The Icons by Motiversity brings a useful lens to cold exposure: less noise, more attention to what the body is actually adapting to. The value is not in chasing discomfort. It is in applying the right signal, at the right dose, with enough recovery to become more resilient.
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depressions [music] and inflammation and all. We can make it go away. This is maybe a bold statement, but I say we can do so much more than we think [music] is possible. Just try it once. If it doesn't work, blame me. The Icons is a show where we learn life lessons from true icons. Today we welcome back the legendary Iceman, Whim Hoff. Whim is a global phenomenon who has shattered the limits of human potential. And he's here to deliver the blueprint for escaping a broken system and reawakening the power of your own mind, body, and soul. Don't follow the government, govern you yourself. And you are able to regulate all what you need to bring the happiness, strength, and health to your family. Doesn't cost anything. I suffered the suicide of my wife in this runaway society which is going crazy every day. There is no time for grief. There's no space for grief. Then I found that the cold makes you shut up. And when you do breathing, you are able to change the biochemistry in the body and uh release trauma. to anybody living in a in darkness. Darkness is that everything is too much to control. To those I say what's so interesting is that it feels like there's this movement happening around the world. I mean, you've been following it and leading it for decades now, but it feels like we're at this tipping point moment where maybe I'm just hearing more about it, but there's so many people discovering the power of breath and cold. Why do you think that is? It is that we are dealing with an old paradigm and the old paradigm was always about uh governments. They govern our daily life like we trust them and I think we are now at uh the point where
think we are now at uh the point where the world is changing because we all have telephones. We can have contact with people out of South Korea, North Korea, Russia, Alberta, Minnesota. It doesn't matter. Well, yeah, we can. We are one world. That is what the technology is saying. So, you can't stop that because it's energy. the the energy is flowing past all what we conceive as borders as limits as h the way we got our systems built. We are one world and in that one world we go past our uh we transcend our beliefs. I mean Catholics, Muslims, Hinduists, Buddhist, it doesn't matter. It's all believing in a uh secular way in a limited way and now through this new technology we are everywhere. So the energy is going everywhere and now the tipping point has been reached that the older systems are going to not collapse they're going to unify in the whole wide world. And what is what unifies us as humans that we all have a soul. We are not AI. We are two eyes with a soul behind. Otherwise the AI is going to take us over because it knows much better how to uh make use of all the past, all the knowledge etc. Evolution is saying hey guys what is what unifies us in the whole wide world and what is the most of value in the whole wide world that is bringing the soul in every family in the world and how do you do it through breath because
through breath because that's the spirit but that is by which you are able to regulate uh your emotions which is the expression of your soul. And then if you go into a icy icy water, it's so effective. It makes your mind which is now in these times of confusion just shut up. It shuts up and you are back into your body. You reset the body and you cleanse the body and it's a great cardiovascular workout as well which is killer number one in our society. You tackle it. You train over 70, 000 miles of uh of vascular channels like the veins, the the capillaries and the arteries. It's all been trained through going into the core. That means deep physiology and that is what unifies us in the whole wide world. We all have that physiology. We all have a mind. And what is the most important h in in into the future is that we become conscious willfully connected with the deep realms realms of our soul of our emotions. And uh this works and as it works and it is so simple and accessible it is spreading like a positive corona virus. In this case it's positive. It's amazing. It's a by the way the corona virus there is a nervous system endings inside the brain. It's called the corona radiata. The corona radiata are the white endings in the brain and they are
