BREATH: Harnessing the Power of a Lost Art

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Education, Science

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We do it 25,000 times a day, but most of us rarely give breathing a thought. Author James Nestor says we’re missing out on one of the most powerful pathways to health and happiness. He leads Rufus through the ins and outs of intentional breathing, revealing its potential to clear our minds, heal our bodies, and help us achieve incredible things.

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0:00.0	Wym-Hough is used to being watched.
0:07.0	Wym-Hof is used to being watched.
0:09.0	It's a honor to be here.
0:11.0	Thank you for looking at me.
0:15.0	Hoff, who's from the Netherlands, is standing on the TEDX stage in Amsterdam,
0:20.0	naked but for a pair of swim trunks.
0:22.6	To his side is a big clear box.
0:26.2	He climbs up a step ladder,
0:28.3	then lowers himself in,
0:30.0	and over the course of several minutes,
0:31.7	TEDX technicians dump in shaved ice,
0:34.7	packing it in until it's up to his chin.
0:37.1	Hoff has done this before.
0:39.9	He calls himself the Ice Man for his ability to withstand extreme cold, but he's got other tricks too.
0:46.0	Wim Hof has defied logic time and time again, and always under scientific scrutiny.
0:52.0	He holds the world record for being able to be
0:54.4	submerged in ice for almost two hours without his core body temperature changing.
0:58.6	He's fine Mount Everest in nothing but a pair of shorts and ran a marathon in the desert without drinking any water.
1:05.0	That's from a special on Vice.
1:08.0	To date, Hoff has broken more than 25 world records, including the farthest swim under ice
1:14.4	57 and a half meters
1:16.7	188 feet and there you go he's made it
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