Wim Hof does not teach breathing. He demonstrates it. In this guided session, recorded for World Meditation Day, the method unfolds with characteristic warmth, humor, and moments of surprising philosophical depth — alongside the technical practice of controlled hyperventilation and breath retention that has made the Wim Hof Method one of the most widely practiced breathwork protocols in the world.
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technical issues. Houston, we have a problem. We cannot land on the moon. So close. Somewhere over the rainbow way up high. Get high on your own supply. There I heard of one in a la bye-bye. Lol. We go back in the flow in the morning. That's go with the banana. Yeah, that's Dutch for go with the banana. Please apologize to the viewers for Oh, I I got the director there sitting on the couch. He's He's saying please and apologize for uh it's not my behavior. It's their behavior. They are not in control. I'm here and the dog wants to go out. Then Issa wants to come in then she wants to go out you know all kinds of technical problems doesn't matter. We found uh all kinds of things especially in these times and I'm still distracted by what is going on. Uh I had it really premeditated how to get into this breathing session and then this happens an issue this and that and the technical
an issue this and that and the technical problems and then I have to do this and then the dog comes in and she wants to go again and I can't concentrate. I don't need to concentrate because I found it. What I got is here unconditionally there the shortcut neurologically into inside your own brain. Once again, own your own brain. You are the rightful owner of your own brain. Isn't that logical? So, what would you do if you have access to the unlimited power of the the mind? Easy does it. Become happy, become strong, become healthy, and maintain it totally in control. You're the captain. Your will is the captain of this vessel. You got a vessel. You are a captain. And we cross all the energies, the oceanic feelings, energies deep and all. And we go targeted realizing our soul. And this breathing session is all about that to facilitate the right pH, the right biochemistry inside. And then for God's sake, in contrary of what we have been schooled in to make career in this, we manifest happiness, health and strength right over here today. Shortcut into with our will and our vessel to be in to the right direction for the rest of our lives, which is every moment. every moment and there we begin. Okay. Fully it let it go. Huh? Okay. I got to explain how many rounds because there are always noviceses. You know people who start this for the first
know people who start this for the first time. This is very difficult breathing techniques. It's like fully inhale and letting go. Simpler, accessible, powerful, scientifically endorsed. So just follow me fully in and letting go. That's what we do for 30 30 times. And then the last one will be fully in letting go and stop. And we begin with one minute. Then one and a half minute, 2 minutes, 2 and 1 / 2 minutes, 3 minutes. up. Feel the power. You are the alchemist to be able to alter your pH, your biochemistry today. And we do it all together. 16, 000 people of us all individually. You see me behind the computer and then multiplied by 16, 000 people. Hey man, I'm here. I got a universal language. We ain't got no differences, no politics, no religions, whatever. We all have the right to feel divine, happy, strong and healthy. And it goes by intention. Power of your intention. What is your intention? Set it. Make the shortcut and make sure you see and feel that you are in control, that you are the captain from now on. Promise. It's a deal. It's guaranteed and it works. It's time for the neurology to be awakened to our control. Willful control. Hey captain, love is the way. Love is where we go to. Love is what we manifest in every moment. Okay. Then we start. Relax. Get your
Okay. Then we start. Relax. Get your ear things, you know, earpieces in or whatever, but relax on the sofa sitting. Look at me and what I'm doing. We are sharing. We are the future pioneering and we come together now. Now we breathe in together all fully in letting go. Pull Pull in. Letting go. Pulling in. Letting go. Come on. Let's do this together. And don't forget in letting go. You are the alchemist. You make the chains. And we go into the shortcut. Captains, we will rule over the seas together, over the energies. We are the master of our mind and the captain of our soul soul inside by directing our vessel right here and now in happiness, strength and health toward its goal of love is the drive and soul is its manifestation. All there neurology, DNA doesn't matter. It's all evidence-based and it's done. That the whole establishment is not there yet doesn't mean that we are here and sharing the future here in the moment where love is ruling because we are the captain. We decide to be happy and strong and healthy which is part of the unlimited
healthy which is part of the unlimited power of our mind. Nobody else's. It's everybody the rightful owner of their own mind. So don't be out of your mind. Be in your mind and fully in letting go. fully fully in. Letting go. Relax. Fully into it. And whatever is different, breathe into it. And here it comes. Last one. Fully in. Oh, and letting go. And halt. We go for one minute. Meanwhile, just witness. There is no need for breathing. Carbon dioxide is being blown off. It's very easy, very technically, it's very easy. It's up to you to show the power of your intention, the shortcut into absolute control within your brain. Like right now 15 seconds more open way at fully alter. On the inhale, hold it. And hold it. Bring cerebral spinal fluid and let it go. There we go. Round number two.
