The practice begins with attention. Deep rhythmic breathing changes the relationship between oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nervous system tone. In plain language, the body receives a clear signal: wake up, focus, and prepare.
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For someone who has no idea what the Wimhof method is, how would you break it down for them and introduce them to it? It is simple. It is scientifically endorsed and I'm inviting all the time. I got big studies done recently. They are into publishing and it all shows the effectivity to go past our normal uh control, willful control within our bodies. What if we could uh control emotion? What if we could control the deep autonomic nervous system, the immune system? Those matters are now present and shown in science that we are able to control that. So that is based through very simple techniques. And what would change if we could control those? Before we know the techniques, if we could control those systems, what does that mean for humans? What are the benefits? Oh, there is multiple benefits from inflammation. Inflammation is the cause and effect of actually every disease. And we showed that people injected with a bacteria could uh withstand the influence of the bacteria on the immune system. Thus, the inflammation which normally happens uh within that controlled experiment, this time it doesn't happen. [snorts] So people bring down the cause and effect of disease which is inflammation and we showed that in science. Now we see where we are in the world with the co when there was co we had talks and medicines and pills. It's all money. So I'm into healing into bringing down inflammation. That that is what I give to people within a hour. The the techniques come within an hour before they thought whim. How much time does it take for
people to learn what you can do bringing down the inflammation after an injection of a bacteria? Does it take a year, one and a half year? I said 10 days and then it became four days and now is a half hour. So better control over the immune system, better control over the central nervous system which includes our emotions. So our emotions become much more pacified by uh doing this and you learn to clean the biochemical residue which is the result of our daily life actic daily modern life. So uh we bring our emotion learn to regulate our emotions. We got a lot more energy because of the cardiovascular fitness uh workout a cold shower. It's so easy. Also it's remarkable. There was just last week I was in Poland with 500 people in the mountains and it was one guy saying women I'm doing the cold and I'm doing this but my results get lower. I say come forward. come here on stage. So, how many push-ups can you do? And he said 15. Now, breathe this way for 30 times fully. And [gasps] let it go fully and be with your mind in one thing. You give the best you got. That's that's all. Follow your breath fully and 30 times. Last time he fully in let it go on empty lungs he did 40 push-ups. You see the breath is power. If you know how to manipulate the nervous system then you are able to generate a much greater power and you're breathing in through your nose and out.
Yeah that does does not matter so much. Doesn't matter whether you breathe out through your mouth or out through your nose. Yeah it matters a little. They say the nitrogen and through the nose and uh but if you do it such a a short period of time you go just into the depth of the whole body you cleanse the body of its biochemical residue which is caused by stress of daily life and therefore yeah just breathe don't think about nasal breathing you know surya tatva and chandrava and kumbakas and all that. No, don't be no difficulties. If you we go back to says in the beginning or the yoga is the silencing of the modifications of the thinking brain. Then the seer appears at that unconditional power. That is where I am aiming at. I just want to go through the conditioned mind and body. And we are doing the studies with the psychiatrist, neuroscientists, immunologists and it shows that we go where in science was stated this is not possible for humans etc. And now it is and that's my aim. Within a half hour, I want people to feel their real power. So the first step is 30 breaths, full breaths in and out. Yes. And do you recommend this doing this first thing in the morning or is there empty stomach? Empty stomach is of course at the best or where you take shower. Take also a cold shower and and try it out once that your push how many push-ups can you do. If you look to this podcast and you do only this biohacking
great trick 30 times fully in, relax on a chair or you sit on the ground and uh you you know how many push-ups you can do. You want to see how you can influence the neuromuscular mechanisms in the body for power? Well, just use your breath. It's so simple. It's really interesting because if you look at boxers, they all know the value of breath. Yeah. If you look at athletes, they all know the value of the breath. If you look at musicians who play wind instruments, they know the value of the breath. If you look at singers, they know the value of the breath. So, this is something that we've known, but for some reason, we haven't applied it to normal life because we all are athletes in our own way in an everyday life. And I think we've lost connection with that. I remember when the first day I went to join the monastery in India, I saw a young monk teaching younger monks and I went up to that young monk. He was