{"id":19719,"date":"2022-08-05T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=transcript&#038;p=19719"},"modified":"2022-08-05T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:32:58","slug":"owning-your-neurology-and-being-the-light","status":"publish","type":"transcript","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/transcript\/owning-your-neurology-and-being-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning Your Neurology and Being the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-transcript pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/transcript\/19719?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print Transcript<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><b>Tami Simon:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Welcome to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, produced by Sounds True. My name\u2019s Tami Simon. I\u2019m the founder of Sounds True, and I\u2019d love to take a moment to introduce you to the Sounds True foundation. The goal of the Sounds True Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness, emotional awareness and self-compassion. If you\u2019d like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome friends to the special edition of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with someone known as the Iceman, and also someone I think of as a dear friend, both to me and Sounds True. Wim Hof, joining us from the Netherlands. Many people know Wim Hof because he\u2019s won 21 world records for amazing feats, such as spending 112 minutes in an ice bath and doing a half marathon above the Arctic Circle in bare feet. But let me tell you what impresses me the most about Wim: it\u2019s his heart, vulnerability, his willingness to lead with his great love of life and his love of humanity, his infectious aliveness, and the fact that he\u2019s on a mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s on a mission to introduce as many people as possible to a method that he\u2019s developed with Sounds True. He\u2019s published a book called, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim Hof Method: Activating Your Full Human Potential<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s a method that combines exposure to the cold with conscious breathing and the power of our minds. Here\u2019s a chance to catch this great love of life and love of love that Wim Hof communicates, and to learn a bit about how we can each bring some of the lessons of the Wim Hof Method into our lives, this special conversation with Wim Hof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim, it is so awesome to be with you. It is so great to be with you. What a love light you are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Wim Hof: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. And so are you\u2014and that\u2019s sort of an understatement. To shine such a light into the world through books, interviews, workshops, it\u2019s so much. It\u2019s really lifting up the awareness, the neurology, the consciousness of the people. And for that, I bow deeply to your work and to your being. Thank you. You\u2019re lovable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here we are together, and I want to start, we\u2019re going to get into the Wim Hof Method, and I want to make sure that through the course of our conversation, we actually make sure our listeners understand what the Wim Hof Method is and what its power is in the world. But I want to start, if you will, with the light. You write about in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim Hof Method<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, how, if we do this practice, we become the light. I wanted to start there, Wim. What does that mean to you, becoming the light?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s very simple. Our deeper physiology is connected to the all over control through our will over our neurology, and the neurology is inside the brain, It\u2019s a wonder, all over the body\u2014it\u2019s electricity. It\u2019s electricity, protons, electrons going through the body, making us able to connect with that. But because we are so in comfort-zone behavior, we got disconnected, and then the light is not so strong, while the light is sufficient to take on anything we should shed our light upon, which should serve us in the realization of our beautiful soul. Without our soul, in one day, we stink. So, let\u2019s shed some light upon that, and that goes through a direct, deeper connection with the nervous system, which is composed by electrons and protons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK. Very good. And help me understand when you say we can control our neurology, our nervous system. I think a lot of times people feel, \u201cReally? My nervous system, that\u2019s this thing that\u2019s happening to me. I\u2019m not happening to it.\u201d What does that mean to you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do these studies. I want to bypass, transcend the philosophy and so-called doctrine saying, \u201cWe are the light, we are the soul.\u201d \u201cHey, where is it?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d So, I go to science. In brain scans, suddenly we show that we have found the key components of the autonomous processes in the brain. Autonomous is outside of our will. But we found the key components to regulate our mood, to be light, not heavy, to be light, not in the dark. Those are not just words; they are real. Dark is like dark, there is no light. There is no energy, and it is heavy, because we don\u2019t feel that energy, which makes us able to defy gravity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I go through the science and then show that we have a possible willful control to go to the deepest part of the brain, which makes us able to control our neurology far deeper, far better, because nobody chooses unhappiness over happiness. Everybody would choose happiness if they only would have control over that which regulates their mood. And that goes through the control within our brain, to the deepest of our brain towards all of our body. That\u2019s now a fact and through cold, and through breathing, the neurology, the biochemical environment for neurology to be controlled and connected with the will has presented itself. The cold helps it, the breathing helps it, but we will explain that later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are completely built to willfully control our electricity, the nervous system, that is, to the level of the autonomous processes in the brain and body. That is the autonomic nervous system. And that is connected with the deepest part within our brain. And I say always, if you are able to connect consciously with the deepest part of your brain, then where else can you not go? That is what we have shown in the best brain scans in the world\u2014over 100 percent neural activity activated at will. They never saw this before. And now this should have actually awakened a lot of more neuroscientific professors, doctors, investigators, to see that we actually have willfully a possible control over 100 percent over our neurology, which is the brain, and anything connected to and with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re saying that there have actually been scientific studies that you\u2019ve participated in that have shown this, and yet, of course, still people are quite skeptical. They\u2019re like, \u201cOh, Wim, he\u2019s just some kind of Nordic God outlier.