white endings in the brain and they are illuminated through these practices with the breathing by which we uh go from the symbol of what is a crown into the real crown. Corona radiata means radiant crown. all what has been said in the things and where they put a piece of metal on their head and they walk pedantically around and everybody believes that's the king. That is the story of the king without clothes and a little child suddenly is saying hey look it he's naked and oh he embarrasses himself what is this facade what is this theater that it's over no more theater no more scenes no more uh try to make a story happening there is a great story going on that is us alive in the deepest that soul is now here to awaken and that massively that makes every person different and every person unified that is the effectivity of this method you I'm I'm talking to the Catholic church to the doctors of the Catholic church they see this as an highly esoteric mystical discipline and it able to be exercised within 30 minutes. You don't need 20 years of religious training to get to the depth of this e experience inside because the cold bath makes you shut up and go and realize unconditionally who you are and what you are. A beautiful soul strong here alive miraculously looking at it all past what we think
looking at it all past what we think past what we are schooled in suppressing our ratalous consciousness o of the moment that feeling that being unconditional h so this works and this works in every religion it It's implemented everywhere in every religion and they see it. It's clean. It's not prejudiced. There is nothing. It is no difference I in anybody and anything. Uh regardless of their background being atheists or theists, it doesn't matter politics right or left, it does not matter. It is you, your soul. You reconnect with the depth of your body and mind and then suddenly you are able to realize your soul, your purpose, who you are and what you are and that is the success of this and it will keep on going. I I mean I it's so powerful to hear you talk about that. I mean at the same time what you're saying at the same time that technology is connecting us and fragmenting us people around the world are responding by going back to what makes us human what m what but bringing us back to what unifies us I think just that description of how people are responding is really encouraging at a time where we need it whim it feels like the world is pulling itself apart but there's this unification that's happening too isn't there yes the the soul is going to win there not not artificial knowledge or technology which has no soul. It's nothing. It's like a piece of stone a and it's the creation of our mind. The extension tool of our mind is AI now and
extension tool of our mind is AI now and AI is is just showing hey don't be bureaucrats don't be lost in words and thoughts be unconditionally there for your children for your friends for your family that is something I can never copy because I am not a soul I don't have feelings I just copy and give you a a weak reflection of you who you really are. I'm your mirror, but the mirror is not a person. The person is standing there. Realize that you are a soul and have a great time every day. Let go of this thinking and serve uh your family in love. And when you need to go to the shop, you use the thinking ah I need peanut butter. I need flour and this. But then shut up and go and get the things done to serve your family and you're going to have a happy life. Happy, strong, and healthy is in the unconditional power in the moment. That's the way we are built. If we are go uninhibited from our soul which is there, we polluted it. We we took it over. We think we are stronger than mother nature itself. Look what we did in the world. We just make pollution go. We make wars go. And then we say, "Oh, we are humans. We are civilized." As long as there is war, there is no civilization going on. Where there is no war, where people bring peace within their own mind and own body, own emotion. That that is civiliz civilization. That is the uh uh that is the epithem. Look at the past. The Aztecs, the Egyptians,
at the past. The Aztecs, the Egyptians, the Mayas, they're all gone. Greece, they are all all gone. And these are great cultures, beautiful cultures. And now it's gone. It's because we think at a certain moment that it is the the produce of our mind and the extension tools that is buildings and now it is technology and AI is only saying hey we're going to take over if you lose connection with your own soul because we are not here to serve a building or a system. We are here to serve each other and to completely transcend the evil within us and become civilized, bring peace, bring love, bring uh happiness, strength and health to our children and become aware of of divinity in the moment. It's here and now. What did we do with God? And that so people are not listening. They make religions and then they fight each other which is not the message of any religion at all. It's abuse. But this is because the mind is not in control in the whole wide world. And massively they are following governments. What I say don't follow the government. Govern you yourself. You are the king. You are the president within your own body, your own emotions and you are able to regulate all what you need to bring the happiness, strength and health to your family. Doesn't cost anything. It's within you. There I came up with a very simple uh uh method uh the tools I it wasn't even me who brought it up. I was just doing it.