like 10 or 11 years old and I said, "What did you teach them?" And he said, "It's their first day of school." And I said, "Oh, well, what did you teach them?" And he said, "What did you learn on your first day of school?" And I said, "Maybe ABC 1 2 3. I can't remember." And he said, "Well, I just taught them how to breathe." And I said, "What do you mean you taught them how to breathe?" Oh, but this is important, Jay. Here in America with the shootings in the school to simplify, a monkey has difficulties learning how to swim and a fish has difficulties learning how to climb. Our minds and every person is different. Some fit into the system and some don't. They get uh conflict with their identity and so much when the stress comes in and they still have to perform and give results and cognitively keep on and they feel uh not good compared to others and all that
might jeopardize the identity and that goes in many cases uh to uh where they lose it. Then they shoot their father, their mother, their siblings and then the people because they are completely lost. We should bring regulation of emotions done by breathing. As you say, he was [snorts] totally right. This man that was probably the best lesson you got. The inquisitive nature always brings about answers. Yeah, absolutely. And and he was saying the same thing as you're saying. He said that your breath is the only thing that stays with you from the moment you're born to the moment you die. He said you'll change your country. You'll change your family. You change your friends. Like things change. But your breath is always with you. And he said what changes when you're happy? Your breath. What changes when you're sad? Your breath. What changes when you're angry? Your breath. And so he said to me, if you learn to manage your breath, you'll be able to manage any emotion in life. Exactly like what you're saying. Yes. I'm here to show scientifically that autonomy is ours. That we have a control far deeper than in science was thought possible. But now it's here. We not only here to drink a glass of water. We are here to drink the full cup of life. If you don't go to the cold, the cold will come to you and then you don't like it. So too much disease, too much anxiety, too much depression, too much darkness, all is happening. Too much stress, it's all happening. We know this and we found a way to deal with it. We found the key. So you have these three pillars, breathing exercises, commitment, and then you have the cold. Yes. What is commitment? What do you mean by that? With commitment, just do it. just
do it regardless and and stay in that discipline. In the end, if you go into an ice bath, you learn to control your thoughts because you learn to shut up. If you want it, yes or no, you learn to surrender. Let the body do what the body is capable of. Once you get that, you get a control. Like in the beginning, you said intention. Intention is interosception. And now we found in Detroit topdown regulated interception which is interceptive focus and that is the will able to enter into the body and to readjust what needs to be uh what is out of balance to reconnect with the body. That is what the cult learns to shut up and to connect with the body. Let the body do what the body is capable and then you become aware that you suddenly willfully are able to control to make stronger your body without moving and [clears throat] that is top yoga like dana dana sadi those things are now here and we have seen that it activates the coronal radiata and the coronal radiata the nerve endings in the human brain which is the crown Crown chakra, the crown endings, the corona radiata, the radiant crown. It now is uh able to be activated by us because we learn to surrender. That means we learn to let go and then we are able to full bloom activate our brain uh capacity like 100% willfully. That's where we are in India in in Bangalore. I I'm I'm going to receive this prize award for excellence in yoga. What is excellence in yoga? Yoga means connecting. That's what I bring about. And make it
simple. Breathing is so much more important and we can cover within this hour. Yeah. Within this podcast. Just try it out once. Embrace the full power partial conditioned mind and body through breathing. And we have simplified these techniques now and made it so accessible that the esoteric disciplines of all the religions they come knocking at our door. They say this is highly esoteric. This is uh mystical and this is here awaiting for any person because God or what is mystical should be there for everybody? Absolutely. Every time all the time. So you recommend that if ideally people do this on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. It's going to allow them to have more clarity. It's going to allow them to have more energy. It's going to allow them to focus better. Yes. It it cleanses completely the glimpmphatic system. Uh all our daily habits or activities result in stress uh biochemical residue. It accumulates in our bodies and if we don't clean it then it obstructs our quality of life. How does breathing clean it? If we do these breathing sessions a within four rounds, you will be able to get into the the deepest of all systems to the deepest to the bone marrow to the deepest of your brain and learn to connect willfully. How does it work? If we do this breathing, we blow off the carbon dioxide and then the alkalinity in the blood goes way up. uh when it goes way up you can exhale and be without the need to breathe because breathing is because you become acidic.
