I once had an anxiety attack early in the morning. It was a very unpleasant feeling. You wake up to a rapidly beating heart and your mind is just full of anxiety and fear and dread. It felt like my mind was trying to split apart. I got up ran to the shower and hit the cold water... instantly helped. This stuff really does help. Keep on rockin everyone.
My 14 yo son started doing your method 2 months ago and i have to say thank you so much! He changed so much, he is more disciplined, never misses one day, much happier, helthier, stronger and confident. This is amazing! Recomand all parents to do this with their teenage sons and daughters 🙏
My seven year old boy and I do it together every night. Extremely good bonding experience. He used to get colds like every other week and hasn't had one for months now. I do not force it on him. He does it on his own free will
This is so wonderful! I love kiddos, I write children's picture books, songs, have nannied. I'm impressed. I would also encourage learning more about eutaptics faster eft. It's a great way to help a young one process. It works differently than this wonderful method does.
Your selfless contribution to health and well-being is a gift beyond measurement that will spread out across time, unfettered. Thank you, sir, for being you.
Day 80 of daily cold showers. I found that after around 2 Minutes, it doesnt even feel cold anymore. It made me more confident and disciplined. I am now taking additional cold showers during the day whenever i feel exhausted or tired. Works better than caffeine! Thank you for the information and motivation! 🙏🏼
@@johan9388 Music helped my Motivation a lot 😄 In the beginning I started with warm water for the first minute and then changed it to cold water (At the first drop of the song actually). I focussed on the music and powerful, controlled breathing for the rest of the Song (Btw i Used Billy Talent - White Sparrows; but most songs work like that 😁) Sometimes i still need to hype myself up with music first (mondays and hungover days for example 😂), but most days i just Place myself Directly under the shower and turn to max cold, just focussing on slow, controlled breathing. I actually learned to love that refreshing kind of pain 😀 I should add that this might be dangerous if your body isnt used to the cold or your struggling with heart disease tho.
@@Cobaltfire360 broo I love Billy Talent! I re discovered them like a month ago when remembering one of their songs. I listened to them alot when I was like 12 - 14. 26 now. The cold showers are going decent. I just take my warm shower and wash myself. Then set a timer for 3 minutes in which I gradually go colder. And then when the timer hits 0 I go all the way cold and time it. Started the first 2 or 3 days with 15 seconds. And today was 30. Liking it alot! Gets easier already. Today the last part of graduallly lowering temperature was kind of more annoying than all the way cold.
@@Cobaltfire360 I have to add I have heart arrhythmias since like a year. Its not that bad. It was acting up the last few weeks but somehow seemed to get less these past 5 days that I have been taking the cold showers. Could be a coincidence tho since they come and go. Before half way January they where almost gone for like a month at least aswell. But as I said I build up quite easily, so I'll be good :)
I remember that back in the day, in the Netherlands, this guy was always considered a bit of a nut job, while anyone with eyes can see it's just sheer passion. Good to see the world has opened up to him and he is getting the recognition he deserves. Goed bezig, Wim!
This ^^ I remember him sitting on Utrecht centraal in a huge ice cube tank 15 years ago I guess?it felt pretty strange at the time yes but so inspiring now!
Helemaal met jou eens. Ik wilde net zoiets gaan schrijven hier en toen zag ik dat jij het al had gezegd. Ik kan mij die begintijd ook nog goed herinneren in Amsterdam. Als ik het goed heb woonde hij met zijn kinderen in de buurt van de Sloterplas. Ik ging daar weleens hardlopen rond de plas. Heel lang geleden, maar een mooie tijd!🙂
Today is exactly 2 years since I started taking cold showers every morning and each time I feel great after that, always step out with a big smile, so thanx a lot, Wim! Also 3 breathing sessions straight after shower charges me up with energy for the whole day.
@@januszchol2267 To me it is the other way around. I always do the breathing before and after I finished my session I wait between 3 - 5 minutes and then I go into the cold.
I don't have a cold pool or anything so I have cold showers everyday for the last 21 days. Every time now I have a shower I put it on the coldest. I can last 5 minutes. It helps, it turns off the anxiety, can't be anxious when your freezing. It gives me peace. Thanks Wim Hof. Your stuff saved me.
I started at the beginning of the COVID 19 disaster. Still going and enjoying the rewards. Thanks Wim. You are a true hero to millions like me. Just want to detail my evening routine for anyone interested in getting the best deep sleep. Step 1. Wim Hof Breathing Technique. Step 2. 30 minutes yoga. Step 3. Cold shower (heart rate lowered). Step 4. 20 mins of Meditation (Sadhguru free guided meditation). Step 5. Blissful deep sleep. Hope this helps anyone with anxiety or over-active mind. All the peace all the love.
Cold showers are also healthy because you're grounding/earthing. The pipes are connected to the earth and so is the water. Using earthing mats or walking bare feet on the earth helps a lot too.
I realized that my anxiety is like cold water (it causes stress on my body) so I started to perceive anxiety as something external to me, and when I feel it I imagine it's just cold water...this helps me to don't identify me with my anxiety which therefore disappears quickly! I can handle it like a cold shower..hope this is helpful for someone else :)
watching it from a neuronal perspective, the chemicals that your body releases from anxiety are exactly the same, as if you take a cold shower. so your method is exatcly the best thing you can do to train ur brain for anxiety attacks. :)
Thank you, wim hof I have struggled with addiction depression anxiety and traumatic events throughout my life. Because of this breathing technique I have learned through your videos, I've had a bright light experience and no longer suffer with life. Much love and respect, my friend. Thanks for helping save my life.
