(04-05-2019, 04:18 AM)ArcticFox Wrote: Hey, I started the course as well. Im 3 weeks in and can already see improvements in my body and improved mental well being!

I hope your Inner Fire course is going well!

(04-07-2019, 09:09 AM)EvolvingPhoenix Wrote: This is the second time today that I've seen mention of this Wim-Hof guy. I never heard of him until this morning, and then I see him mentioned here. What an interesting synchronicity.

(04-11-2019, 07:14 AM)ArcticFox Wrote:

(04-07-2019, 09:09 AM)EvolvingPhoenix Wrote: This is the second time today that I've seen mention of this Wim-Hof guy. I never heard of him until this morning, and then I see him mentioned here. What an interesting synchronicity.

Watch the documentary based on his techniques, it's fantastic.  And he proves the technique scientifically.

https://youtu.be/VaMjhwFE1Zw

Quote:SUBJECTIVE SUMMARY: After completing the 10-week Wim Hof Method Video Course, I KNOW w/o a doubt, that combining the structured WHM course of cold, breathing, and yoga exercises creates the alchemical catalyst for certain optimal physiological and psychological transformation.

HINDSIGHT – It would have been “cool” to have more before-and-after objective data to verify my own subjective realizations. That’s my wish for the future (since this was such a GAME CHANGER). I wish institutions will conduct the full 10-week experiment on beginning students of the Wim Hof Method with before-and-after objective physiological and psychological data.

Public Accountability on Social Media – sticking neck out there and being fully vulnerable enabled me to stay disciplined (even in the most weakest of times) to complete the course in its entirety without missing a single day even while traveling the world. I didn’t want to let my supporters and “fans” down.

When I first met Wim after being invited to his home in the Netherlands, I told him, “I’ve been trying to prove you wrong and so far, I’m losing the war.” He loved that!!

Showering and Breathing Fits Seamlessly into Daily Lifestyle. Yoga took more dedication. I invested about 1 hour total every day.

Feedback is based on my own PERSONAL EXPERIENCE during and while finishing the course…These are my RAW comprehensive notes, straight up!

