Breath Is Life & Cold Is God: 'The Iceman' Wim Hof

[Music] how you doing sir yeah good good man is super nice to have you back I think it was about two years ago when you were here first time yeah so we're gonna pick it up where we left off so it is what is going on what is going on what is coming as my daughter said this morning what's up yeah what is up what is up is going down and what is up there it's like a higher consciousness could we toss a that I think we can I think the true nature of ours is higher consciousness as we call it high consciousness I say it's just the nature of our spirit to be everywhere in the brain in the deepest of our physiology capable to interact with our brain and command our bodies into the subconscious so much that we are able to make this up conscious conscious and to become capable of going into the brain into the deepest is what I've shown since the last time I did some new research not some real good research neurological research you Eve we're in they had 74 people talking about the deepest of the brain the the moral of this story now to begin with this if you go into the deepest then you have passed all the layers that means and not only 20% of our brain we can use I say 100% that's my moral that's my topic today and you understand because you made this switch I didn't understand who you were really just a nice person in front of me we talk and we go into the depth like natural but I didn't know nothing about your history only my daughter taught me this morning yeah like a bloody respect for what you did man thank you sir becoming so big and a in society being swallowed by society getting in there and then completely changed the paradigm within yourself become the man you are fighting and working on the good for Humanity well I appreciate that I think that you know our stories are very different but if there's a similar thread it's that it's that people look at the things that I've done and they tend to hone in on the athletic accomplishments in the same way people look at your world records or these these feats and stunts that you've accomplished but truly it's a spiritual journey my friend yes it's about raising your consciousness exactly that's ultimately the foundation beneath all of this let me let me say something in this room and so two years ago we came together and we found out a we got common ground and depth and I was into the Vedas and sour Jersey and yeah in the ancient tradition of Yogi's that's that's what you are that's a this year they wanted to give me a ward in India for excellence in yoga I said man wait I just wait a little until next year because when we get evidence for scientific evidence that we are able to do much more than we think and we make it common ground that is excellence in yoga yoga's unity unify and bringing it and making it accessible for everybody that's a that you did what you did for example that's great but what you do for Humanity right now in bringing in a doubt that is enlightening to to the soul itself and I feel invigorated yeah I feel the soul I think that there's a there's there's a little bit of an arms race going on right now because we are suffering from a crisis of consciousness and people like yourself are our beacons you're a lighthouse of Hope a wash in a sea of confused people and and a lot of moment' behind systems that are working very actively and diligently to destroy this precious planet keep a sick and enslaved exactly and so who is gonna win this arms race yes I call it a you know a battling and tackling the real terrorists which is to me depression bipolar anxiety fear trauma PTSD all those things in the mind we have no control over the mind and we are manipulated I have to say this is the way the power system is able to manipulate and have people work for peer for people earning two thousand times more than somebody else it's the same soul it doesn't make sense anymore because all this industry and all okay I say stop it and now all this epidemic proportions of mental disorders and not feeling good how is that so I did study now because I can talk like a hippie and say hey we got to change the world revolution time and oh love and flower and power you need science though yes and so I want a a day had me tested how if I would be able to under a severe stress of say cold coal distress and at stress on the cells biology in the brain as in the air as in the body and we have no control over the stress and this stress was thus within this experiment wherein they had me shoving in into a brain scan and seventy-five four people had formally done the same experiment and they showed dressed in perfusion vest where in cold water streams in that the skin temperatures just going down when the cold water comes in and it goes up when it is warm again skin temperature you cannot do anything with your mind it's just owned ow it's going up going down this is stress stress on our bodies on the cells biology and we have no way to command to stop it or to stand above it we have none but this is our sympathetic nervous system just regulating this on our behalf yes imagine wars and traumas and PTSD and depression and all those things is because of this stress getting in our brains deregulating our hormonal balance and thus we lose the good feeling and we have no way to control that now 74% showed all the same graphics and I showed the same graphics when I did nothing but the day day three I had to show what the Iceman is capable of and I really did not know what to do because I don't know what to do right and then I began to think back the way I was in nature on Mount Everest in a wide art in short tranquil nice swift no paranoia under the eyes lost away and no goggles on couldn't see anything where was the hole no panic no fear no paranoia even when your retina froze yes yeah yes and so many more of those situations I always had the confidence and I felt this connection within the body and I remembered that in Detroit Michigan the morning I had to go in the brain scan and show a different graphics when cold water's coming in and warm waters coming in and cold and warm and cold and warm not affecting the skin temperature by command by just thinking is that possible and I thought yes of course I had back through intuition I had this feeling hey I'm just gonna do it so went to the University they got me in the brain scan I always say you give the best you get the best and I did it I made my skin temperature go one degree up and the cold was coming in and it did not affect my skin temperature like it was 35 minutes and then they looked inside by the way the cold water I had felt warm real warm to you very warm and nice instead of cold ice water coming in and I made it warm and the professor had really a hard time to put ice cubes in the in the in the pump in the reservoir to make the water cold because I was warming the water on the water just by thought I was not able to breathe deep or to contract the muscles because you see blurred visions images on the brain scan yeah so I read about this study there was an article on Smithsonian yeah where they kind of described this and as I understand it you were in this suit where they could pump water like to cover your skin it could be cold it could be warm and they slid you into an MRI so they were scanning everything as they were putting this either cold or warm water into this suit and then measuring how you were reacting to this is that that is exactly is that what went down so that that's what we and a the cold represents stress on the cells biology and you're normally you have no way to deal with that stress so you just let it go it comes in cold and then warm cold warm cold warm and we have no way to out balance it or to transcend the elements are working on the on the body not with the mind but there I show to go and transcend it transcend the impact on the body and not only my body became warm like really warm there in those areas they looked up in the brain and what I saw with the 74 people is that when stress comes in and that's regular stress can be anything emotional stress will eat cold oxidative stress through stress of daily life and all it all has an effect on our being on our physiology and normally we are not able just by thinking to make that stress go away so this is the way it works