go. There we go. Round number two. Fully. Make sure alchemists that we are changing the biochemistry to our favor. Going into the depth past our blockages, inhibitions and neurologically connect deeply the way nature meant it to be the way nature capacitated us by birthight to be in control over our happiness, strength and health. The immune system, endocrine system, the energy systems, it's all within our willful control. So fully in, let it go in. It's all about love. My dear listeners, viewers, my fellow shipmen, humans, all in love, together be the captain of your soul, the master of your mind, and pull it and letting go. Get into this rhythm. Go. Pull it. Go. Hey, pull in go pull in. Amazing message is coming through. The neurology reset, the shortcut into control. Not the way we were schooled, the way we are. And here comes the last one. Fully
comes the last one. Fully in. Let it go. And stop. We go for one and a half minutes. One and a half minute. Witness be. Relax. Jumbo got it. What can my It's all about love and nature coming together in harmony with nature. And there's the lullabi and it's right here in our consciousness. What would you choose if you would be the master of your your mind? And it's not far away. It's you. Yeah. Now make up your mind. Here it is. Coming Coming fully. Hold. All more. Keep it there. Cerebral spinal fluid go to your head. Two. One. Let it go. There we go again. Come on, guys. Pull it
in. Pull the go. Follow your your rhythm in the flow. changing the biochemistry, the alchemy, all being done here and now. And the war is won only when it's won. When we got victory and victory comes with love and peace deeply deeply within. Make sure you are in love in every moment. in peace in every moment and powerful in every moment. That is the master of the mind. That is the captain wherein the soul is thriving and in the process to manifest the great journey called life in love all within you fully in. Go life force hey and it's not complicated. It is simple. That is the way nature is simply there like the sun for free. The greatest is you who makes the choice to be like the son simply there for free. Let's change this world. Come on, guys. Ready? Love and power. Pull it up. Let it go and
stop. We go for two full minutes. And you are able to do it. Witness. Relax. No force. The alchemist has come. That's That's you witnessing being over the rainbow way up high. Get high on your own supply there. The land that I heard of that is here right now now somewhere they say in a la. Last night I had a little boy who couldn't couldn't go to sleep. And I told him that the sun is down that the eyes need to shut down. H I lost the track making things up, you know. But last night I had my son and you couldn't sleep. I said the sun is there so you can see things. And when the sun is gone, you need to shut your eyes because then you can see inside. And when I I told him that story, he could he got it and he he slept. Amazing.
slept. Amazing. Okay, Juliet. Hold it. Hold on the inhale. Hold more. And let it go. Now we go into round number three. Make sure you're doing it right. For round number four, pull it. Letting go go in. Let go go in. Letting go. Pull in. Letting go. Keep on going. Follow go. Letting go. Keep on going. Follow your your rhythm. Letting go. Let it go. Keep on going. The message of today is the shortcut into full control in our brain over our body. Last time. Full control in our brain over our body. Brain over body. What would you do if you would be the captain of this vessel? Where would you go to? I would go to the land of honey, to the land of the lullabies, to the
to the land of the lullabies, to the promised land which is here right now. Not through career moves and more moves. Always postponing, It's here right now. The shortcut control is yours. Take them on guys. We are sharing this. Pulling it. Hold and let go. And stop. Witness. Be easy. Does it relax? Just let it go. So the body is able to do, repair, regeneration, parasympathetic nervous system system activity, deep relaxation. Even in the places where your conditioning is not able to go, you are right now into the lymphatic. As deep as we are now in sizes in size was thought impossible. Now we are there. We are simply there. All the 16, 000 of us sharing. Breaking the chain of what is possible. Going deeper. Going together. Sharing our control to go to the deepest. sharing one direction. That direction is the journey of the soul through love because we are the captains on our vessel. We are the alchemists to change it all and to direct our
direct our being listening to the deep inside which we we awakened. Intuition, proprioception, interosception, it's all there. Neurology, it's logic. Nothing more than logic. No career moves somewhere there. Right over here right now. That's where we go. Julian, hold and let it go. Round number five. Here we go. Last round. Let's make it a good one. Fully in. Let it go. Pull it in. Let it go. Go deep. Follow the breath. The breath is like water. Don't mind. Don't let the mind come in. The master of the mind knows how to let go of the mind. Follow the breath. The breath is gone everywhere. Your Your consciousness, perception, neurology is following it. The breath goes deeper than we thought in signs. And now your neurology which is connected to your will will connect to the deepest. It's only