I've been following your method for the past five years. Actually started two months prior the Pandemic. It had worked miracles in my body and mental health. Last January in Montreal at -40 I broke my record. 18 minutes in the cold. I wanted to thank you for changing my life. In my eyes, Wim, you're a modern Jesus. From the bottom of my heart, gracias for changing my life.
I have my 7 year old and 11 year old daughters going into the lake with me this winter. They don't complain about the cold anymore, they have learned to enjoy it.
I started taking cold showers in early January 2022 and that turned into taking them at night before bed paired with 4 rounds of the breathwork and I've gotta say, works like a charm. I used to have to fall asleep listening to something on the computer, now I can jump in the shower and go through my routine spending about 2-3 minutes in the cold which quickly starts to feel euphoric, and since its Summer where I am I end it on cold, then I'll play the guided breathing on the computer, once that's done turn everything off and I'm asleep in about 5-10 minutes. Cheers
I take my cold showers in the am, as it gives me energy for the day. For that reason I avoid them at night before bed as I don't need the energy then. So maybe I'm wrong...how does the nightime cold shower help you to fall asleep faster?
Wim we love you. Such a humble, down-to-earth, authentic man sharing deep knowledge, helping humanity, spreading love. Man you are a prophet of our times.
Cold showers every night, followed by 1-2 rounds of breathing right before bed, changed my life. I was developing a sleeping disorder during grad school due to stress and discovering this method gave me a way to go to sleep on command. It made a huge difference for my mental health. Thanks Wim ❤
I'm on week 6 using the app to scale my cold showers. Up to the 1 min 30 second intervals. After I complete this 2nd 20 Day Challenge I think it's time for my first ice bath!
He answered some of the questions I was asking myself. I acted instictively and it is just the same what he said! Cold showers were a bit too much for me, I am very sensitive to cold. So after few failures, I started again just with breathing and showering my legs with cold water. Great to know I am on the right path! Hope it'll work and I can do cold showers and cold immersions this year!
Thank you for posting!! I am sensitive to cold along as I can remember and after feeling pain in cold water gave up BUT I am not alone! Thank you and Wim of course
@@sanjapolicchambers6659 I am glad my post was helpful to someone :) yes, I feel pain after maybe 30 sec as well. But I also feel very refreshed afterwards. How are you doing with breathing? I really like it, but I feel pain in my chest afterwards, I don't know how to solve it :/
@@sanjapolicchambers6659 EVERYONE is sensitive to the cold. Push through it, stop giving in to the flight. FIGHT and beyond that fight you will frind growth. YOU CAN DO IT
@@coreyellis6788 this is the truth, cold water is very uncomfortable on the body, specifically running down your neck and back, but if you can push through it you will find major benefit
im the same about cold showers, but wim is correct, i started with breathing exercise and did them for about a week or 2 before trying cold shower. i was able to control my breathing and it helped with the cold shower. get your breathing under control first before trying cold showers.
Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM), it’s amazing how quickly and low my blood glucose drops from a cold shower. It also returns to normal quickly.
This is so real. As a child we did this in lake Michigan because we wanted to swim but had never thought what we were really doing. I remember being healed of summer colds after a freezing swim in lake Michigan.
sending you love, respect, and gratitude that I found your channel… appreciate all of your videos, cold showers/breathing is working, but you already know that… you are an angel sent to this planet
I found that being in touch with my body and listening ,not thinking opened up a whole new Energy and control without huge effort. Learning to FEEL and be in a natural co-existence with your own body, acknowledge it is key to a true balance in life.
I’m going on 3 months of daily cold showers. First thing in the morning at 4:30. The first couple weeks weren’t the most pleasant, but the feeling afterwards was worth it. Now I crave the feeling and can’t imagine not doing it everyday the rest of my life!
Wim you are one of the greatest contributors to life science. Nobel price should be delivered any day now. I cold shower and do the method ever so often when down. Immune booster and mood improver. You are so great to the world. Keep it up!!!!!!!!
30 Days I Have Been Taking 4 Minute Ice Baths & Life Has Completely Changed! No Pain (And I Have A Broken Femur & All Bad Discs In My Lower Back) Also My Testosterone Has Sky Rocketed 🚀 Plus Many More Positive Things Have Happened. I Could Go On.... & On.... But I Won't 🤣 Thanks For Listening 💯
have not missed one cold shower in 2 years. am having a flu like thing at the mo and i have been breathing my head off to fight off the cold. the cold shower like 5 or 6 times with hot in between really helps with aches. got your book, thanks Wim😃
cold showers helped me overcome getting flu's and cold's. i used to get them a lot during the winter but once i started taking cold showers i stopped getting ill. i havent had a cold for years and i owe wim a thank you❤. they also help to wake u up and u feel invigorated and ready to face the world💪
I started cold showers many years ago, and never went back to hot showers, unless I was sick. Unfortunately, even if I do like the cold shower effect, it doesn’t prevented me to catch Covid or flu. Even though it can improve your immune system, there is no miracle.
I have an thyroid disease which fluctuate between overactive and underactive thyroid. Lately, I've been experiencing trouble sleeping due to my body overheating. Getting up and taking a cold shower helps so much!
All I can say is Thank you Mr. Hof. I have been doing your breathing exercise for three days, and I have already retained a peacefulness and calming of my mind and soul that is just simply amazing. I am forever great full. I will be adding a cold plunge to my morning.
