what if we could control the deep autonomic nervous system the immune system inflammation is the cause and effect of actually every disease I'm into healing into bringing down inflammation And that is what I give to people within a hour So better control over the immune system better control over the central nervous system and you learn to clean the biochemical residue which is the result of our daily life Actic modern life the number one health and wellness podcast J Shetty J Shetty the one the only J Shetty Why do you believe so deeply in the in your work and the impact that it's making that's allowed you to dedicate your whole life to it i think it was my mother at my birth who invocated is a naive god-fearing mother and yet in fear that this baby was going to die There was the second baby and uh nobody knew there was a second one I was too deep in So I was too long in and almost suffocated I came uh through her fear and pushing and invocating oh God let this child live I will make him a missionary So I don't think it is my drive but it is invocated by my mother A naive mother yet god-fearing is a formula is a powerful formula that is impregnated It's tattooed on my soul while I was nothing more than a purple little nothing coming out there uh defenseless And yet there her invocation came right into me and how that all works It works cuz I've been talking to her and when I was 12 I told my friends if the world thinks that's the way it begins to reveal itself 12 years you start thinking about what is life If the world think that is hunger h abuse pollution disease darkness depression is normal then I think it is sick and I'm going to do something about it and what I do not know I just do it that is where it came from and since then it starts and every moment is a drop after 40 50 years the drop all those drops have become a tsunami me a way through the thick wall of ignorance cuz I think it is all b all sickness disease darkness depression uh wars pollution etc is just based in ignorance So I have come up with a way looking in nature not in uh books uh something that works that makes that overrides my mind of all uh that has been filled up with And then uh the cold water came in and from the cold water you learn to breathe different And with that deep breathing you go past the conditioning and then you see all what has been written for real here now And then because it is so close it's so direct I had no need for looking in esoteric books anymore traditions languages religions anything like that No God was suddenly here and now This is it was the first time my feeling when I went into the court order and I've been doing it since ever and you know what it was my mother's invocation she was god-fearing Catholic and all and right now the priests of the Catholic church itself the doctors the theologists they are coming and they are in integrating the Wimhof method in the deep religious esoteric disciplines of the church which is equals mysticism of Islam Hinduism Taoism Buddhism it's all the same layer and that layer now is been hit and recognized by the best in the Catholic Church the most learned of men And if they are able to recognize that then I say I am not into uh abstracting uh knowledge and philosophies and esoteric disciplines making it all so difficult Make God where is he where is he if we go and it is recognized by the best of them to be a a highly esoteric discipline then now the discipline is there for everybody accessible in a half hour That means God is back For someone who has no idea what the Wimhof method is how would you break it down for them and introduce them to it it is simple It is scientifically endorsed and I'm inviting all the time I got big studies uh done recently They are into publishing and it uh all shows the effectivity to go past our normal uh control willful control within our bodies What if we could uh control emotion what if we could control the deep autonomic nervous system the immune system those matters are now present and shown in science that we are able to control that So uh that is based through very simple techniques and what would change if we could control those before we know the techniques If we could control those systems what does that mean for humans what are the benefits oh there is multiple benefits from inflammation inflammation is the cause and effect of actually every disease And we showed that people injected with a bacteria could uh withstand the influence of the bacteria on the immune system Thus the inflammation which normally happens uh within that controlled experiment This time it doesn't happen So people bring down the cause and effect of disease which is inflammation and we showed that in science Now we see where we are in the world with the co when there was co we had talks and medicines and pills It's all money So I'm into healing into bringing down inflammation That that is what I give to people within a hour The the techniques come within an hour before they thought whim How much time does it take for people to learn what you can do bringing down the inflammation after an injection of a bacteria does it take a year one and a half year i said 10 days and then it became 4 days and now is a half hour So better control over the immune system better control over the central nervous system which includes our emotions So our emotions become much more pacified by uh doing this and you learn to clean the biochemical residue which is the result of our daily life actic daily modern life So uh we bring uh our emotion learn to regulate our emotions We got a lot more energy because of the cardiovascular fitness uh workout a cold shower It's so easy Also it's remarkable There was just last week I was in Poland with 500 people in the mountains and it was one guy saying women I'm doing the cold and I'm doing this but my results get lower I say come forward come here on stage So how many push-ups can you do and he said 15 Now breathe this way for 30 times fully And let it go fully and be with your mind in