only logic in letting go. Take him in. Let go. Take me. It's like when you are in love. You don't think. You're not thinking. You're not labeling. You're not doubting. You are full of life. Full of love. Learn to love life like you love love. That is the message. That is the neurology. And we got it all done. Letting go and let it go. Be powerful. Following the breath, shutting up the minds. Following the breath into the depth. That's where we are. Pull in. Hold. Letting go of the mind. Letting go of the breath. There we are into the depth. And there is no doubt about it. It's It's happening. Only our notion, our consciousness was all is this possible? What is this? What is happening now? What is that? It's all new. It's the depth talking to you, communicating through through nonverbal nonverbal communication. It's where we go into the deepest of the DNA, into the deepest of the marrow, into the deepest of the brain. Can you imagine? Connect. just connect. It's subtle. It's there. And it makes all the
subtle. It's there. And it makes all the changes and all the glut will go out of our our bodies. That what is not serving us to be happy, strong and healthy by nature and by birthight. We are built to be happy, strong, and healthy. Anything else is gotten in, sneaking, wrongly schooled, whatever that is, get it out because you are a captain. You sail the boat through the waters, through the energies, targeted to manifest the soul. Soul full of love, power, unlimited, eternal, unbreakable. That is you. Keep it there. Last 10 seconds. Keep it there, Sherry. It's no competition. We are just going to the best of each and everyone. And pull in hold. Be proud as a king, as a queen, as a light. And let it go. Relax. You got the message. Here we go. Last one. Pully in. Letting go. Pull in. Letting go. Fully in. No talking anymore. Just
go. Fully in. No talking anymore. Just fully in, letting go. Fully in. Oh yeah. Hey hey yeah. Oh yeah. You Hey yeah. The captain has arrived. We are sailing in the waters targeted to manifest the presence of our beautiful soul in every moment. Pull in. letting go and hold. Witness be nice. It's greater than we can comprehend the depth of ours. Never been schooled
schooled in. Yet it's ours and we need it in the pursuit to guarantee happiness, strength, and health. To guarantee happiness, strength and health. To have a nonblocked system to create flow, to maintain it. and being back with the new neurology of nowadays into the primordial sound of your heart. The beat, the aliwan, the heart of Africa where humanity came from. Where are we now? Living all over in harmony as one people. With one soul, happiness, strength, and health. Oh. Ah yeah eternity eternal unbreakable the soul I am whim what are you saying that is not real it is simply there it's really real here and now. It is time to
real here and now. It is time to awaken like a baby to the power of the soul present within our perception, neurology, consciousness, the top down regulation. It's all there. Yeah. What? Let it go. Relax. Great. loved their sharing. The message is simple, clearcut. Time to awaken to the soul through the power of all the measurement devices of the world in science showing that we have the innate capacity to control much deeper into our bone marrow into the deepest part of our brain and into the DNA. And in the end it was all about about love. Loving the planet, loving the people, loving all living beings and being one. Would it like to be not one? Cuz I could not breathe. We only make the differences here. Shut up. Okay, questions and answers. I'm ready. Is it questions and answers? Huh? All
right. Whim, your presence is questionable. What kind of answer do you have on that shit? I never thought about that. Go. Hey. Yeah, I'm just here, man. I just want to change the world that's all and we do it together. Yeah, that's my answer. Okay, next question. Everyone is just saying peace and love. Yeah, it is peace and it is love. Maybe this is a good question. I did a meeting two days ago 13 minutes, one and a half minutes or 11 minutes. I had a seizure. Is that normal? No, of course not. What you got to do is slow down the breathing. So the question is if you have a seizure man, if you have an accident, don't do that. Learn to watch what you do. That means breathing, following consciously because this breathing exercise is powerful. It has shed found fundamentally signs. It is able to bring down inflammation. It is able to regulate your mood. This was not possible according to everybody. So when you do this breathing, exercising do it cautiously because you really go deep. You go as deep where you are not. You go as deep where your conditioning is not able to control no more. You see? So follow the breath. If you got a things out of control, get back in control. How? Just follow the breath. Easy. Not Hey man, you're going to lose control there.
