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“The Iceman” Wim Hof is a Dutch athlete and multiple Guinness World Record holder known for his ability to withstand extreme cold and his extraordinary achievements.
Wim believes that EVERYONE is capable of doing the same exceptional things his body allows him to do. That’s why he developed the Wim Hof Method - a combination of breathing exercises, cold therapy and commitment - to give YOU the tools to take control over your body.
He’s on a mission to share the potential health benefits of his method, working with scientists around the world to prove that his techniques work.
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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. 🙏
Agreed ☝🏼- that was a psychic -warning/ attack/ download - SIT WITH IT - FACE IT.
@@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.
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?
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 💪🏻
rofl
@@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 💪🏻
What a character this man is. Thankyou Wim
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!🙂
This man changed my life!!! I’m healthier than ever and I’ve only been practicing for one year. Life is good!😊
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 tear up some times looking at wim hof he is so humble
4:21 I'm 14 years old and I do your method. I love it!!!😀 It really helps me with everything🙂. Thank you.😊
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
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.
Wim hof is such a likeable person. I love his soothing way of speaking.
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 :)
Turn on the cold, and turn on the life! Thanks Wim!
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?
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
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.
Wim you are truely an enrichment for the people on this planet. Thank you so much for everything!
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.
@@TheFyLu22 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 👍
the cold is so awesome - thanks for changing lives Wim!
Best #AskWim Yet! There were many question I had that were covered in this one! Thank You, Wim ❤ All The Love, All The Power!
Always grateful for your sharing with us, Wim! I'm so happy yo get to know you 🙌🏽🙏🏼🌱🎉
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 💯
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.
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 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?
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.
Such inspirational stuff! Anyone who knows me know that I follow the Wim Hof Method! Been cold showering for years now! Champion!!! 💪🏾
Wim is a grandad I always dreamed to have! So wise, so energetic, so bright! What a wonderful man!
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 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.
Thanks for answering those questions. Very helpful for me. Much love.
Keep up the good work master Wim!
You are just so motivating...thank you for sharing your wisdom, and your heart.
These Q&As are gold!
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'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
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.
60 minutes with 45pds of ice .Our messenger and a great inspiration. 🙏❤🖖!
Wim changed everything. Thank you so much.
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
Thanks a LOT for your GENEROSITY. ALL those little questions & your answers are so usefull👍. Sheers🌟
Thanks for the video amazing work !
This man has helped me alot the last few months.
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 🙏
Great vidéo ! Thank you Master Wim Hof for your energy and wisdom 🙏
Thank you for the inspiration Wim. You are a wise and humble teacher, Namaste.
Bless you Wim, thank you, and happy, healthy, strong to all with LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
Thank you Wim,you have changed my life!!love you!!
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
I really like the graphic design on the t-shirt :D ! And thanks for the very helpful answers.
I take my cold shower every night. It really makes life a lot better and helps develop discipline!
For me this was one of the best ask Wim’s 🎉
I have a cold shower 3 times a day and listening to my body and feel so much better. Its Like getting up in the morning and starting the day again. everytime. I love and hate it and it makes me laugh sometimes while showing 😂 🤣 😅
Every time. Thank you wim you have listened to your body so much for so long. I've only just started and it's amazing. Thank you.
Dude I laugh too! It's so crazy, just laughter from pure joy
ahahahaha same thing here xD with the smile while in it " ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YOU SEE HOW GOOD IT IS ??!!! " ahahah
Right before bed, I do my breath work and then take a cold shower, even in the winter. I too come out of the bathroom laughing ......so relaxed. 15 minutes later I'm in bed and sleeping, no matter how stressful the day was.
Yes! I hate & love it!
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.
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😃
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! 🖖🏾🕉💖🕊🙏🏽
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 😊
Thank you for the interesting answers 🍀
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!!!!!!!!
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.
Thank you for doing what you do Wim
Thank you Wiiiiimmmm Hoffffff! You are Heaven sent!❤❤
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.
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.
Love u Wim! You are the best! You have no ideia -or maybe you have- on how much my life change while doing your method. I live in a tropical area on North East of Brazil, called Fortaleza -is a giant city-, but is whorm the whole year, about 30 degrees all year long. Because of that, I didin't do too much cold expousure in my life -only when I lived in the south of Brazil-, but the breathing I did it SO MUCH, like thousants of rounds in my life, since the VICE documentary that I saw. The breathing alone change my intire life -sometimes I thought that was being something bad in my life, but with the years passing, I saw the tremendous change that had done in me. I've had drug issues, ezquizofrenia -I still hear voices-, bipolar, 2 suicide attempts, whent to drug rehaab, psiquiatric intitutions, and all sorts of mental illness, but along all this problems the breathing help me to change my body chemstry, to see all the lights, all the chackas, to recive blessings, goosebunbs, to cry so much, to wanna live again and to be a good person. I am a different creature, but I will continue do do the breathing, and the meditation. And like you said, when you see all the chackas, all the lights, It becames boring, but is always too good to do the breathing. God bless you 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!
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.
Thank you Wim Hof. You are excellent!
I love your personality so much Your such an amazing man 🎉❤ thank you for existing
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!
Thank you so much Wim ✨💖🙏✨ ✨✨✨✨✨
You change my life and thousands and perhaps millions others one. Cosmic blessing to you my brother. I love you . Ubuntu
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 :)
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.
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.
love this man🎉
Thank you for your kindness
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!!
THANK YOU!!! all the love ❤️ all the power 💪
I have 2-3 minute cold showers every morning love it makes me smile.
I love you Wim ❤️❤️❤️ you changed my life forever
3:17 Learn to feel !!!! YES! So great and the most important from my point of view. Learn to feel you and just STRIVE-FORWARD
Loving healing from the inside ❤
Thank you for sharing that taking a cold shower at night lowers cortisol in your body!
Thank you Wim. Hope you come to Chicago again soon
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
Wim a true savior
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
Wake pre-dawn, meditate, workout, ice cold shower. Perfect start to the day.
I find a cold shower helps me feel well when I've not slept much the night before. Thanks Wim!
Happy new year 🎉Wim 💕
So thankful for this information 😅
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!
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!!!
Thank you so much Wim!!!
Thank a lot Wim! I completed your course . I do it due to consequences lime disease and I feel much better! Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤
The way you roll your r's I'm sold
Wim hoff you are the man!!!!
Merci Wim! Hoaj van dig! 💜