\u201d And yet there\u2019s science behind what you\u2019re describing. Can you tell us what the studies are that have shown the Wim Hof Method is effective at controlling the autonomic nervous system?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. If we go, right now at this moment, new data has been processed on 600 people doing these breathing techniques in cardiology. And it shows that the people doing these breathing techniques flush five times more blood into the brain and the heart, willfully, controlled. That is with people with low current electrical current in the heart, and that\u2019s a lot of people in the Western world, cardiovascular related problems. They were five times controlled in a controlled way, these breathing exercises, five times more blood flowing into the heart chambers is like boosting the electrical currents, and it works just amazing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When people do these breathing techniques, people feel amazing in the head and their body. Why? Because five times more blood is flowing into the brain and the heart. That\u2019s what they found. And another thing is, they said to me, the professors\u2014that is, Matthias Friedrich from Montreal, well known in the world of cardiology\u2014he told me, \u201cWim, do you know that every trauma, every trauma we have as humans has a cardiovascular imprint.\u201d And now because of these breathing techniques, we see extreme closure contraction of the vascular system, the whole thing, cardiovascular system, and then an extreme opening that if you do that enough, for a long time, 30, 40, 45, 50 minutes, then extreme contraction and opening is like shaking the cardiovascular system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thus, we shake off the trauma, and that is the future of psychology and psychiatry as well, besides of cardiology, because doing these breathing techniques brings you into a much deeper level, a level we call the autonomic nervous system, which is the fight, the flight, the deepest of systems. And that is also where emotions are stored, trauma is stored, and this can all be shaken off through these exercises. So simple it is. Then another point is, with these specific breathing techniques, your pH level goes way up, and that\u2019s exactly the right biochemistry for the electrical currents of the nervous system to flush and to flow freely throughout the system to the deepest, to reach all cells.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You said 600 people were being studied who have been trained in the Wim Hof Method. So, it\u2019s not just any longer that scientists and researchers are studying you, they\u2019re studying everyday people who have been doing the Wim Hof Method. That\u2019s a really important development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exactly. And they don\u2019t have the 20 or 30 or 40, 46 years of experience I have, and I can teach them in half hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, it\u2019s not about me. I\u2019m just a messenger. I\u2019m not the circus artist\u2014I did all kinds of extremes, etc. I\u2019m a soul searcher, this is my path, but I found things that anybody can adopt. I found things that everybody is able to awaken within themself, through science, and very accessible, very powerful. The autonomic nervous system is no longer autonomous, and that is through breathing exercises and a certain exercising within the cold, which exercises the cardiovascular system. Let\u2019s just face it, cardiovascular related diseases is killer number one. How can we exercise the cardiovascular system through cold water\u2014a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away, it is as simple as we say. And that is what I want to bring to the people, the gravity of a cold shower, and some deep breathing brings us back to what we own, and that is our own body and own mind in deep connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s go into it a bit, both the breathing and the cold exposure, because I want to give people right here from this conversation some experiments that they can try. In terms of the cold shower, keeping the doctor away, a cold shower a day, you recommend a kind of gradual process that actually makes it, and I\u2019ll say this from personal experience, not so terrible, even for a comfort-loving Westerners. We can do it. So, describe that gradual process of cold exposure in the shower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are actually mammals with clothes on. There is no mammal outside that has clothes on, it\u2019s only us. That\u2019s possibly because we have so little hair covering our skin. But the skin is the biggest, the greatest organ in our body. That is our skin. And in our skin are all kinds of receptors, it\u2019s like 75,000 miles long in every person, that is arteries, veins and capillaries. And everybody is 75,000 miles inside, and that has millions of little receptors in our skin, yet we cover ourselves up mostly and most of the day, that means de-stimulative behavior. That is comfort zone behavior, where we are dressed always and have a mediocre stimulation upon our skin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus it weakens, it doesn\u2019t give the right signals to our temperature receptors, pain receptors, to our blood circulator, there are maybe 20 kind of receptors in our skin. It\u2019s not just the skin; it\u2019s a lot more. It shows\u2014is there danger, is there cold, is there heat? It is an information center which goes ultimately to our brain and makes decisions. Now we make wrong decisions because we think it is always nice weather, while it is not; it\u2019s always no danger, while it is not. We become half asleep and that\u2019s logical. And then the cardiovascular system, which is all connected to all the skin, that becomes also on a low current, low signaling, low stimulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, we have this problem in our society, which