Now the acid is out of the body and you are very alkaline. So you are able to stay one and a half minute 2 minutes without breathing after exhalation. Now what happens in the brain stem the reptilian the crocodile brain it says you are not breathing this is dangerous it doesn't look to pH levels in the blood is it alkaline or no it looks to oxygen and oxygen is completely depleted and when that happens then the brain stem which is connected to the adrenal axis that is the third eye pituitary gland hypothalamus and the adrenal glands. Then it activates the adrenal axis just to spike once in the body with twice as much adrenaline than a person who goes for the first time into a bungee jump in fear. Wow. They have measured the blood of the people going into a bungee jump with fear for vertigo. They took their blood and uh they took the blood of the people doing this breathing technique and then they saw twice as much adrenal spike in the blood uh for people doing this breathing technique. Now what happens with that double dose of adrenaline it goes like hormones into the spinal fluid and this is where we manipulate. This is breathing techniques uh manipulation of the the key the chi the prma the prana there's 10 kinds but hey prana we call it prana so we get it sublime but we make it simple we say fully in 30 times breathing and then exhale and stop and you don't feel the need to breathe now after one and a half minute what happens if you don't breathe
Five times more blood flows into the brain. Five times more blood flows into the heart. Nobody knew until they did cardio films on this and they say this is the future. This diagnostic and cardiology uh this is for the future breathing techniques. uh because it flushes like a battery the heart if it functions too less and that's terrible if you got a heart that is not strong enough you can make it stronger just through doing this and five times more fluid into the brain is flushing it and now because there's twice as much adrenaline hormonally in it cleanses everything that should not be there that is flammatory markers but also PFAS, also microplastics, also mRNA techniques, uh uh technology, uh whatever the is and radio waves, biochemical residue there from all that has influence and we don't know how to clean it through doing this. You just clean it. It's such an interesting prospect that we've been given the technology in how we've been created in order to cleanse, to survive, to live, to heal. Yeah. But obviously, you know, today so many people are struggling with anxiety. And a lot of people listening today, people may have anxiety about meeting new people. People have anxiety about their work. People have anxiety about relationships. There's so much anxiety in the world. How can this help someone who's struggling with anxiety? Is there a different breathing practice or is it the same one? Exactly the same one. That the simplicity is the power. So just try it out. You will be able to cleanse that what obstructs you the quality of your life under performance. when you need to
perform. It really could be a relationship, could be having a new job interview, could be a presentation on stage or whatever is important to you that you want to feel more than normal in a functional power. That one needs cleaning and this one doesn't. This takes it away because your body knows exactly what you are up against. But it is saying hey you are anxious because you cannot uh function the way you actually want because you there's inside and we need to get it out and that's what it is saying. So anxiety actually is a neuros signal say tell hey clean up before you go up and and you will see that these simple breathing techniques will lead to suddenly oh it's easy on stage all these the aha lateness comes by itself. Is it true that this can also help us get less sick less often? Absolutely. It has been shown in a scientific comparative study. people injected with the bacteria causing inflammation. That means fever, uh headaches, vomiting, nausea, muscle aches, backachches, but really 3 to six hours is a controlled experiment. 16, 000 became very sick and the 12 I trained not sick [snorts] and we already showed this in 2014 bacteria ecoli virus it's all the same we have like you said we got the mechanisms but we don't make use of our inner nature anymore to take down what should not be in there like sickness like anxiety depression, inflammation or of any kind and it is preventative as well. The
