Wim Hof, aka the Iceman, says that our obsession with comfort comes at a great cost.

What's the answer? To go consciously into stressful situations to change our relationship to them.

The thing is, we live in a comfort zone behavior.

We live in this thinking brain.

And everything outside the civilization is based upon the way we thought things.

We invented things.

And they have become the extension of who we are and the way we live.

And that is not necessarily the best way of living.

Because we have also a non-thinking brain, which is emotion, which is feeling, which is surviving, the survival.

And now, stress comes in many ways.

Stress comes mentally, bacterial, viral, emotional, daily stress, work stress.

Call it, physical, yeah.

Yes.

And in the end, it is cell biological stress.

But the thing is, we are living in that stress all the time.

We are exposed.

And yet, we never stimulate the stress mechanisms in our brain through consciously going

into a stressful situation.

Yeah, so we don't choose when to, so just so what you're saying is,

we don't choose to go into stress, but we are buffeted around by stress.

So if you're flipping it round.

Yes, and so the cold is my teacher, with that means when I go into the ice water, before that, I

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