who brought it up. I was just doing it. I felt it because I I suffered the suicide of my wife in this run runaway society which is going crazy every day on on there is no time for grief. There's no space for grief. I had to go and resort inside for the sanity of me and my family but my four kids to be alone without money. So that that is my test grant. Then I found that the cold makes you shut up. It It makes this agony, this, well, why is she gone? Yes, she's dead on all that emotion. Shut up. Just be. That's what it says. When you go into the cold and when you do breathing, you are able to change the biochemistry in the body and uh release trauma. Trauma is a a residual amount of bi wrong biochemistry stored up in the body and now through breathing we are able to get into the depth as we talked about it in the beginning. I bring this the cold and the breathing and it is so simple so accessible so uh h endorsed by science nobody is able to say that it is not working or anything no the people don't give a damn about the system in this they give a damn because it works and as it works it spreads I don't need to do anything it spreads by its own because it's truthful, it's effective, it's full of love, full of power is who we are and what we are and it's coming through. though I keep on pushing and through being together here Tyler here right now
being together here Tyler here right now we are pushing a truthful effective accessible uh tools to the people to I call it all to take away the confusion I call it defuck to defuck ourselves so because it's a bloody hell that if there is a war, I can't find kind words to describe the reasons to have a war. I say it is [__] up. And I want to defuck that in our brains that we don't need to uh and should not be compliant swallowing the killing of children and innocents out there because of what? Because of money. Because her power, real power is to be happy, strong and healthy. Bring that to your family. Bring the unconditional power of our soul back in the ad midst of every family in the world. That that is working. People are even when they only do the cold and and the breathing, they find a relief. They do not even need to know about the soul or anything because I it's there. But then suddenly they get this deeper connection and it will reveal by itself because I'm not making up a story. I'm just saying relate to nature out and in in harmony and everything will reveal itself. I got the faith that we are able to propel this into the future and to make this world a paradise because every if every family knows how to regulate its emotions and to become happy, strong and healthy because then
happy, strong and healthy because then there is no conflict with the soul then this world becomes a paradise. So as simple as it is and we've been I mean I think this idea of the the weight of the world that people have been feeling and then we've been talking about this movement and the response of people to kind of go back into what brings us unified and what makes us human and and what strikes me about your story is that you talk about yourself as being a seeker who just started to go inward and and look for answers to some of the traumas you were facing and seeking brought you to cold and it brought you to breathing. For those who don't really know what cold therapy is, how do you explain this idea of cold therapy first and then we'll go into breathing? Cold therapy is uh going into the discomfort for a short period of time. It's called hormesis. Hormesis is self-inflicted acute stressful exercise. When I go into the ice, the water h my thinking is that, oh, it's cold and all. First thing it does when you go into the cold is learning how to h get your mind aligned with your body. And then suddenly you go in and you find out it is not cold at all. It is powerful. It is amazing. It is. You get accomplishment. You get 250% more dopamine released inside. It's like cocaine as strong. But this time you get high on your own supply. That that you know make it a little bit funny. But depression is a lack of dopamine and that is an epidemic proportions in the world right now. go into a ice bath and your dopamine level goes whoop spikes up and depression is not there
depression is not there simple because it's a lack of uh dopamine but it is a money-m scheme that people who are depressed become dependent and they get pills and this and that they get into the cycle and become great customers for an industry but what is says health should be not an industry. Health should be there. That's who we are. So the cold wakes you up to your deepest of your physiology and brings h [clears throat] the all the neurotransmitters in the body necessary for a good flow neurologically a good flow by which depression depression is pressure loss then is no more pressure loss suddenly flows everything again and at That is what this the the cult is able to do with us. And for that we need to go a little bit past our comfort zone behavior because comfort zone behavior is not really comfortable. It's not real power. Real power we get when we reset our body and mind by hormonally, neurotransmitters, neurologically. When you go into an iceber, you reset the body. The adrenal axis spikes just a moment and it resets the body and suddenly you become the way nature meant us to be. Wow. I don't think I've ever heard about breathing spoken like that. I mean, this idea that there's a moment when something's going to happen to you where it feels like your body needs to react the way it's got to react. And as a result, it's going to put off the ability to deal with that. It's just going to react. But then