in the brain when stress comes in and the prefrontal cortex there is a lot of activation that's your consciousness your direct here-and-now consciousness which called very activated insula which is activated when in deep meditation when you feel really relaxed a very inactive in active at the moment when there is a stress going on now that is what normal normally works in the graphics and then they looked in my brain and they saw that the prefrontal cortex was completely shut down and the insula was really on not only so the while being under stress I was in deep meditation like the result of deep meditation is insula activation it's like the for ik and then they saw another thing and that is actually yeah something innate but unknown to science is the periaqueductal gray hemisphere which is part of the brainstem the deepest is between the spine ganglia and the and the brain it's where it all begins the very primitive brain is its were created the opiate opioids and the cannabinoids right they in case of stress say depression or danger or cold or impact then you need opioids and cannabinoid to make the unpleasant feeling and can go very extreme in into pain and into feeling bad about yourself and you don't feel the authorial anymore at that moment we have an innate capacity to down regulate the imbalance and make it right again by the the wrong feeling derivative allens or hormone becoming depressed or feeling bad anxiety fear PTSD trauma anything in the brain now we found the pathway to to break the cycle of feeling bad the loop and get a for ik hormones in cannabinoids plus pain cycle we drop through bringing in opioids and that is they say we found compelling evidence of the key components of the autonomic processes autonomic is normally outside of our well authority control and now we have found him autonomic processes in the brain were related to mood regulation they say it's a transformational technique that will change mental healthcare that's what we want if we go back to the beginning of our conversation this we want to be spiritual we want to have depth spirituality is presence of your deeper brain within your willful control because everybody wants to be happy strong and healthy that nobody knows and but it is innate to feel that that way and we are wrongly schooled in in the primary school and then the college and and and the universities and now we show we actually that everybody has an innate capacity and should not be law on the way by cognitive cognitive like the surface of the brain input of information cognitive information and doing nothing with the deeper part of the brain you know what happens 25% more blood flow goes to the surface of the brain chronically logically the rest is just surviving standby but not developing and there is as our just sons of just being and we talked about five senses is the way we have learned to be but there are three senses more like the sixth sense the seventh and eighth what's the 78 the seventh is the proprioception is the air immune system the immune system in the depth and we have shown that already six years ago first time in medical history to go into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activating the innate immune system not only even into the bone marrow which represents the specific immune system the B cells t-cells and direct and so on an intruder coming in could be a virus bacteria yeah this is the study that this study you're talking about is the one where where you and a cohort of individuals were injected with E coli and E coli and it's easy and for people that are new that didn't listen to the first time order aren't familiar with you like explain that experiment because that bends a lot of minds yes that it actually is so the seventh neurological network is the proprioception and there's this past sixth sense we got a absolute possible innate control we just need to awaken that it is a network inside and that makes us able to activate the deepest of the immune system when it's necessary we as mammals in nature would die if we would be like for days in a bed somewhere you know we have this innate control but because of our behavior we lost the connection and this deep connection I took on by E coli bacteria injected and I showed for the first time to have a control over the sympathetic the autonomic nervous system are related to the immune system which goes logically very a deeper than normally considered and a medical history a thought of this is not possible to be done by humans but this man is a he's the Iceman he does strange things in nature yeah he is an exception that confirms the rule and I said no everybody is able to do this this is natural and so I took this cohort of people and within four days I had them there we were walking in the nature shorts in freezing temperatures we danced our socks off on the top and everybody was able to be there at minus twenty seven centigrade which is really freezing cold far below zero and and we were dancing Dan I recognized these guys are ready to take on the bacteria which normally makes people very sick and they will be able to battle it within a quarter over hours something and four days later they were in the hospital and they did the breathing exercises and they got their focus which is a neurology is power if I'm able just by mine willful and neurology thinking hey I don't want to become cold while cold is coming on the body and the body becomes warm that's dealing with stress just by thought so that power everybody has but we never awoken that power which is by the way network number eight the entire reception into a receptive focus and for the first time day so now in Michigan that I was doing that they call it the entire receptive focus and top down which normally and they never had seen that and now I tell but this is natural and everybody has it it is only through our schooling systems and the way we have our behavior that we do no longer understand of the existence of deeper mechanisms possibly within our control it's gone so but going back to the the experiment on the a Ecola they all went into the hospital they did their breathing use their neurology their focus and within a quarter of our hundred percent of these guys after sixteen thousand and more hundred and thirty-four people who done the same experiment and all became sick than to a sulli 12 people randomly chosen of the 18 I trained in four days they were exposed to the bacteria injected and within a quarter of hour all had control and with that we showed that the specific immune system innate immune system autonomic nervous system can be controlled in contrary of what was written medical history that means and the inflammation in the body they effectively suppress an inflammation is the cause of any disease network number seven well a couple observations here I mean the first thing is the first remarkable thing is that you train these people for just four days right yes with your techniques and that's all that was required for them to combat this endotoxin and fend it off yes observation number two that we have the ability the power the acumen to manipulate and control our immune response which is something that I think you know conventional wisdom would say is is something that is regulated outside of conscious awareness or control so that's a mind-blower and then the third thing being that and this goes back to the the MRI study with you in this suit that through certain techniques and and focus and meditation practices that you could cause or instigate your body to release its own opioids endogenous opioids and cannabinoids to what combat the pain response or what exactly is that do the pain and the feeling so if auric fields come from cannabinoids me coming from Amsterdam you know yeah I can never know it today yeah I don't even know that I knew that we had endogenous cannabinoids within our body it's a whole system yeah endocannabinoid system regulates a whole lot of organs within us all the Ceyda cardio pulmonary area and gastrointestinal area and bladder so that's the whole torso and um we are able to to regulate whatever is out of balance therein and therefore we have the opioids and there is a crisis on opioids right now amen we got them to our selves so no crisis anymore just for that I'm here just to say that and we got