The Cold Becomes a Door Back to Yourself

The Cold Becomes a Door Back to Yourself

Cold exposure (more on this here) is often presented as toughness. Wim Hof speaks about something quieter and more human: the moment the cold gives the mind nowhere else to go.

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the only thing that could stop that emotional agony that was the icy water that gave me a uh just a brief moment of opening the door to healing to tranquility to just purpose just being and feeling was great at that moment even though i was in icy cold water i felt relief of that emotional agony which is much more stressful than icy water i can tell you but through the icy water i could find relief relief and that gave me back my control over my body body over my body and my emotions you're watching young and profiting podcast on youtube welcome to the show i'm your host hola taja and on young and profiting podcast we investigate a new topic each week and interview some of the brightest minds in the world before we get started hit the subscribe button and don't forget to click the bell icon to be notified every time we drop a new video hey whim welcome to young and profiting podcast thank you so happy that you're here this might be one of my most anticipated interviews so far this year and you are a living legend known as the iceman and this is because of your dozens of world records involving the cold including climbing mount everest and shorts and running an ice and snow half marathon barefoot you've taken the scientific world by storm and you've helped humans

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world by storm and you've helped humans reimagine the possibilities of understanding our brains and the conscious control of our innermost bodily functions and systems and you seem to be truly enlightened and have tapped into ancient wisdom through your work and so my plan is to cover a lot of ground in the next hour and i want to be sure all of my young and profiters hear your perspective on the meaning of life the creation of life and our purpose as humans i want to get some background into how you became the iceman and all the revolutionary findings that have come from your breathing techniques and the scientific studies that back it up and i also want to understand how you envision the future of mankind so we've got a lot of things to cover so i want to get straight into some of your beliefs because i know that everything that comes out of your mouth is pretty much pure gold and very eye-opening especially for those who may not have heard your work before and for those who have heard your stuff before i hope we get some new thoughts and perspectives and so i want to start off with your perspective on the purpose of life you've said in the past that the brain stem is the purpose of life i want to understand what you mean by that and what do you think the purpose of life is as humans the purpose of life is life itself without a life there is nothing so so it all started the development of mammals of reptiles in the past as the brain stamp the brainstem knows cold it knows heat it knows fear and knows food it knows freeze freeze but it doesn't think it is not really feeling but the purpose

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it is not really feeling but the purpose of life as being just life is there and then we developed our brains into a limbic system upon that which is the mammalian brain and then the neocortex which is the human brain and uh and now we are able to think about things and become conscious consciousness means expanding neurology inside the brain and and that makes our existence as beings suddenly able to alleviate the gravity when we came in and i have a consciousness growing that transcends the the physical powers of this world and goes into a higher consciousness but before that happens we need to have a understanding understanding of how to control these mechanisms inside the brain to evolve from being being in this world into a consciousness which is entangled to a consciousness which is able to transcend or to become enlightened because in the end our purpose is to be light not dark light not heavy so while we're on the topic of the meaning of life i think you have a really unique perspective on the role of the body versus the role of the soul could you explain that to us yes

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soul could you explain that to us yes the body is there absolutely the vehicle of our soul without a soul we stink in one day when the body is just a body it's just that it's because of the grace of the soul that you are smiling and looking at me and being conscious and so beautiful you are beautiful but the soul in the people all is beautiful it is the light itself so in that body it's able to express express and i've been uh studying my body's reactions as well as the limits of what a body and mind is able to do say in a aggressive environment called the cold is really the dark da it's dark it's cold there is no life and testing my light my power of my mind and body to go into that matter and to see how far i can get and then uh going in there i found out we have a soul that is able to tap into areas of our brain and body which is far more than in science is stated stated and this is what i've learned by going into nature into the unknown

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into the unknown past the fear past my fears to venture to to want to know what is the soul is the unlimited power of the mind and our physical body is like the radio who picks up the the waves the resonance the unlimited power of the mind is the neural a neurological connection we can have as being the receiver and sender of what is the unlimited power of the mind around us and it it's all there only the my body has been tested and gone past our conditioned way of thinking and doing enabling me to find things thought of in science impossible like how to beat disease disease how to beat depression how to beat knowing physiological laws and stay for hours in freezing cold and have no temperature change within myself myself or how to go into the deep at will into the deepest of the brain and and the deepest of the bone marrow into the deepest of the dna this was all thought it's impossible for humans to do that willfully

