1The cold is a absolute doorway to the soul.
2There's so much unnecessary suffering in the world.
3We take pills, kill the symptoms, but not the cause.
4And apparently we cannot become happy, strong, and healthy?
5Hey, I know the way.
6Cold is merciless, righteous.
7It brings you direct into depth of yourself.
8You're not thinking.
9Your emotions stop.
10You are just surviving.
11And it brings you into purity of the physiology, as well as the soul.
12And you get in a different plane than our conditioning.
13And that makes you a free man.
14What's special about Wim is that he kind of has this mind over body control that's pretty phenomenal.
15When he is exposed to the cold his body just physically reacts differently from a lot of other people.
16Right now I'm holding 26 Guinness World Records.
17And all related to extreme cold.
18My records range from staying in the ice for 1 hour 53 minutes in direct contact with the ice,
19running the fastest half marathon barefoot,
20climbing Kilimanjaro a record time in shorts,
21swimming underneath the ice for longest distance.
22Wim is a very special person.
23He has an aura to him that is a very positive energy.
24But you can see when he begins to breathe,
25he has an ability to focus his mind and body together in a higher function than most can do.
26I created a method.
27The components are breathing, mindset, and cold exposure.
28Gradual, non-forced cold exposure.
29And that's to optimize the mind body connection.
30Wim has figured out ways, namely through breath work and through exposure to cold,
31to take conscious control over aspects of his physiology
32that, for most people, they simply can't tune into and control.
33The cold, my warm friend, it brings about a whole lot of more energy.
34And that, together with breathing, makes you so powerful.
35But then you lose your wife and...
36It all rumbles down.
37Four children I had with my wife.
38And I was to be with her forever.
39She was the love of my life.
40She died.
41She suicided.
42It's a black hole within yourself.
43It breaks your heart. And you don't know why.
44But the train of daily life is going on and you got to catch up, otherwise you'll lose it.
45So I had to be there for my children.
46And, yes, we created a new nest.
47My children made me survive in that time.
48But nature healed my wounds.
49The cold gave me a direct understanding of deeper breathing
50and how to heal a broken heart.
51Then I went and did all kinds of remarkable challenges.
52Apparently, they found it very remarkable and great and spectacular.
53So I came in contact with television, one after the other.
54They challenge me more, more, more, more, more.
55"Hey, go swim 50 meters under the ice."
56"Go and swim hundred meters under the ice."
57"Climb Mount Everest in shorts."
58The scientists became curious.
59Hey, what this man is doing is not possible, physiologically.
60The science of what Wim Hoff method does is one of the primary interests of my lab now
61because it is so powerful and it's been shown to be powerful in the immune system.
62We believe it will also hold some real potential for treatment of neurological diseases.
63And this breathing technique brings you right into the deepest part of our physiology.
64Anybody can do it.
65So you become the alchemist of your own chemistry.
66Let's do this.
67Just breathe in and let it go.
68Fully in...
69We become alkaline.
70More oxygen is getting toward all cells.
71Then the alkalinity makes the chemistry right in our body.
72Then we are able to take a last inhale...
73...after 30, 35 of these breaths.
74Deeply in.
75Letting go. And you stop.
76The Wim Hoff method is neither distressed nor eustressed, really.
77It's somewhere right in between where, I believe, adrenaline is high and cortisol is low.
78Which gives the person who's doing the method this incredible feeling of well-being and control over their own physiology and mental state.
79Why I teach this method?
80To show that with a simple method, out of nature,
81we are able to tackle the greatest problems,
82which is depression, fear, anxiety, and pain.
83People with chronic pain.
84That's all unnecessary suffering going on.
85And all these industries keeping on and say, "Yeah, that's normal."
86And I think that's sick.
87If it turns out that non-ingestible approaches, such as breath work or cold exposure,
88can approach some of the potency that medications can provide or have failed to provide.
89Then it's quite possible that one can heal from the inside.
90Guess what? We found the proof to tap into our body and mind,
91enabling us to become happy, strong, and healthy.