The Wim Hof Method - How to never get sick again

I use pretty often his method(i also have his phone app for streching  and cold exposure).

I can tell its legit because i am able now to sit in water that is cold as balls and calm the inside storm that you have when you start to hyperventilate and indeed cold its a great teacher when it comes to your body and blood flow.After the initial inner storm,you get calm...cool as ice...and you feel like your body starts to heat up from the inside out.A very interesting experience.I try to do cold baths once 2 or 3 weeks(i am also doing cold showers every morning).And besides the health benefits,i think its cool as fuck to be able to embrace the cold chaos and dance with it.Start small and build from there.

Sweet!

Anyone else tried it or anything similar?

Took cold showers for an entire year (not a single hot shower in an 8 month stretch). 

Whole idea of it was to better be able to manage winter temperatures and cold. 

I was operating off the idea that I could rewire my hypothalamus (basically the part of your brain that acts as a thermometer for your body) by consistently adjusting my body to colder temperatures, sorta like Russian kids in Siberia growing up getting polar bear baths to climatize them for the cold.

It worked, my cold tolerance shot up like crazy but only for the duration that I continued the practice. The other thing you start to notice is as you described, better nervous system control. The moment the cold water hits your body you'll have a spike in your adrenaline. By learning to control that you're consciously hijacking your autonomic nervous system (The part of your body you usually don't have conscious control of)

Similar to how you can use breathing patterns to calm yourself, reduce ego, or the bio-energetics taught in training.

You also learn to stop increasing physical pain due to thoughts. I.e. when you first start with cold water exposure you'll mull over how painful.and unpleasant it is. But once you commit for a certain period of time you accept the cold and it becomes just that "cold" without any of the other labels your mind will try to attach to it.

This increases your pain tolerance like crazyyy 

Lol bruh I had to edit your post. Ha! 

Hey dude btw I think the guys would be interested in having you on the call they're doing for the student/alumni weekly/biweekly teleconference. I think you'd definitely be a nice addition. Plus it seems there's some cross-symmetry in terms of the physiological training y'all are embarking upon these days ;) 

What was posted is way more hardcore than what I’ve been doing. For the last 6 months I do hot to cold showers. Start warm so it does not feel like torture and turn it to full blast cold for the last half. Some of the research out there is mixed on the actual benefits, but here are some things I’ve noticed 

-Wayyy more awake in the morning. This has also caused me to consume less coffee, which just helps my overall energy level stay higher and not peak as often 

-Immediate stress / anxiety relief. Most people who have any type of high actress / anxious personality will know that the mornings suck ass, as that’s typically a major time you run into it. Taking a frozen shower pretty much zaps that immediately 

-Better for your hair / skin. Warm ass showers dry you out big time, making the switch helps

-Workout recovery. I have noticed my recovery time decrease as a result of cold showers 

Nice man! Do you do the breathing exercises as well? For me they are the most important thing. In one of thehis interviews in Joes Rogan (amazing interview) he says that the breathing exercises are what connect the conscious with the unconscious giving you access to your limbic system. He even states that it's possible to control testosterone production and increase it by taking conscious control of your endocrine system. I would just ignore this if it was anyone says and label it as bullshit. But coming from him who's scientifically proven and has a huge record of accomplishments this sounds like a breaktrough in sciece, lol.

If you do them long term, including breathing, how are your results? I started fa week ago and I'm feeling on f1re in terms of energy. Better slep and even overall control of my life's duties.

I also took cold shower for 7-8 months. This is what helped me to overcome my "approach anxiety" as a newbie. I would just associated jumping in the cold water with jumping in a set and opening a girl, and I was pretty serious about that connection, lol.

You should totally check out the breathing exercise and it's variations, though. You feel almost high after doing them, and you can feel the results for the rest of your day in the form of consciousness, relaxation and energy.

Cooool -> Intersted >:)

I wanted to thank you man, post inspired me to start taking cold showers again lol. Im doing gradual and not full on cold though because I'd shock my system, can't afford that with working outside in -30 degree temps where I'm at right now.

What I did notice though. Full cold is more beneficial for your mind, the cold was alot more tolerable because of the hot water prior so it would take cooling my body to baseline and then to keep going with the cold water to achieve optimal results.

Yes. Breathing is an essential part, mastering your body's reaction. Otherwise you'll be under the effects of that intense burst of energy and you won't progress with the psychological benefits (calm, discipline, awareness of your heart rate).
Also it adds momentum personally knowing that an otherwise arbitrary part of my life is being used for self development.

As you know you never get to a point where you look forward to the cold shower. You just get used to overpowering yourself and jumping into it.

P.s. a HUGE physiological benefit if you cold shower before bed is increased testosterone production. The colder your testes are the more hormone they pump out at night

Also yes, I totally believe with enough practice you can gain conscious control of parts of your body that are usually automated. Wim's method is inspired by
Tummo ( inner heat) Meditation and Pranayama (yogic breathing). So monks have been using these kind of practices for years.

Ever heard of monks self-imolating in protest? Mofuckas light themselves on fire and sit in their meditation posture without moving until their charred remains would fold over. Dumb, but also unbelievably hardcore that they've developed such a refined control of their body's response through meditation.

And again these practices span across pretty much every brain function you can imagine. Lucid dreaming requires consciously switching your brain waves from alpha to theta. I've experienced this during my vipassana meditation retreat.
40mins into my meditation I felt my surroundings vibrate very violently followed by a dropping sensation and then I stated perceiving the world in slow motion.