the proof so done right alright so next podcast I did it we're over yes you've made some some pretty bold claims when it comes to how the body the body's ability to combat disease everything from and that's arthritis 2 diabetes clinical depression anxiety bipolar and and even cancer and I think a lot of people when they hear especially when they about cancer if you say very careful and but now it has been proven that there is a absolute relationship between the immune system and cancer and now I can say we and the immune system are very able to activate the deepest of the immune system and now it has been proven in scientific papers that they have a direct relationship so if you are able to activate the immune system in the depth that absolutely has a positive effect on the cancer cells on the DNA on the cell division we are right now we just came from Baltimore of fundraising and one of the top researchers in the world Elissa EPEL professor in San Francisco she is leading a new study which we do on the DNA and when the DNA becomes in tranquil or wrong there and telomeres are being affected then a cell division or the wrong one cancer can happen now they see that what we do is after 12 years this is what they say after 12 years of DNA research and we know by microscopes the way they look like the DNA and the telomeres and everything but we never knew how to get there and to influence it at will and now we got him so they are into this study it's been endorsed by the John W brick foundation mental health care and 1.2 million I think in San Francisco on this method yes message that you just put out the other day so you just basically somebody's donating 1.2 million dollars to this yeah because it's credible because what we show is that we are able to beat inflammation we are inflammation is the cause for deregulation in the body anyway and one of the deregulations is cancer and I don't say directly now we got a cure for cancer and he no but we got more than probable cause to make these studies and endorse it and show that Nature has the answer and we have to look into inside of our own inner nature the neurology of the awareness and our breathing we have become not natural disconnected and therefore we get all these problems if we go back we will be able after millions of years of development of our physiology to down-regulate what is out of balance back into balance in decor and have a sense absolute sense of control I think what's super interesting about you is that what you're preaching and teaching and the impact that you're having these are very simple techniques you know we're going to get into what they are specifically in a minute but essentially it's a call to return to our natural state there's more primal lives to be more connected to nature to connect with the breath and to what it means to to you know truly historically live in the world in the most ancient sense of what it means to be human and that message is budding up against the intellectualization of of science and I think it's it's difficult to digest for you know somebody who's in the medical profession who's like listen you know this guy's out here ranting and raving and yeah he's some kind of crazy outlier but like let's let's like you know let's stick to the microscope because here's what we have and we're developing these drugs and this is truly the path forward so these are two very different approaches one that resides very much in the mind and and yours which is based on experience and things like the heart and love and spiritual connection which are ephemeral concepts that a lot of people have a hard time you know sort of wrapping their heads around and embracing so this is this is another one of the arms races that were experiencing at the moment exactly exactly and I say we have to get back to they say the tribe feeling but people who are lonely for example the white blood cells get deteriorated and people who are like in a tribe the family the structure it's perfectly unbalanced through nature through millions of years we got disconnected and within affair within the family and now all the world is connected we are one tribe you know the tribe before had no hospitals had no pharmacies had no industrialization or whatever they could cope with any impact therefore we had to elders and elders are the storytellers they know about the experience what do we do with the elders we put him in elder homes and Pathak elite looking at the television screen and nothing else so a that's what they found out altar in Pennsylvania receipt Oh when there was a cardiovascular epidemic going on in America in the 20s except for that that region why was that finally they became to know because granddad lives with taking care of the grandchildren and the people they meet each other in the street and they talk to each other and and they wish each other well and touch each other oxytocin and if their love gets into the body into the biochemistry then the good things happen neurologically igniting the right hormones in the body this the way we were built and what do we do now we became individual we turns up the elbow work I'm better than you I go faster I want more and and going into six hours is better than five cows and and all that none sans is going and I say what what we are unconditionally already present within us is the ability to become happy strong and healthy and when we are able to bring back that not natural knowledge which sans you don't need two cars because you're already happy you're with your family and the way nature amended to be and there you really become powerful now it is time to use our neurology our consciousness to tap into the deepest part of that part of the brain which we lost contact connection with and we got it I can tell you we got him we gonna tackle this real terrorist of ours which is the same for everybody depression bad feelings anxiety fear PTSD trauma bipolar anything you cannot come up with we found a way to tackle that with phoric hormones and pain killing hormones it's all there and we got them inside and we are built to be able to use it any time and with that we get away from this fear-based thinking to control but otherwise I don't have the things to compensate my bad feeling or my insecurities my fear-based thinking it's gone and you live with everybody and you wish well to everybody nam sanema no because your energy is right it emanates from the core instead of from the brain that's very threatening to the matrix yes you know I mean it is it is an inside job it requires you to look within and that's very challenging to almost everybody who has grown up in our modern Western industrialized society where from day one we're born and bred to you know chase the the gold chain and you know achieve and succeed and all these things that you just said and that implicit within that promise is of course happiness and most people are chasing that to their deathbed never quite achieving that which they seek the most which is a sense of fulfillment and purpose excitement connection all of these things all of the market forces the economic systems the social systems in which we are reared and and and habitate today are pushing us away from these very things that ultimately going back all the way to the wisdom of the Ancients are the true holders of this promise of contentment and if we can find a way to have the wherewithal to invest in that interior journey and engage with our interior selves in that way we can unlock this universe of potential that we all are walking around with exactly the power of the mind I call it we are not bill - why should we have 100% brain when we only are able to control 20% does it make sense there sans is a macaws most of the blood flow is always on the surface because of our thinking ways the neurological pathways we have learned to develop yes so I've now found a way to get into the deepest of the brain and with that unlocking the possible power of the mind to become just happy strong and healthy not a circus act I'm not into look at me what I can do with a blahblah no I just discover what innately we are capacitated with everybody and there is the unconditional love or yes the unconditional love composed by the guarantee to activate anything that makes you happy strong and healthy happiness is hormones or four