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willfully but i know my body i have been testing it out me myself not going uh according the books but according my intuition my instinct and that brought me exactly where i want to be to see and feel uh the presence of something that is more than thinking and that that right now is present within me and it enlightens me and i'm able to enlighten millions of people now so something that's really interesting like you were just saying before that the the cold is like the dark right you purposely make yourself uncomfortable and here we are in modern day age we're wearing clothes we keep ourselves warm we've got temperature control ac heat we're always comfortable right we're always wearing clothes we never feel the environment what's wrong with that that means we de-stimulate our organs the greatest of organs is our skin so so when we do not stimulate our skin's receptors neural receptors temperature receptors pain receptors it's all in the skin it's millions of them we always cover them up so so what what kind of information do you give your body inside when it is

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give your body inside when it is de-stimulated when it is always sort of the same then there is no danger there is no deep stimulation stimulation and that then is not able to stimulate and or make grow internal neurological networks and when that that is was also unknown in science that people are able to regulate their internal neurological uh networks like the sixth sense the seventh sense and the eighth sense it's all new proprioception interception and the sixth sense which is intuition and instinct those are internally but if we cover up our bodies then of course something will not work fully and then we think uh when we keep on going into this comfort zone behavior then then we will have uh to confront ourselves with modern day problems comfort zone behavioral uh problems and that is cardiovascular related diseases for example this killer number one in our society society that's because uh in our skin all the 125 125 000 kilometers like 75 000 kilometers

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000 kilometers like 75 000 kilometers miles miles of of cardiovascular channels they end up in the skin when they are not stimulated the internal vascular system is not stimulated as well and a joint with the cardiovascular system 175 000 miles in each and every one of us us are millions of little muscles so if you don't stimulate them they become mediocre and the heart needs to pump harder harder and it becomes stressful and then we ask why do we have burnouts while we are able to run people to the moon and to mars and i don't know what i all do highly civilized and all amazing technology and then not being able to regulate our happiness strength and health or to be strong and vivid as we should and we are built to be strong and vivid and enthusiastic and creative and always positively radiant radiant we are built like that only we de-stimulated our own potential we dis-stimulated our capacity and that's why we are facing so many autoimmune diseases cancers depressions stress stress burnouts fatigues

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burnouts fatigues call it all kinds of names all goes to the same problem de-stimulative de-stimulative comfort zone behavior so going out of there is actually seeking real comfort or real power and that and it is an initial stressful uh response you will get when you go into the call but very soon in a couple of days the cold is gone and your energy is up and that that is our natural state that we have a lot of energy all day long and amazing what you can do with that yeah it's it's so crazy it it's it's almost like as humans as we got more civilized we forgot about our own internal powers because we just got more comfortable de-stimulated de-stimulated and we forgot what power we actually have and how our bi our mind can actually change our body which is why your work is so so powerful so whim i want to take a step back i want to go to your childhood so you were born in the netherlands you were born to a household of nine kids and you were actually a twin brother and you came into the world completely unsuspected your twin brother was born first and then you came next and your mom said to you let this child live i will make him a missionary so tell us what is your mission in life today my mission is no less than changing the world through the heart

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the heart of people billions of people through the heart i will show that unconditional unconditional love love for life and for each other is a a natural inborn capacity of every person in the world so that is where there is no depression no disease disease when when people become unconditionally a love such a great power when you feel it it now imagine if we could make that unconditional power called love up and running within us without condition just you wake up and you're just in love you know how strong love can be you know when you love somebody you fly you don't think you got such a strong sensations and emotions and you are lifted up you are like flying that power is also there unconditionally also without the need of another person it's there and so uh i have a i love my wife very much and my uh my family life now but i was born like 63 years ago ago and then my mother yes she set that slogan so that invocation in the cult of the whole

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that invocation in the cult of the whole i was unexpected being born in the cold of the hall with the words oh god let this child live i will make him a missionary that was my mother god god fearing person pious and uh but very strong in her beliefs and that that must have to have been that tattoo on my soul back then and that made me different all my life life so yeah respect to the mother and the love love and the power there it the now it is so far that uh through the bbc the the series i'm doing hollywood and it's getting to hundreds and millions of people now and so my aim is nothing less once again as in the beginning to change the world to bring the understanding and the tools to uh connect with the power to unconditionally unconditionally love life that's beautiful so let's take it to your teenager so when you were 17 years old you were vegetarian you tried different things like karate kung fu yoga yoga and then something attracted you into ice water you didn't really figure it out completely until later on but you were attracted to cold water so what were you like as a teenager why did you like it's not normal to to do kung fu