A cold shower raises adrenaline yet lowers cortisol? Cortisol is only released in direct response to elevated adrenaline (epinephrine and norepinephrine). Mechanistically, a cold shower (or cold plunge) in the morning makes most sense because that is when adrenaline and cortisol levels normally peak in a healthy circadian pattern. Adrenaline and cortisol should be at their lowest levels at night for proper sleep.
It’s helping so much. I started the breathing exercise in the morning again after 1 year of not doing it. What a difference to start the day fully charged with calm but strong energy. Thank you Wim! Also: this is a great QAA Video
Allein die Hintergrundmusik macht mich schon fröhlich. Danke für die tollen Fragen der Fragensteller und natürlich auch für die ehrlichen Antworten von Wim Hof.
I like my hot showers to much but when ive trained a little to hard (combat sports) and I can feel my muscles are gonna be sore tomorrow I take a cold shower and it helps over 90% of the time. Even just partially, when ive stretched a muscle in my arm and I keep this arm under the cold shower for a minute or 2, the next day im not feeling any pain. Its truly amazing.
Dear Wim Hof, I'm one of your fun. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing WHM, I have several questions: 1. Is there a limit or max times for breathing exercise per day? can we over do? 2. Can I take cold shower or ice bath during prolong fasting (for example: 3 days water fasting)? 3. What will happen if I expose my body to cold temperature for the rest of the day, like wearing short in cold weather, even if I take cold shower everyday? Will body need more energy to maintain the temperature, will I need to eat more to have the energy? Because I get hungry more than before after I expose my body to cold?
I did my first ice bath two days ago on 9/25/23. I have known about wim Hof and his method since 2021 and it took me 2 effin years!! but I finally did the ice bath. Finally I was able to look at myself in the mirror and say “2 minutes of pain will not kill you - we’re doing it”. I stayed in for 4 minutes. I am still smiling about it 😂 to anyone struggling to get off the fence, about 40s in your body adjusts. Then I found myself trying to sink into the water as much as possible because it was my exposed skin that felt more cold than the rest of my body. Also you could try gradually adjusting the temperature from 15 to 12 to 10. Good luck everyone- you can do it too!!
February 17, my first day of work with the Wim Hof method. Thanks for being so much more than anything Expected or before. I'm so grateful for today and your love for bettering yourself.
Have been having cold showers since 1995 when backpacked thru Holland and Europe it was wonderful. And cold Ocean dips since young. Amazing so glad you are sharing this Wim 😊
Firstly I would like to say Thank you Wim! I am really enjoying learning from you, I have began breathing with you and ending my morning shower on cold for 15 secs now. I have cancer on my lungs therefore trying to heal naturally . I would appreciate any knowledge and other helpful advice? You are a fantastic motivator!
Youve changed my life totally, without your breathing method i wouldnt be able to control my life and follow my thoughts, thank you somuch for being with us. Love you grandpa :D
already 4 years now I take a cold shower for some minutes just before going to bed. When I wake up in the morning I go directly in my little swimmingpool, every day of the year. In winter the water temperature can drop till 1°C. Just a couple of minutes is enough and since, I have much more energy and never ill. It's a lifechanger! 🥶🐻❄
2:30 maybe showers yes but more than one ice bath a day ? in the beginning i got sick very often due to ice bathing daily i think. too frequent maybe the body needs rest
Thanks for another great lesson Wim! The initial effect of cold water is to cause blood vessels to constrict, resulting in a slow-down of blood-flow, thus, a depression of the vital processes. However, soon after the application of cold, the body reacts by strongly dilating the blood vessels, which powerfully increases blood-flow to, and stimulation of, bodily tissues.
Cold showers are also healthy because you're grounding/earthing. The pipes are connected to the earth and so is the water. Using earthing mats or walking bare feet on the earth helps a lot too.
Do you recommend that everyone should put the cold on the head first? I was studying Ayurvedic medicine while living in India and the thinking is that if you immerse the body in frigid water the body heat will go to the brain and that is detrimental to health. I hope you see this I would love to know your thinking on this. Thank you Wim, you are a true inspiration ❤️
You are a beautiful man, Wim…a shining heart of LOVE. Thank so much for bearing the riddle of others, nurturing yourself and the method, only to share this profound and precious practice. Neither I or my close ones ever imagined that I would lose the aversion to cold and embrace it with open arms. Wim, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! 🖖🏾🕉💖🕊🙏🏽
What works works. Much wisdom in listening to your inner voice and feeling, and the pragmatic power of practice / adaptation (hormesis). I crawled over the icy terrace just before dawn last morning. Wonderful sensation and clarity of perception.
Bedankt Wim! I will forever be grateful for you and how you have changed my life for the better! I won't put on social media what you've helped me overcome, suffice it to say I'm free!!!
Wim says a cold shower 'resets' the body. It really does. I've been having cold showers for just over a year now. (when I get up in the morning for 2 - 3 minutes). I can't believe how much more alive and how much more energy I seem to have, immediately afterwards and for the rest of the day. I'm going to embark on his beginner's breathing way next. Fascinating.
I try to take my cold showers in the morning but if I can't I take them at night. I take them every day and it has helped my all around health. I am so glad I found you. I have been taking cold showers off and on for over three years now. I am on Day 343 of taking my cold showers today. Staying consistent is the key. Tks bro 👊 🤘
Glad true heroes still exist ("I've been ridiculed so much" but he keeps going, regardless) true spirit. Thank heavens for people like Wim, a normal guy
Dear Jim thanks for introducing or inventing such a power method for healing, hats off to you. I need to ask how can we avoid getting cold symptoms, when start taking cold shower as most of us can catch cold. Kindly put some light on this matter. Thanking in anticipation.