is cardiovascular related problems, killer number one. And it has a big contribution into any disease. It\u2019s really conditionally connected with any disease, a low current, a low condition of our cardiovascular system, while being dressed. This is the first thing I say to the people\u2014listen, the mammal physiology you have is beautiful; it\u2019s beautiful to feel alive. When you take a cold shower, you feel, you begin naturally to breathe deeply. You are not just a comfort zone kind of a being, a real comfort, real power there is, when you go into the cold, then you have deep stimulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then afterwards you feel invigorated, you feel cleansed, you feel the vascular system, the millions of little muscles called the endothelium being exercised. And then the heart rate goes down 20 to 30 beats a minute, 24 hours a day. That means stress is out of your life, and the blood flow will be helped through the millions of little muscles in the right condition, which is the endothelium. Thus, it reaches the cells better by which you produce a lot more energy. That\u2019s why we feel always \u201cWhoa, oh, whoa, no, oh\u201d afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First we have to go past our conditioned body and mind. And that is, \u201cOh, it\u2019s terrible.\u201d So, I said, don\u2019t go shocking-wise into a cold shower, go for 15 seconds, and use your mind. The power of your mind is now there. This has been proven in Detroit, in brain scans, that only using your mind you are able to influence the temperature impact upon your body. It has been shown, they got cold water on my skin, I was not moving, just using my mind, and the temperature of my skin did not go down. Everybody has this connection, only I got it exercised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim, what were you doing with your mind during this experiment, were you focusing, were you visualizing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. I just told my body before, \u201cI want to make the difference, I don\u2019t know how,\u201d because I was the first one to show that in a brain scan ever. I was not really sure what to do, but I was sure that I was going to give my best. Inside I was tranquil. There is a real margin. It\u2019s not that you are focusing, focusing, focusing. No. Your intention lasts when you have to, say, get on stage or get into a stressful situation. If you talk to yourself, like a prayer it goes, like an intention, and you feed into the intention, then suddenly a calmness comes over you, your body understands what is going to happen, and you are ready. That is a new way of using our mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s like a bicycle, which is outside your house, but you never use it, and you go always in these fatiguing walks to your work, to this and that, because you don\u2019t know that you have a bike, but it\u2019s a beautiful bike. Our mind is really capable to address what is going to happen, even in the future. It goes past time and space, which is our trust, our confidence and belief. This is no longer just something abstract, it\u2019s neurology. And that neurology needs to be awakened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we don\u2019t know that it is ours, then we just go past. Somebody is always the first one. When the first time somebody ran below the 10 seconds, then the year after 15 people\u2014what is that? That is just\u2014hey, it\u2019s there, it\u2019s possible, so let\u2019s go for it. And then people feed into this. Now this aspect to face stress and to deal with stress just by the power of intention is far less than running 100 meters within 10 seconds. What I\u2019m talking about is something natural. Anybody should be able to control stress just by using the power of his or her intention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, if I want to start with the cold exposure, and I want to use my power of intention to make my way from 15 seconds, at the end of a hot shower for me\u2014I\u2019m going to take a real hot shower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then at the end, I\u2019m going to give it 15 seconds of cold. Then a couple of days later, 30, I\u2019m going to build all the way up to two minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a certain point where it actually becomes enjoyable instead of terrible. But talk to that person who\u2019s not yet at that point, it\u2019s not enjoyable yet. They\u2019re starting it, they\u2019re experimenting with it, and they\u2019re like, \u201cGod, I really don\u2019t like this. I want to do a spiritual practice, a health practice that I like.\u201d There\u2019s that place where you end up liking it, but what if the person\u2019s not there yet, Wim?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those people, I say, \u201cListen, the investment of two minutes to reach the point where you are able to go with a cardiovascular system improved to a natural condition, being able to go in for two minutes without any problem. That is your true investment for when you get older.\u201d Sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, my oldest participant is 101 years, and they love it. Why? Because this really goes past all the ailments, all the stress. If you don\u2019t go to the cold, then the cold comes to you. If you don\u2019t go to the stress, the stress comes to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you don\u2019t address the disease, the disease will come to you. This is a perfect way to deal with this. All these phantom kind of influences in our life, we don\u2019t know, we to try to hide but they still come. Hey man, with this one, with the cold shower, you cut it all out of your life. And you feel much more energy than ever because this trains the inner works, the inner physiology, the blood flow, the 75,000 miles inside, millions of little muscles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your energy will go way up. And the heart rate goes way down. That is what you get instead of this stress, low energy, high energy, low stress. So, know that to begin with as a motivation, \u201cHey, wow, I want that.\u201d Because in the end, it is natural for you, mammalian physiology, to be able to go, for two minutes at ease. And so, 80 years old and 90 years old, and they only started. And very soon they could go swim in icy water outside in the winter, and they feel just bloody\u2014and it\u2019s about the blood flow\u2014bloody great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One thing you recommend to people, and you recommended it to me in a previous conversation too is, when you get out of the shower, if you feel a little, especially at the beginning, shaky, you can do the horse stance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you explain that? What is the horse stance?