one thing You give the best you got That's that's all Follow your breath fully and fully and 30 times 30 times Last time he fully in let it go on empty lungs he did 40 push-ups You see the breath is power If you know how to manipulate the nervous system then you are able to generate a much greater power and you're breathing in through your nose and out Yeah That does does not matter so much Doesn't matter whether you breathe out through your mouth or out through your nose Yeah It matters a little They say the nitrogen and through the nose and uh but if you do it such a a short period of time you go just into the depth of the whole body you cleanse the body of its biochemical residue which is caused by stress of daily life and therefore just breathe don't think about nasal breathing you know surya tadva and chandrava and kumbakas and all that No don't be no difficulties If you if you we go back to says in the beginning or the yoga is the silencing of the modifications of the thinking brain Then the seer appears at that unconditional power That is where I am aiming at I just want to go through the conditioned mind and body And we are doing the studies with the psychiatrist neuroscientists immunologists and it shows that we go where in science was stated this is not possible for humans etc And now it is and that's my aim Within a half hour I want people to feel their real power So the first step is 30 breaths full breaths in and out Yes And do you recommend is doing this first thing in the morning or is there an empty stomach empty stomach is of course the best where you take shower Take also a cold shower and and try it out once that your push How many push-ups can you do if you look to this podcast and you do only this biohacking great trick 30 times fully in relax a chair or you sit on the ground and uh you you know how many push-ups you can do You want to see how you can influence the neuromuscular mechanisms in the body uh for power just use your breath It's so simple It's really interesting because if you look at boxers they all know the value of breath Yeah If you look at athletes they all know the value of the breath If you look at musicians who play wind instruments they know the value of the breath If you look at singers they know the value of the breath So this is something that we've known but for some reason we haven't applied it to normal life because we all are athletes in our own way in an everyday life And I think we've lost connection with that I remember when the first day I went to join the monastery in India I saw a young monk teaching younger monks and I went up to that young monk He was like 10 or 11 years old and I said "What did you teach them?" And he said "It's their first day of school." And I said "Oh well what did you teach them?" And he said "What did you learn on your first day of school?" And I said "Maybe ABC 1 2 3 I can't remember." And he said "Well I just taught them how to breathe." And I said "What do you mean you taught them how to breathe?" Oh but this is important Jay Here in America with the shootings in the school to simplify a monkey has difficulties learning how to swim and a fish has difficulties learning how to climb Our minds and every person is different Some fit into the system and some don't They get uh conflict with their identity and so much when the stress comes in and they still have to perform and give results and cognitively keep on and they feel uh not good compared to others and all that might jeopardize the identity and that goes in many cases uh to uh where they lose it Then they shoot their father their mother their siblings and then the people because they are completely lost We should brain regulation of emotions done by breathing As you say he was totally right This man that was probably the best lesson you got The inquisitive nature always brings about answers Yeah Absolutely And and he was saying the same thing as you're saying He said that your breath is the only thing that stays with you from the moment you're born to the moment you die He said you'll change your country You'll change your family You change your friends Like things change But your breath is always with you And he said what changes when you're happy your breath What changes when you're sad your breath What changes when you're angry your breath And so he said to me if you learn to manage your breath you'll be able to manage any emotion in life Exactly like what you're saying Yes I'm here to show scientifically that autonomy is ours That we have a control far deeper than in science was thought possible But now it's here We not only here to drink a glass of water We are here to drink the full cup of life If you don't go to the cold the cold will come to you and then you don't like it So too much disease too much anxiety too much depression too much darkness all is happening Too much stress it's all happening We know this and we found a way to deal with it We found the key So you have these three pillars breathing exercises commitment and then you have the cold Yes What is commitment what do you mean by that with commitment just do it Do it Just do it regardless and and stay in that discipline In the end if you go into an ice bath you learn to control your thoughts because you learn to shut up If you want it yes or no you learn to surrender Let the body do what the body is capable of Once you get that you get a control Like in the beginning you said intention Intention is interosception And now we found in Detroit topdown regulated interception which is interceptive focus and that is the will able to enter into the body and to readjust what needs to be uh what is out of balance to reconnect with the body That is what the cult learns to shut up and to connect with the body Let the body do what the body is capable and then you become aware that you suddenly willfully are able to control to make stronger your body without moving and that is top yoga like dana dana samadei those things are now here and we have seen that it activates