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    Quote Posted by meeradas (here)
    Quote Posted by Sammy (here)
    8cvhwquPqJ0
    "You are the one, in command, over yourself. Got that?!"

    https://youtu.be/8cvhwquPqJ0?t=1035

    17:15 enabled me to skip a couple of weeks in the program - had the urge to take a cold shower immediately.
    No problem. How invigorating! Made me laugh (and enjoy it) while under the water...

    It's really easy with Wim "commanding" it to be so; the real task for me is to do it "without Wim", within myself.

    I recommend it for everyone to try it out. It's fun!
    Such as this:

    Father can levitate, Son can walk against walls ... Must be something in the genes!
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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    VERY IMPORTANT: Here is Wim Hof's video on how to do his breathing and cold therapy safely:


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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    In this video Dr Mark Hyman and Dave Asprey talk about cold therapy and Dave explains why it works vis-a-vis mitochondria. Mark refers to the "the Iceman" (i.e., Wim Hof). It starts at about 20:30 into the video but the entire video is very interesting:

    The Little Known Secret to Energy and Longevity -- Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D. EP7

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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    Just uploaded today:

    RMIT University in Australia has conducted a survey study, exploring the motivation and experiences of Wim Hof Method practitioners worldwide. This will offer insight into

    1) the positive impact of practicing the WHM on health & wellbeing and
    2) any potential adverse effects, which in turn improves safety protocols.


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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential



    started today with this breathing technique and have a hard time with holding in the breath as recommended. I have to work on it. Will start taking cold showers today also....we will see....

    Thank you for starting this thread Franny. Great post.

    All spiritual teachers talk also about on how important it is to breath right or to do certain breathing techniques. It is great to have some detailed instructions and guided videos on this.

    Here Wim says it does not matter how to breath...through the nose or through the mouth. (Video 1)

    I did hear something else on this and breath in by my nose imagine pure light goes into my body while breathing in, cleaning the inside of my whole body.

    Then breathing out through the mouth and release all negative energies while doing this. I dont know if this is important, to do it this way. But this is how I did learn and pratice it. Just thought I let you know.
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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    Hang in there, Whisper, you'll get the hang of it very soon. I started by just using the "breathing bubble" video. After about three weeks I am just doing it on my own.

    As it turns out, I was already using the deep breathing technique on my bicycle using intensive interval exercise. Of course, I wasn't holding my breath like in Wim's breathing exercise, which must be done sitting or lying down for safety reasons. Anyone can use deep breathing at any time, however, when walking or exercising. I've been very comfortable walking around in short pants and a Hawaiian shirt (or shirtless) in freezing weather while deep breathing. I try to incorporate the deep breathing in my day to day life now.

    According to the Mayo Clinic the average adult resting heart rate varies from 60 to 100. (Probably because most people don't exercise enough and they eat crappy food.) My resting heart rate is 44. After four rounds of Wim's breathing technique it goes down to 36.
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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    Before there was Wim Hof, there was Maurice Daubard, a Frenchman who spent his teenage years bedridden in a village hospital with tuberculosis, chronic lung inflammation, and other illnesses. By his 20s, the doctors had given up. Daubard decided his only way to stay alive was to heal himself. He read books on yoga and taught himself a breathing technique called Tummo. Within a few months, he'd not only completely restored his health but also gained a superhuman strength.
    On his off hours of working as a hairdresser he’d strip to his underwear and run barefoot through snowy forests. He immersed himself in ice from the neck down and sat there motionless for 55 minutes without suffering hypothermia or frostbite. Later, he ran 150 miles beneath the searing sun of the Sahara desert.
    Daubard is now 90 years old. He still enjoys vibrant health, still practices yoga and breathwork, still leads workshops in the Italian Alps, where students join him in stripping down to underwear and sitting in the snow for an hour, then hike half-naked up mountains, and finish with a dip in an ice-covered alpine lake.
    “The human is not only an organism . . . it is also a mind whose strength used wisely can allow us to repair our body when it wobbles,” said Daubard.
    All this by just learning how to harness the air that moves in and out of the lungs--by just breathing.
    From BREATH (May 26, 2020) https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath

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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    A very similar but somewhat different method is Jinggong (Quiet Sitting). In pages 124-140 of the book Quiet Sitting by Chen Yingning and Jiang Weiqiao, it details how Jiang healed himself of pulmonary tuberculosis by prolonged practice in relative isolation. Jiang Weiqiao was one of several teachers for Wang Juemin, who in turn taught my instructor Michael Lomax.

    While perhaps not as forceful as Wim's method, I have felt heat at the Dan Tien before during practice. One important aspect I have found is not simply putting awareness right at Conception Vessel 6 (Sea of Qi) during meditation, but actually placing awareness behind it within the body so as to engage the energetic up/down movement from the diaphragm and perineum.

    Quiet Sitting: The Daoist Approach for a Healthy Mind and Body

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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    Wim Hof and his breathing exercises are the beginning of a great journey. Documentary is a current understanding of the science on endogenous DMT plus intriguing crossovers to breathwork and the Wim Hof method.



    Costs nothing to try.....


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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    A short section on this long video shows a mountaineer training for an ascent of Mount Everest using Wim Hof's techniques. I found it pretty interesting.

    (And, amazingly, it seems Wim Hof himself made an Everest attempt dressed just in shorts.(!) According to his Wikipedia page: Hof climbed to an altitude of 7,200 meters (23,600 ft) on Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes, but aborted the attempt due to a recurring foot injury.)

    Here's the video section. (No need to watch the whole thing!)

    7:52—9:34. Just over a minute and a half.


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    Default Re: Wim Hof Method [The Iceman]: using breathing techniques to activate your body's true potential

    Regarding breathing, in my youth I ran a lot, even (and, especially in cold weather growing up to 18 years in the mountainous area, apparently, then, the cold regulates my breathing simultaneously with the constant rhythm of movement); but related to breathing, I kept the rhythm of breathing together with the running step, the general enthusiasm was a general relaxation, for me, without a pattern, I breathed "through everything I could", in the absence of a scientific explanation, I enjoyed.

    I could say (even jokingly) that I breathed through my ears or skin (that is, when I ran and felt the pleasure of continuing on the road, my breathing became natural); I was not interested in atmospheric pressure or wind, but I mostly inhaled through my nose and exhaled through my mouth, in exactly the step of running and that gave me even more strength and pleasure to run, I was a kind of "mechanical dynamo" device generating (from my own source) a magical energy, a kind of meditation, especially when apparently, I have the impression that oxygen is no longer important, up to a distant point when I heard myself occasionally breathing.
    I ran long distances every night, and probably because of training, I ran more distance every night.

    It was a kind of "food" full of "spiritual oxygen", a kind of adaptability of "survival on the go" (feeling the enormous effort outside of me) that contributes to the improvement of my general condition and especially a rare energetic exaltation, which now, "to old age" i can no longer reach it. At least not by running.

    But it seems to me that training, tenacity and perseverance, really ensure any performance, especially since in these times we need more than ever to take good care of our bodies.

    And all this to be just human.

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    • Russell Brand & The Power Of Cold Water | The Wim Hof Podcast Trailer:
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