Happy days. Next question. Yes. lungs and sensation. Is that normal? Is that okay? Yes. What? Oh yeah. I'm doing the breathing for months. Is the tingling sensation has disappeared? Man, it's not about tingling. That is only a symptom. And because the flow in the and the gas exchange becomes better, then the tingling is not there. Tingling is like friction and sometimes it feels nice. But you know what? What you do then is wake up one day and decide today I want to go really deep. Just follow the breath and go deep. You know what? You will find the tingly. It's never been gone. It's only your attention, your consciousness. Oh, it's a tingling will come. No, it's not bound or related to your expectation. It'll come if you go deep. Amazing. Just find out this breathing is got it one way, the other way, and that way too. And that way, too. Yeah. What can you do when you feel down? Don't let me down. Sing that song or something. No, do this breathing. Do the power breathing. You do do this. You know when you are down, You're not up, you're down. So act accordingly. Go fully into it. You want to have a remedy, you know, getting into it. That's what you do. Focused at that moment. Feel where you are. And
done 15 times. The last time you take them in, hold it. Squeeze it to your head and be there. Because being down is a lack of dopamine, serotonin, a stress in the brain. There is and that makes you feel down. It's a signal. And then cerebrros spinal fluid to your head makes it all like the water getting water is getting to the plants. Ah, the flowers suddenly come up again. That's the way I'm used to all kinds of breathing techniques. I have my face. Should I maintain that pace if it feels good or should I adapt to your pace or face to uh I if I got you know doing all kinds of breathing techniques I got my own pace and no only this pace is obligated. Hey man, you got to do another No, you can do take it easy. Take it easy peasy. Go your own pace. Nice and easy. But remember, go into the depth and you are the captain of your soul. You're the master of your mind and the breathing is the facilitator of the right biochemistry inside. Make sure you get that. Whatever pace you got, whatever car you get, get to your destiny. Peace. Blocked or forced or relaxed? Does the last exhalation need to be you know forceful yes or no or I say letting go. We have one. This is like 7
letting go. We have one. This is like 7 mu beyond uh sea level. And that means uh there is one atmosphere. When I go Mount Everest, my tea will boil my tea water will boil at 70 °. Here it is 100 °. There's a different pressure here. Here it is one atmosphere. The way you got to go with the exhalation is letting go to the one atmosphere. Look, this is more than one atmosphere. That's why I'm talking so so strange, you know. It's like uh this helium helium gas got things. No, more than one atmosphere. Letting go. That is one atmosphere. that is below the atmosphere. Got it? So, letting go is there any relation between length of the breath and quality of the exercise or is over time the the So yeah, the the one with the longest is the best. No. Competition. The best is awaiting without force. Yet it takes your mind. If you are with your mind there and there, hey, what are you doing? If you set your intention, you want to go for the best, you will get to the best without force. And you know what? you get to the most longest of retentions as well. The one according to your physiology to your needs. It's like, oh, how does my car if it looks better? It
how does my car if it looks better? It goes better to the its destination. No, you still got to stop in front of a red light and then when it's green, you can go again, etc. You got to abide to the rules of of the physiology. But then you get the best. And once you get into the best, amen, there is happiness, strength and health guaranteed because that's the way we are built. So no competition. Don't become become better than somebody else or within your you in your uh thoughts. Become the best of of yourself by relaxed being no force. Go to the deepest and set your intention with your beautiful mind. Deal. Why is it better to do these breathing techniques on empty stomach? Because when you have a full stomach, you are not a then all the oxygen gets over there. That's one. And it's naturally blocking. you are not able to perform when all the oxygen is being consumed and makes the parasympathetic nervous system at work then it's like pushing on the brakes while you push on the gas at as well that's why it's not going to work and you know what the the retention time so you won't feel okay it's blocking it's said don't do it simult It's or this or that and that means you're breathing on empty stomach is the best and the gas exchange mitochondrial exchange for ATP molecules etc energy all these things work a lot better. Yes. Bang. And have a nice meal.
