There is so much right about the method that Wim shares and the way he shares it that engages TRUE HEALING. I would not compare those methods with any other system or dogma because comparison misses the value of the methods altogether. Just sit up and do it with the knowledge that going slowly and gradually adapting the basics of these methods is the safest way to use them. You will create your own healing with the highest success I am aware of.
With these techniques Wim connects the emotional content of living with the balance of internal and external movement, a state of really living a full and enjoyable life. This is living a life with the fullness of Love. I see it as stepping out of your shadowself and living with the real person you are. Engaging the wholeness of your being with methods like this removes the layers of illusion that any outside influence has upon our lives.
If you notice where Wim's intention goes, it goes to Us, to We, to everyone. He is not bound by the constraints of the often misunderstood word called ego. He puts his intention into the demands of simply going into the cold where the mind becomes still. In this quiet our intentions control our bodies. The activity of doing such dynamic physical movements in the warmth of the cold requires the focus on only doing the breathing, thus pushing every automatic/autonomic system to respond to our thoughts.
Notably so, these things are the things that animals do all of their lives. Still, it is the odd thing about humans that disconnects them from their humanity when they don't follow their instincts and simply control their minds, their wholeness and the rhythm of their hearts by actively controlling their breathing while in the presence of water.
I have shared some of my own similar habits here on Avalon, not a single one invented by me, except that I, like everyone who does anything like this, naturally invent the variations I create whenever I do them. You will make your own with methods engaging your thoughtful breathing with cold immersion. Your willpower will automatically be engaged and it is then that you begin to control your health.
I do now and have for many years done this same cold water Ishnaan, this Misogi, a real prayer of engaged living with the wholeness of my being. It is, and has been, a powerful method of many cultures from the very beginning of the ancestral time of their awakening as caretakers here. I appreciate that Wim and other like-hearted teachers share these methods, spanning so many cultures for so many eons across the mark of the times that humans have been living here.
I live a balanced life when I express myself in movement. I do it when I sing a song that moves me. I listen to the whisper of the music my breath makes when I dance. I prepare for that connection when I practice these same things in the presence of colder waters.
I break thru to the angels and demons that listen within the airs when I push the painful feelings out and away from my heart. Those archons are a reflection of my experience, another shadow of the self that exists only in the discord where and when Love does not live.
From the times of my earliest memories these things have been my comfort and the brightness of my being, Alive...
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