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like it's not normal to to do kung fu and like to do yoga when you're a kid like what were you like when you were a teenager i was quite knowledgeable uh a debater philosopher into esoteric disciplines from sufism to buddhism to hinduism to karate of japan to yoga from india anything i could get my hands upon uh was of interest to me and i practiced it all i was very disciplined no drinking no smoking smoking just uh going into these exercises and disciplines the practice and uh philosophy a lot and then i found at the age of 17 i was already at red hundreds of books it was just different maybe not a nerd i can't say i was a nerd no i followed my feeling wanted to know to get to know more languages i speak many languages that is because because my feeling has always been open to learn if you stay open you will learn languages if i went to france i opened up to learn french and then to spain and then to spanish and that's the way i've learned it and so yeah yeah so the moment you speak ten languages is

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so the moment you speak ten languages is no problem and that is because you are an open being we should not close ourselves up in our our persona always be inquisitive like a child is inquisitive nature is stronger stronger than uh than to be in a persona that's why they are always so excited and they are beautiful because they are directly present in the light that's what i want to be in the light now and forever so going uh back then when i was 17 i found myself in the park a sunday morning and i went into this i felt a attraction a intuitive and uh attraction and instinctively i went in and uh i was hooked and this is like uh it's for a 46 years ago and since then i've been doing it every winter every day going into the cold and the cold is a doorway as i say to the soul because through the cold you automatically breathe breathe deeply and when you breathe deeply you go past this comfort zone behavior uh behavior role conditioning conditioning you get into deeper areas of your physiology of the mind and the body because you're feeling it

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you know when you are alive that's when you feel it then you don't need to know where where what is life what no you are there that's what the cold is able to bring you to this awareness to a deeper depth than your conditioned mind of the modern times i followed that and then i uh became aware that my uh breathing deepened and with the deepening i began to exercise and to try out uh different kinds of breeding that resulted in very effective techniques techniques that now have shattered signs for example three weeks ago i got a mother with two children coming to me age five and seven both brain tumors tumors and and they have to go into chemo and they are sick all the time nauseous and sick and and they lose their hair and all that because of their chemo but since they are doing this these breathing techniques plus going into the cold their white cells of the immune cells system have tenfold multiplied it directly feeds into the depth of the system and uh with that uh the the white cells they multiplied like

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the the white cells they multiplied like crazy and this is very effective these breeding techniques very effective to do it with the cold because it goes into the depth of your physiology much deeper than our modern day conditioning and then brings solace to say two two children of five and seven they are happy now they are full of energy energy and they don't feel the chemo whatsoever the mother is happy the children are happy i'm happy so with that the techniques i found because there is more than meets the eye and i just began on the hunch when i was 17. now now it has been proven throughout my life to share to beat all kinds of world records and then science itself yes and so we're gonna get into all the techniques and the studies that you've been into and exactly what the wim hof method is we're going to talk about all of that but you mentioned something that i really want to touch on which is following your intuition right you've you did not read this in a book you figured this out by following your feelings and i feel like a lot of people now they don't know how to even understand what their own feelings and intuition is they don't even know how to control that or how to even appreciate it or understand that so talk to us

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it or understand that so talk to us about how do you know what your intuition is what your feelings are where where you should go next what are the things that you envision or feel first of all know that your intuition is a neurological network it's called the instinct and the intuition and those are uh neural neural signaling coming from cognitive cells in the gut and in the heart and they are very strong only we with our thinking brain we have developed a established uh complex of uh thinking thinking mechanisms mechanisms that uh suppress intuition the the neurology uh of the gut and the heart to the brain it blocks it we keep on thinking thinking we try and and thus it is very difficult to sense it because we are blocked therein if you go many times one direction direction then it's very difficult to get out of the trodden path our conditioning of our brain brain has made us go a part of our uh neurological uh to we should have developed those neurological pathways to the heart and to the god much more than we did so if we talk about that then that's why you don't feel it

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don't feel it that's why you don't understand it because it hasn't got anything to do with this thinking it has got to do with absolute feeling a feeling more subtle but more powerful for as premonition telepathy clairvoyance beautiful subtle imaginary images all those things we are deprived from because we are school to learn one and one is two what is a history what is mathematics what is a language hey we should have learned in this primary school to be happy strong and healthy if we come more from an intuitive way from our instincts and having developed that then we know what is wrong and what is right we can feel it we can understand the messages and we are built to be always in balance inside but we have been we had to learn all the time this we keep on going and then that part has been neglected and that is the sensitive inner child it's a sad story actually but now i'm here to say we found now a way to top down down regulate regulate those neurological pathways