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The horse stance is standing like this. Just take it here, step like this. I get my legs like this. If I do that, then my legs are down, like in Haka. Like firm. Like I go out of the comfort, I go into the hunting. I go outside, face the danger. So, once you contract, activate the muscle tissue in the thighs, in that way, then it is connected to the adrenal access. That means that you become stronger suddenly within. There is no doubt this works for every person. This is when you go into the fight and flight, just it goes directly. The thigh muscle tissue activation is directly connected to the adrenal axis, and thus, you become stronger. And very soon the cold is gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I realize when we\u2019re talking about this cold exposure at the very, very, very beginning level, we\u2019re offering kind of like just a way to get started. You yourself do an actual ice bath on most days. Tell us about that, what are you doing with an ice bath?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, yes. I have a chest freezer and I filled it up with the ice water and then have it frozen. And then I go in every day, regardless. The last time\u2014I turned 63 on April 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I turned 63 and I went in for 63 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just to celebrate the power of my mind and my body at my age. And nobody\u2019s able to do that. What is this? This is exercise. Exercise. Just, if you do it every day, then that power which is so horrible, it becomes your power. It\u2019s amazing how that gets to you, and then you really become quite invulnerable. You get so much energy, you got so much lust for life, and inflammation goes down, the darkness goes away. You are fully in the light. You are fully in connection with the whole of the nervous system, the electricity system of the body, and your energy levels go way up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just want to change the world, and I need my body, my vessel, and I\u2019m doing it together with your help, Tami. And you deserve a Grammy, Tami, and more for what you do. As I told you in the beginning, there\u2019s an uplifting consciousness, the perception, which in the end is neurology, is the light. We all want to become light. We all want to become in connection with the purpose of our life, in the deepest. And with that, we realize we have a soul and that wants to realize it\u2019s light shine and be irradiating. And that\u2019s what we do, that\u2019s what I do when I go into an ice bath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK. Yes. Let me ask you, so there you are, you\u2019re in an ice water bath for 63 minutes. What\u2019s happening for you, Wim, during that time, what\u2019s going on for you? Are you focusing on something, are you just relaxing, like what\u2019s happening?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actually, I was quite relaxed. I also know fear, right. Fear is a good signal. It is a signal that makes you very alert, that makes your adrenal axis go, so you are ready. But then I had a little fear like, \u201cHey, what if,\u201d those thoughts, a little of those came to me. But then once I was in, wow, it was a party. I was actually celebrating my birthday in a joyous, gay, kind of way. I\u2019m happy. I\u2019m here. I\u2019m singing. I\u2019m in control. I\u2019m in bloody great control that I\u2019m able to be happy and joyous while being confronted with one of the most extreme, aggressive impacts. I see water upon me, and I astounded myself actually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m into the power of the mind, to see how that works. Not just muscle power, no, just the power of the mind. And it\u2019s amazing what it can do. And I\u2019m venturing in new areas. The big thing now is to pass it on, to tell people about the benefits of icy water, cold water, into their lives. Really, anybody who takes up within 10 days, you will get into a natural condition, within 10 days of his cardiovascular system. And with that inflammation goes down, the connection with the neurology is there, much more energy, much less stress, it\u2019s all there. And this should be taught in primary schools, because this gives us much more confidence within our body and mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK. So, Wim, I\u2019m not ready for the full-on freezer, chest ice bath, but I do think that along with many of our listeners, we could experiment with an ice bucket immersion of some kind. What would you recommend there as a next step, after the cold showering?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the cold shower, say two minutes, you are able to do, a couple of minutes into icy water in the winter, but in between there is the ice bucket. In the ice bucket is a very able to train the hands, the extremities of hands and feet. And a lot of people have problems with that, because the physiology, the blood flow circulation physiology of the hands and the feet is different than the rest of the body. So it\u2019s a great learning moment we can get by learning to get two minutes hand immersion into icy water. You learn to focus to connect because in the end, the blood flow circulation system in us is a closed circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s all connected. So if you train this, you train the whole body. So get your mind together and go within that. Focus is able to connect with the hypothalamus, which is the thermal regulator inside the body, which is also the hand, it\u2019s everywhere, and learn that you are able just by using the mind to make a difference already in your hands, your feet. And if you can do it over there, you can do it anywhere. That\u2019s what you learn out of it. And now physically going for two minutes in the icy water, after the 10-day challenge of 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45, one minute, up to two minutes, around that, then going into an ice water bucket challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two minutes is really a great step, and then from there you learn really to control this great stressor, the icy water on the physiology. And with that, you learn that you are able to go much deeper and differently into your own physiology and retrieve what has been hidden through our comfort zone behavior. This deep primordial power comes to you, and then you feel in the wintertime, \u201cHey, I\u2019m the boss, I can swim outside, and oh yes, look at me.