Payoffs – Upsides –

Embodied Happiness
Embodied Health
Embodied Strength
More control over the mind. Overall Stronger Mindset.
More Confident and Assertive yet more humble (Am I being cocky about being humble? LOL!!) ?
More Creative and Wild – increased use of metaphors and analogies
More Loving and Peaceful
More Intuitive and in tune, Bull Shit Detector enhanced. ?
More Self-Aware, more winks ?
More Patient and Compassionate
More Funny (even writing that sounds funny. LOL!)
Better Communicator
Better Ambassador
More Psychic and Telepathic
More Synchronicity and Serendipity
More Resilient
More Actualizing
More Momentum/FLOmentum
Stronger immunity
Significant Reduction in Jet Lag, Hangovers, Anxiety and Depression
More Energy, Vitality and Power, More Magnetic, Charismatic and Charged, More Alive.
Limiting habits, “bad” thoughts, fear, doubt, anxiety and insecurities self-correct on their own.
Feel Both More Human and Superhuman
More Balanced, Centered and Flow
Significant reduction to resistance and struggle. Better recovery from Hyper-Flow-Overdrive Hangovers
Significant increase in compassion and empathy
More Satisfaction, Determination, Influential
More friends and friend requests, More opportunities and invitations
More calm, clear and focused
More clear visions and sense of feeling guided
Natural exemplary leadership
More graceful, grateful, thankful
More connected to nature – interior and exterior
Greater respect for life and sentient beings
Feel and listen more. More understanding.
Less or no body odor or bad breath, better skin and hair, better bowel movements, younger, better complexion – still have dandruff but less! ?
Increase in awareness – feedback bandwidth – notice more in and around myself – signs, signals, significance of words, power of words like “value, investment, etc.” – feel embodied with the words
Self-deprecating – Laugh at self more
Move past failures and rejections lightning fast. less dwelling
Steroid-like hormonal effects in 10-15% performance (subjective perception) and positive body composition and physiological transformations – leveraged endocrine system
More weight behind words
Flexible and Stronger on all levels, including exercises
notice that breakthroughs and epiphanies happen more frequently and is normal to learn constantly and flow more
More Mojo, Juju, Halo, Aura, Pheromones, X-Factor, Sexy, Glow, Sweet Spot
More noticeable – Contagious, Viral, Piqued interest, more respect
Feel more, Heart more open, more grounded
Less reactive and triggered. Even if, can neutralize or transmute faster – nip at bud the self-limiting thoughts and inner demons
More playful and active, More child-like
Can feel the Force, Mitochondria density, ATP enhanced
Less judgement to self and others
Still snap while driving car (so many idiots on the road, including me. HAHAHAHAHAH!) but sense of heart rate and blood pressure doesn’t increase, adrenaline response is under more control, stress response is significantly diminished, amygdala hijack is less likely
Feel more Intelligent and Assertive
Brain firing on all cylinders – access to more resources including vocabulary
Provided a contrast from the past to compare and learn from.
Going Deep – Realized Depth of Soul and Spirit – Flow Real
Feel more and more like me, More permission to be me.
Greater Love from the Heart without being creepy?!! LOL!!
Full Integration – proof in the pudding – body, mind and spirit
Incredible listener, hugger and lover
Don’t realize you are doing things you used to fear till mid stream or after the fact, surprise yourself constantly.
Leverage and Loverage
Feel like I’m reversing age like I’m in my twenties without the confusion
Influence over fight or flight reaction into conscious response – hijacked or choice
Contrasting Contrast – Better Filter – your own being either attracts or repels
No excuses, feeling like I can conquer any challenge
Hyper-present and mindful
Significant less fear of the unknown
Deep sleep, less dreaming hence waking up more restful, was a chronic over-dreamer (felt exhausted)
Feel the literal physiological and psychological adaptation, breeding and bleeding confidence and creativity and more curiosity – capillaries and neuronal bridging, neuro-plasticity and neurogenesis, healing and shifting
Deeper presence, even though retention times were less
Time got more wonky
Saw stroboscope and felt tingles, felt the waves of neurotransmitters flooding system
Broke down old paradigms – getting sick with wet hair in the cold, yoga stretching in the cold
Relaxation during gasp reflex, shiver response and startle reflex under direct conscious influence
Inner fire – brown fat activation and control of shivers while in ice
Public accountability kept me from quitting even when traveling, or late training or bad weather, or monotony
Overcome perceived mental and physical barriers
Mind disentanglement and natural sighs of release and relief from interior suffering
Knowing the flow cycle from Flow Genome Project helped
Hot showers felt unnatural while doing the course
This shit is legit! There’s no speculation in my mind.
Reset/reboot the nervous system – literal excitement to fully live and engage in life – return to how I felt as a child.
Less unaffected personally by others but still not disengaged, disassociated or checked out
More bonding and service helper high neuro-chemicals
reduction of tension in tissues, more fluid body movements and posture
greater capacity to work, less stressed and accepting of challenges
things clicking more often
progression and momentum
black and white to technicolor 3D IMAX VR
responsibility – embrace chaos
more laser intensity in eyes according to people’s feedback
awareness of breath and breathing
more social and goofy and engaging
Improved sex hormones and functions ?
Monkey Mind under control
More Non-attached
heart – less stress to pump as periphery blood vessel pick up the slack.
Satisfied and Rewarded for taking risk and making the effort.
Food taste better, Overall Sensory Enhancement, Becoming more naturally a morning person, improved appetite and conscious food choices.
Wim Hof Method is simple, yet effective. I drank the Kool-Aid and took the RED PILL and… Overall, I feel FUCKING AWESOME!!! ?
Tradeoff – Downsides – These seemed this way but are actually blessings in disguise as a feedback guide/teacher for iteration and continual evolution, progress and growth…

Connection to Circadian Rhythm of Nature means I got tired at 5pm winter time darkness – made it more difficult to have longer productive days.
I developed crazy munchies at night after unintentionally fasting during the day (this didn’t matter as I still lost fat and gained muscle)
Old patterns and conditioning are subject to examination and elimination – even though not pleasant at time during catharsis = blessings in disguise
I had initial fear of Pneumonia (had yellow and green phlegm congestion in sinuses and lungs) yet I still pressed on based on listening to my intuition. Other fears: Getting Sick and Dying, Creating Permanent Damage, never experienced a Cold Detox Effect, other unknowns. etc.
Still had off-days and needed naps occasionally
How do you quantify more Happiness, Health and Strength? Who sets the optimal standards? – seemed personal to me based on how I felt especially after developing a more sensitive body/brain connection during the course.
By the time I realize and actualize these things subjectively and objectively (the adaptational effects happened, i just didn’t measure a majority of them although I super curious), I cared less about measuring it anymore but I feel so DAMN GOOD?!! I still would love for science to run the objective experiments to validate, verify and confirm on me and others.
Yes, the cold still fucking sucks after completing the course yet the payoff is super rewarding. Wim said it first and best on the London Real interview… “People think I like the cold too much. I fucking hate it, man. I don’t like it all! I like it warm – hot place. I like palm trees!..THUS, I RESPECT THE COLD. IT’S MY TEACHER.” ~ Wim Hof
I still sweat profusely when it’s hot, while working out or in a hurry.
Still need 7-9 hours of sleep
Excessive yawning during the beginning of course, maybe some sort of physiological shifting going on?? I don’t know.
Not all pain/myofascial trigger points in body disappeared but significantly reduced
Afterdrop effect (intense shivering after the end of cold exposure) is not pleasant sometimes, especially if using hot water to warm back up.
I can still be absentminded – daydreaming – imaginative – forgetful of things – insignificant things become less important. Overall, feel more integrated and grounded in the body.
Still feel negative emotions and reactions, although not polarized by them and can consciously shift state/mood in the moment easier than ever before.
BE SAFE!!! — DO NOT do breathing exercises in the water (shallow water blackout) or while driving/operating machinery.