hormones the strength is the metabolic processes in the in the cell and we have proven that that we are able to create more mitochondria or I mean more ATP that doesn't matter how works strength is there is energy and we are able to guarantee flow therein we show that and then the last one is the health is the going into the deepest layers of the immune system it's all there it was always there and it is connected to the brain and now we found the pathways and and it's up for awakening and with that comes the the beginnings of the power of the mind for everybody and there is the spiritual journey because it is without thoughts its feelings it's deep it's it's like drugs than your own we got this t-shirt I could get high on your own supply yeah and it's kind of nice but first let us clean up clean up the place and get into learning people to control and our balance there depression bipolar anxiety fear that it is no longer needed because 20% will become 100 percent control in the brain so let's talk about what that protocol is like how do we begin this process of engaging the mind in a new way yes so there I came up with these things because I didn't find it in no books so I went into nature and in nature you have no word it doesn't it's not written when I'm in a white art but I feel suddenly instead of the thought of a paranoid because an anxiety and fear because this is wider I mean in my short and it's less than half the oxygen present and nobody's around and I can't see anything but white ice and rocks and there I am four hours none feeling that you are not in anxiety but okay you have a feel confident nice and surprisingly you're looking at yourself right it's okay this power is part of the power of the mind which is able through intuition orientation deeper than our normal senses the sixth sense sixth sense not a sick sense the sixth I gotcha it's almost sick in their society because there is no confidence confidence is part of the sixth sense it's a confidence comes when you have control within your own brain past a normal sense Oracle perception you got images and feelings sick sounds is able to go into the future because it has no time-space perception it is different it's there and you learned when it's simply there not because your logic says so know that because it is there and you trust it then you feel confident and it makes the right calculations and this is what happened there I felt confident I began to walk and my orientation GPS anything is great working even in a whiteout three hours later I arrived in an advanced base camp and was received by Tibetan sand they must have seen a crazy pilgrim a white man coming out of a whiteout but they gave me tea and butter when so where where and when was this 2007 on Everest oh this is your Everest okay yeah yes out of the air I gotcha okay so yeah that's when you you you made it all the way up to the Death Zone with basically just in shorts yes no shirt right and then you had a foot injury or something like that that prevented you yeah thing is I learned to to get into different consciousness altogether by going into nature because it wasn't in the books would I try to find I am I want to find the soul I want to find enlightenment and the world has proven to be a place where it is not and where they ignore the soul's presence it's all about profits and power and tension and stress and dominating and exploiting and polluting that that is what is going on this big monster I think we are like dragon slayers we go for the right tools and then go ahead we go past our fear and turn the wheel and and make effective tools and bring it out to the world that there is light in the world that there is a soul in the world and that we have a capacity to get rid of this manipulative control to find absolute a deeper sense of control over ourselves because we own really our own brain we are the owners of our happiness strength and health Dave Asprey asked me in this podcast women what is enlightenment and please tell it in what somebody else to and say you didn't once said I said just be happy strong and healthy and the rest is [ __ ] the soul it's time for the soul to be here and guaranteed and as I say past any politics and bollocks and power and this and culture and tradition and religion the mother and Baghdad is the same as in New York they just want a guarantee for their children happiness strength and health and now because nobody was listening everybody indulging into a religion and differences instead of the equal side of our all we just want to love our kids wasn't dead so that's what we want and that's what we need to stand up and say go through science no speculation anymore the time had you had to speculate and to show you differences with all the respect it only kills it gives a bad quality of life no and a health a depression and people earning irrational amounts of money and the other one not I see people homeless here and I think a man it's still our so until it is not solved that the unconditional love which everybody should owe like there are and owning their own mind we have to keep on rich and a a and stand up because [ __ ] the past what I all did and made our genetical way of thinking in the through epigenetics becomes genetics and now we are stuck in the marsh and we got a solve it yes that's what we do we and up and we say no to war no to disease no to depression we say yes to happiness strength and health and we prove it through science and that's makes us man yeah that's powerful we're in strange times right now we are connected in ways that we never have been historically but that connection is digital it's its temporal it's not real meanwhile we're more divided than ever certainly politically we have retreated to our respective silos and tribes and we love to shoot arrows at each other hmm and you know signal to our respective tribe members that were a member in good standing well spending a lot of energy distinguishing ourselves from the other from them from the bad guy whoever that is and this is reaching peak levels that I've never seen in my lifetime and this call to return to our natural state this idea that the mother in New York and the mother in Baghdad are truly one how do we return back to that understanding and that connection that can truly unify us and supersede and heal this divide that we're seeing right now that is that is perhaps our biggest disease yes heart disease in America's number one killer obesity rates through the roof depression the world's number one disability PTSD diabetes cancer all of these things are killing people at an alarming rate while we're blindly decimating the planet and with our hands you know not on the steering wheel here like this is a crisis of epic species ending proportions like we can't [ __ ] around here yes and we're running out of time so the call to return to this primal state of breath of connection with each other and with nature as simple and as basic as that sounds it's still very threatening to the person who is very much a consumer in this society and program to behave in a certain way you're asking them to do some very simple things but it's interpreted as almost a threat or a challenge to a way of life that is so distinct from everything that they they know and have been taught mmm yes if you if you learn a monkey to be a lion for a auditor it doesn't behave like a monkey anymore we have lost from our true nature and with that with the capacities of our true nature which is there to learn to have a control over the full brain I mean hundred percent because it's a mind is the seed of the spirit of the soul and the soul is the purpose and we think it is just something randomly chosen by religion the Catholics and the Protestants and the Islamic and and Zarathustra or whatever all these it's just a difference they say is it time-space a ego which doesn't have the real ability or capacity to go into the deeper part of the brain and experience the unifying principle experience which everybody has spirituality is equal to everybody it has no label only the differences where we came from the time-space perception and ego related to that those are the first baby steps we learned how to conquer the power of the mind so and then from there we learn from time-space perception to go into timelessness and