the coronal radiata and the coronal radiata the nerve endings in the human brain which is the crown Crown chakra the crown endings the corona radiata the radiant crown it now is uh able to be activated by us because we learn to surrender That means we learn to let go and then we are able to full bloom activate our brain uh capacity like 100% willfully That's where we are in India in in Bangalore I I'm I'm going to receive this prize award for excellence in yoga What is excellence in yoga yoga means connecting That's what I bring about And make it simple Breathing is so much more important and we can cover within this hour Yeah Within this podcast Just try it out once Embrace the full power partial conditioned mind and body through breathing And we have simplified these techniques now and made it so accessible that the esoteric disciplines of all the religions they come knocking at our door They say this is highly esoteric This is uh mystical and this is here awaiting for any person because God or what is mystical should be there for everybody absolutely Every time all the time So you recommend that if ideally people do this on an empty stomach first thing in the morning It's going to allow them to have more clarity It's going to allow them to have more energy It's going to allow them to focus better Yes It it cleanses completely the glimpmphatic system Uh all our daily habits or activities result in stress biochemical residue It accumulates in our bodies and if we don't clean it then it obstructs our quality of life How does breathing clean it if we do these breathing sessions a within four rounds you will be able to get into the the deepest of all systems to the deepest to the bone marrow to the deepest of your brain and learn to connect willfully How does it work if we do this breathing we blow off the carbon dioxide and then the alkalinity in the blood goes way up uh when it goes way up you can exhale and be without the need to breathe because breathing is because you become acidic Now the acid is out of the body and you are very alkaline So you are able to stay one and a half minute 2 minutes without breathing after exhalation Now what happens in the brain stem the reptilian the crocodile brain it says you are not breathing this is dangerous it doesn't look to pH levels in the blood is it alkaline or no it looks to oxygen and oxygen is completely depleted and when that happens then the brain stem which is connected to the adrenal axis that is the third eye pituitary gland hypothalamus and the adrenal glands Then it activates the adrenal axis just to spike once in the body with twice as much adrenaline than a person who goes for the first time into a bungee jump in fear Wow They have measured the blood of the people going into a bungee jump with fear for vertigo They took their blood and uh they took the blood of the people doing this breathing technique and then they saw twice as much adrenal spike in the blood uh for people doing this breathing technique Now what happens with that a double dose of adrenaline it goes uh like hormones into the spinal fluid and this is where we manipulate This is breathing techniques manipulation of the the key the chi the poma the prana There's 10 kinds But hey prana We call it prana So we get it sublime But we make it simple We say fully in 30 times breathing and then exhale and stop And you don't feel the need to breathe Now after one and a half minute what happens if you don't breathe five times more blood flows into the brain five times more blood flows into the heart Nobody knew until they did cardio films uh on this and they say this is the future This diagnostic and cardiology uh this is for the future breathing techniques uh because it flushes like a battery the heart if it functions too less and that's terrible If you got a heart that is not strong enough you can make it stronger just through doing this And five times more fluid into the brain is flushing it And now because there's twice as much adrenaline hormonally in it it cleanses everything anything that should not be there that is flammatory markers but also PFAS also microplastics also mRNA techniques uh uh technology uh whatever the is and radio waves biochemical residue there from all that has influence and we don't know how to clean it through doing this you just clean it it's such an interesting prospect that we've been given the technology in how we've been created in order to cleanse to survive to live to heal Yeah But obviously you know today so many people are struggling with anxiety And a lot of people listening today people may have anxiety about meeting new people People have anxiety about their work People have anxiety about relationships There's so much anxiety in the world How can this help someone who's struggling with anxiety is there a different breathing practice or is it the same one exactly the same one That the simplicity is the power So just try it out You will be able to cleanse that what obstructs you the quality of your life under performance when you need to perform It really could be a relationship could be having a new job interview could be a presentation on stage or whatever is important to you that you want to feel more than normal in a functional power That one needs cleaning and this one doesn't This takes it away because your body knows exactly what you are up against But it it it is saying hey you are anxious because you cannot uh function the way you actually want because you there's inside and we need to get it out and that's what it is saying So anxiety actually is a neuros signal say tell hey clean up before you go up and and you will see that these simple breathing techniques will lead to suddenly oh it's easy on stage all these the aha lateness comes by itself Is it true that this can also help us get less sick less often absolutely It has been shown in a scientific comparative study people injected with the bacteria causing inflammation That means fever uh headaches vomiting nausea muscle aches backachches but