Thank you Wim! You are just so brilliant. I do the breathing technique every morning and just listening to your voice, is already so comforting! I have a question though.
I'm starting with your mini three free courses. I only have two fears. I can be inconsistent and I have under control asthma, so I think this creates a fear on the hold breath and no matter how oxygenated I get I cannot hold on to the no breathing for even a minute. In part I know is my stupid head mixing with anxiety telling I can't. So the question to you is: can people with asthma do the cold shower thing? And how should I go about acclimating to it? Thank Wim. I adore you and some day will have the money to join you personally. Because your energy in person has to be off the charts. And I love that. I don't know if this is how you ask questions here, but is the only social media thing I care to know how to use. 🙏
I would to be able to do but I have raynauds disease poor circulation to fingers and toes. They turn blue with the cold . I also have a autoimmune disorder called scleroderma which is so painful tooo.
@01:00 “i have poor circulation in my hands and feet, can only still practice the method” Thank you for this question!! And thank you Wim for your answer 🪣 💧 🙌 👣
Hi Wim, I've read your WHM book last week, it was so entertaining:) Practice cold water right after hot shower for several days and totaly felt for this kind of hardening! Thanks from Czechia, homeland of another significant yogi JUDr. Eduard Tomáš
Hi Win, you are amazing! I have a question and a comment. I am 60 years old and have been HIV positive for over 20 years. I have never had any complications with my condition, I take my pills every day and hardly ever get sick, in fact I have a cold maybe 4 times in the last 15 years. I have tried to start your breathing method on two different occasions and have to stop because I get sick. This week I started practicing and I have to go to the doctor for a sore throat. I am very sensitive to cold, in fact, I do not drink cold water... I have also suffered from sinusitis, so before taking a shower with cold water, I have tried to do breathing exercises. failing both times in less than a week. Any recommendations that can help me start successfully in this method. I appreciate your comments.
hey WIM , First I want thank you all you do. I ride bicycle 40 kms a day Monday to Friday so about 200kms a week. I also weight train 4 to 6 times a week. I know I know whats the question. which is better ice bath before or after weight training. I cold shower every morning but ice bath once or twice a week usually around weight training
I once had an anxiety attack early in the morning. It was a very unpleasant feeling. You wake up to a rapidly beating heart and your mind is just full of anxiety and fear and dread. It felt like my mind was trying to split apart. I got up ran to the shower and hit the cold water... instantly helped. This stuff really does help. Keep on rockin everyone.
Sounds like a spiritual attack. Pray to Jesus Christ for help next time. 🙏
@@whitemagiktigeryeah because that will help…😂
@@whitemagiktiger you must still take action for yourself and pull yourself out of situations.
@@whitemagiktiger Sorry, that type of praying doesn’t work for me.
@@SquidgyPickle helped me.
My 14 yo son started doing your method 2 months ago and i have to say thank you so much! He changed so much, he is more disciplined, never misses one day, much happier, helthier, stronger and confident. This is amazing! Recomand all parents to do this with their teenage sons and daughters 🙏
How did you get him to try it? My daughter wouldn’t dare jump in the cold shower 😂
My seven year old boy and I do it together every night.
Extremely good bonding experience.
He used to get colds like every other week and hasn't had one for months now. I do not force it on him. He does it on his own free will
WoW good for a teenager of 14 having an open mind,he will discipline and learn that he’s able to do rough stuff.
This is so wonderful! I love kiddos, I write children's picture books, songs, have nannied. I'm impressed. I would also encourage learning more about eutaptics faster eft. It's a great way to help a young one process. It works differently than this wonderful method does.
@@paulnovak833 you shower with your son?
This man changed my life!!! I’m healthier than ever and I’ve only been practicing for one year. Life is good!😊
Your selfless contribution to health and well-being is a gift beyond measurement that will spread out across time, unfettered.
Thank you, sir, for being you.
Day 80 of daily cold showers. I found that after around 2 Minutes, it doesnt even feel cold anymore. It made me more confident and disciplined. I am now taking additional cold showers during the day whenever i feel exhausted or tired. Works better than caffeine!
Thank you for the information and motivation! 🙏🏼
good info! thank you
Do you do all the way cold? Did it this morning, just the cold tab and it even started hurting 😂 and that was just for like 20 seconds
@@johan9388 Music helped my Motivation a lot 😄 In the beginning I started with warm water for the first minute and then changed it to cold water (At the first drop of the song actually). I focussed on the music and powerful, controlled breathing for the rest of the Song (Btw i Used Billy Talent - White Sparrows; but most songs work like that 😁)
Sometimes i still need to hype myself up with music first (mondays and hungover days for example 😂), but most days i just Place myself Directly under the shower and turn to max cold, just focussing on slow, controlled breathing. I actually learned to love that refreshing kind of pain 😀 I should add that this might be dangerous if your body isnt used to the cold or your struggling with heart disease tho.
@@Cobaltfire360 broo I love Billy Talent! I re discovered them like a month ago when remembering one of their songs. I listened to them alot when I was like 12 - 14. 26 now. The cold showers are going decent. I just take my warm shower and wash myself. Then set a timer for 3 minutes in which I gradually go colder. And then when the timer hits 0 I go all the way cold and time it. Started the first 2 or 3 days with 15 seconds. And today was 30. Liking it alot! Gets easier already. Today the last part of graduallly lowering temperature was kind of more annoying than all the way cold.