thing is if you do this in the morning preemptively then you your day you are able to accumulate a lot of stress without feeling that you are cannot deal with it. Yeah. Because you're clean. Yeah. Right. It's almost like we could actually deal with more stress than we believe. Yeah. If we were able to be in a state and there you come into this emotional spiritual state to take on challenges because you feel suddenly I you don't feel that awkward anxiety fear you don't feel it anymore and that makes you able to go into the challenges of life. You're saying something really important here about I think the challenge that people have is we've become seekers of an even more comfortable life. If you look at everything we're creating around us, it's so we can be more comfortable, be more safe, and I mean even physically comfortable. And we don't want to do something too challenging. We don't want to do something that's uncomfortable. We don't seek discomfort. So, how do we encourage people to transform our mind to realize that discomfort is what creates goodness in life and comfort is what creates more problems later down the line. Exactly that. So comfort is a false feeling. It is in the long term it's really uh getting to you and it will cause psychosmatic disturbances in the body. It will heap up accumulate. The body needs cleaning and for that we need to go into a certain kind of stress. If we stress our bodies up consciously, we learn to connect with the stress mechanisms in the uh brain and body and with that the stress in daily life because if you're escaping into comfort
behavior will not make you strong for the the that IS GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY. So better be ready before it. And we provide with these simple techniques not only the the ability to tackle stress in life effectively but also directly when you did it when you take a cold shower you feel good. Yeah. For sure. You give a little you get so much more back. Yeah. And for people who are not motivated to do this don't wait until the comes to you. You go to the I say always if you don't go to the cold will come to you and then you don't like it. So too much disease, too much anxiety, too much depression, too much darkness, all is happening. Too much stress, it's all happening. We know this and we found a way to deal with it. We found a key and we just want to hand over out of love and respect to the person this key. When I first started, I think I mean I I took cold showers when I was in the monastery. It was very normal. But the first time I did a cold plunge was probably around four, five years ago as well. And I can honestly say that as someone who has tried to get massages to like feel relaxed and distressed and they probably get me to like a 70 80% but sitting in the cold and doing the contrast therapy of maybe 10 to 15 minutes in a sauna and maybe 3 to 5 minutes in the cold and then doing it three times over. I have never felt that level of relaxation or slept better than when I've done the cold, whether it's in the morning or the evening that day. The whole body just feels loose in a way that I've never felt. You'd assume it feels tight. Like you think when you get in the cold that your body's just going to like hold on, but it doesn't.
It does the opposite. Yes. And when you get out, you almost feel so much looser, calmer, less stressed, but that's not what the mind thinks. the mind thinks it's probably going to be really it is challenging in the beginning for sure. The first time I did it, I [snorts] was in there for 4 minutes because I was doing it with a friend and we were trying to encourage each other. But for someone who gets in there and just wants to get out in the first 10 seconds, how do they get more comfortable with that discomfort? What should they do if they're in there for 10 seconds and like I need to get out? Like how do you get over that hunch? I just know that this really will bring about a much greater uh control over stress in your daily life. You only have to go through this say a minute once you are a minute in and anybody can do it. Last weekend I had people of 80 years who never had been in an iceberg. They went in for 10 minutes. 10 minutes and they loved it. I mean a young people should not be in the mind thinking learn to be in the body and then know that you are able to enter into the body into the depth and that will be yours for 10 seconds. Yes, that is your reaction of a body that never has been in the cold but you are very able. Let me be very clear about it. you as a young person I'm talking to the person who's watching this h you are very capable of staying uh one minute and what happens then your body is adapted what that means is that your inner power is on and it's connecting to your will and with that you learn to take on stress of daily life which you don't need to escape of anymore you are able to confront yourself with difficult
