![]() ![]() The crushing self-doubt cannot be avoided as the subconscious knows that they are unlikely to have the tools for what is about to come. Even the most confident/class clown/tear-away student knows that feeling when they haven’t done any form of revision and have been out all night and are about to face an exam. Self-doubt comes from our subconscious when we know we have not got the right tools to face what is coming. How does the method help with your mindset, anxiety, and mental stress?Īnxiety and mental stress often involve a level of self-doubt or a reduction in confidence. The Wim Hof method uses cold therapy to test your self-control in the stress of the cold, thereby teaching the body to relieve and manage the onset of stress in a controlled situation.Īn ice bath is used as a controlled stressor to test the breath. The Wim Hof method breath-hold and breathing protocols, paired with the challenge of cold therapy, add the required triggers we need to learn to control our physiology.Ĭold therapy, be it a cold shower, ice bath or sea swim offers real stress on our body from nature. But for our body to work as nature intended to fight against bacteria, viruses, and stress, we have to put ourselves into discomfort to activate our natural mechanisms of protection. Whether that is turning up the air conditioning or pumping up our heating, to eating continuously at impulse, we are constantly seeking to make our environment comfortable. ![]() We have come to believe that by doing so we are keeping ourselves happy and safe. It is so easy for us to exist within a comfort zone both mentally and physically. What about the cold therapy and the ICE BATHS?! "We have become alienated from nature, but the cold is capable of bring us back what we once had lost." Wim Hof With each round, as this describes, we are activating our body's natural triggers and systems to survive, training our respiratory and immune systems just like we do for our muscles in the gym. We then take a deep breath when our body tells us to (not our mind) sending a surge of oxygen back into our system. But because it remains in an alkaline state while these levels drop, it is happy, and the process triggers our survival mode and begins to release adrenaline into the body to reset and boost our immune system in a reptilian way. Your blood oxygen will start to drop and under normal circumstances, your body would go into survival mode and force you to breathe. ![]() In this breath-hold, the body is developing a more alkaline pH. Then you are able to undertake a breath-hold and stay without breathing for an unusual length of time without the body fearing for its survival. This creates an alkaline state in your body rather than an acidic one. ![]() The Wim Hof method uses rounds of breathwork, which allow you to exercise your respiratory system and in so doing you blow off carbon dioxide. As part of it, there is the legendary ‘breath hold’ that many people misinterpret and judge both for its safety and its uses. The breathwork protocol is unique to the Wim Hof Method but draws on many ancient teachings. Tom Parry (Certified level 2 instructor) hosting a workshop at Livelong. Its pillars are available to all: breathwork, cold therapy, and commitment. What has resulted is the Wim Hof Method, backed by research and science, a method to reconnect our body with its natural ability to heal, adapt and survive. He began to experiment with his use of breath to control his state and experience in his cold water emersions, and so began many years of research into breathing practices of the ancients, coupled with extreme challenges that he put his body through to test the theories he was uncovering. He began by using cold water to test his emotional reserve and find a quiet space for his mind that he could not achieve through any other means than by inflicting extreme stress on his body. His personal experiences led him on a journey to take control of his body health and to strengthen his immune system. Wim has a personal dark history with depression and anxiety that has affected his life and his children. What is the Wim Hof Method and how does it work? Want to join our next workshop? Book here "If we always choose comfort, we never learn the deepest capabilities of our mind and body." Wim Hof ![]()
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