@@Cobaltfire360 I have to add I have heart arrhythmias since like a year. Its not that bad. It was acting up the last few weeks but somehow seemed to get less these past 5 days that I have been taking the cold showers. Could be a coincidence tho since they come and go. Before half way January they where almost gone for like a month at least aswell. But as I said I build up quite easily, so I'll be good :)
What a character this man is. Thankyou Wim
I tear up some times looking at wim hof he is so humble
I do cold showers every morning at 4.30 and after that there is nothing the day can throw at me that I can't handle 💪🏻
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@@bkorodi1797 2012 speak
for how long are you in the cold shower?
@@eurob12 3 minutes full cold at the end of a warm shower 🔥
@@Sebastian-fo4ud Same 💪🏻
I remember that back in the day, in the Netherlands, this guy was always considered a bit of a nut job, while anyone with eyes can see it's just sheer passion. Good to see the world has opened up to him and he is getting the recognition he deserves. Goed bezig, Wim!
dude you are alive ? and you are from the Netherlands :D:D:D
@@tsetsoangelov6455 why
more like dispassion since he is willing to cope with the cold in vulnerable states. Most can't even face that suffering.
This ^^ I remember him sitting on Utrecht centraal in a huge ice cube tank 15 years ago I guess?it felt pretty strange at the time yes but so inspiring now!
Helemaal met jou eens. Ik wilde net zoiets gaan schrijven hier en toen zag ik dat jij het al had gezegd. Ik kan mij die begintijd ook nog goed herinneren in Amsterdam. Als ik het goed heb woonde hij met zijn kinderen in de buurt van de Sloterplas. Ik ging daar weleens hardlopen rond de plas. Heel lang geleden, maar een mooie tijd!🙂
Today is exactly 2 years since I started taking cold showers every morning and each time I feel great after that, always step out with a big smile, so thanx a lot, Wim! Also 3 breathing sessions straight after shower charges me up with energy for the whole day.
So doing breathing exercises works better after the cold shower ?
@@januszchol2267 To me it is the other way around. I always do the breathing before and after I finished my session I wait between 3 - 5 minutes and then I go into the cold.
@@Fynnegan91 makes sense, since the breathing exercise makes you warmer
@@januszchol2267what wim hof does is 1-breathing 2-sports 3-cold shower 4-more sports, respectively
@@gokmensimsek9379 thanks 👍
I don't have a cold pool or anything so I have cold showers everyday for the last 21 days. Every time now I have a shower I put it on the coldest. I can last 5 minutes. It helps, it turns off the anxiety, can't be anxious when your freezing. It gives me peace. Thanks Wim Hof. Your stuff saved me.
What’s the temperature of your area?
@@jezze46 I’m in the uk, so doesn’t get very hot or cold. Between 0 when it’s cold and like 20 in the summer
Update still having cold showers still good :)
@@K1Kut4TV i turn my boiler off to get cold in uk and is cold enough 🥶
Do you wash with warm water first?
4:21 I'm 14 years old and I do your method. I love it!!!😀 It really helps me with everything🙂. Thank you.😊
Wim hof is such a likeable person. I love his soothing way of speaking.
I started at the beginning of the COVID 19 disaster. Still going and enjoying the rewards. Thanks Wim. You are a true hero to millions like me.
Just want to detail my evening routine for anyone interested in getting the best deep sleep. Step 1. Wim Hof Breathing Technique. Step 2. 30 minutes yoga. Step 3. Cold shower (heart rate lowered). Step 4. 20 mins of Meditation (Sadhguru free guided meditation). Step 5. Blissful deep sleep.
Hope this helps anyone with anxiety or over-active mind. All the peace all the love.
Thanks for that do you do a morning cold shower too?
Cold showers are also healthy because you're grounding/earthing. The pipes are connected to the earth and so is the water. Using earthing mats or walking bare feet on the earth helps a lot too.
I realized that my anxiety is like cold water (it causes stress on my body) so I started to perceive anxiety as something external to me, and when I feel it I imagine it's just cold water...this helps me to don't identify me with my anxiety which therefore disappears quickly! I can handle it like a cold shower..hope this is helpful for someone else :)
Disassociating from one's feelings is a great way to manage emotions!
watching it from a neuronal perspective, the chemicals that your body releases from anxiety are exactly the same, as if you take a cold shower. so your method is exatcly the best thing you can do to train ur brain for anxiety attacks. :)
Thank you, your comment was a light bulb moment
@@Bob-mx4ygabsolute plot twist🎉🎉🎉
@@innocentirabor6197 😂👌
Thank you, wim hof I have struggled with addiction depression anxiety and traumatic events throughout my life. Because of this breathing technique I have learned through your videos, I've had a bright light experience and no longer suffer with life. Much love and respect, my friend. Thanks for helping save my life.
I was about to ask if it helps with depression. Thank you! I will try this now 🙏
Wim is a grandad I always dreamed to have! So wise, so energetic, so bright! What a wonderful man!
Used to struggle with mental health and I struggled building a routine cold showers helped me focus and build a routine back I can’t thank you enough
I've been following your method for the past five years. Actually started two months prior the Pandemic. It had worked miracles in my body and mental health. Last January in Montreal at -40 I broke my record. 18 minutes in the cold. I wanted to thank you for changing my life. In my eyes, Wim, you're a modern Jesus. From the bottom of my heart, gracias for changing my life.