everything the the souls presence the soul now is confined is imprisoned and what it shows is disease and in all kinds of ways both mental and physical it's because it's not there and it only shows a that's why you get sick you can't cover it up with pills and medicines that kill their messengers all the time not go to the core how far because the power money goes that way and and that's why it's prolonged and keeping on and because people are ignorant they lost hope and the people if you really give them the the alternative through I say science then they are able to reactivate that deep sense of Hope within them now this society you come in and you say yeah you gotta be the best in the world and you got a position yourself become this and that and that those are sympathetic or asymptomatic tools you get because they are everybody's in fear and nobody knows that if you learn to control the power of the mind you don't need fear because the beautiful mind is very able to go past the time-space or what is happening in the future resolving things from the past that's why we are here and there is this soul is inexplicable so presence that's why we are alive and we get to know it and to be that flower and then share it with everybody that's where we go so here I am talking about it and say okay what what is the real way okay I showed as the first woman now again in the brain scans like seven years ago I showed it the autonomic nervous system innate immune system endocrine system and hormonal system all can be very deeply influenced in four days with DC guys up the mountain we danced our socks off well being in extremes of nature because they had the power of the mind present like it is innately there for everybody but we always are in this fear way comfort zone behavior confined the way we have learned and this is the way we need to be know get out get into your true nature and you don't need only hope over there you feel the power of your own mind being able to deal with anything that is out there thus absence of fear is a logical thing happening there so if you speak to experienced meditators people have been meditating for decades they will share with you experiences that they have had glimpses of the beyond or a sense of expanded consciousness and awareness and connection and unity but for the most part they will say these experiences are few and far between and they're fleeting the more you practice meditation the more you can drop in with greater facility and it becomes easier just like anything that you practice but this is a lifetime commitment and you're here saying in four days I can do I can basic now we do know how our within an hour now give me an hour man what is it like I know we talked about this last time but the cold exposure and these feats that you've done those are the things that create the clickbait titles and that's what people want to talk about when they're interested and but my impression and please correct me if I'm wrong is that this is much more about the breath work and the way that the breath and these meditative practices that you teach are portals or ways of garnering control over these traditionally thought uncontrollable aspects of our awareness and our brain lizard brain yes it is absolutely a rich good good resume nice yeah this is like a diving board I can use it dive in now I made some ourselves man oh and your neck soft rap monologue yes I'm here to receive all right oh right on so the thing is a mindfulness for example and seasoned practitioners of mindfulness have been studied very well a lot of research has been done like hundreds and hundreds of papers and it all shows that they are able to tap in and deeper part of the brain which is learning how to decrease blood flow in the surface and get a deeper and thus they become activated those deeper part of the brain and I feel like nice good and sometimes they peek and they get even deeper and that deepest part is the brainstem and but that's rare and and now they the professor's after looking in the brain scans and looking in my brain and part of my job but they found compelling evidence that I possess brain activity in the brain scan that's a joke the brain is actually working yeah it is it's not new online it's not new anymore okay yeah secondhand thing is they said the the the part of the brain you made a robust Lee activate we never see that in even with seasoned practitioners in mindfulness in different areas of the brain different deeper areas of the brain and especially under stress and stress is the killer in society and people are not able to tap into the depth of the brain no more and now we found a neurological pathway into the deepest part of the brain and everybody is able to learn to activate that and if you just repetitiously go a couple of times then it becomes stronger this neurological pathway does the control from the surface of the brain into the deepest part of the brain and if you are able to go actively into the deepest part of the brain you are able to go in all the ways in between that means all the parts of the brain in hannover we showed that the breathing technique is making hundred-percent activity of the of the brain suddenly the neurology the electricity is activated everywhere in the brain the it's a disco and the dance is only beginning with a when you are able to bring 25% a dominant blood flow only in the surface of the brain but now everywhere then the activation of the powers related to those parts of the brain are within our control and and will how much of that becomes under the aegis of conscious control versus the activation then setting in motion some kind of autonomous processes that stimulate the immune response in the best and most healthy way like what is the awareness level in terms of what's going on like are you consciously like when you're in the MRI and they're shooting the cold water and you're you can't really do the breath work but your I presume entering into a meditative state like how much are you is it is it like an effort based thing or is it something that because of your history of doing this that your body just suddenly knows what to do like I'm trying to understand like for somebody who's listening to this who's coming in brand new mm-hmm and doesn't really understand we're talking about here like break this down into little chunks so people can really get a sense of what the experience is like I thought it was going to be very difficult in the brain scan and to show active say commanding from the brain the body without moving without muscular activity without just lying there just a thought here comes the cold you normally cannot do anything just my thought related to the cold coming on the body making the body colder and you cannot do with your thoughts nothing and I thought it was going to be very difficult but no I learned that in nature numerous kinds of situations for example climbing without gear steep rocks getting cramps and think it that way or being in a cylinder full of ice after an hour I got always this problem with kidneys they become too cold I can think and warm up my body from the inside out just by thinking or put your hand in front of an infrared camera and within a minute I can make it to 1012 degrees going up just your hand yeah just my hand and are you thinking that like are you yeah just do it right and and so there I was in the brain scan and I was gonna give it my shot and what I did because there's a terrible noise going on they asked me to meditate and brain scan they said right machine meditate on that no I just began to just to have a reference point of reference of my own brain being there how what happened is I felt no cold it became warm I could even wander off with my thoughts to the place and feel the warmth and yeah it is not difficult to learn to command the body top-down by your thoughts and be the master over your own physiology and with that bringing happiness strength and health or anything that is out of balance back into balance that's the power of our mind and I learned that in nature and I say you don't need to climb Mount Everest or go into ice water all those things they are just a mirror that works when you go into regular practice there in the about the power of the mind the neurological pathways we invest in unhappiness we invest in