It's just going to react. But then breathing is that moment when you can actually bring back control and release some of that stuff that you couldn't do in the moment. And if we don't do it, then it it builds up over time. That's exactly that is the psychiatry and psychology they uh they they don't see these simple principles but now it it looks like in cognitive psychological therapy I hear a lot of chiropractors and psychologists and psychiatrists uh talking that they have implemented the breathing and [snorts] teaching professors and teaching doctors and telling them they come up with their dilemas and I say no a you don't see it in book knowledge I have come from nature outside I tested my body and my mind so many times and I saw it in in the most stressful thing that we talked about the suicide of my wife and being alone with no money with four children [snorts] try to do that and try to regulate yourself over there. That is what I found. And then when I found it, I wanted to share it with the whole wide world. But the whole wide world is mesmerized into a system and thinking in a paradigm that locks them up within themselves and it's self-limiting. And and I say we have the ability to cleanse ourselves and be and feel like a child because a child is not run by his thoughts and his paradigm. No, it's it's run by a yeah a a strong a sense of spirit which is going irrationally through that body
is going irrationally through that body making it it feel excited about nothing about a BALL ABOUT A GRASS. We need drugs to see the beauty of a grass leaf or a drop on a a on a leaf and a flower. We need drugs because we are so locked up. So I say we don't need drugs. We don't need extension tools. We don't need all that. It's unconditionally there. But for that we need to cleanse ourselves every day with the ability to do so with the tools of nature. Nothing more, nothing less. It's there. And therefore these podcasts they are important because the the regular and secular uh media and television and information uh providing uh systems in the world. They are maintaining a system instead of h serving us with real truth and real information. What I say the information was always there. The ability to become happy, strong and healthy. It's all here. And is so simple that we lost track of that simplicity to be happy, strong and healthy every day. So there I come in. I want more studies. Let them come. Come on guys. Where are you? Where is your investigative spirit? Where is it? Or do you abide to the system and just play your role until you get your pension and then you get off this planet and you still don't know what the soul is all about. We are souls all of us. And I love you. I love your kids. I love the people
I love your kids. I love the people around you. Whatever is all these living beings, they are too beautiful not to be loved. There I am. There I go. And I go through science and I did it. But I also saw where that science is within the clause of uh of greed and in control. Uh only studies that will fund our fund to maintain the existent paradigm and system. And I'm here to break that psychology. And it's going to happen because love is stronger. I find that relationship between science and and knowing ourselves so interesting in this. It's almost like the science is catching up now to what you've been discovering for decades and what spiritual practices have been discovering for for really forever. And when you talk about the cold and the ability to tap into the deepest part of our biology, the deepest part of our physiology and start to course correct in ways that we know at the most core level to ourselves and and the way you speak about it has so much power and now it's that, you know, the science is catching up. But for somebody who's in a spot maybe similar to where you were when you were in your kind of deepest area of trauma or or stress and and hearing you and saying I want to start whim like what what do I do? Where do I start? What would you say to that person? Uh to anybody living in a in darkness darkness is that everything is too much to control. You can't see or feel life flowing through you because it's all consumed. It's intertwined. It's confused. It's clocked up. It's limited. It's inhibited. Fear comes in because you lose your control. I know those situations. I have been there so many times and I've been challenging
many times and I've been challenging those systems so many times. To those I say start to do this breathing. Take a half hour. Go. We We got a app I think. No, not an app. We got this free tutorials 110 million times uh downloaded because it works. And once again, if it doesn't work, blame me. But uh just go and do it. You will break the pattern that uh narrows your consciousness that is inhibiting your being psychologically and physically. It that that one we can tackle within a half hour and then you get a peep of be feeling relieved. Oh yeah, that's who you are. And uh so that doesn't mean that it is done at that moment. It needs everyday processing but it doesn't take too much time. It takes the most difficult h the most difficult psychological uh uh choice making and that is doing it because your inhibitions have made you weak. where your inhibitions have made you uh paralyzed, mesmerized, hypnotized inside. You're locked up, you don't feel to do anything. And that is exactly the way that self-limiting uh power is working upon you. And that for those people I say just cry it once half hour go deeply into this breathing cuz this breathing exercises they have been able to h to make an injection of bacteria go