really 3 to six hours is a controlled experiment 16,000 became very sick and the 12 I trained not sick And we already showed this in 2014 bacteria ecoli virus it's all the same We have like you said we got the mechanisms but we don't make use of our inner nature anymore to take down what should not be in there like sickness like anxiety depression inflammation or of any kind And it is preventative as well The thing is if you do this in the morning preemptively then you your day you are able to accumulate a lot of stress without feeling that you are cannot deal with it Yeah Yeah Because you're clean Yeah Right It's almost like we could actually deal with more stress than we believe Yeah If we were able to be in a state and there you come into this emotional spiritual state to take on challenges because you feel suddenly I you don't feel that awkward anxiety fear you don't feel it anymore and that makes you able to go into the challenges of life You're saying something really important here about I think the challenge that people have is we've become seekers of an even more comfortable life If you look at everything we're creating around us it's so we can be more comfortable be more safe and I mean even physically comfortable And we don't want to do something too challenging We don't want to do something that's uncomfortable We don't seek discomfort So how do we encourage people to transform our mind to realize that discomfort is what creates goodness in life and comfort is what creates more problems later down the line Exactly that So comfort is a false feeling It is in the long term it's really uh getting to you and it will cause psychosmatic disturbances in the body It will heap up accumulate The body needs cleaning and for that we need to go into a certain kind of stress If we stress our bodies up consciously we learn to connect with the stress mechanisms in the uh brain and body And with that the stress in daily life because if you're escaping into comfort behavior will not make you strong for the the that is going to happen anyway So better be ready before it And we provide with these simple techniques not only the the ability to tackle stress in life effectively but also directly when you did it when you take a cold shower you feel good Yeah For sure You give a little you get so much more back Yeah And for people who are not motivated to do this don't wait until the comes to you You go to the I say always if you don't go to the cult the cold will come to you and then you don't like it So too much disease too much anxiety too much depression too much darkness all is happening Too much stress it's all happening We know this and we found a way to deal with it We found a key and we just want to hand over out of love and respect to the person this key When I first started I think I mean I I took cold showers when I was in the monastery It was very normal But the first time I did a cold plunge was probably around four five years ago as well And I can honestly say that as someone who has tried to get massages to like feel relaxed and d-stressed and they probably get me to like a 70 80% but sitting in the cold and doing the contrast therapy of maybe 10 to 15 minutes in a sauna and maybe 3 to 5 minutes in the cold and then doing it three times over I have never felt that level of relaxation or slept better than when I've done the cold whether it's in the morning or the evening that day The whole body just feels loose in a way that I've never felt You'd assume it feels tight Like you think when you get in the cold that your body's just going to like hold on but it doesn't It does the opposite Yes And when you get out you almost feel so much looser calmer less stressed but that's not what the mind thinks the mind thinks it's probably going to be really It is it is challenging in the beginning for sure The first time I did it I was in there for 4 minutes because I was doing it with a friend and we were trying to encourage each other But for someone who gets in there and just wants to get out in the first 10 seconds how do they get more comfortable with that discomfort what should they do if they're in there for 10 seconds I need to get out like how do you get over that hunch i just know that this really will bring about a much greater uh control over stress in your daily life You only have to go through this say a minute once you are a minute in and anybody can do it Last weekend I had people of 80 years who never had been in an iceberg They went in for 10 minutes 10 minutes and they loved it I mean a young people should not be in the mind thinking Learn to be in the body and then know that you are able to enter into the body into the depth and that will be yours for 10 seconds Yes that is your reaction of a body that never has been in the cold but you are very able Let me be very clear about it you as a young person uh I'm talking to the person who's watching this uh you are very capable of staying uh one minute and what happens then your body is adapted what that means is that your inner power is on and it's connecting to your will and with that you learn to take on stress of daily life which you don't need to escape of anymore you are able to confront yourself with difficult situations in all the other areas So that little bit of uh cold you're going to endure is going to give you so much more back It's funny how the mind when you're not when you're in it and you finish it you have a great experience and then the mind's like "Oh I don't want to do it again It's really hard." Like whatever And then you have to keep reminding yourself And I've I've learned over time that things that are good for you feel good after and things that are bad for you feel good before Right anything that's bad for you feels good before You want to eat badly you want to drink badly you want to do anything It feels amazing before and then afterwards it's like poison It's like pain But anything that's good for you before you do it you're stressed you're nervous but then after you do it