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those neurological pathways so we are able to go back into into reconnecting from our state of mind into those uh uh neurological networks called the sixth sense seventh sense ethan or the intuition the instinct the knowing why you are here the purpose of life all those things are not abstract things it's physiology and now i made it physical showing it in scientific brain scans and then showing that now we have found the keys of the so-called autonomous processes in the brain related to mood regulation or emotion so the emotion can be regulated by us and who doesn't want to feel happy strong and healthy that's our mood and mood you can also call it the mind so we got those keys now and for those who are seeking intuition instinct and do not even understand what it is let me tell you we found a physical piece to open it up so you listen to this podcast and you give it a follow-up by just trying out these techniques and get back into connection with your true self because

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connection with your true self because it's beautiful it is this is so interesting and so powerful to me something that i'm curious about is do you think that we used to know this stuff stuff in ancient times or do you think that we are evolving now and this is the next evolution what do you think it is the second one before of course there were less people was much more trait much more creativity less industrialized copying of things extension tools it was a lot less so the other parts of the brain were much more stimulated thus developed yes but 50 years ago or 55 years ago 1969 or seven it was when apollo went to the moon and all that houston the the data data the control cape canaveral the moon the rocket the apollo that was all the the rocket the apollo that was all that together in data was a lot less than this and this iphone we all use iphones and phones and it's digital traffic that uh runs into our neurology goes a lot faster now than 50 years ago the thing is our minds have evolved internally very fast

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very fast and now it's a time to take ownership control over our brain functioning at will and now i that's exactly what i've been showing inside that goes fully against the understanding so say of psychiatry neurology neuroscience immunology all those sciences from the past past they are shattered take inflammation is the cause and effect of disease disease yeah any disease and then 2014 i showed very clearly after having received a bacteria injected how to defy a bacteria injected on the which creates an aggressive aggressive reaction on the immune system becomes overactive overactive and that's called inflammation and i just brought it down and and dealt with the bacteria like like in the beginning so it could not grow i inhibited it and that is because i activated my immune system to a much deeper level at will all at will and then they said if you are able to do that then then that means you're able to

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you're able to bring down the cause and effect of disease but you must be a freak of nature because nobody ever has shown what you have been showing in results and and then i said no anybody can do this our mind at will is now able to tap in to our say immune system endocrine system lymphatic system much deeper than ever before uh has been stated in scientific literature of course the whole pharmaceutical industry and all those people dependent on sick people because that's their client clients clients it's gonna go away because people are have a much more possible autonomy over uh that what causes disease whatever the name of disease so that that is because that is the state the possible capacity of the state of our uh mind in our brain nowadays not 50 years ago now it is and now we are also able to tap into say the past the time space consciousness which is a part in our brain but the soul doesn't know time or it's omni

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soul doesn't know time or it's omni signed it knows more than time because it's everlasting it's unbreakable and everlasting but you cannot cannot ask a child what it is to be an adult it never has experienced it and we it's very difficult to talk to people and say do you know what it is to be timeless do you know what it is to be the soul that is going to pass time and space when time and space are no longer than the fear of death is gone and and we are able to go past that time space consciousness originated from our neocortex and our prefrontal cortex whatever the names our present day consciousness is uh captivated captivated within the time space uh consciousness but we are in our minds are able now to tap in in to the unlimited to the timelessness the unlimited power of our mind it's just neurology it's physical it's no longer a philosophy so we are able to tap in to those areas and that means all your people when you listen to this podcast that we found the keys to go into the control of hundred

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keys to go into the control of hundred percent percent of our minds because the minds is what we receive and where we send it to that's why it's called the unlimited power it's everywhere and everything and but we are the radio we are the sender and the receiver and with that we are able to control our bodies with resonance when neurology and neurology is uh controlling the cardiovascular system a teacher all that and emotions and they all have purpose and now we are able to enter into that all willfully it is saying to the person what do you really want because you are able to find it and you are built to be able to find it and if not go into the eyes do the breathing because it makes you go past your conditioned captivated mind so there we are amazing so i definitely want to go back to this topic and talk about placebos in a bit but first i actually want my listeners to understand how you became the iceman so like we were saying when you were 17 you were dabbling in the cold but really your true awakening came out of pain and grief and so from my research i learned that your your wife had schizophrenia when you were 35 she committed suicide she left you with four children to care for on your own i can't even imagine how tough that must have been i mean the busyness of tending to four young children you probably didn't have much

