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The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Wim Hof explains how plunging into icy waters showed him the power of conscious breathing to regulate body chemistry and adapt to stress. He advises that by training ourselves to breathe deeply, we can withstand heat, cold, grief - any extreme situation life throws at us. Hof wants to demystify human limits, show how adapting brain connections expands consciousness and perception. If we consciously connect neurological channels, he believes spirituality becomes a practical, accessible way of life rather than an abstract concept.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	Why did you get into this and how did you get into this type of research and just
0:16.7	testing for yourself in the first place? You know every person has got his own search to do.
0:25.0	And I did my search, I felt there is more.
0:29.0	I don't know what, there is more.
0:31.0	But that creates a drive. Even though you do not know, it creates a drive to get to know.
0:38.0	You become a sole surgeon.
0:40.0	And then you come and stumble upon things.
0:44.0	Many, I visited many religions, traditions, cultures, etceter, languages, disciplines, disciplines, disciplines, as a town. through the language,
0:53.0	disciplines, esoteric disciplines,
0:56.0	yes, philosophies, etc.
0:59.0	Oh!
1:00.0	But they never were really capable of making that connection which originated from that drive.
1:08.0	There is more, I don't know what it is, but there is more, until I met the cold water the cold water made me is
1:17.1	merciless but righteous it brings you direct in contact with a deeper part of your own physiology
1:25.4	the way nature meant it to be and then I knew from the inside this is it feeling good
1:31.8	is being connected. So the other day I came back and I felt to sing and from there I began to do it all winter long. I mean winter is no winter to me. To me it's freezing
1:46.0	temperatures, you know frozen waters and making an old bang bang bang and
1:51.1	getting in and it's sort of mystical and there I learned that if you
1:57.6	to breathe deeper in the water you are able to do so much more you know the impact of the water of the
2:06.2	which is called is power it's force and you learn to breathe then you learn that by deeper breathing you learn to tune you
2:18.0	are able suddenly to stay in the water for so much more.
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