the wrong things we don't want to be not happy but we're not not being happy as a result of the oxidative stress within us going through the blood-brain barrier and and taken away the balance between the serotonin dopamine and become depressed we don't know how to deal with that but now we found top down we are to commend us over our hormonal system when anything is out of balance and once again you don't need to go into the extremes I did that I was the pioneer I was the Scout and I say the Atome is over there that's the way to tackle it and here we make it simple on paper this is the map by hacking map and this is what you got to do instead of go frontal into those enemy lines and losing a whole lot of your life and time and and miserable misery going into misery no there's this space and if you just do that you become in control of yourself and can it be so easy it is simplified its dare and if you invest into happiness strength in health you a hard to Commander data stop number one change your paradigm what's what's interesting is that because you have done all of these crazy things swimming 66 meters under the ice cap and climbing Everest and the intention behind all of those is to draw awareness to the power of the human mind to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles but the crazier the feet the more easy it becomes for people to just say you're a crazy outlier that this is this time still a crazy outlined by the way but what I love about you is is every time that argument comes up you deflect it and say no this is like I do this to show what's possible I can teach this this is reckless replicable and put me in the MRI let's do all these studies like you become this guinea pig I mean we've only talked about two of the many many studies that you've done oh that time again are showing things that previously we thought to be impossible and you're getting what's what's amazing is you've created this groundswell movement I mean I don't know five or six years ago nobody ever heard of you now you're you know you're veering on becoming a household name everybody knows that you are the Iceman Cometh and you're teaching these practices you've created this scalable family business where you're now teaching practitioners to teach you your methods and this is creating this spider web that is you know expanding exponentially with every day and it's really cool to see and you're getting coverage not just in Vice but in medical journals and you know people are paying attention to what you're doing but what I see between the lines is still a reluctance of the traditional medical community to really embrace or pay attention to what you're doing there was a rolling stone article that said something along the lines of life look he's done all this stuff and everyone's verifying it and he's done he studies and still he's kind of being ignored yes right so exactly walk me through that yes ignorance ignorance is cold and that's the basic of fear-based thinking genetically already for hundreds and possibly thousands of years it's the power system the power system is still on people just want more and more couple of people and they never are satisfied it's a it's a it's a mind so much in control over others but not over themselves and so if they you know people in power are not necessarily more happy than somebody else it's just a they they are they crazy outliers not me I just want to be in nature I want to be with my mother or father with my kids and all together happy strong and healthy I think and I'm a crazy outlier like I'm crazy about my wife and my life and a with that comes the whole family and I'm crazy about a [ __ ] bloody crazy now and it will stay being crazy with that those are the core values of happiness strengthen how and they are present so I think that's just and what I see in the world a man anybody can see it doesn't make sense but it's there it's the power system it's the mainframe it's the the the matrix and I think we are let them now but we are becoming bigger and bigger we are beginning to settle into the hope and trust and confidence of the people that we actually are innately built to be happy strong and healthy non conditionally so that's why I go through these signs and let us face hey you want a battle inflammation and chronic pain millions hundreds and millions are suffering from autoimmune diseases and and pain chronic pain and chronic diseases and we found an answer easy answer to tackle that considerably for everybody so you better think twice before you say no to this then another thing as the mental disorders and the feeling that the connection with your own hormonal system and get high on your own supply looks like hey this guy's therapy from Amsterdam no I go through neuroscience and show for the first time in medical history that we have an innate capacity to get neurological control over our hormonal system and become happy strong and healthy it's there so mental disorders good by inflammation causing diseases goodbye by the way killer number one cardiovascular related diseases a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away how simple is it contraction and dilatation of veins three times the world is within us and you train it if you just step a little bit out of your comfort zone behavior and take the cold shower after the hot one then you tackle this cereal the cardiovascular related disease makes more casualties than any war nobody is saying too much about it it's a silent serial killer and we you are able to tackle it through culture and you all know a neurology I'm gonna take the cold shower on regular basis and train vascular fitness my vascular system and thus it becomes flexible and not full of as clear roses calcification which is stopping the blood flow of going through and you get a lot more energy just take a cold shower physiologically what is going on it's it's anti-inflammatory its alkalizing your blood what else is happening it's absolutely yeah we did the studies it's alkalizing the blood we suffer from low si how do you call it a Cepheid ation as a clarification yes acidification acidification we suffer from that that's where chronic chronic acidosis as he does is that gets into the lymphatic system and in due time it comes back in this into the system creating all these defects called autoimmune diseases those are not my words biochemical professors they say and they said we have to congratulate our colleagues in the university of naming to have found her here what of named Asian nation is a place is a city okay is a city in the Netherlands and there we found by putting getting the under toxin inside we found a way to battle with the cause of autoimmune diseases which is inflammation Kalama Tory Marcus cytokines and we bring them down within a quarter of an hour and a part of that is alkalizing the blood but not only in the blood it also in the lymphatic system and the lymphatic system has a storage capacity the garbage but you need to ante it and if you don't then a desert it comes back into the system after years and years and nobody knows how it really works and now we found that we are able to tap into the lymphatic system and cleanse the blood the the liquids which of this is the breath work versus the cold exposure it is is it the combination of these two together like how does that yes so the ice is is ice is nice and worse if you learn how to deal with that gradual colder exposure but a cold shower does the trick culture is really a cat or does it have to be the way a cold shower is happening right over here that's cold enough the thermogenesis the vascular fitness this stimulation begins and you will get more energy because we got millions of primitive muscles within the vascular system and they all become strong so they help the blood flow and the stress of too much heartbeat it goes down like 20 minutes 24 hours a day that means a lot of stress caused by too high a heart rate is is gonna be down hey solution and how simple just take the cold shower they do not even think about it just do it you get a lot more energy because all these little muscles begin to help the blood flow nutrients the minerals the oxygen it brings it all to the cells and in the cells we got the mitochondria they get the right stuff in the right speed and you get a lot of energy