you feel the benefits And you have to keep reminding yourself of that value because it's so easy to lose whim How did you even discover the power of breath work and the power of cold how did you even come to this for yourself yes I I I was a young kid and very much in the head What were you worried about as a young kid because I feel like now about life What were you worried i'm intrigued because I think my career my this my what I'm going to do Yeah The same stuff as anybody So I I read a lot and I was philosophy a lot debate I went running in my head crazy and then uh one day I found this irrational attraction intuitively to go into cold water and when I did that the this circling this it came from within rumminating yes stopped right there it's a This is it I was looking in philosophies and religions that what is it what is love it's in you It's there It's alive It's past thinking and it's here now And the cold has opened that up to me past my conditioning Whatever I had learned those are patterns They keep you running in the same conditioning and can be very stubborn But the cold was there and it went just straight through by which I started I never stopped it when it was 17 So for you it was almost the cold became the pathway to enlightenment to yourself Yes That that was the pathway because it just stopped the chatter You can't hear the noise because the noise becomes well initially the noise becomes Oh god it's so cold Then what happens walk us through what that journey was I think I was ready to take on that challenge within me to get rid of the chatter What what is that what makes me connect instead of chattering i can say uh oh I meditate and I do this and I do yogic postures and I'm very good at it all and philosophy that one I was looking for I found it and right now right now it shows in a big study we did it's submitted at nature is a big scientific paper with 500 people and it says they compared it to meditation and mindfulness So that the stress as stress tools mindfulness and meditation stress tools in the corporate world So we took people out of the corporate world from the corporate world with a lot of stress And we took them and we went through and doing this cold practice and the breathing and it shows that it is able to make this uh ruminating through the stress of daily life and having to perform and compete constantly very high up the the price house water coopers people they are not into yoga or into gall what whatever exercise they are they need to perform with numbers accountancy and it's very strenuous and arduous and and all that They did this and they compared thus the meditation and the mindfulness with this and it showed that this is generating much more stress resilience much higher cognitive awareness and less stress experience and beyond all much more trust in each other M interception interceptive being they just had these feelings and they expressed it 500 people what I want to say with that this running which I had a lot of people have and it is not just thinking it is related to the central nervous system and the stress accumulates in biochemistry that is wrong by which we have no control over it and that is anxiety And now we have the ability to make it go away The cold did it for me Then I started to do the breathing because I found out in the cold uh if I do a slower breathing deeply I'm able to stay longer in icy water Yes And uh those were the findings This is almost 50 years ago And now and then I started to cultivate hey if that happens in the water what happens when I do it out of the water at home and I did it and then I saw all the chakras all all what I have been reading for the first time I saw it all but that's not the goal the goal is the soul goal is God's providence to be direct here past the chatter box how to surrender how to let go how to uh uh not think but be And there there you automatically naturally from there you come into your purpose Yeah And this this podcast is on purpose The purpose of life itself Everybody is different but everybody has a purpose from the heart Not thinking from the mind the the the heart is able to give confidence and trust and and that power that goes and takes on the challenges of life because the soul is indestructible and there is no fear not even for death because you are doing exactly why you are here for and you feel it because God is at your side is here and that made me first break through with the cold then the brief breathing and then I learned to control which I showed in Sydney lately in a brain scan 9 and a half thousand brain scans showed more or less the bandwidth of what the brain activity is in humans I did nothing in the brain scan and I was within the uh bandwidth of the brain activity of these people and then I did my what you did in the beginning intention I went out for half hour did some breathing exercises but very strong intention and let it be your body knows when you talk to it that's a pure inter interception and you know how to move it if you just have that faith that power that inter reception that's what I did and then I went back in to the same brain scan and then the professor saw what he never had seen before such uh activity of the subcortical higher functioning of the brain that is confidence fantasy creativity uh trust empathy all those areas now willfully completely activated He saw this and this people say "Hey you are the iceman You can do that." No no no no no no no excuse I only show what we all can do And then places like here a podcast a platform which you make made available which is great work Thank you Thank you for the whole wide world They say make America healthy I say let's make the whole wide world healthy and it happens through these things Absolutely Faith Something you said just really stood out to me in a way that it hasn't before And you just said that when we talk to our body it hears us Yes And I was just thinking in a really simple way when I think to myself I'm going to take a glass of water That is my me