DON’T FORCE – Progress wisely and build momentum through consistency. Just go a little past your comfort zone. No need to take the BIG RISKY LEAPS or experience the AFTERDROP EFFECT because you pushed or forced too hard. It doesn’t take much stimulus to create an adaptation response.

Just like weight training, slow steady progression is a better long game and safe approach than trying to lift a car on your first day. The BIG LEAPS occurs when you see what your initial pre-testing data were when you started and then, 10 weeks later, seeing what your post-testing data are. You’ll be blown away how much progress and adaptation you’ve made over that short period of time.

While the Wim Hof Method is powerful — both physiologically and psychologically — and is a effective path toward Health, Happiness and Strength, you still need to DO THE INNER WORK to locate the cause of your anxiety, depression, addictions, or other suboptimal subconscious emotions.

The Wim Hof Method, by itself, will not eliminate old, self-limiting patterns. Be careful of not falling into the spiritual trap, known as the Spiritual Bypass, where you use a powerful technique to just “get high” or blissed out on the endogenous state (bliss junkie) that occurs when doing any breathing techniques, cold/hot exposure, meditation and/or other methods that influences the physiology and psychology of the body and brain.

Be careful not to use the Wim Hof Method like a magic “chill” pill. It’s not a cure or panacea. It can influence and create the stimulus needed for the body to reset itself. However, you must also work on creating new habits and making better choices, or else, if you regress from the Wim Hof Method, your old habits will still dominate you.

Again, don’t fall into the trap of getting high off your own supply/shit/stash (endogenous opiates and neuro-chemicals/hormones) which temporary suppresses any negative symptoms and makes you feel good, but does not create permanent transformative changes by itself unless you actually do THE WORK simultaneously (working on your psychology through self-help or through a trained professional) – Explore your inner emotional triggers that is creating unease and let them go, while integrating and remaining whole.

In the spiritual traditions, one of the traps is to “chase the dragon” — the high that occurs from having a profound experience or shift. This is similar to a heroin junkie who is seeking that first incredible high and continues to shoot up time and time again, never to find that first nirvana state and ends up OD’ing. Similarly, meditators can get addicted to the high they feel from meditation and in the effort to discover enlightenment, end up having a hard time interacting and functioning in the world — oftentimes losing their jobs, having relationship problems, their lives begins to unravel, etc.

In the dedicated and devoted effort to achieve these high “aware” states, be careful not to disassociate from the body and from the world. Be aware of all your personal cognitive biases. Have a community or tribe of people you trust that can reveal your blindspots.

REMEMBER:

Keep your feet on the ground when your head is in the clouds.
Transcend and INCLUDE all the lower levels.
Integrate.
Don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself only to yourself. Understand yourself and progress with maturity.
Understand the difference between a positive culture/tribe vs. a negative cult/egocentric teacher. Like Wim says, “I’m not your motherfucking guru.”
Finally, EveryBODY is different. We all have different metabolic rates and sensitivities based on sex, activity levels, muscle mass, hormones, resolve of mind, understanding of self and etc. Learn to become more situationally aware of yourself and your surroundings. Adjust and course correct based on the internal and external feedback (data) you quantify. This is the fun part of truly maturing and really understanding what makes you tick. The cold training cuts through the bullshit.
Baseline Testing before start of the 10 week WHM COURSE –

Breath hold (with air in lungs) = 50 secs
Pushups (while breathing) = 28
Coldest Personal Best (full body ice bath) = -0.7 C, 30.7 F for 20 minutes
Coldest Outside Temperature Exposure = 3 C, 37.4 F

Personal Bests during the 10-week WHM COURSE –

– Max pushups (w/o air in lungs)

fists = 75

palms = 77

– Longest retention time (w/o air in lungs) = 3:10 minutes

~ Wim Hof Quotes ~
“I’m not afraid to die. I’m afraid not to live fully.”
“What I am capable of, anyone can do.”
Hope you enjoyed my personal summary of my experience experimenting with the 10-week Wim Hof Method. The course truly upgraded my life and has become permanently part of my lifestyle! I am truly grateful to Wim Hof for discovering this simple, no BS method and sharing it to the world. As he says, there’s no more speculation. Science is proving it. Don’t take our word for it. Find out for yourself if it helps you COME ALIVE. Otherwise, it is still merely speculation in your own life.

If you want to JUST FUCKING DO IT, here’s the link for WIM’s FULL ENCHILADA 10-WEEK COURSE:

http://www.wimhofmethod.com/elearning/10-week-video-course?tap_a=11734-206e82&tap_s=70214-f55a66

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So with that…like Porky Pig says, “Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-… That’s all, folks.” Mahalo Nui Loa.

Aloha with Love,

Tone Floreal