I have my 7 year old and 11 year old daughters going into the lake with me this winter. They don't complain about the cold anymore, they have learned to enjoy it.
You have lucky children!
Jesteś Kozak! :D
I dont even enjoy hot showers anymore, this Cold shower everyday changed my life
I started taking cold showers in early January 2022 and that turned into taking them at night before bed paired with 4 rounds of the breathwork and I've gotta say, works like a charm. I used to have to fall asleep listening to something on the computer, now I can jump in the shower and go through my routine spending about 2-3 minutes in the cold which quickly starts to feel euphoric, and since its Summer where I am I end it on cold, then I'll play the guided breathing on the computer, once that's done turn everything off and I'm asleep in about 5-10 minutes. Cheers
I take my cold showers in the am, as it gives me energy for the day. For that reason I avoid them at night before bed as I don't need the energy then. So maybe I'm wrong...how does the nightime cold shower help you to fall asleep faster?
Turn on the cold, and turn on the life! Thanks Wim!
Wim we love you. Such a humble, down-to-earth, authentic man sharing deep knowledge, helping humanity, spreading love. Man you are a prophet of our times.
Cold showers every night, followed by 1-2 rounds of breathing right before bed, changed my life. I was developing a sleeping disorder during grad school due to stress and discovering this method gave me a way to go to sleep on command. It made a huge difference for my mental health. Thanks Wim ❤
Before bed? I always get energy from it so that would be unwise for me I think
It's an odd thing but yes, cold showers also put me to sleep.
What breathing exercises do you do before sleep?
It increases natural melatonin for many to do cold exposure before bed.
I'm on week 6 using the app to scale my cold showers. Up to the 1 min 30 second intervals. After I complete this 2nd 20 Day Challenge I think it's time for my first ice bath!
Breathing method has helped my asthma
He answered some of the questions I was asking myself. I acted instictively and it is just the same what he said! Cold showers were a bit too much for me, I am very sensitive to cold. So after few failures, I started again just with breathing and showering my legs with cold water. Great to know I am on the right path! Hope it'll work and I can do cold showers and cold immersions this year!
Thank you for posting!! I am sensitive to cold along as I can remember and after feeling pain in cold water gave up BUT I am not alone! Thank you and Wim of course
@@sanjapolicchambers6659 I am glad my post was helpful to someone :) yes, I feel pain after maybe 30 sec as well. But I also feel very refreshed afterwards. How are you doing with breathing? I really like it, but I feel pain in my chest afterwards, I don't know how to solve it :/
@@sanjapolicchambers6659 EVERYONE is sensitive to the cold. Push through it, stop giving in to the flight. FIGHT and beyond that fight you will frind growth. YOU CAN DO IT
@@coreyellis6788 this is the truth, cold water is very uncomfortable on the body, specifically running down your neck and back, but if you can push through it you will find major benefit
im the same about cold showers, but wim is correct, i started with breathing exercise and did them for about a week or 2 before trying cold shower. i was able to control my breathing and it helped with the cold shower. get your breathing under control first before trying cold showers.
Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM), it’s amazing how quickly and low my blood glucose drops from a cold shower. It also returns to normal quickly.
Cool zu wissen - auch für Keto-Diät
This is so real. As a child we did this in lake Michigan because we wanted to swim but had never thought what we were really doing. I remember being healed of summer colds after a freezing swim in lake Michigan.
sending you love, respect, and gratitude that I found your channel… appreciate all of your videos, cold showers/breathing is working, but you already know that… you are an angel sent to this planet
I found that being in touch with my body and listening ,not thinking opened up a whole new Energy and control without huge effort.
Learning to FEEL and be in a natural co-existence with your own body, acknowledge it is key to a true balance in life.
Wim you are truely an enrichment for the people on this planet. Thank you so much for everything!
I’m going on 3 months of daily cold showers. First thing in the morning at 4:30. The first couple weeks weren’t the most pleasant, but the feeling afterwards was worth it. Now I crave the feeling and can’t imagine not doing it everyday the rest of my life!
Wim you are one of the greatest contributors to life science. Nobel price should be delivered any day now. I cold shower and do the method ever so often when down. Immune booster and mood improver. You are so great to the world. Keep it up!!!!!!!!
the cold is so awesome - thanks for changing lives Wim!
Thank you for the interesting answers 🍀
30 Days I Have Been Taking 4 Minute Ice Baths & Life Has Completely Changed! No Pain (And I Have A Broken Femur & All Bad Discs In My Lower Back) Also My Testosterone Has Sky Rocketed 🚀 Plus Many More Positive Things Have Happened. I Could Go On.... & On.... But I Won't 🤣 Thanks For Listening 💯
have not missed one cold shower in 2 years. am having a flu like thing at the mo and i have been breathing my head off to fight off the cold. the cold shower like 5 or 6 times with hot in between really helps with aches. got your book, thanks Wim😃
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There were many question I had that were covered in this one!
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All The Love, All The Power!
cold showers helped me overcome getting flu's and cold's. i used to get them a lot during the winter but once i started taking cold showers i stopped getting ill. i havent had a cold for years and i owe wim a thank you❤. they also help to wake u up and u feel invigorated and ready to face the world💪
I started cold showers many years ago, and never went back to hot showers, unless I was sick. Unfortunately, even if I do like the cold shower effect, it doesn’t prevented me to catch Covid or flu. Even though it can improve your immune system, there is no miracle.