talking to my body Yes And my body just did that Yeah And then I'm like oh yeah I'm going to drink some water And then I drink and it's like I am talking to my body even in the simplest of tasks that I do every day Because when we hear "Oh you can talk to your body and it hears," you think it's some mystical thing But the truth is we're all doing it right now Like even me lifting my hand I'm first thinking it and I'm talking to myself I'm about to lift my hand I'm going to shake Whim's hand I'm going to meet him I'm going to greet him It's I'm already doing that But then we forget that we can also code our mind and our body with emotion with intention with feelings with states with purpose With a purpose Yeah And getting there and make the impossible happening past our conditioned mind and body that now is on the threshold where I'm working with these universities and showing for example 26 people emotional distress They cannot get out of it Uh they got PTSD people dying within their family divorces and they are really victims in that I mean they cannot get out these loops It keeps anxiety pure anxiety It's very uh tiring They are exhausted They went into this study It took only one afternoon to break those patterns Wow And that's the way and you know what happens that the next thing is that they got the feeling that they got the steering wheel their confidence suddenly is there and suddenly they feel their uh purpose of life that they can take on the challenges 26 people we just did the study scientifically and all that shows that we not only here to drink a glass of water We are here to drink the full cup of life and to pass it on to our kids fully in confidence and trust and in love and beauty and power and energy and flow make a paradise I am here to show scientifically that autonomy is ours that we have a control far deeper than in science was thought possible But now it's here and through the pharmaceutical industry and the whole industry and the governments they are quite ignorant let me tell you that So we need to stand up like podcasts uh like this but we need to become autonomous not believe in governments but govern ourselves cuz we are good people All all the so where we got our soil is goodness deriving from and we should be able to have faith in the goodness of ourselves and we bring through these tools autonomy to the people so they feel confident that they have control over these subcortical areas of the brain called the subconscious and all that they told us that is only 16% that we and control it's 100 sorry it's 100 and I'm showing that in brain scans and now we are showing with canabonoid receptors how we are able to create flow in the body which is a natural state of ours we only got conditioned and if we look at society too many wars too many depression too many inflammation too many anxiety and all we can shoot people to the Let's become happy strong and healthy I made a song on that by the way It's called Sach ananda Oh wow My roots are in India Do you do you practice mantra meditation as well like as you were just singing and chanting right i did a lot of that but now mantras the repetitive citing words uh sounds I'm singing all day should be meditation yes yes yes it's the culture of India yeah it's not even just repetition of word it's singing it's dancing it's chanting it's it's really beautiful meditation should be your natural joyful yes yeah yeah absolutely absolutely yeah yeah it's almost like a it's a soundtrack to your life That's how I think about it when I think about mantra meditation It's it's almost like you're listening to a soundtrack but the soundtrack's within your own heart and consciousness And that repeated is kind of creating the rhythm of your life Yeah If you if you sing you love it You can yell out your your heart you you let your heart breathe It feels great I wanted to talk to you about willpower because you talk a lot about willpower and you talk about how people with low willpower make poorer choices in life Can you define for us what willpower is in your opinion willpower is the ability to have control within It's the six sense seven sense and 8 sense willpower Dana concentration If I stay one hour in icy water I need dana I need concentration I need to control my core body temperature to control the nervous system while I'm in uh this very stressful environment and stay there This is willfully h connecting and that makes my body strong So anytime I need to concentrate using that connection with my central nervous system which I exercised in cold water and it doesn't need an hour and there only needs you adapting Adapting is 2 3 minutes then you are naturally connected with your central nervous system which is the instrument of the willpower You need you just need to learn to connect Don't make it too complicated in yourself because it's hasn't got to do anything with uh your thinking It's taken on the challenge and your body adapts Doesn't matter what it is heat cold stress on the stage it doesn't matter You learn to take on instead of ruminating about it you you go into it because you have control over the central nervous system which is a connection of the uh preffrontal cortex and the central nervous system is everywhere and it adapts How far do you want to go i tell people if I get people motivated last time I went on the Kilimanjaro in shorts was with a man was 76 years old 76 He had no experience in climbing He was suffering from limes disease is a debilitating condition And uh he had to go in shorts and he wanted to do this in record time what young people cannot do So and I looked in his eyes and I saw connection I saw motivation Motivation is the right connection with your central nervous You really want it because you really are there and I went with him and this is a mountain you can do between five and nine days fully dressed because it's very cold up there and is half the oxygen and less and you need oxygen to combust for energy and it it's not there So 5 to nine days and then 40% only summit