situations in all the other areas. So that little bit of uh cold you're going to endure is going to give you so much more back. It's funny how the mind when you're not when you're in it and you finish it, you have a great experience and then the mind's like, "Oh, I don't want to do it again. It's really hard." Like whatever. And then you have to keep reminding yourself. And I've I've learned over time that things that are good for you feel good after. And things that are bad for you feel good before, right? Anything that's bad for you feels good before. You want to eat badly. You want to drink badly. Yes. You want to do anything, it feels amazing before and then afterwards it's like poison. It's like pain. So for you it was almost the cold became the pathway to enlightenment to yourself. Yes. That that was the pathway because it just stopped the chatter. You can't hear the noise because the noise becomes well initially the noise becomes. Oh god, it's so cold. Then what happens? Walk us through what that journey was. I think I was ready to take on that challenge within me to get rid of the chatter. What what is that what makes me connect instead of chattering? I can say uh oh I meditate and I do this and I do yogic postures and I'm very good at it all and philosophy that one I was looking for I found it and right now it shows in a big study we did it's submitted at nature is a big scientific paper with 500 people and it says they compared it to meditation and mindfulness So that the stress as stress tools, mindfulness and meditation stress tools in the corporate world. So we took people out of the corporate world from the corporate world with a lot of stress and we took them and we went through and doing this cold practice and the
breathing and it shows that it is able to make this ruminating through the stress of daily life and having to perform and compete uh constantly very high up the the price house water coopers people they are not into yoga or into Gal what whatever exercise they are they they need to perform with numbers accountancy and it's very strenuous and arduous and and all that they did this and they compared thus the meditation and the mindfulness with this and it showed that this is generating much more stress resilience much higher cognitive awareness and less stress experience and beyond all much more trust in each other interception interceptive being they just had these feelings and they expressed it 500 people what I want to say with that this running which I had a lot of people have and it is not just thinking it is related to the central nervous system and the stress accumulates in biochemistry that is wrong by which we have no control over it and that is anxiety. And now we have the ability to make it go away. The cold did it for me. Then I started to do the breathing because I found out in the cold uh if I do a slower breathing deeply, I'm able to stay longer in icy water. Yes. And [clears throat] those were the findings. This is almost 50 years ago. And now and then I started to cultivate. Hey, if that happens in the water, what happens when I do it out of the water at home? And I did it and then I saw all the chakras, all all what I have been
reading for the first time. I SAW IT ALL. But that's not the goal. The goal is the soul. goal is God's providence uh to be direct here past the chatter box and how to surrender, how to let go, how to uh uh not think but be and they there you automatically naturally from there you come into your purpose. Yeah. And this this podcast is on purpose the purpose of life itself. Everybody is different but everybody has a purpose from the heart not thinking from the mind the heart is able to give confidence and trust and that power that goes and takes on the challenges of life because the soul is indestructible and there is no fear not even for death because you are doing exactly why you are here for and you feel it because God is at your side is here and that made me uh first break through with the cold then the breathing and then I learned to control which I showed in Sydney lately in a brain scan 9 and a half thousand brain scans showed more or less the bandwidth of what the brain activity is in humans I did nothing in the brain scan and I was within the uh bandwidth of the brain activity of these And then I did my what you did in the beginning intention. I went out for half hour did some breathing exercises but very strong intention and let it be. Your body knows when you talk to it that's a pure inter interception and you know how to move it if you just have that faith that power that interception.