\u201d And being completely poised like in the eye of the hurricane, stress all over and you\u2019re in control. It\u2019s amazing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim, as I mentioned, there are three pillars to the Wim Hof Method, and we\u2019ve introduced cold exposure, and also a little bit about the power of the mind. The third pillar has to do with breathing. We\u2019re going to get there in a moment, but before we do, I want to ask you a personal question, which is, as I was carefully reading the new paperback edition of the Wim Hof Method\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How\u2019s it going?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s going well, people love it. And it has so much pass-around, people saying to other people, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to get the book, you\u2019ve got to try the cold exposure combined with the conscious breathing. You have to do it.\u201d Health professionals, etc. OK. Here\u2019s my personal question though, Wim, you talk about in the book, your own birth and how you were a hidden twin, that your mother, when she gave birth to your twin brother, didn\u2019t even know that you were in the womb at the time, and how that\u2014actually you hinted this\u2014connects to your own love of the cold. That\u2019s what I wanted to understand more about, because here you are, you\u2019re such a unique person, bringing cold exposure, righteous cold to the people. How did that link actually to your very own birth experience?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it is the love for my mother, in the end. But as a baby hidden, I was so deeply within my mother while I was one of the identical twins, but they only found out almost too late there was another one, so they pushed the bed to where the operation room, because I was too deep in, I had to be gotten out through cesarean, because I was suffocating inside. And I came with the words of my mother just before arriving into the operation room, I came to the world with the invocation of my mother saying, \u201cOh God, let this child live. I will make him a missionary.\u201d She was pious, naive, but don\u2019t mess with the mother in fear of having a baby\u2014who is protecting the love of her over her baby\u2014invocating to what she thinks is a higher power, God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s exactly what happened. I came to life, into this light, as a purple nothing, with those words, and those words are really imprinted on my soul. And therefore, that makes me connected right now with my mother, with God, with the light. And that sounds all wishy washy maybe, but I feel it very strongly that the purpose of my mother was to bring me\u2014because 48 years later, I was in New York and got a telephone of Dr. Ken Kamler, with the results of the blood, of a vagus nerve experiment to show what nobody had shown before, how to influence deeply into the vagus nerve, which means that if you do what nobody had done before, and I did, because the blood results showed is when Dr. Ken Kamler said, \u201cWim, if you are able to reproduce this in a comparative study, then that means huge consequences for humankind.\u201d Then meaning all these diseases, when you are able to control or influence deeply into the vagus nerve, as I had done, then all these diseases would cease to be so severe and so dangerous. And then at that moment my mission was born. At that moment I became a missionary. A half hour later, I got a telephone call from my family saying, \u201cWim, your mother died. She collapsed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see how that is connected. Is that a story? Is that coincidence? I don\u2019t believe it. I believe in purpose in life. And this is my purpose to be a missionary of, and show there in true science, through rigid science, that these techniques coming from the soul surge somewhere in nature, because in the books, it was not, and now it\u2019s available for every person in the world. And for that, I have to thank you again, with your platform, making me able to bring it about in this <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim Hof Method<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> book. And now with the first chapter of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Into the Depth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, which is actually a new revolution, a revolution wherein we show to go into the deeper part of our physiology and all what is ours. A man who\u2019s in control of himself\u2014a human I mean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men, women, it doesn\u2019t matter. A human in control would choose happiness, health, and strength, and not as some substitutes or alternatives, because nothing is as much as the value as happiness, strength and health. A happy man doesn\u2019t go to war. A happy man is not into possessive thinking. He is simply there. And it\u2019s time that we bring it about, and that is this podcast, the book, and the coming books all about. I keep that goal, and that is because I loved my mom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim\u2019s referring to his next book with Sounds True, after the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim Hof Method<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, [which is called] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Into the Depths,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coming out in a couple of years now; we\u2019re working on it, in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim, you said something very interesting, that you sense your mom right now, and that could be woo woo, or something, but that you feel it. And I think this is an important idea to help this be very real for people, this experience. Tell me what you experience right now? Your mother\u2019s presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, yes. So, come on, that is very powerful, very strong, very here and now. And without, once again, like in the earlier phase of this conversation we talked about, hey, if we have no soul, we stink in one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because we\u2019re dead flesh. We\u2019re dead flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. We are not just flesh; we are a soul, and that\u2019s why we are alive. And those souls, souls are unbreakable. They are forever. So, my mother has no body at this moment, but I can feel her, directly. I can feel the purpose. I can feel the understanding. And I\u2019m a man of fact, I\u2019m a man who works on a millimeter. I\u2019m not into superstition or anything like that. I love science. I want science. I welcome, I intrigue, I tease all the scientists of the world to prove me wrong, but it doesn\u2019t begin when we are born and it doesn\u2019t