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children you probably didn't have much time to grief or you know deal with the pain so help us understand how did you become the ice man from the death of your wife yes you become very fast conscious conscious uh to find ways ways to deal with the situation when you have four kids and you have no money and you are heartbroken or you overcome or you break it's very simple and then i found that the cult was able uh to bring stillness in my mind that was going past my emotional agony is part of the mind and it happens but then suddenly we have no control over it and we are delivered to the gods of emotions and it's terrible and it's all day long and it eats us alive alive it's neurology and we are broken and we need the other half and it's not there so so that is psychosomatically a very uh yeah devastating part for ev anybody in our society and there is quite little uh consideration for these people because they have to run with the train of daily life and keep on going especially i had to so so the only thing that could stop that emotional agony that was the icy water

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emotional agony that was the icy water that gave me a uh just a brief moment of opening the door to healing to tranquility to just purpose just being being just being and feeling was great at that moment even though i was in icy cold water i felt relief of that emotional agony which is much more stressful than icy water i can tell you but the through the icy water i could find relief and that gave me back my control over my body and my emotions and the cold that and gasping yes if you guess it is because you automatically need deeper breathing to withstand the stressful impact of icy water on the skin it needs a biochemistry change and that is being done by deep breathing this is feeding your body from the inside and thus you can go longer into icy water you as suddenly because you make your body body so so powerful that it's unimaginable how powerful uh the body it can become if you put your mind which is neurology your mind is your will is connected to the mind and your will is neurology so those are

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your will is neurology so those are neural signals together with breathing that is a powerful entity and i i began to become conscious of that that and that entity then made me go into every day into more than one time uh uh until i i was back fully in control and with all the energy i needed to uh have a happy of or a good vibrant uh family life without money even i i was happy strong and healthy and for and the kids could see it i was more a child than than they were this is what they say now that's so beautiful and so nowadays we we don't breathe deep most of us don't breathe deep we breathe shallow so can you talk to us about what deep breathing does like how does it clean our cells why is it so good for us yes deep breathing makes our uh carbon dioxide to uh uh breathing out not only it it makes the co2 carbon dioxide goes off with the exercises of deep breathing but if you generally breathe deep burn then your body does not become acidic we walk in our society we take on stress we have to exercise and exert our bodies

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we have to exercise and exert our bodies and minds and we think we can do that without without repercussions and that's not we have biochemical repercussions of that that making our bodies acidic acidic and and deep breathing simply gives us the food to to deal deal with uh that stress and to go deeply into the lymphatic system which is the storage system the garbage system of ours where biochemical residue is present if you breathe deep then it gets into the lymphatic system and once it gets into the lymphatic then it cleanses the acidity over there and then you will feel relieved again and you feel energy because that's the way we are are we are vibrant beings until we get uh we become acidic then we feel sluggish we feel tired we feel uh it's too much and it's logical because the biochemistry is not clean we should clean ourselves every day if we do this breathing these breathing techniques techniques and they are very simple then it has been shown in scientific blood results taken of of people doing this then you

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taken of of people doing this then you become very alkaline and then five hours later they took the blood again of those people who did their breathing they were still alkaline that means it is a thorough way to cleanse yourself in the depth of your physiology physiology and then magic happens and it's free it is freedom freedom it is you know freedom is the ability to go anywhere with your mind and your body inside so how do you perform the wim hof method exactly what is the wim hof breathing method starting with the cold gradual cold exposure i always say a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away just take it down guys it is it's also the best skincare you can ever imagine because you you stimulate all these receptors in the skin everywhere and that makes it the blood flow go to the skin and blood flow is nutrients it's oxygen it's vitamins uh minerals it's all there it's feeding it from the inside that is one two if you go into the cold you train your cardiovascular system we think in the cardiovascular system you don't see it but it has millions of little muscles and going into the cold shower is stimulating deeply those millions of

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stimulating deeply those millions of little muscles and thus the blood flow will go much better through your uh body that that is the 75 000 miles it will travel a lot better because all those muscles they help with contracting and opening that is because of the stimulation of the cold do it and then the heart rate goes down like 20 30 beats a minute 24 hours a day that means a lot less stress and because all those millions of little muscles help the blood flow go through much better that that's why it reaches all the cells a lot better by which the nutrients the minerals the oxygen they get into the cells a lot better means a lot more energy energy so energy goes up the stress goes down that is what is the cold is doing really your energy goes whoa how much energy do you want you will get it that's what two is the breathing naturally when you go into the cold you feel deep breathing cleanses the lymphatic system you become you de-acidify yourself you become alkaline and alkalinity is the carrier the right a biochemical