to h to make an injection of bacteria go away. It's really powerful. That is your power waiting for you to connect with you to take away what makes you feel dark what makes you feel heavy and that power within a half hour you will see it'll work that is what I say to I love people's soul find your soul within a half hour make it radiant I got that then that tutorial is a great I'm going to we're going to make sure that tutorial link is in the description here and because you've been trying to reach people around the world and you've now just you've just launched a a tour. You're going on a tour to reach more people and and share this message. What are you hoping people get out of that tour? That we have the absolute answer which is like no answer. We are the answer. Become who you are. Don't believe that we are hopeless. We are the hope. It's inside. We are unconditionally great. And it's time that we learn to exercise to declutter to take the garbage out and to feel and maintain that unconditional state of being where we feel happy, strong and healthy, fully self-supportive and uh and we uh without the need for anything. We have created a world where we need all these things. It's not truth. And that is AI is saying, "Hey, I can take over the world." And the robotic can take over the world, but I can't take over what you really are is your soul. A unconditional being that is able to free itself of the earthly
able to free itself of the earthly matters and to transcend into a divine being. That is our souldriven goal. Our soul is here to be with the charact characteristics of being healthy, happy and strong. If they are present, our soul is present. And it's time that we unconditionally feel that neurological connection toward ourselves. A and with that we are able to pass it on to our children. And that that is my aim. And I'm going to you know when I'm in these events in New York, Toronto, in in LA, San Francisco and scientific panels, the biggest ones in the world. I'm with the best of the world. I'm with these professors and what what I and I'm a drop out of school. What is this? You see, it's time for the soul. And that's what I'm going to bring. And when I'm there on stage, I have no premeditated power presentations. I'm just talking from my soul right now. And I will reach the souls of everybody inside because I have no fear. I let them come. This is energy. It comes through and I will revolve it like a revolver. Shoot ego until we go. And we go as unified feeling where we all are different and unified and that makes us happy. It's like when we were in the tribes before we always had solutions. But now we we live in a societies and we have so much confusion. It results into depression. It results into differences. Stupid differences.
into differences. Stupid differences. Happiness, strength, and health. I'm going to show that it is time and that the science is there that we are able now to consciously do what we could not do for centuries or thousands of years of war has been now civilization is upon us the soul every person is a good person if it abides to the soul and that is within and that neurological connection I'm showing out in universities, in brain scans, in blood samples and through a very simple method which is the cold. Does it cost anything? The breath 25 cent here, 50 cent here. No, nothing. It doesn't take anything to get the best out of yourself. I'm training these uh big fighters. I say you maybe you can beat up somebody else but I make you better within yourself and then I show it. I I showed last in in England I was with Eddie Hall the guy who first lifted 500 kilos. I was with him and and I said yeah maybe you are strong I know but I can make you beat yourself. I can make you better within yourself and that we tried it out physically. So he went do uh dumbbells 60 lb and go like 60 times like this. Yes. And he was enough you know he couldn't go on. Then as 10 minutes we went out a break. Now we go back to the same dumbbell. Do this breathing. He did this breathing
Do this breathing. He did this breathing and and just say one thing to yourself. Remember the neuro signaling with your will. He say just give it the best you got. That's all I need to know of you. Is that all right? Do you understand? Yeah, I understand. and he started to do it and he did 90 and he was not tired. So from 60 to 90 and not being tired. Wow. That is the power of the breath to process the [__] that is accumulated through [clears throat] h whatever happens in through stress in daily life. and we don't know where it is or what it is but the breath will get there and it will process it and your intention is able to connect and to cleanse yourself. So my message to every in every event where I go around in America is the one of love. But now scientifically proven how it neurologically works, how it works in the hormonal system, how it works in the deepest of our cardiovascular system, in any system the way we are by the laws of nature. That is what I'm going to bring and I'm going to resonate with them all. I'm going to challenge all the professors, challenge all the doctors. Come on. We just polish the diamond of the truth with the right criticism. Not just accusations or assumptions. No, come with the right critical questions and we will answer them because I found things beyond the knowledge we got in the books out in nature. And I'm just bringing it back to