end when we are going to pass on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other thing is, when we catch on with what our predecessors, our ancestors, our mothers and fathers have been telling us out of love, then we are the ones to embody it and to bring it on and to make progress. And fuck enlightenment. Sorry that I say it in that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s OK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s so self-indulgent. I want to heal the world. I want to heal my friends, my babies, the women the men, the living beings, live in harmony with nature. That gives me salvation of my soul. That gives me development of my soul. I\u2019m not into this self-indulgent being. I train hard. Go into my ice baths, etc., because I want to preserve this vessel to be strong. But my message is happiness, strength and health, that is love, that is for me to bring to this world, and I will push it all the time through the books together with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You do it through your platform, amazing light work you do. People should be not ashamed to say, \u201cI\u2019m a warrior of the light. I am there. I\u2019m not here in doubt.\u201d And \u201cMaybe I can say this, maybe\u2014\u201d\u00a0 No! When you are in love, you fly! You have no inhibition. You go like a child, and children are innocent. Let\u2019s be innocent again. Enigma, the music, \u201cReturn to Innocence,\u201d beautiful music they make. But it is actually a fact\u2014without the soul we are like zombies. Let\u2019s be alive and live in the soul from the deepest, here and now, and become kings and queens, all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we saw this too, Tami\u2014kings and queens, the symbol for kings and queens is the corona, isn\u2019t it? The crown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, the corona\u2014and I\u2019m talking about the virus\u2014that has been. But let me tell you, there\u2019s some new news. That is the corona radiata. The corona radiata is the radiance crown\u2014those are nerve endings. In yoga they are called the crown chakra. But now within a half hour, we can activate those nerves, thus the crown chakra, the corona radiata nerve endings. And this is a full statement of Dr. Kevin Tracy, who is healthcare man number one in New York state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, he wants now me in the panel with the greatest of professors, in San Diego in March this coming year. I mean, he knows that what we have found is the future. It only needs to be translated into general understanding, because the science needs to build up. I don\u2019t know the existent establishment\u2014but hospitals, and they cannot even fend off invisible enemies like virus, bacteria, and depression, which is darkness. That\u2019s where we come in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have natural tools to face all these invisible enemies. That\u2019s the way we are built in the depth of ours. Nature has been over millions of years to make us so sophisticatedly, to be able to\u2014what we even cannot see defy and fight, through our will. That\u2019s the power of the mind. And now that\u2019s where we go, so we go where nobody has gone before. That\u2019s what we do because we are fearless in what we do, we want to venture, we want to discover like a child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s so interesting to me, Wim, that you use this metaphor of the crown on top of our head as a king or a queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s so powerful. It\u2019s easy to see the crown that you wear in your sovereignty and power and empowerment inside. But what\u2019s interesting is, I think you\u2019re pointing that all of us have this inner king\/queen inside, and I wonder if you can just speak more about how that\u2019s a product of practicing the Wim Hof Method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is. It wasn\u2019t me even. It was Dr. Kevin Tracy, who\u2019s an authority in immunology, and he\u2019s got a whole biochemical institute. He\u2019s the most down to earth man you can ever think of. And he told me, after we did the studies here in the Netherlands, we\u2019re injecting E. Coli bacteria inside, that the processes in the brain, he was looking at the studies and peer reviewing, examining, and then if you do that, then inflammation goes down. That means you activate the vagus nerve, and once you begin to willfully activate the vagus nerve, then you enlighten, activate all the white nerve endings called the corona radiata, which is the radiant crown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He told me, it\u2019s only a result of logical deduction, and now it\u2019s there. This is the way you should feel. When you are in love with somebody, you feel like a king, you feel like a queen, because you are stronger than matter. You are stronger than the world. No obstacle can hold you back. That is the power of love. So, if you feel, when you go into the cold, then this power comes to life because all systems begin to work, and they enlighten what normally in our conditioned, narrowed mind is not able to be fed in with the right blood flow and neural activity, and then we\u2019re dust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s so simple, and it\u2019s there. And then it is a question of what do you choose? Do you choose this abundance of energy coming out of you and flowing, or do you choose to go back to your conditioned way of life? The thing is we have found this deeper control, this higher control, and change our consciousness. We are not dogmatic therein, we bring people\u2014this is a tool and this tool is able to bring you past, your conditioned mind more than science even thought possible. But science serves development, serves growth; and in the end, it is for the growth of a human student, get into a higher consciousness, which is nothing more than logical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s no longer just religious. It\u2019s just the nature of neurology, to broaden, to go more, like a child, keep up\u2014it\u2019s stronger than your boredom, than your thoughts, to go past in your time space, consciousness, your ego. Now you can go past and understand the omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotency. And that is the full range of your brain, which we have shown in Hanover, in the best brain scans of the world, 100 percent activity, neural activity, willfully activated, it means your brain now is at your disposal. What do you do with it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim, we have to talk about the breathing, because this is such an important part of the Wim Hof Method, and you discovered it through the