inside and heart rate goes 2025 beats a minute 24 hours a day down and and there is their piece and while you are in action you become so much more in command of this chemistry is when the Hat suddenly the neurotransmitters of our thoughts are able to command what is going on inside that is number eight network number eight the interception which I showed that worth thinking cold water comes skin temperature I don't want it to go down it didn't go down like two times thirty five minutes cold warm cold or I just stayed over there and completely flat neutral yes even a one degree up so that is how we have an ability to activate our body to be protected skin temperature or core temperature a skin temperature both cool temperatures skin temperature and the DNA now this what they saw with in San Francisco they say what this is is like hormetic stress it's a positive stress that stimulates it's not undergoing stress it's you go to de-stress you are the one to activate that stress you got it in control and with that you activate a body to go to his utmost functionality and there you get a grip on and with that comes a innate capacity to become happy strong and healthy and our balance what is out of out of balance and it's only if you could design like what do we still need to study and understand like if you could design the ultimate study to better understand the phenomenon that you're speaking about what would that look like like what do we need to do next to really dive deeper into what exactly is going on I always say yeah the origin of what I set out for my drive is because of this soul this in explain all everybody is talking about the soul nobody knows what it got damn it what it is and I say this time we're gonna bring this soul where it belongs with all the core values it belongs to and which is happiness strength and health it's pure goodness it's inside of us it's powerful it's beautiful it's called love and this love for life and everybody needs to come back and because nobody was listening everybody making war God is loving it and they make war between each other and they kill each other and this and that you were wrong we are right at hey no no no no the real experience of spirituality is my aim I call its the signs of the soul but before that happens we need to show that we are able to tackle seemingly unsolvable matters like depression bipolar inflammation chronic pain anxiety fear PTSD trauma dose the real terrorists let's tackle that first and then get into the the right condition of the DNA the deepest control of the deepest of the brain and the deepest of the physiology up till the lymphatic when everything is being able willfully to be reached and influenced in nothing remains the soul is there and it can be revealed it can reveal itself to you yes people are scared of love though yes I love the greatest power of the universe yeah yeah yeah you want to be able to with a thousand push-ups an enormous Schwarzenegger kind of muscles and and and know a whole lot and all that it's it's quite a fear-based love the family going back there and recognizing that the beauty is all there and embrace it and being able to be proud like a Maasai warrior with with the Lions over there and and little lambs over here and in between like consciousness that consciousness of course she should be feared because it is the greatest power of the universe but it's inside it's tangible we make it accessible and clear and effective in the last two years since since you were here I'm sure you've worked with hundreds if not thousands of people and now you have all these instructors out there conducting workshops and spreading this message and work with people what are some of the case studies like transformations that people have undergone Wow yeah you've worked with yes we got so many thousands of people let me explain any people are out there doing this right now I think Millions I think millions and they it's on but I think it's still the whole world should know that there is a non-dogmatic choice to be happy strong and healthy evidence-based that is what I want there is no Dogma around this it's there I just say look look at this you don't have to choose your happiness strength to help but the ability to become that is there so we got about 40,000 and more testimonials of people who are a completely healed of their disease a variety of diseases is as much as diseases exist on this planet so it gives absolutely cause to study and more because I think this natural P we found is unlimited it's only inaugurating a new dimension through a different paradigm into the power of our mind within our control their soul itself is knocking at our door so I was training the Navy SEALs in a Pearl Harbor I went and drove up there and there was the barn I was thinking what I'm gonna teach these guys their day - it was because I always say things and they're then just before the bar I got a mail of a GP a practitioner a woman a doctor giving me this mail and I read it out loud or not out there just for myself hello I'm Jan last year I jumped from a third-story down course I had it with the pain I woke up in the hospital my brother told me about you and what you do about he autonomous this and this and that and now I just wake up every day I'm happy and strong I'm confident yeah I love you GP Jan so and so then I went to the Navy SEALs and I said that's win this [ __ ] war this war on anxiety and bring real peace there in because this is the war really going on in all the world and the Navy SEALs sleep deprivation and a lot of stress a lot is they're gonna you know doing the breathing day and convincing them that they are in command not the general of their own that they are there and you have to sometimes just shut shut shut up and get in become the commander consciously and start with your own beautiful mind and the power of your mind and to yeah give some water to you God and if flowers will come well I'm sure they loved it because they're already I mean that's a population if they did they did very familiar with discipline about always trying to you know sort of control their reactions and you know they have to be dialed in on such a higher level than the average human being they I would think that this is like this is like the Advanced Placement course in in how to you know comport themselves under high stress situations to function at their peak yes and for that the the cold is a great mirror because they're cold and especially ice cold water is really stressful on their cells biology and our mind absolutely so the the cult we use as a mirror to develop more Skills of the mind and refine them and develop a more and the tune them better and and that's it and then the coldest of no use anymore but a cold shower where a day keeps the doctor wait keeps on going it's nice you it's you don't have to take care of your body if you just go into the culture because it will take care of your body yeah have you or any of these studies looked at the impact of these techniques on addiction yes there are a lot a lot of people who fall in an abbess when they are no longer as a addicted because there's the substance is gone and the reactions and actions caused by the substance they are not being triggered so the breathing helps greatly to fill up that gap so yes and Bree like if you had if somebody had to choose between the breath work or the cold or you probably don't even want to make that decision oh I do I do I say the breathing the way I learned about the breathing is because of the cold because what do you do when you go into gold that's what you do you learn to go more into profound breathing because then you are able to change the chemistry which is opposing the impact coming in for that you need to change the chemistry is done by deep breathing because we wear all the clothes that's why we become shallow in our breathing so I say to people mind about this that you are building up a deficit of the right chemistry in your body just deep breathing and conscious breathing during the day sometimes just it's all for free it's out there and say you just do consciously consciously means the neurology it goes paired with the chemistry you'll learn to really tune in with the right chemistry in your body making it alkaline to the level of the lymphatic system the garbage