The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits

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The Wim Hof Method: Own Your Mind, Master Your Biology, and Activate Your Full Human Potential is, perhaps not suprisingly, repetitive and peppered with all kinds of mysticism and pseudo-science. Mindset - Build your willpower, inner clarity, sensory awareness, and innate joyfulness in the miracle of living Za Wim Hofovu metódu by som dala hviezdičiek možno aj päť, je super hlavne pred ťažkým cvičením alebo ráno pred stresujúcim dňom, ale pri čítaní knihy som mala pocit ako keby som skôr čítala scenár na teleshopping mixnutý s motivačným diárom. Ak sa chce človek vyvarovať dvesto stranám plným fráz ako je všetko o našej vôli, sme bytosťami svetla, všetci máme v sebe tajný bod a musíme oslobodiť svoje ego a všetko je to "úžasné, no nie,?" stojí za to len text v sivých rámčekoch a ešte možno kapitola, kde pekne popisuje svoje prvé pocity z ľadovej vody. If you are looking to start or add more meditation and mindfulness into your life, the Wim Hof Method can help you with that. The breathwork and cold exposure both have the effect of raising awareness and stillness. In the book, Wim also guides you on practices for meditation and mindset.

Before you begin an endurance exercise like running or cycling, do 3-4 rounds of a modified power breathing exercise. 1) Breath in and out 60 times. 2) Hold breath for at least 15 seconds or as long as it’s comfortable. 3) Start a new round and increase the speed and intensity of your breathing 4) Wait a few minutes until you ground yourself and then begin the endurance exercise. RESOURCES Wim Hof has a message for each of us: “You can literally do the impossible. You can overcome disease, improve your mental health and physical performance, and even control your physiology so you can thrive in freezing temperatures.” With The Wim Hof Method, this trailblazer of human potential shares a method that anyone can use—not just extreme athletes or spiritual masters—to supercharge your capacity for strength, health, and happiness. By employing these simple breathing techniques, we are able to suppress the inflammatory markers in the blood. We are able to tap into the autonomic nervous system and suppress inflammation. We can regulate our mood, emotions, body temperature, and more. This method is very simple, very accessible, and endorsed by science. Anybody can do it, and there is no dogma, only acceptance. Only freedom.” — Wim Hof

Hof met his first wife, Olaya, from the Basque country in Spain, while living in a squat in Amsterdam. Enahm was born, they became a family and got by on very little money. They had three more children and spent time living in a Basque village. On a completely separate note, while I do understand this is Wim's book and Wim's way of thinking, I can imagine quite a lot of people getting at least slightly annoyed at how he sometimes describes women and mothers - loads of stereotypes there. Nothing too terrible, but still. Let this be a small trigger warning for readers who keep feminist matters as close to their heart as I do.

But Olaya’s mental health was suffering. She was depressed, and spiralled downwards. “Imagine the love of your life, the mother of your children, slipping away over the years, and you can’t do anything,” he says. In the summer of 1995, Olaya kissed the children goodbye and jumped from the balcony to her death. We only go through this life once, and we might as well enjoy ourselves while we do. Those who would deprive themselves of simple pleasures like an occasional beer may benefit from it in terms of their short-term performance, but they aren’t nourishing the soul. Hof goes on long monologues, extolling the benefits of the WHM and generally bigging up WH. He can control his core body temperature, prevent it falling to dangerous levels of hypothermia when exposed to the cold. He says he can manage the part of his nervous system that is responsible for breathing and heart rate, as well his adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin. And that we have control over our immune systems and our anxieties, and the power to prevent illness, depression and inflammation. It's simply written, pragmatic, and esoterical as Wim Hof shares his mindset. I love this combination. :D He frequently baffles the scientific community yet a lot of skepticism remains. The support for everything shared in the book makes reading it that much more interesting and exciting.

This method is very simple, very accessible, and endorsed by science. Anybody can do it, and there is no dogma, only acceptance. Only freedom.” (Wim Hof)