cold exposures, the cold taught you the breathing. Can you explain that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. Imagine you go for the first time into icy water like that, involuntarily it wants to go and breathe deep. This is what it has taught me, to breathe deep, and therefore it activate all systems inside to be able to adapt to the aggressive impact. The body is able to do that, but our conditioned shallow breathing is not able to feed into the mechanisms that need to be fed into to make them work. The blood flow needs to become alkaline. Alkalinity is the way that the neurology goes fast, the electricity, the neurotransmitters inside the body who signal and make things work, they go best when the body\u2019s pH level goes up. This happens through deep breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The breathing, the way you describe it, it\u2019s pretty simple to describe these full inhalations, natural exhalations. You recommend people do that, something like 30 to 40 times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So as the first step here of the breathing process, and I wanted to ask you about that, because I notice sometimes when I do it in the middle of the day, I\u2019ll breathe five or six full inhales, and I already feel a little, like I can feel the lights turning on inside. I don\u2019t make it all the way to 30. What do you think about that, Wim, is it important? And then you suggest, we go all the way 30 to 40 big inhales, natural exhales, and then we let the breath out, and we don\u2019t breathe in for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is very important. Yes. Explain this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK. For example, I have people, CEOs who sit a long time behind a computer, and brains are like muscles, they get sore. If there is a lot of neural activity constantly going on, like running, you become sore. In the brain, the blood becomes sore, and then they become sluggish. And then I hear this of these people coming to me, \u201cAnd then I do 20 minutes of this breathing.\u201d They take 20 minutes just for themselves, deep breathing, pulling in, letting go, pulling in, letting go, pulling in, letting go, pulling in, letting go. If you keep on going 30 times, then you blow off the carbon dioxide, that is as the acid inside the body, it suddenly goes way down, pH level goes way up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means when the pH level is up, you don\u2019t need to breathe; it\u2019s only when the carbon dioxide, the CO2 in the body is high, is when you breathe, that is a breathing trigger. So, we bring it down. After 30 deep breaths, pH level is way up, and then the last time, you stop breathing, and you don\u2019t need to breathe because the pH level is very up. So it takes a minute or one and half minutes, it\u2019s 90 seconds, 100 seconds, and you don\u2019t feel the force to breathe. What happens is a lot of biochemical processes inside the body. The body is going to be reset, five times more blood will flush into the heart and brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adrenal access is spiked at that moment, just for a moment to reset the body, and if you do this a couple of rounds consecutive, then you will be very easy. It doesn\u2019t matter the age, 70 years, 80 years, even 90 years, for two minutes or two and a half minutes without air in the lungs, in three rounds that happens. And what happens then is that your pH level goes way up, you become very alkaline. And then those people, those CEOs have been working all day, very sluggish in their mind, suddenly they are fresh like chickens again. And that\u2019s amazing. And so everybody will feel that the mist, the clouds in their head, they are gone, and they, \u201cWow, what a wonderful day.\u201d And that\u2019s the afternoon. So, it\u2019s really worth it to do this, because it will make the productivity, effectivity, the sharpness of your mind, the clarity, go way up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK. So, after these 30 inhales, as you just described, letting go, then you let the breath out and you let it stay out. I\u2019m curious, Wim, when you do this breathing, how long does the breath stay out? Have you ever timed yourself, like the longest amount?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, yes. Of course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. And how long, friend?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the beginning I did it for five to seven minutes under the ice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did it in icy water. If you exercise, you are able to go really far. And so that\u2019s what I did. I\u2019m a soul searcher, so I have been challenging myself, going in shorts up to Mount Everest, to the death zone without oxygen, in just my shorts, where it is very cold and less than half the oxygen there. Those are all breathing exercises actually, is learning how to control oxygen. Even when there is little, that\u2019s amazing what we can do without, then the power of the will comes in. So at the start I did five minutes, six minutes, seven minutes without breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, five to seven minutes every day, regardless and no force, under the ice, that\u2019s what I did. And then after a time I began to separate the breathing and do it at home without the icy water. And then at home, let me tell you, Tami, I saw all the chakras, all the colors, all the geometric patterns, anything that was in the esoteric books, I saw it all, the transformations, the trauma release, the 3D, the DMT, all, all, all. And I\u2019ve been doing that for 25 years on my own, because it was crazy. It\u2019s like the kundalini, fully, fully, fully young. And yes, just serving me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why I never felt sick. I had always all the energy, and this was actually the great answer after I lost my wife in \u201895 through a suicide. I had all the energy all the time for my four kids to grow up, and I had no money. So, it hasn\u2019t got to do with money and power, it\u2019s the power within the unconditional power, and that is able to be unlocked through these breathing techniques. So, there is no excuse therein, anybody can adopt these breathing techniques and show it for themselves. Feeling is the real proof; feeling is the real understanding. We are just offering through this book, through stories, through signs, we are showing something that can be owned by any person in the world, and that is a much deeper control within the existed natural physiology anybody has to become happy, strong, and healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wim, I just want to talk a little bit more about this