nature. And I'm just bringing it back to you to evoke to ignite your beautiful inner nature connected consciously there in control. So when you go away from here you go with confidence. I can imagine so many people listening today and just essentially nodding their head for the last hour just, you know, hearing about this crisis of the soul and the fact that we are so connected and so fragmented and and they're feeling that this this need to go back within themselves and to rediscover themselves in ways that technology can't do that. And for people who either want to join you on the tour whim or just want to know how to take the next step, where would they go? Would they go to your website? Like where would they go to plug in? on my website. It's all clear. I got people asking me things. I don't know nothing. I just pop up. They sent me, you know, I I'm the only guy I think who has never been on his own website. That that's me. But when I'm there, I'm there 100%. So look on the website for the dates. I'll be there in New York, in Toronto, in Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco. H and Austin that and may maybe more doesn't matter. I I just keep on going because I love what I do. I believe fully in what I'm doing and I think I'm the right man to bring some clarity right now for this world. And and I I think again like so many people are are feeling at a at the deepest level what you're talking about right now. And I I know with that tour, we'll make sure that our our listeners get the right link swim and and I I know that we're hoping to meet you on one of those tour stops as well, but we want to thank you for joining us on the show again. I know that you're I I feel invigorated after these conversations and and get excited about that idea of just kind of tapping into who I am, which is probably something that we're all desperately searching for right now.
all desperately searching for right now. Yes. And we are doing this together, Tyler. So uh I respect your work uh to the deepest and uh uh and here we go and from here we only go on. We're going to meet again uh in in the future because we are building up. So keep on going. I keep on going and we meet uh just again great a great conversation, good questions because I know I can be a little BIT you know but you got some sense back in it it was a good chemistry. Thank you. That is the thing. You are my friend. We are having a a great good talk somewhere where we meet and we feel like relieved. We feel nice when we separate again. Whim, it would be my absolute honor. Thank you so much for this. I I know a lot of people are going to respond really strongly to this and hopefully meet you on tour and and we'll hope to see you there as well. Thanks again, Whim. All the love, all the power. Thank you. Bye, Ter. Bye-bye. Thanks for watching this interview on the Icons. One of the things that caught my attention is that 97% of people who are watching our videos aren't subscribed. So, if that's you, I'd encourage you to just click that button. When I actually found that out and said that in the office today, someone in our office gasped like like a real gasp. And so, if you're interested in learning from the true icons, people who've had success over time, and trying to figure out how to apply that to your own life and doing it in a way that's a little bit motivational, that's why you'd want to keep watching this show. Again, thanks for watching.
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The strongest thread in this conversation is discernment. Cold exposure is most useful when it is treated as a precise stimulus, not a personality trait. The body responds to dose, context, recovery, and consistency.
Cold, heat, breath, nutrition, and movement all work through biological mechanisms. They shift the nervous system, alter circulation, change inflammatory tone, and create an adaptive response. The felt benefit comes when that challenge is brief enough to recover from and repeated enough to become familiar.
A sustainable protocol should make daily life steadier. It should support sleep, training, focus, emotional regulation, and long-term health. If a practice creates anxiety, exhaustion, or a need to constantly escalate, the protocol needs refinement.
The protocol is only as strong as the recovery it creates.
Start with control. Build consistency. Let intensity arrive only when the foundation is steady.
Choose a protocol you can repeat without strain. Consistency creates the adaptation.
Track how you sleep, focus, train, and recover after the practice. The after-effect matters more than the performance.
Keep medical context in view, especially with fasting, hormone changes, cardiovascular risk, pregnancy, or a history of fainting.