better. Yes. Bang. And have a nice meal. One that keeps popping up lately is does the breathing bring on tenitus? Tenitis and if so will it go? Ah I I got people who wrote books that this breathing if you use it the right way is able to get into the audio center in the ear of people who had or were suffering from from tenitis. The thing is don't force. If you don't force, you will be able to get and reach into the audio center in into the air processes and regulate with the right cerebrros spinal fluid plasticity, neuroplasticity. It's all there but no force, right? When is the best time to do these exercises? Actually there are a lot of questions there people are asking which they can find in our hey yes for hey hey guys for the noviceses and a lot of questions are already answered they are on the website in the community and uh you know thousands of answers or out of the practice of so many what I want to say is here I got this message the breathing really work. As they eloquently say in the classical language, this shit works. So, it works and it works for you if you only do it right. And right is very difficult. Relax. It's very simple, very accessible, and very powerful. Make sure you follow those principles and you get anywhere in your own body. It's only logic. It's nature and the nature is
logic. It's nature and the nature is being happy, strong and healthy. Because if you are in control and your neurology is not uh blocked and it's living everywhere because you have changed the biochemistry into the depth. Then what would you do? How would you use this body and this mind? I would say man become happy, strong and healthy or relaxed. Yes. Quite serious. How do you grow such an experience? Ah Ah man this this beard he say I drank a lot of beer before and there was one guy said telling me hey whim I see you drinking beers and I said is yellow w yes yes man it's and that's intoxication I said it's yellow water it's not beer it's yellow water water And then it's but you know everybody has got his own control. I got the control to make my beard grow while I'm standing barefoot outside in the snow in a shitty horse stance for three hours. That's what I did. And then this beard grow because I couldn't drink beer. That doesn't make sense. I'm trying to make stupid jokes but you know I'm stupid. I'm a joke. I know. And that's a good joke by the way. Corona virus and everything you mentioned a little bit. Yes. Hey Corona virus pandemic etc. We got a change in preventing we got to change our lifestyles. We are built and schooled to be part of a system that is polluting the world and that is exploiting the world that where the
exploiting the world that where the economy is the most important and where is the health where is the happiness where's the strength and where's the health and we found the ways to tap into the health happiness and strength. A happy person doesn't go to war. A happy person is not accumulating power or possession. Then exorcism is needed into in this world to get this idiotic possessive being exploiting and taking and hey man let's share the love happiness and strength where I found it there is a lot lot is so much we can overpop populate the world and still be in love and strength and happiness and in harmony with nature that's my idea hey pandemics and Corona virus have been existent for millions of years and right now it's there. How come? Because we debilitated our conditions. We have lived so much into comfort zone behavior where we think we can control nature with our technology. We cannot even be happy, strong and healthy. Hey, stop it now. Change the paradigm. Get back to your sense. Happy, strong, healthy right here. and pandemics a and corona virus. One and a half million people died of corona which is real but 60 to 70 million people of inflammation diseases every year. I don't hear anything about that and we showed how to get it down. Wait, what are you saying? Oh, I say just be happy, strong, healthy. We are positives. We are not into conspiracies etc. We don't need that. We show by example being happy, strong and healthy. Radiate the love man. There the virus has no
place. Is it safe to do exercise with high blood pressure? Is it safe to do it with high blood pressure or low blood pressure? I just heard of this guy who came to my place, Zach. He's got Zach and uh uh and his woman. And this woman had uh like two less a white cells. He could she could not be treated for cancer. And oh no, that yeah, it is true. And 10 days later, she multiplied through this method 10 times her white cells and she could be treated and she is cured. That is another thing. There was another uh woman who uh told me last week, I get so many letters and and she said, "Oh, it helped me so much. It changed my life and my mother's blood high blood pressure got she got rid of it in a couple of days after I don't know like the senior of suffering of high blood pressure." Why? Because we exercise the vascular system to the deepest. We gather back the way nature meant it to be. We have millions of little muscles inside. not outside. No, inside. Millions of little muscles and they help the blood flow go through. They help the vascular system, the tubing, you know, the vessels, the arteries, the veins, the capillaries. more than 100, 000 kilometers like 70, 000 miles. It's inside all and so the the heart rate goes down and the veins become flexible and then the constrictive constrictive uh because of the wrong biochemistry sclerosis the constrictive element which makes the high uh uh the pressure of the blood going through
pressure of the blood going through high that is gone because it becomes flexible. it it's not only for high blood pressure also low blood pressure pressure it will be done sorry that it is so simple and that is s such a big issue but a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away so just number questions what time do you go to sleep what do you wake up I go to yeah I got a threeyear-old and uh He goes when he goes to sleep I he he wants daddy to come and to last night was such a beautiful moment. I was lying with him. He could not sleep and he was so awake. And then I told him this story, the story of the sun. And when the sun is up and hey, that's why we have eyes, then we can see things. And when the sun is down, then you you don't need to see things anyway. Then you should shut your eyes and shut up. And he heard that logic three years old and he understood it and he felt it. That's real understanding. Feeling his understanding. and he slept. So, it's a little bit difficult when you live in Iceland in June to be up to 1: 00 in the morning because it's light and then at 4: 00 it's light again. But normally, you know, when you have been living the day and I say die once a day like as much as I live, I want to live. I don't want to take it on every day. Jump from the rocks into the freezing freezing water painfully pranking and doing all kinds of making music. Change the world. Let's go to in the univer. We are here with the message from the universe.
