The Wim Hof Method

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

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

Because the cold is merciless but righteous, we can learn from it. And what it shows us is that we have an innate capacity to deal with stress.

Don’t seek to change others; change yourself. Just mind your own mind and let others mind theirs.

Society on the whole is very much fixated on the achievement of tangible results and becoming something definable to others.

Stress comes in many forms, but in the end, you experience it on a biological, cellular level. You can learn to control it by going gradually into the cold and following your feelings.

those who are truly in control are the most free.

Cold is a stressor, so if you are able to get into the cold and control your body’s response to it, you will be able to control stress.

Do as follows: 1Sit down. 2Inhale slowly and deeply five or six times, letting your breath go naturally each time. 3Inhale fully. 4Relax to exhale. 5Inhale fully. 6Hold your breath, for no more than five seconds. 7Tense your upper-back muscles and chest while you hold your breath — but don’t tense the head. Keep your jaw relaxed. 8Let go.