in fully dressed This man did it in 31 hours in his shorts What you know what happened his limes disease was also gone at the same time That what what is willpower it's there Do you got it do you really want it it's there and it's not complicated Wow And you can test it that it is able to go way past what you think you can do and it it takes a half hour just try this out We simplify these techniques So to make it a a usable tools then it's only a matter of choice What do you want with it because you will be able as you should owning your own mind and body in its full splendor Whim you've done so many difficult challenging things You encourage people to do them with you as well What's the hardest thing you believe you've ever overcome wow At a certain moment I could do a world record every day You know you get your body ready And the connection is you in the flow You every day you can run a marathon barefoot outside in the snow or stay two hours in the icy water Uh do crazy stuff And a certain moment I I was thinking to myself uh actually I don't want some ridiculous new challenge doing showing I showed enough and what I want right now and that is might be the most difficult is to settle down and to let hundreds and millions of people are doing what I'm doing now that this is real with or without my name doesn't matter I started at this This is my mission My mother told me to do this and to be the missionary I did it I I got to the Catholic Church itself to the esoteric departments of the Catholic Church The best of them they came to me that my mother is in peace So right now I'm I want to go on I want to go on on my own and the challenge is I want to reach billions of people which is happening That is the power of faith that keeps on going when actually I thought I did my mission I will be keeping on going because I actually it's a normal life is a bit boring I want to change the world and that it can be difficult I don't care I love Well whim I think it's very clear that you have no doubt been the modern greatest proponent of breath work of spending time in the cold and cold exposure I I don't think there's anyone else who has not only popularized but taught those principles and made them as big and as famous and popular as they are now And honestly all that credit goes to you for sure I don't think those conversations were being had in the modern world And so I I thank you for doing that because it's such a it's such a great unlock for the world to recognize the power that can be there for free right it's like you don't have to pay for breath work You don't have to pay to have a cold shower every day Freedom is for free Exactly Autonomy is there Yeah And we want to bring that is love Yeah We want to bring love to the people We want them to be able to feel good whenever they feel bad Yeah You do that I do that That's why we are here talking to each other Five years ago we talked and it's the same right there That's the war we going to win Absolutely General Yes Your energy is infectious I love it It's such a like and my team was telling me just just to let everyone know my team was telling me you walked here today to my house How long was that journey an hour and a quarter Oh is that all yeah Yeah Okay Yeah It's pretty impressive I think it might have taken people a bit longer than that Yeah Okay It was a nice walk Was a nice I I was way too early here I enjoyed your but you live you live you live everything Like it was hot today It was a hotter day in LA you walked here from your hotel or wherever you're staying like it's it's amazing because you live and breathe this like this is who you are and some of my friends Lewis House is a good friend of mine and he brought a lot of friends to you a few years ago in Poland they had the best time and and everyone came out of that just saying they couldn't believe how much time they spent in the cold and I think that's my favorite thing about what you unlock for people beyond the breath beyond the cold is we don't know what we're capable capable of Exactly We have no idea what this body and this mind is capable of doing And if everyone listening and watching can remember that you are so much more capable than you believe you are you're able to do so much more than you think you can Your mind and body are so much stronger than you believe they are If you walk away with that message from today that will change your life because in your head you think you're a lot more limited than you actually are If people take one message love is where you are able to make that what is going bad within good and that that uh love we want to share and it's not complicated Just try it out once and then you will see for yourself Feeling is understanding Whim a couple of last questions We've talked about the like mental and physical health benefits What benefits do you see for society at large if they practice your method i think it is the soul itself Uh we are now being approached I was in the Middle East with the Catholic Church with the highest esoteric departments about providence or God's providence and mortification about uh deep religious practices They are taking this all on and see that the God's presence itself comes much better toward the moment again and that is unconditional love to me and that is now accessible also for anybody else So we made God accessible the unconditional love accessible just uh by learning how to surrender and to show scientifically that we are capable of controlling this deep autonomic nervous system central nervous system much better than we have learned in our schools to battle inflammation depression and uh energy itself It's all there and it's not complicated If if you take something away just do it once How can people understand that breathing and being in the cold and surrendering ultimately leads you to God because I think a lot of people who are doing it they do it for the health benefits they do it for the physical benefits They may not even understand the concept of surrender which is