here with the message from the universe. The most beautiful spot in the whole wide world. So whole wide world. Whole wide universe. that all that I and more as I do understand I want to live and when I do that I feel sleepy when I feel sleepy is when I need to regenerate and follow your feeling therein there is no fixed number of about how much you need it when you feel it is a symptom that you need to regenerate energy you have given it Then you are able to receive it or only your presence should be more into the subconscious into the dreaming. It's amazing that we are able to get into the subconsciousness. Now we have shown this in brain scan. That's another story in DMT. Look at look it up the DMT documentary. It's a DMT quest. It's a new documentary. It's great. It's about the subconscious. When go to sleep when you're tired. It's like a car you know you got to be tired but only when the car has tires it's able to go. When you are tired you should just relax and sleep. Question which has nothing to do with the ice. Do you take ice every day? Um do every day in the cold? Yeah, sure. Then when you feel groggy or this or that or whatever, too much work in the morning because then the chemical residue is present and whatever is happen. You take the damn cold shower and it's gone. Just do this. The cold is a a great washer of all the chemical
great washer of all the chemical residue. Whatever way it came in, it's out. And to go into the cold is then you know you are alive. It's like acupunchure thousand needles but in this case it's healing you. It's amazing. Cold is I call it God because it goes past words. It just changes you for the good. So cold ice bath a day. Man, I sure you like ice cream. You scream, we all scream, you know, all all that jazz in the summertime. You can find I love palm trees, by the way. I love the tropics and to be there and wow, look at these plants grow exuberant. But every day I want to You can find me in the freezer in the chest freezer in the water. If you live in the tropics and you don't have an ice bath, is that okay to not take ice? If you live in the tropics and you have no ice bath, then move to the North Pole. No, that was a mistake. No, man. A chest freezer. I just talked about it. It really It's amazing. Oh, Adam, my is my son, but also my business partner or something. We we set up something. We began with 30, 000 adept in the in in the with the tax office because it was not paid or something and now we are thriving. So maybe uh we we start a chest freezer business all over the world. No, of course not. But hey thing is when you are in the tropics share it with your friends that you got a chest freezer seal it off with
you got a chest freezer seal it off with silicons not silicon valley you know silicon it's a thing to seal it off and then get water in and don't forget to get to take the cable out of the socket otherwise you will suck it well being in electrified and not the way you like it. No, get every day into the chess freeze is just bloody great. Sorry for my French, but I love it. Someone is repeating one question all the time. His name is M and he is asking what do you think about magic mushrooms? Last question. Ah, magic mushrooms. I say high on your own supply. All these I gains IOS guys and to heal yourself to open up this is maybe for stubborn trauma and all that PT you know they really hidden but a good brea there is nothing a good good breathing session is not able to get to don't forget that it is simple effective and very powerful use it well and mushrooms I did it man I did those things when I was young experimenting etc and then found out what is the use of that for me in daily life then I found out the cold and the breathing they are much more powerful they make me able to have access to all the energy all my hormone hormones uh which I need to feel good and to do whatever I want to you know being happy and to the immune system health. It's all there just by doing that, man. But I did it all. So I ain't got no prejudice or this or that magic
got no prejudice or this or that magic mushrooms. H that's all right. If you got something stubborn blocking you, use something. But I don't make it a habit because it's exogenous. It's coming from the out in and all we need actually is anogenous is inside. I talked with the authorities in the world on this and they now have shown they have given me like a yeah you are right they thought it was impossible DMT and metalization you needed exogenously it's endogenous you able to draatize with the aid you got with the tools you got and therein the breathing and the cold And you you believe power of the mind. It's a baby just waking up awakened into this world. It's going to grow and to be divine for everybody. Divinity for everybody in this world. This time is the time to become become timeless. Yes.