long exhalation without inhaling again, this space that you\u2019re able to occupy for upwards of five minutes. Even for us who are new to this, if we are able to be in that space for a minute, something like that in our practice at home, help people see the kind of stillness of the mind, what\u2019s possible in that space where you\u2019ve exhaled and you\u2019re not breathing in again for a period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exactly. This is what happens. Physiologically more blood will be flowing into the heart and brain, which gives, spinally, past our conditioned blood flow, the right nutrition to get into the deep brain, to deep sensations in the heart, that is physically going on. In the nervous system it is the deep stimulation activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the peace. Because after exhalation and not breathing, that is completely without action. There is no breath. There is no oxygen. There is no air, nothing is feeding into the active mode of the nervous system, and suddenly, therefore, after 30 seconds, 40 seconds, you feel such a stillness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that goes deeper than people exercising four hours a day, mindfulness for years. It has been compared in brain scans, so this deep activation of the peacemaker, the deep peace, the regeneration, the rehabilitation, the deep peace within, where mind is getting into deep stillness, where the blood flow goes suddenly into the deeper areas of the brain, like a cloud it descends, because there is no action going on. That is the result of going into retention after the exhalation. And it is amazing. Anybody can do it, because anybody should be able to own the ability to become still anytime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just one further question about this, because I think this space, in the exhale, this retention phase, and being in that space and the discovery that can happen, you point, Wim, to the possibility also of this helping us with our intention and purpose in the world, that in that space we can plant the seed of the impact we want to make in the world. Can you talk some about that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. It\u2019s like when you are in too much action, it will be swiped away. This little seed of our neurotransmitter activation, our willful intent is a little, very subtle current, and that within the stillness created is able to land into the soil of eternity. And eternity only exists, because time and space exist, we are able to go past time and space and sense it, sense who we are and what we are, our purpose, and it really has the ability to listen to what we as humans want, our deepest wish. It\u2019s no longer, somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, it\u2019s in us, it\u2019s here. And through the breath, we go into unprecedented, deep stillness, where we learn to feel that our intentions are heard, that prayers are being heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think I\u2019m emphasizing this here, as we come to the end of our conversation, because right now, at this time, I think a lot of people are feeling so concerned about the state of humanity, and so concerned about the ecological challenges we\u2019re facing, the divisiveness in our world, and they want to help, and yet there\u2019s a feeling I think in many people of powerlessness. And yet, here you are with a crown, a being of light, saying that we have the power, we can go into that space and become empowered by it to bring our souls forward. And I want to end on that note, Wim, of your recommendations for how people can see this particular time we\u2019re in and find their own empowerment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. The old paradigm is ceasing to be; that\u2019s what is happening now. And it looks like our safety is gone, but this is the opportunity, the opening up for us to go past our conditioned mind, coming from the wrong schooling. I mean, the schooling that serves this system that is polluting the world, that is serving only a couple of people who have all the power, where famine and disease, cruelty, abuse, wars, etc., are going on. These leaders are not able to govern over this world. We have to learn to govern over ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have to learn and become the kings and queens within ourselves, to own our sovereignty of the purpose of this earth, of this planet where we live; we have to awaken to the purpose of that. And that is love, love is the future, living in harmony with nature, outside inside, and it is there for everybody. That\u2019s why I\u2019m doing the science, to not just have hollow expressions of \u201chey, let\u2019s go, flower power.\u201d No, get high on your own supply, you don\u2019t need drugs of the outside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t need the external world, you need this subtle little connection within, called faith, which is now a neurological connection. Professor Muzik from Detroit is saying in the book of Scott Carney, an investigative journalist, \u201cWim Hof has found a secret of placebo.\u201d And the healing within us, we are in charge of that. And with the healing in us, the healing of our children, of our friends and all living beings on this earth, it\u2019s time to awaken to a great future, where in paradise will manifest, and we are all in it. What is your choice?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just want to say, Wim, every time I talk to you, you are this contagious love light that I catch. So I just want to thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love you, Tami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thanks for bringing your love with the crown and sovereignty on your head, and the power of your mind with your mother\u2019s love coming through you to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much, Wim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks Tami. Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WH: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really respect and bow deep for your work. Thank you for your being. Absolutely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks everyone for being with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for listening to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can read a full transcript of today\u2019s interview at resources2.soundstrue.com\/Podcast. If you\u2019re interested, hit the Subscribe button in your podcast app, and if you feel inspired, head to iTunes and leave <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a review, I absolutely love getting your feedback and being connected. 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