I have a cold shower before bed every night and it helps me sleep like a log. Cold shower in the morning too, total opposite result but I love it.
I have an thyroid disease which fluctuate between overactive and underactive thyroid. Lately, I've been experiencing trouble sleeping due to my body overheating. Getting up and taking a cold shower helps so much!
All I can say is Thank you Mr. Hof. I have been doing your breathing exercise for three days, and I have already retained a peacefulness and calming of my mind and soul that is just simply amazing. I am forever great full. I will be adding a cold plunge to my morning.
I have 2-3 minute cold showers every morning love it makes me smile.
Such inspirational stuff! Anyone who knows me know that I follow the Wim Hof Method! Been cold showering for years now! Champion!!! 💪🏾
A cold shower raises adrenaline yet lowers cortisol? Cortisol is only released in direct response to elevated adrenaline (epinephrine and norepinephrine).
Mechanistically, a cold shower (or cold plunge) in the morning makes most sense because that is when adrenaline and cortisol levels normally peak in a healthy circadian pattern. Adrenaline and cortisol should be at their lowest levels at night for proper sleep.
It’s helping so much. I started the breathing exercise in the morning again after 1 year of not doing it. What a difference to start the day fully charged with calm but strong energy.
Thank you Wim!
Also: this is a great QAA Video
This man has helped me alot the last few months.
60 minutes with 45pds of ice .Our messenger and a great inspiration. 🙏❤🖖!
Allein die Hintergrundmusik macht mich schon fröhlich. Danke für die tollen Fragen der Fragensteller und natürlich auch für die ehrlichen Antworten von Wim Hof.
I like my hot showers to much but when ive trained a little to hard (combat sports) and I can feel my muscles are gonna be sore tomorrow I take a cold shower and it helps over 90% of the time. Even just partially, when ive stretched a muscle in my arm and I keep this arm under the cold shower for a minute or 2, the next day im not feeling any pain. Its truly amazing.
Yeah same here, I love hot showers. But the cold does help at times
Dear Wim Hof, I'm one of your fun. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing WHM, I have several questions:
1. Is there a limit or max times for breathing exercise per day? can we over do?
2. Can I take cold shower or ice bath during prolong fasting (for example: 3 days water fasting)?
3. What will happen if I expose my body to cold temperature for the rest of the day, like wearing short in cold weather, even if I take cold shower everyday? Will body need more energy to maintain the temperature, will I need to eat more to have the energy? Because I get hungry more than before after I expose my body to cold?
Thank you for sharing that taking a cold shower at night lowers cortisol in your body!
I did my first ice bath two days ago on 9/25/23. I have known about wim Hof and his method since 2021 and it took me 2 effin years!! but I finally did the ice bath. Finally I was able to look at myself in the mirror and say “2 minutes of pain will not kill you - we’re doing it”. I stayed in for 4 minutes. I am still smiling about it 😂 to anyone struggling to get off the fence, about 40s in your body adjusts. Then I found myself trying to sink into the water as much as possible because it was my exposed skin that felt more cold than the rest of my body. Also you could try gradually adjusting the temperature from 15 to 12 to 10. Good luck everyone- you can do it too!!
February 17, my first day of work with the Wim Hof method. Thanks for being so much more than anything Expected or before. I'm so grateful for today and your love for bettering yourself.
Have been having cold showers since 1995 when backpacked thru Holland and Europe it was wonderful.
And cold Ocean dips since young. Amazing so glad you are sharing this Wim
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Firstly I would like to say Thank you Wim! I am really enjoying learning from you, I have began breathing with you and ending my morning shower on cold for 15 secs now. I have cancer on my lungs therefore trying to heal naturally . I would appreciate any knowledge and other helpful advice? You are a fantastic motivator!
I’ve been doing this for 6 years and I just realized that’s how long I’ve been without getting sick and going! Definitely change my life🤯
Well, not the same for me. Maybe less frequently, but I can still be sick from time to time. No miracle with the immune system.
I take my cold shower every night. It really makes life a lot better and helps develop discipline!
Youve changed my life totally, without your breathing method i wouldnt be able to control my life and follow my thoughts, thank you somuch for being with us. Love you grandpa :D
Thank you for all the inspiration Wim. ❤
I have spinalcord injury and the icebathing and breathing helped me so much!!!
I wish you the very best :)
already 4 years now I take a cold shower for some minutes just before going to bed. When I wake up in the morning I go directly in my little swimmingpool, every day of the year. In winter the water temperature can drop till 1°C. Just a couple of minutes is enough and since, I have much more energy and never ill. It's a lifechanger! 🥶🐻❄
2:30 maybe showers yes but more than one ice bath a day ? in the beginning i got sick very often due to ice bathing daily i think. too frequent maybe the body needs rest
Thanks for another great lesson Wim! The initial effect of cold water is to cause blood vessels to constrict, resulting in a slow-down of blood-flow, thus, a depression of the vital processes. However, soon after the application of cold, the body reacts by strongly dilating the blood vessels, which powerfully increases blood-flow to, and stimulation of, bodily tissues.
there are some very dangerous people giving dangerous advice
Cold showers are also healthy because you're grounding/earthing. The pipes are connected to the earth and so is the water. Using earthing mats or walking bare feet on the earth helps a lot too.
