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While meditation in general tends to help one manage pain/discomfort, the Wim Hof method deals specifically with coping with cold temperatures.

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Wim Hof is not a normal human, it’s not clear that there is anything about his “method” so much as that he has remarkable physiology.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EPuUdIC1E

The very video you link to concludes that his method does in fact have real effects on physiology.

Yikes. My memory is faulty then. I will have to rewatch it. (He’s still a bit of a freak of nature though, that much I’m sure about. (At least I think I am.))

Drying cold, wet sheets with body heat is a standard monk thing that even a non meditator like me has heard of:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-ch...

He's taken on people and trained them. You're right in some respect... no students have surpassed the master yet.

That's one of the first thing they tested (granted the tests have been thorough), his tricks do affect other random people positively.

I'd love to see more theories and tests on his habits though.

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