Conquer Your Mind with Wim Hof

WIM’S WORK

• Walked Mount Everest in shorts, without oxygen, without a guide.
• If you know how to control the mind you then know how to control the extremes coming to you, without getting out of control, without anxiety.
• Greatly underestimating the power of the mind: take outstanding examples like Wim. Wveryone has things in their environment that cause stress on them.

STRESS

• Wim didn’t want to become part of the world of disease, stress, and tension.
• Has done studies with universities involving brain scans, investigating what parts of the brain he uses when he puts himself through extreme situations.
• They found that he uses parts of the brain previously thought impossible to access: tapping into prefrontal cortex and the periaqueductal section of the brain.
• We can battle stress using the power of our own mind.
• Examining the question: are we able to go into 100% power of our own minds? Wim thinks yes.
• You can check out the brain over body study here.
• We are on the threshold of the power of the mind becoming accessible for every human in the world.

WIM’S FIRST STUDY

• 6 years ago: showed autonomic nervous system, adaptive immune system, endocrine system can be influenced at will.
• Endotoxemia experiment: thousands exposed to bacteria and body reactions measured.
• Physiology can be trained to come within conscious control, and we can tap into our own autonomic systems, affect inflammation and health, defy usual medical science.

THINGS YOU CAN TRY

• Take a cold shower to train your vascular system—start short, only 30 seconds to begin with.
• Benefits: heart rate goes down, stress reduction, oxygen circulates, minerals distributed to your cells.
• Don’t shock your physiology, start small—let feeling be your guide.
• Self-awareness, breathing, cold able to tap into the parts of our physiology and brain much more than ever thought possible.
• While stress is there you should be able to breathe deeply and relax.
• Chronic stress and fear shrink the brain.
• Being uncomfortable sometimes is important because you’ll be better able to cope with other stressful situations, learn to control your own biochemistry.
• Putting yourself in easy situations will mean life becomes more difficult.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF WIM

• First thing: do some breathing, then hop in cold water—cold swimming pool, shower or lake.
• Remember: there is no limit to our brain because our soul is our source.