is getting out and cleansing it's all that and when you simple so walk me through like it in your life you're traveling all the time do you set aside times during the day to do a diligent practice or is this something that you're just persistently doing throughout the day like constantly reminding yourself and bringing your awareness back to the breath automatically in this conversation sometimes just take a deep breath in and and that's it only when you let me talk yes do that yes right and you know yeah cold showers love to take them and I'm not exaggerating I'm not a you know going into more more more Puritan kind of training yogic training and abstinence no I take it all I like my beer and afternoon yeah to drink a nice little beer hey I like it I like it I'm not a as quitaque yogi or Adi I can be yes kili kili but that's enough I don't need to be a Jedi enjoy life no you do I don't like it okay in the world you're a man of it you're not you're not anesthetic you're not gonna be living in the caves in the Himalayas but when you hear those stories of those Yogi's who meditate for months on end or become breatharians are those apocryphal do you believe in that I trained a breatharian spotter example yeah they have sometimes a loss of energy and in the cult you need energy so I trained them in the cold and through the breath work and and the neurology of their brain which is also conditioned within their confines they are able to gain a whole lot more power over themselves over the energetic metabolic processes in the on cell level and all that yes they feel better afternoons so Yogi's Yogi's should get out of their caves and begin to teach what they have found instead of being their egoistic little shitty selves I'm so beautiful I'm not only unnamed under Tony India right now is calling for me also so it's like the the wise people do not longer only come from the from the east it's now here right here I look at one and we we bring consciousness and we bring love and understanding to the people that makes us man and that makes us universal that makes us eternal one of the things I love about your your story is that it's a very human story it's almost this Joseph Campbell Warriors path that you've been on that was really birthed out of out of grief and pain with the passing of your wife oh yes that kind of led you into this world of self-discovery and there's a beautiful full circle aspect to this because you're teaching people how to overcome their depression and their class and their pain and their suicidal ideation because this is not lost which you normally would suicide now no longer because of this and exactly what you point out is the full circle I began in grief my wife jumped from an eight-story down I was left alone with four kids no money there are was I had to survive my kids made me survive nature healed me and then I began to see what was the effective mode of at all and I was able to transmit this to other people and then I began and I had the chance to show it within scientific laboratory settings experiments research I fully was on and now we the full circle is if I would have known what I know now I would have saved be able to save my own wife so for those who are in these situations where they are in full despair of having their beloved in depression bipolar in incomplete out of control brain we got now and endorsed by science a way to tap into the brain and make the chains you love you beloved's do not only love bring non sentimental functionality effectivity to work them and get it done it's beautiful man what do you think people most misunderstand about you yeah I look like a crazy [ __ ] but I am a crazy [ __ ] the thing is I'm gonna also change the world and that is normally a he is a crazy [ __ ] yes I am but I'm changing the world so do understand that all right so we got to wrap this up here in a minute but I want to I want I want to know what you mean when you say nature can be merciless but righteous which is something you say often mmm-hmm yeah if you go if you find yourself on a climbing without gear there is no mercy there you have to think your Gramps away otherwise you die you you become blocked or when you are under the eyes you gotta find a way out of there and not go into panic and paranoia because it kills you it gets you out of control or a there on Mount Everest in in a wideout you gotta find a way otherwise you freeze to death and many other situations have lots to me yeah nature is merciless but at that moment you always have a a gap wherein you can find a way out trust deeply trust and be confident that you don't need fear because you have the control over your mind even in the in the in the greatest of despair and a darkest of your moments to get out because the light is the love and the love is the universe and we got him the mind truly is the final frontier yes yes and you are you are an astronaut into the deep recesses of this uncharted geography of consciousness and the brain and I commend you for that man this is this is uh this is worthy work for your life and you're doing much good for Humanity and it's greatly appreciated what's cool is that it's really been done outside of any mainstream media I mean you had you did the vice documentary and you get covered in various places but it's YouTube and podcasts and and really this new form of media that is really helping to spread your word and I think it speaks to the power of how of how storytelling has shifted and the way that we receive it as a culture and I wish you well thank you want to after this will you go out and teach me like a quick breath practice yes we can share with people nice so for people that are listening to this we'll put that up on YouTube and and everybody can get it get a little taste of whim and the work that he does I know you guys are on tour right now and you're teaching workshops do you want to let people know where they can find out about that and come and see you and and take one of these workshops and yes blow there mom thank you thank you for the space it's the wim hof that's my name method wasn't me who made that up it was somebody else but nice wim HOF method dot-com we will be in New York Miami next month and San Francisco Los Angeles there right now we go to Vancouver and just be there because when I talk to a crowd to people then it's always new I just relate to what I feel I trust my feeling and to come up with the with the right answers with the right understanding clarity and that's because we are the tribe we are like a driver so we have to come up with the existence and blockages of energy at that moment and for that a live experience is a live experience that is nice that's good know one thing we found the gateway into the deepest of the brain and the power of the mind is the future and we are in control of that and with that comes the absolute guarantee of happiness strength and health I would not want anything more love for you and for me and for everybody my friend yes uh cool you should be doing how come you don't have like a TV show are you doing a documentary like would you have any of that kind of thing in the works yeah yes uh maybe my daughter know said that yeah what do you say yeah I do documentaries coming no TV show all right so we have would be great TV show yeah why don't we Charlotte you want to do that oh yeah TV show with you yeah all right become rich man and play your role there you go all right Deku come back and talk to me again much love brother yeah Matisse Glantz consciousness yes all good it's all there yep all right buddy [Music] you

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Length: 90min 22sec (5422 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 25 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/kelhamisland]

A great new video interview. Some interesting stuff that I don't recall being discussed before. Also interesting to see how Wim's English has improved over the years, he's much more eloquent and better able to express his views nowadays I feel.

[u/BackwardBarkingDog]

There was a second part where Wim talks Rich through one breathing session. It is nothing new but Wim's style of speaking has refined since the Vice Media piece, as noted by u/kelhamisland.

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Edit: grammar & context