That's [snorts] what I did. And then I went back in to the same brain scan and then the professor saw what he never had seen before. Such a activity of the subcortical higher functioning of the brain that is confidence, fantasy, creativity, uh trust, empathy, all those areas now willfully completely activated. He saw this and this people say, "Hey, you are the iceman. you can do that. No excuse. I only show what we all can do. And then places like here, a podcast, a platform which you make made available, which is great work. Thank you for the whole wide world. They say make America healthy. I say let's make the whole wide world healthy. And it happens through these things. Absolutely. Faith. Something you said just really stood out to me in a way that it hasn't before. And you just said that when we talk to our body, it hears us. Yes. And I was just thinking in a really simple way when I think to myself, I'm going to take a glass of water. That is my me talking to my body. Yes. And my body just did that. Yeah. And then I'm like, oh yeah, I'm going to drink some water. And then I drink. And it's like I am talking to my body even in the simplest of tasks that I do every day. Because when we hear, oh, you can talk to your body and it hears, you think it's some mystical thing. But the truth is we're all doing it right now. Like even me lifting my hand. I'm first thinking it and I'm talking to myself. I'm about to lift my hand. I'm going to shake Whim's hand. I'm going to meet him. I'm going to greet him. It's I'm already doing that. But then we forget that we can also code our mind and our body with emotion, with intention, with feelings, with states, with the purpose of with a purpose. Yeah. And getting there and make the
impossible happening past our conditioned mind and body that now is on the threshold where I'm working with these universities and showing for examples 26 people emotional distress. They cannot get out of it. They got PTSD, people dying within their family, divorces and they are really victims in that. I mean they cannot get out these loops. It keeps anxiety, pure anxiety. It's very uh tiring. They are exhausted. They went into this study. It took only one afternoon to break those patterns. Wow. And that's the way and you know what happens that the next thing is that they got the feeling that they got the steering wheel their confidence suddenly is there and suddenly they feel their uh purpose of life that they can take on the challenges. 26 people. We just did the study scientifically and all that shows that we not only here to drink a glass of water. We are here to drink the full cup of life and [clears throat] to pass it on to our kids fully in confidence and trust and in love and beauty and power and energy and flow. Make a paradise. Yeah. I am here to show scientifically that autonomy is ours that we have a control far deeper than in science was thought possible but now it's here and through the pharmaceutical industry and the whole industry and the governments they are quite ignorant let me tell you that so we need to stand up like podcasts uh like this we need to become autonomous not believe in governments but govern
ourselves because we are good people. All all the so where we got our soil is goodness deriving from and we should be able to have faith in the goodness of ourselves and we bring through these tools autonomy to the people so they feel confident that they have control over these subcortical areas of the brain called the subconscious and all that they told us that is only 16% that we can control it's 100 sorry it's 100 and I'm showing that in brain scans and now we are shown with canabonoid receptors how we are able to create flow in the body which is a natural state of uh ours we only got conditioned and if we look at society too many wars too many depression too many inflammation too many anxiety and all we can shoot people to the Let's become happy, strong and healthy. I made a song on that by the way. It's called Sachand. Oh wow. My roots are in India. Do you practice mantra meditation as well? Like as you were just singing and chanting. I did a lot of that. Wow. But now mantras the repetitive citing words sounds I'm singing. Yeah. All day should be meditation. Yes. Yeah. It's the culture of India. Yeah. I wanted to talk to you about willpower because you talk a lot about willpower and you talk about how people with low willpower make poorer choices in life. Can you define for us what willpower is in your opinion? Willpower is the ability to have control within. It's the six sense,
seven sense and eight sense. Willpower, dana, concentration. If I stay one hour in icy water, I need dana. I need concentration. I need to control my core body temperature to control the nervous system while I'm in uh this very stressful environment and stay there. This is willfully h connecting and that makes my body strong. So anytime I need to concentrate using that connection with my central nervous system which I exercised in cold water and it doesn't need an hour and there only needs you adapting. adapting is two three minutes then you are naturally connected with your central nervous system which is the instrument of the willpower. You need you just need to learn to connect. Don't make it too complicated in yourself because it's hasn't got to do anything with uh your thinking. It's taken on the challenge and your body adapts. Doesn't matter what it is, heat, cold, stress on the stage, it doesn't matter. You learn to take on instead of ruminating about it. You you go into it because you have control over the central nervous system which is a connection of the uh preffrontal cortex and the central nervous system is everywhere and it adapts. How far do you want to go? I tell people, yeah, if I get people motivated, last time I went on the Kilimanjaro in short was with a man was 76 years old. 76. He had no experience in climbing. He was suffering from limes disease is a debilitating condition. And uh he had to
