh and that is what is happening.
In the first
Session.
We do?
I w uh I I can promise any any person.
Uh who is doing it?
Will encounter
Such a tremendous experience.
of himself.
From the depth.
Coming to the surface.
And that's only the depth coming to the surface. That's all.
And it's beautiful.
There's three elements to this Wim Hof method. There's three pillars to the method. The first is that conscious breathing.
So let's just make sure we've covered that off.
If I wanna be able to just do this at home.
If I'm listening now and I'm in my car or I'm work walking the dog or whatever, I'm on a plane.
What is what is
The sort of key parts of doing
the breathing technique correctly.
Yes. Do it uh safe.
Yeah.

So never outside to where you can lose control. Okay. You know, when you drive and you lose control, that's no good. When you are in a swimming pool you lose control
Uh that's no good.
Uh when you are at the Nabus and you lose control, no good.
You know, wherever your motorical uh uh uh uh power is needed to be in control, don't do it there. So uh therefore we say strict.
Lee.
This is a powerful medicinal terapeutico.
Exercise through breathing, specific breathing.
Uh patterns.
We take on.
If uh uh for example, we are sitting now, it's safe to do it here. Yeah. Even if you faint now, then yeah, you would maybe fall here on the ground.
It's a soft uh
Uh carpet here is no problem.
Okay. So
Relax.
Okay, relax. I'm g I'm g now turning myself into myself because I'm gonna breathe deeper. I'm gonna go past my normal uh control mode, normal conditioning.
Normal thinking. So
Okay.
Am I here?
Yes, I'm here.
Okay, here we uh go.
We have a belly and we have a chest that those uh muscles are connected to the lungs. So use your belly.
And use your
Uh chest.
To inhale fully.
Yeah.
You can go through your mouth, through your nose, as you feel. How do I know if I'm doing it correctly with my belly?
Yeah, just
So two breaths.
in
Yeah, and uh at a certain moment it becomes one.

Oh yeah.
As deep as possible and let it go.
Just let it go.
And then foolie in again.
As deep as possible and let it go.
Nolan.
Let it go.
And all in.
Let it go.
The mind goes with the breath.
William?
Let it go.
And all in.
Let it go.
We are blowing keep on going. Fall in
Blowing of the CO2 carbon dioxide.
Can become a little bit dizzy, yes.
But that's okay.
Your body is charging up.
It's changing. Your blood chemistry is changing.

Go walk.
In your blood.
We do ten more. Fully in
Just follow the breath.
Whatever feels different breathe into it.
Let it go.
And all in
Let it go.
This morning at five o'clock I was doing this.
Because I was preparing to be freed.
In my biochemistry over any shit.
And this is cleansing the bariochemistry.
Trauma, anything, anything that is deeply in
It's been clear. Yeah? Five more.
Yeah.
There they go.
Cool yeah.
Let it go.
Oh
Let it go.
All in.
Let it go.
Last one.
Let it go.
And stop after the exhalation.
Close your mouth.
No breathing.
No need.
Your pH levels are way up.
There's no need for breathing.
What is going to happen is what I
Was saying mentioning before.
After one minute.
And there is no need for breathing because the breathing trigger depends on CO two. CO two is blown off.
You are biohacking your body.
You're going deep.

Mind and body, you goin' deeper into tissue.
Now you're entering into the deepest part of your brain.
It's going to shoot out adrenaline.
Epinephrine.
The adrenal axis is now in activation.
Now slowly but surely
Five times more blood will flow into your brain.
In your heart, you feel peaceful.
You have it fully in control, yet the deepest of your mechanisms and the deepest of your brain are at work right now. And because you are doing it, you are connecting with those mechanisms.
That's the way we learn to gain control over these mechanisms.
You are still without breathing, even
normally you sh you w you would die like breathe, breathe and
You're peaceful.
You're completely in control over your
Parasympathetic nervous system, which is deep
Autonomic nervous system level.
And you are in control, right?
No.
This is where trauma is starting to release.
Five.
Four
Three.
Two
One. Now you take a full breath in.
Hold it?
Impress it to your head.
Press it to your head.
Press it to your head.
This is
Subliminal.
Cerebral spinal fluid to your head. It's flushing in and all brain. Hundred percent neural activity. Three.
Two
One.
Let it go.