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is the carrier the right a biochemical environment for the neurology to flow that is our electrical system that is our nervous system is electricity those are electrons and protons yes and every cell is a battery and they when you become alkaline then then every cell trillions are other but let's take one cell there are in our electrons and protons when they are mingled it's not able to charge up energy electrons and protons some call it this is physiology electrophysiology electrophysiology so so when you become alkaline then they they get apart they they the electrons and protons become apart that means suddenly the battery is getting charged and and thus that is very good for the cell mechanisms but also for your energy in general you will see that if you do the breathing for example i hear a lot of ceos saying at two o'clock in the afternoon i'm sluggish in my mind and and then i do the breathing 20 minutes i'm fresh like a chicken again this is making the energies the the alkalinity in the body making it alkaline by which the nervous system is able to run with the speed of light the speed of electricity is the speed of

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the speed of electricity is the speed of light it's within and we can make that happen anytime so that is great that is the breathing then you get the mind and you were talking a little bit about the placebo but the placebo i can tell you is no longer because we i showed that in brain scans how to activate robustly the endocannabinoid system which is a name periaqueductal gray hemisphere it's where the opioids the cannabinoids dopamine serotonins all is there and i'm able to activate that at will and with that i'm able to rectify rectify inside what needs to be balanced out because of inflammation deregulation of the immune system whatsoever what is making me sick i'm able to nullify it by activating my pharmacy inside and it knows exactly what to do and so when you say placebos no more do you mean you figured out what a placebo is it's it's actually people controlling their inner their bodies because they believe something and before they never really knew that they had the power but they took this pill and then they believed they had the power power is that what it is exactly it's no longer a suggestive power it is the power innate capacity of ours to regulate what

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innate capacity of ours to regulate what is out of what is deregulated in our bodies there's two things that i want to talk about alkaline which you touched on and adrenaline so alkaline usually we think we've got to drink certain types of water but i learned from you that like you said deep breathing can impact our alkalinity we can have the perfect ph levels in our bodies so it can operate beyond what we're currently used to so if we have shallow breathing it's acidic right and if we have deep breathing we can become more alkaline and our body performs better now what does adrenaline have to do i know adrenaline is a big part of this so what does adrenaline have to do with this adrenaline is a great resetter when you are in danger then you you can in your pants you can pee in your pants any anything that is inside is done instantly out because you got to be ready you got to be handling the situation with the utmost of functionality that's what it is and then not only and peeing in the pants but also bacteria and virus they don't aid to the situation they are blocking it they're making you sluggish if you are a it's like people who are entrepreneurs entrepreneurs and they are not working for a boss but they are having their own company and they have to go for a deadline they

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and they have to go for a deadline they are able to postpone their becoming sick because they have to do the deadline that's adrenaline so the adrenaline when one say it it shuts down because the deadline has been reached and all then they become sick suddenly i had this problem with the people of spacex you know the elon musk spacex i gave the master class over there and those people going on the mission to to the moon to the space it's every time a mission they have to perform adrenaline and then when it's adrenaline adrenaline and then when it's over over more than the half of the people become sick every time but not anymore and that is because i teach people how to regulate how to activate and regulate their own adrenal access to an extent by which they are able to bring down uh you know when you feel not good when you feel uh whatever should not be inside you should be able to activate your adrenal axis to spike it to reset yourself and feel great again so that that is what we do with these breathing techniques they are able to activate deeply the adrenal axis

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adrenal axis and then once because you are doing it you get a willful connection with that adrenal access and then when you need it in daily life somewhere because you don't feel good because you gotta perform you gotta do a speech a keynote speech or this or that or a marriage proposal or whatever you know emotional mental this something difficult then you are able to activate it and to be the best of yourself at that moment and that's what we learn by going into the eyes and doing the breathing exercises we learn to have a willful or neurological connection with those areas of the brain that brings us to the ability to function well in difficult situations and you've scientifically proven this and it's not just you you're able to replicate this with other people so you actually had a study that you did with 12 other people i believe where you guys injected yourselves with e coli and endotoxin e coli and you know usually people get violently sick but you nobody in the study really got sick so tell us about that study and anything else in terms of studies maybe something new whatever you want to share in terms of how this is scientifically proven now yes there's uh