what's h actually happening when you're in the water You have to how do how do you connect that dot for people or is it just something people have to do and they'll get there during this conversation we already actually talked about it It's your purpose Yes Yes You once you are driven by your purpose it's like if you love somebody you just there's nothing that can stop you M if you get your purpose by learning to control fear to have a deeper control over the central nervous system inside which we showed within a half hour then suddenly fear doesn't block you anymore The quality of life doesn't you take on the challenges Suddenly our nature is to take on challenges to take away blockages to uh live up to our purpose and our purpose is rooted in goodness and that once we are in that power we are stronger than what we think because love is stronger than what you think Mhm That is happening I'm not going to go into philosophies because this is not about philosophies But the best philosophers they come now saying they are recognizing that the real core principle of uh the the best of philosophy is being done by do doing this So I take that but this is not my starting point yet I I take it as hey these people they are experts in those fields of what is God how to behave there how to do how to practice and all they are coming and they say h that this and it makes sense to me but I say feeling is understanding if you do this then God will be there I have no doubt God's presence is a goodness that is rooted within every person in the world and this makes all the blockages go away You connect and your purpose is like a flower It's like a strong power that goes past your thinking Whim last question You've talked before about this but you talked about losing your wife and how that was such a transformative moment in your life even though it was tragic And you've talked today about the definition of love is being able to transform something that felt like pain into something good or purposeful What helped you grieve and what helped you walk through that grief yeah grief And we did a lately a grief study and that shows in within one afternoon people are able to get out of these patterns through breath work And yes cuz neurologically you are connected with the love of your life She was the mother of my four children and she still is and we got a completely honored she she is here the afterlife but that is another discussion uh she is here she's with us and I'm uh with her children and we have a very successful uh enterprise in the whole world on breathing a a mission to bring love and how to deblock So when I went grieving about her uh losing her in a suicide the mother of my children the love of my life the nothing could help me except for going into cold water Cold water makes your mind shut up Different areas of the brain suddenly starts to be activated The sense of life the the brain stem is about survival just to live What is the purpose of life to be alive fully So it started over there It it opened a little bit my grief It stopped my grief in those moments by which I opened up to myself and there the healing started I became a person missing my wife missing the mother but I made my uh family for my my kids with very little money a warm nest and a lot of energy and that's because I uh could heal within and we still have her in all our honor and we can still think about all the emotions But here we are from there from that negative story this movement now uh is evolving So I've learned of the grief I've learned of my negativity inside my darkness inside and come out and so can anybody else This is what we are showing now in scientific studies people who also have loss of family uh uh members or uh divorces can be very strong inside or PTSD the the grulesome situations of war in inside and you can't uh change your your behavior anymore you're in despair this breaks it so it broke me back then and I had to find it it signs and it works for millions of people Whim I thank you for your work I'm grateful to have spoken to you twice I'm uh hoping that everyone who's listening and watching downloads the Wimhof method to actually practice it to breathe every morning What I really wish for you is that for the next seven days just seven days if you can start your day with the Wimoff method on an empty stomach just watch how your life changes just seven days of either the breath work or the cold shower Whichever one you can If you can do both amazing But just either one of them and just watch how your life changes because this is all about testing It's all about practicing It's all about building it And I don't want you to think that you've got to learn a new technique or whatever it may be This is really really simple Whim's made it absolutely accessible for each and every one of us And I think one of the things that I'm going to do based off of this is just constantly remind myself that whenever you think you've reached a limit to realize that that's actually not the limit Your mind and body can do so much more Yes So thank you so much Whim Please read the Wimhof method Download the Wimhof method Follow Whim on social media across platforms And Whim I'm sure we're going to meet again and continue this uh mission together I love your work I respect it and thank you so much I came yesterday all the way out of Europe and tonight I fly on Maybe not so good for the ecological footprint but I had to see you I had to be with you and it's worthwhile all Thank you Thank you very much Thank you Thank you so much for listening to this conversation If you enjoyed it you'll love my chat with Adam Grant on why discomfort is the key to growth and the strategies for unlocking your hidden potential If you know you want to be more and achieve more this year go check it out right now You set a goal today you achieve it in 6 months and then by the time it happens it's almost a relief There's no sense of meaning and purpose You sort of expected it and you would have been disappointed if it didn't