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This is not an explanation of the method. It is the method, lived in real time. The session captures what makes Hof's approach so accessible: the sense that the practice is immediately available, that no special preparation is required, and that the shortcut to the body's inner resources is already within reach.
The Wim Hof Method breathwork cycle involves thirty to forty deep, rapid breaths followed by a full exhale and a breath hold. During the rapid breathing phase, carbon dioxide is expelled faster than normal, shifting blood pH toward alkalinity. Oxygen remains plentiful — CO2 depletion creates the tingling, lightheadedness, and emotional release that practitioners report.
During the breath hold, the body draws on the oxygen already present in tissues. Heart rate drops. Blood pressure decreases. Metabolism shifts. Certain practitioners, in controlled research settings, have demonstrated measurable voluntary influence over immune response during this phase — a finding that remains one of the most remarkable in modern exercise physiology.
The final deep inhale and hold allows the body to return to equilibrium with an elevated oxygen baseline.
The traditional view in physiology held that the autonomic nervous system — the system that governs heart rate, immune response, stress hormones — was not under voluntary control. The Wim Hof Method and the research it has inspired challenged this view directly.
Studies conducted at Radboud University in the Netherlands demonstrated that Hof, and subsequently trained individuals who learned his method, could voluntarily modulate their immune response to injected bacterial endotoxin — producing less severe immune reactions and recovering more quickly than untrained controls.
The mechanism involves the interplay of breathing, cold exposure (our deep dive on cold exposure) (this topic in depth), and meditation. The breathing protocol specifically appears to activate the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal axis in a controlled, intentional way — effectively teaching the practitioner to operate the system that most people experience only as a passenger.
What sets this guided session apart from a technical explanation of the method is Hof's insistence on presence as the foundational condition for the practice. Before the breath cycles begin, he attends to the chaos around him — a dog wanting out, technical failures, the general entropy of a live session — and demonstrates, rather than describes, the equanimity that the practice cultivates.
The message is embedded in the demonstration: you do not need perfect conditions to access the practice. You need presence. The shortcut, as Hof describes it, is neurological — a direct path into the body's own regulatory systems — and it requires only attention and intention to activate.
This is the quality that makes the session worth returning to. Not the instruction, but the embodiment of what consistent breathwork practice produces over years.
The Wim Hof Method is typically presented as a triad: breathwork, cold exposure, and meditation/commitment. They are not separate practices — they support each other.
The breathing protocol prepares the nervous system for the cold. The cold reinforces the lessons of the breath — stay present, stay calm, trust the body's capacity. Meditation provides the container for both.
In the context of contrast therapy and deliberate cold practice, Wim Hof breathwork serves as both preparation and integration. Before the cold, it activates the system and establishes a baseline of calm. After the cold, it supports the return to equilibrium. Practiced together over time, they build a nervous system of unusual stability and range.
You are the rightful owner of your own brain. Isn't that logical? So what would you do if you have access to the unlimited power of the mind?
The shortcut is neurological — it is already inside you. The breathing is simply the key. — Wim Hof
You don't need perfect conditions. You need presence. The practice is always available. — Wim Hof
Practice the Wim Hof breathing cycle on an empty stomach, preferably lying down: 30–40 deep breaths, full exhale, breath hold, then a deep inhale and hold. Three rounds.
Never practice while driving, in water, or anywhere that losing consciousness would be dangerous. The practice is powerful and produces real physiological changes.
Use breathwork as preparation for cold exposure: a round of Wim Hof breathing before a cold plunge activates the system and helps establish calm at the moment of entry.