Do you recommend that everyone should put the cold on the head first? I was studying Ayurvedic medicine while living in India and the thinking is that if you immerse the body in frigid water the body heat will go to the brain and that is detrimental to health. I hope you see this I would love to know your thinking on this. Thank you Wim, you are a true inspiration ❤️
You are a beautiful man, Wim…a shining heart of LOVE. Thank so much for bearing the riddle of others, nurturing yourself and the method, only to share this profound and precious practice.
Neither I or my close ones ever imagined that I would lose the aversion to cold and embrace it with open arms. Wim, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! 🖖🏾🕉💖🕊🙏🏽
What works works. Much wisdom in listening to your inner voice and feeling, and the pragmatic power of practice / adaptation (hormesis). I crawled over the icy terrace just before dawn last morning. Wonderful sensation and clarity of perception.
Bedankt Wim! I will forever be grateful for you and how you have changed my life for the better! I won't put on social media what you've helped me overcome, suffice it to say I'm free!!!
You are just so motivating...thank you for sharing your wisdom, and your heart.
Wake pre-dawn, meditate, workout, ice cold shower. Perfect start to the day.
For me this was one of the best ask Wim’s 🎉
Wim says a cold shower 'resets' the body. It really does. I've been having cold showers for just over a year now. (when I get up in the morning for 2 - 3 minutes). I can't believe how much more alive and how much more energy I seem to have, immediately afterwards and for the rest of the day. I'm going to embark on his beginner's breathing way next. Fascinating.
I try to take my cold showers in the morning but if I can't I take them at night. I take them every day and it has helped my all around health. I am so glad I found you. I have been taking cold showers off and on for over three years now. I am on Day 343 of taking my cold showers today. Staying consistent is the key. Tks bro 👊 🤘
You change my life and thousands and perhaps millions others one.
Cosmic blessing to you my brother.
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Glad true heroes still exist ("I've been ridiculed so much" but he keeps going, regardless) true spirit. Thank heavens for people like Wim, a normal guy
I run 3 times a week and take a cold shower after. Never thought i could do it but now i even like it 😋
Cold shower right after running ? Did you take a hot shower before cold shower?
Dear Jim thanks for introducing or inventing such a power method for healing, hats off to you. I need to ask how can we avoid getting cold symptoms, when start taking cold shower as most of us can catch cold. Kindly put some light on this matter. Thanking in anticipation.
Low temperature in a shower doesn't cause colds.
Thank you Wim! You are just so brilliant. I do the breathing technique every morning and just listening to your voice, is already so comforting! I have a question though.
Always grateful for your sharing with us, Wim! I'm so happy yo get to know you 🙌🏽🙏🏼🌱🎉
Keep up the good work master Wim!
I'm starting with your mini three free courses. I only have two fears. I can be inconsistent and I have under control asthma, so I think this creates a fear on the hold breath and no matter how oxygenated I get I cannot hold on to the no breathing for even a minute. In part I know is my stupid head mixing with anxiety telling I can't. So the question to you is: can people with asthma do the cold shower thing? And how should I go about acclimating to it? Thank Wim. I adore you and some day will have the money to join you personally. Because your energy in person has to be off the charts. And I love that.
I don't know if this is how you ask questions here, but is the only social media thing I care to know how to use. 🙏
Thanks for the video amazing work !
Thank you for the inspiration Wim. You are a wise and humble teacher, Namaste.
I would to be able to do but I have raynauds disease poor circulation to fingers and toes. They turn blue with the cold . I also have a autoimmune disorder called scleroderma which is so painful tooo.
Wim changed everything. Thank you so much.
ill do both, morning and evening after the workout, but in the evening i mostly end it with hot after the cold :)
@01:00 “i have poor circulation in my hands and feet, can only still practice the method”
Thank you for this question!!
And thank you Wim for your answer
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God bless you Wim, thank you very much, my right hand tremor has almost disappear and my energy levels are much higher, I feel much better
Hi Wim, I've read your WHM book last week, it was so entertaining:) Practice cold water right after hot shower for several days and totaly felt for this kind of hardening! Thanks from Czechia, homeland of another significant yogi JUDr. Eduard Tomáš
Great to see wim
Enjoy the breath before bed
Up to 3 min holds
And then great sleep
Thankyou brother
I find a cold shower helps me feel well when I've not slept much the night before. Thanks Wim!
Thank you Wim,you have changed my life!!love you!!
I love you Wim ❤️❤️❤️ you changed my life forever
J'adore, je viens de découvrir WIM.. its just so relaxing just to lesson to him.. Breath!!
Hi Win, you are amazing!
I have a question and a comment. I am 60 years old and have been HIV positive for over 20 years. I have never had any complications with my condition, I take my pills every day and hardly ever get sick, in fact I have a cold maybe 4 times in the last 15 years.
I have tried to start your breathing method on two different occasions and have to stop because I get sick. This week I started practicing and I have to go to the doctor for a sore throat.
I am very sensitive to cold, in fact, I do not drink cold water... I have also suffered from sinusitis, so before taking a shower with cold water, I have tried to do breathing exercises. failing both times in less than a week.
Any recommendations that can help me start successfully in this method. I appreciate your comments.
Thanks for answering those questions. Very helpful for me. Much love.
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hey WIM , First I want thank you all you do. I ride bicycle 40 kms a day Monday to Friday so about 200kms a week. I also weight train 4 to 6 times a week. I know I know whats the question. which is better ice bath before or after weight training. I cold shower every morning but ice bath once or twice a week usually around weight training
Wim a true savior