Good.
If we go into a next round, you will be able to go say
For two minutes without breathing.
Then two and a half minutes, then three minutes.
After exhalation.
It is it cannot be something else than
Regaining a control
Deeper than ever before thought.
possible and this is what we have shown. This is where the bacteria suddenly had no chance.
The virus has no chance.
Why is it that the world doesn't know about this?
Why is it that the scientific world is not examining this as a beneficial therapeutical power to battle all the diseases we got?
Because aren't we built with an immune system that shoot
Hold.
Virus, bacteria.
Inflamation
It is. But it is never that way because this is deeper than our condition body and mind.
And this is the way to get a hold of that.
It feels so I feel very different.
In every rate of the word. I feel
And when I came back into the room.
It all felt very it almost felt a little bit like I just woken up.
I was a little bit more.
Yeah, there was a little bit of
It was very peaceful.
And I was very um
When I came back into the room I felt very focused.
This is the last study I did with five hundred forty people in Australia. It shows uh that this uh
the this uh method.
is uh compared to meditation and mindfulness works a whole lot better.
How did you learn this?
Where did you learn this?
By intuition.
You remember the mother?
Who made me uh uh uh b become a missionary, uh become a seeker.

And then I found the cold water.
What does the cold water do?

You learn to breathe deep.
And that makes all the change. At a certain moment I became aware that if I was breathing deeper, slowly
And deep.
Slowly and deep, I was able to endure the cold much longer.
That means that if we go into
deeper breathing, we are able to activate deeper mechanisms that are able to make us a lot stronger.
And that translates to life. Yeah, translates to everyday life.
I wanna get onto the cold water, which is the sort of second pillar of the
Wimhoff method, but the third pillow
I find really interesting as well, which is
The power of the mind.
Exactly.
What do you mean by this, the power of the mind? You're telling me that I can
Do things to my mind to make my mind
stronger and
More resilient.
Oh yes. Oh yes. What do you mean by the power of the mind? First of all, uh we just recently did this new study. It's coming out now.

Um it's into submitting
And uh they did it with five hundred forty people. So
Meditation and mindfulness is about the mind.
Isn't it? To bring anxiety down, to bring stress down.

This method works better.
Yeah.
than mindfulness and meditation, which is in the corporate world, but also in the wellness industry.
uh overall and also therapeutically in the health uh mental health care
Yeah uh yeah, uh systems uh uh uh being accept uh accepted and uh implemented.
and used as a therapeutic uh uh uh therapeutical means.
So
This works better.

The stress resilience goes way up.
Stress experience goes way down.

And uh
Uh cognitive awareness goes also way up.
Is what you just said. Mm-hmm.

And uh
Uh this was only one round.
Imagine if you do four rounds.
It will go so deep.
That's uh yeah, unprecedented deep where you will go and things can come to the surface never been stashed away, you never knew of or were not aware of and all
This is all blocking our awareness.
And now when it's getting out of the way.
Then suddenly our awareness becomes bigger.
Brighter.
Nicole.
More flaw.
More receptive, more sharper.
Clearer.
And all.

And uh that uh a doubt.
It's part.
of a system that suddenly is able to override our conditioning.
So our conditioning is a conditioning
Where in deeper mechanisms are not really at work.
But we are able to function in this society system, et cetera. But not necessarily we are connected with the depth of ourselves.
And when trauma happens or emotions start to be not nice, we don't know what to do with that.
Now the power of the mind is very simple.
Through d uh doing this you learn to override to create a different conditioned mind and body.
relationship.
And suddenly opens up a new terrain, a new capacity in the brain to connect with, and that is interoception.
Interoception. Interoception. Interoception. And and with that we suddenly learn to control

U and to command our bodies a vessel of our emotions, of our sensations, of or whatever we experience, that's our body.
But when it feels bad, we don't know what to do.
And now we found a way to go past that condition state
And we found a new way in the brain
and get a hold of that, which is there naturally to control
Whatever is going wrong to re regulate it, to rebalance it, to reset it, to make our bad feelings, emotions, disease, etcetera, make it go.
Away
In our command.
That is the power of the mind, which is a natural
Capacity
Of ours, which should be revealed.
past uh the system way of thinking
And be brought
into secondary school or or or even when kids are very young, that they are able to depict own happiness, strength
And health.
It's part of the
Building up the power of the mind.
Becoming
Stepping into personal responsibility and stepping away from victimhood.
Yes, because victimhood is no longer needed.
Responsibility
Is there where we have the ability to response.

And this is uh these are the tools.
Then suddenly we feel we got the steer will in our hand.
How do you train someone though to stop being a victim in their own life? In one in in one session.
Sure.
Just do this breathing.
Yeah.
And then uh w we go into the ice bath.
Yeah, they suddenly feel power.
Uh sorry, Daddy, I'm yelling. You can yell. Yeah. Uh uh It's power.
People feel
Being silent.
In that iceberg, overcoming all that stress, and suddenly feel that they are on top of it.
And they are subtly able to go past this concept of this uh dangerous cult.
Power energy coming no control this anxiety It's uh suddenly uh they got a halt, complete halt over that. And with that comes that paradigm that always thought of that to be impossible to control.
Suddenly it's a piece of cake.
That that is then turning into a a a domino effect, a cascade of uh uh feelings of hey, if I can do that, I can do that, I can do that, I can do that.
So you can build personal responsibility by taking control of the cold and not. Oh, absolutely.
And just one day.