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scientifically proven now yes there's uh oh there's a quite a lot now approving only uh you know the bastards who make money on us being sick and dependent they of course don't want that these are natural ways and it's not a bound bound to only the iceman it is everybody is able to go much deeper in their physiology of mind and body than before was uh considered possible it is really paradigm shifting material so so for the people who are i did that study in 2013 where we had a comparative uh research done on on 12 people who did not do training for four days and the others did a training for four days and they all were uh subjected to an injection of e coli bacteria with a within a endotoxemia model experimental model and normally uh people become very sick as fever headaches agony muscle aches back aches nausea vomiting things like that and that's because of the inflammation and you cannot stop it uh but these guys 12 of them

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uh but these guys 12 of them and this is actually not only 24 people it's 16 000 before they all became sick and then suddenly 12 people did not absolutely not 100 percent not become sick sick so so that that is at least i would say man that's sick wow great yeah these people were like making jokes oh i think they uh injected us with sugar water because nothing is happening they did their breathing exercises and they had this cold training only for four days and they were able and this was considered to be impossible in humans to tap into the autonomic nervous system that is the parasympathetic and and sympathetic nervous system which we cannot control and with that the innate immune system if there was a problem in the covet a virus virus inflammation causing these diseases pulmonary what was it endothelial leaks in the lungs and where people drown in themselves like uh then it is caused by an inflammation and we brought it down nobody wants to know about this this is sick this is a sick society

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this is sick this is a sick society where money is being brought up hey that's our earning model we don't want to crash into that man where have we gone with our soul happiness strength and health this is what i've showed through science and even then people do not take it up and it changed the books in the university yeah it was been published in the best of uh scientific papers of the world so why they are not taking it up is evident but i tell to the listener right now hey man there is a way where you are able to get a much deeper hold of yourself to guarantee and maintain your own happiness strength and health just take it on follow up on this and look into it and just try it out once if it doesn't work blame me but if it works hey man congratulations you have a great control over your own systems the way nature meant to be and then afterwards i did that's where we actually shattered sign signs the foundations of science we shattered it over there this was impossible uh considered in all the hundreds of years of science that the autonomic nervous

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of science that the autonomic nervous system willfully can be uh uh activated influenced changed controlled it was not there and now it's there it changed the whole paradigm paradigm so that that is history that's historical guys and it's historical for your own uh health happiness and strength in your life just take it on this is more than reading matter or entertainment these are real facts the real tools it's called the breathing and the cold uh a gradual cold exposure to bring you back to your real natural condition when you are able to maintain and activate your own happiness strength and health health it's all there guys and with that the ability to control 100 of your own brain which we also showed in another study in hanover in germany with whom i'm going to have a podcast after this with the doctors or of them and we we found out through these breathing exercises that we are able to activate hundred percent neural activity inside the brain and that and then the the mind which is omnipresent omniscient and omnipotent we can reach it we can tap into that and we can use it for whatever we need in our

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use it for whatever we need in our subconsciousness through our intuition and our instincts the sick sense we can all learn to control it it's here and listen it's not difficult it's not complicated just bring it on because you are now innately our mind the the field of consciousness where everybody actually is connected to now now is ready to be entered by us at will so that that's another study i just did and and i'm doing right now is study with cardiologists of the world uh montreal nuremberg nuremberg and hanover uh universe a big universities and the best of equipment and they saw heart films uh and they so like five times more blood flushing into the heart and into the brain doing these breathing exercises exercises that was one but then every trauma has an cardiovascular cardiovascular imprint in everybody of us and that's the way it stores up when it happens in the moment it's too much yeah but it is imprinted in our cardiovascular system it remembers it's stored up now doing these breathing techniques you go into extreme contraction and

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you go into extreme contraction and extreme uh dilatation or opening of the vascular system by which you shake off the cardiovascular imprint which is the future of psychiatry breathing is the future of psychiatry and cardiology because cardiology means hey if you are able to reboot your heart the the electrical currents in your heart by flushing five times more blood inside it's like a reboosting like your car in winter the battery needs a booster it's like you boost your from the inside and we are doing the study with the 600 people right now and the data is being processed but this is all revolutionary and so i got more i i did these studies in the detroit in brain scans and fmri's and it shows that we now found keys to enter enter into into emotion willfully only using the will and we have to awaken the people toward that fact it's a fact that your neurology of your brain now is capacity to willfully control your emotion and your emotion can be perturbed by disease by stress by fatigue by the forces but you can re

