
The Wim Hof Method

BREATHING FOR MOOD REGULATION This exercise uses and trains neurostimulative brain control to help alleviate moodiness or depression. Supplying oxygen to the brain improves a person’s well-being. We have seen in fMRIs that the whole brain dances when subjects do the breathing exercises. You can do this exercise whenever you feel like it, but it can
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WHM PROTOCOL: BASIC BREATHING EXERCISE Before engaging with this breathing technique, remember to be mindful. Listen to your body and learn from the signals your body and mind send you while you are doing the exercises. Use those signals as personal feedback about the effect of the exercises on your body and mind, and adjust them as needed to find
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Don’t seek to change others; change yourself. Just mind your own mind and let others mind theirs.
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STEP 1Sit in a meditation posture, lying down, or whichever way is most comfortable for you, in a quiet and safe environment. Make sure you can expand your lungs freely without feeling any constriction. STEP 2Close your eyes and try to clear your mind. Be conscious about your breath and try to fully connect with it. Take thirty to forty deep breath
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Seekers who are free within become finders. It’s quite impossible to find anything meaningful when you are caught up in the stress of daily life, which can be all-consuming. Once you are able to detach from that stress, a new reality can enter your consciousness.
Elissa Epel PhD • The Wim Hof Method
we have created this modern society in which we have every comfort, yet we are losing our ability to regulate our mood, our emotions.
Elissa Epel PhD • The Wim Hof Method
Ultimately, the goal is to be more of myself.
Elissa Epel PhD • The Wim Hof Method
Society on the whole is very much fixated on the achievement of tangible results and becoming something definable to others.
Elissa Epel PhD • The Wim Hof Method
WHM PROTOCOL: BASIC MINDSET EXERCISE The greatest accomplishment you can achieve is stillness of the mind. It is only when your mind is still that you can go from external to internal programming. In the absence of thoughts, this stillness brings your feelings into alignment with your innermost being, reflecting the true self in a direct mirror. Th
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