> Deep breathing. Not slow, but full and continuous inhaling and exhaling to the boundaries of lung capacity.
In is full, out is normal.
Disclaimer: I've trained 4 days with Wim for one of his landmark experiments. I was one of the guinea pigs.
In is full, out is normal.
Disclaimer: I've trained 4 days with Wim for one of his landmark experiments. I was one of the guinea pigs.
The only thing that still annoys me is rain and hail at times. But as a chilly/shivery person the issue was always cold temperatures for me. That issue is gone. I say it with surprise because I still think it sounds crazy. Before 2014 it had such an impact on my life and suddenly all that misery just drops to zero.
Spiritually though, I didn't notice a lot, I'd rather stick to meditation for that. And whatever people may say, IMO, the Wim Hof Method is not a meditation. It's a combination of two breathing techniques + an optimistic trained/taught mentality about the cold being your friend.
Oh, I also sometimes use it as a natural painkiller when I don't have one on me and start to get a headhache. You know since the adrenaline-like state includes some actual adrenaline [1] :)
One "issue" with the WHM is that you need to keep doing it to stay in the state. It otherwise wains after 5 minutes or so. Because of this, it's impossible for me to be social in a normal sense, since breathing in a very specific way + talking at the same time is about as tough as beatboxing while singing (which I know how to do as well :P). Which means: it requires a lot of practice and trickery.
[1] Research shows you get a lot of adrenaline in. It's in the publication I was a guinea pig for: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/20/7379.full.pdf
I'm more likely to go swimming, even when the water is cold.
I'm more likely to take a cold shower, which has many benefits.
Just generally being uncomfortably cold less often, as others have mentioned.
And that general good feeling of "I didn't think I could do that, but I did!"