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by fatigue by the forces but you can re out balance that back again willfully but you have to exercise it don't think you cannot think you can and thus you neurosignal within yourself and you will see miracles life is a miracle miracle life will happen miracles happen this is so powerful honestly i feel like this is only the beginning i feel like you're so revolutionary you're changing the world i hope you live to be 200 years old so you can keep telling everyone to do this and keep teaching and i'm gonna spread the message as much as i can so we're gonna i know that we're running out of time here so we're gonna wrap it up i have a few more questions i want to really understand what you think how do i explain this like your perspective on religion you've said that god is cold i know that you believe in reincarnation i feel like you really tapped into something special and you know a lot more about the purpose of life and the world more than most people because you are like just in it more so i want to hear your perspective exactly i saw once a documentary of the south of italy and and there was one guy saying or it was a woman saying yeah you know why miracles happen here because we believe people lost their beliefs and beliefs now it's become physical and this is what i've been showing your belief your neurosignaling is able

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your belief your neurosignaling is able to heal yourself to positively influence the neurology of your whole body to make you feel divine that's the purpose of our neurosignaling of our will to become one with what makes us feel divine and great and expanding our consciousness it's physical it's it's very simple so where do you invest in that you are not able to feel like divine and great and amazing oh do you feel i just follow what is the hair and then yeah i want flowers on my funeral later something like that and somebody sing a song i say off all i want real love and feel like a king i'm proud of who i am i'm spreading the love and i will not go until everybody is happy strong and healthy that the soul is there as a chute chute and it is very simple very powerfully there and it's time to become timeless right now right here so in the case of religion amen they diverted so much that muhammadans and christians both say allah is it oh no christ is it and then they bash each other

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they bash each other and then they lost the track of love which is the vehicle of being divine so let's leave their religions with all the respect i have for people who believe but know that you are not bound by books or churches synagogues or mosques or whatever with all the respect i have for them them i say god is everywhere so get into that that's beautiful okay so we asked the same two questions to all of our guests at the end of the show and then we do something fun so what is one actionable thing that our listeners can do today to be more profitable tomorrow take cold shower and breathe deeper both love it and what is your secret to profiting in life energy in the end money is energy energy so so tap into your body cleanse your body and energy will be yours and then you will experience unconditional power that is energy flow without uh uh being blocked and then you don't need compensation from the outside you are fulfilled inside you feel like a million dollars only you can can never ever buy it with a million dollars your unconditional love but you can be it and wim where can our listeners learn more about you and the wim hof method that said yeah as the name says whim

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that said yeah as the name says whim half is my name and then method dot com and there you find all the you know on youtube instagram the things you find the signs you find the breathing bubble uh the exercises it's mostly are you ready because it's a great journey awaiting i love that whim i had such an amazing conversation with you is there any last words you want to say to our young and profiters i love you all guys i love you thank you so much thanks for listening to young and profiting podcast if you enjoyed the show please write us a review or comment on your favorite platform nothing makes us happier than reading your reviews we'd love to hear what you think about the show and don't forget to share this podcast with your friends family and on social media i always repost re-share and support those who support us you can find me on instagram at yapwithhala or linkedin just search for my name it's hala taha big thanks to the yap team as always this is hala signing off

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In this conversation with Young and Profiting, the method returns to three simple pillars. Breath. Cold. Commitment. Together, they become a practice for meeting stress with more steadiness and less fear.

The Cold Trains Presence

Cold water is a direct signal. It asks the body to respond before the mind has time to decorate the experience with story. Heart rate shifts, breathing changes, and attention narrows.

Used carefully, that intensity becomes a controlled encounter with stress. The felt result is not domination over the body, but a clearer relationship with it.

Breath Changes the State

Wim returns often to deep breathing because breath is one of the few levers that touches both voluntary control and automatic physiology. Slow, deliberate breathing can change arousal. Rhythmic breathwork can shift chemistry and attention.

This is the bridge between practice and experience. You are not simply enduring discomfort. You are learning how to regulate while discomfort is present.

Commitment Makes the Practice Useful

The method is not built on a single cold shower or one dramatic immersion. Its value comes from repetition, restraint, and respect for the body.

That is where resilience becomes practical. The nervous system receives a manageable challenge, recovers, and begins to trust that difficult sensations can pass.

A cold shower is not a test of hardness. It is a small daily lesson in returning to yourself.

Practical Takeaways

  1. Start with cold exposure that is brief, controlled, and easy to recover from.

  2. Use breath as the anchor before, during, and after the stress signal.

  3. Treat consistency as the protocol. The adaptation comes from returning calmly, not forcing intensity.