go in shorts and he wanted to do this in record time what young people cannot do. So and I looked in his eyes and I saw connection. I saw motivation. Motivation is the right connection with your central nervous. You really want it because you really are there. and I went with him and this is a mountain you can do between five and nine days fully dressed because it's very cold up there and is half the oxygen and less and you need oxygen to combust for energy and it it's not there. So 5 to nine days and then 40% only summit fully dressed. This man did it in 31 hours in his shorts. What? You know what happened? His limes disease was also gone at the same time. But what what is willpower? It's there. Do you got it? Do you really want it? It's there and it's not complicated. Wow. And you can test it that it is able to go way past what you think you can do. and it takes a half hour. Just try this out. We simplify these techniques. So to make it a usable tools, then it's only a matter of choice. What do you want with it? Because you will be able as you should owning your own mind and body in its full splendor. Whim, you've done so many difficult challenging things. You encourage people to do them with you as well. What's the hardest thing you believe you've ever overcome? Wow. At a certain moment, I could do a world record every day. You know, you get your body ready and the connection is you in
the flow. You every day you can run a marathon barefoot outside in the snow or stay two hours in the icy water. Uh do crazy stuff. And a certain moment I I was thinking to myself uh actually I don't want some ridiculous new challenge doing showing I showed enough and what I want right now and that is might be the most difficult is to settle down and to let hundreds and millions of people are doing what I'm doing now that this is real with or without my name doesn't matter I started at this. This is my mission. My mother told me to do this and to be the missionary. I did it. I I got to the Catholic Church itself to the esoteric department of the Catholic Church. The best of them, they came to me that my mother is in peace. So right now I'm I want to go on on my own and the challenge is I want to reach billions of people which is happening. That is the power of faith that keeps on going when actually I thought I did my mission. I will be keeping on going because I actually it's a normal life is a bit boring. [laughter] I want to change the world and that it can be difficult. I don't care. I love Well, whim I think it's very clear that you have no doubt being the modern greatest proponent of breath work of spending time in the cold and cold exposure. I I don't think there's anyone else who has not only popularized but taught those principles and made them as big and as famous and popular as they are now. And honestly, all that credit goes to you for sure. I don't think those conversations were being had in
the modern world. And so I I thank you for doing that because it's such a great unlock for the world to recognize the power that can be there for free, right? It's like you don't have to pay for breath work. You don't have to pay to have a cold shower every day. Freedom is for free. Exactly. Autonomy is there. Yeah. And we want to bring that is love. Yeah. We want to bring love to the people. We want them to be able to feel good uh whenever they feel bad. And I think that's my favorite thing about what you unlock for people beyond the breath, beyond the cold is we don't know what we're capable of. Exactly. We have no idea what this body and this mind is capable of doing. And if everyone listening and watching can remember that you are so much more capable than you believe you are, you're able to do so much more than you think you can. your mind and body are so much stronger than you believe they are. If you walk away with that message from today, that will change your life because in your head you think you're a lot more limited than you actually are. If people take one message, love is where you are able to make that what is going bad within good and that that uh love we want to share and it's not complicated. Just try it out once and then you will see for yourself. Feeling is understanding. If this clip brought you value and you'd like to watch something else, this next video has been chosen especially for you based on your viewing behaviors. I hope you enjoy it and if you do, please subscribe to the channel so we can keep bringing you fantastic conversations.
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the science of cold exposure narrows the moment. The mind looks for escape, then learns that sensation can be met without panic. That is the adaptation. The body gets a thermal stimulus, and the nervous system practices staying organized inside intensity.
Coffee pushes from the outside. Breath and cold ask the body to generate state from within. The effect can feel bright and immediate because the sympathetic system activates, circulation shifts, and attention sharpens.
The useful dose is the one you can repeat with steadiness. Breathwork belongs seated or lying down, never in water, driving, or any setting where fainting would create risk. Cold works best when it builds trust rather than drama.
The cold is not there to punish the body. It is there to reveal how quickly the body can organize itself.
Practice breathwork in a safe position before any cold exposure.
Start with a short cold finish and leave while you still feel composed.
Use the practice to sharpen presence, not to prove toughness.
