May 19, 2020

Strengthening Your Immune System | Wim Hof on Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu

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Two methods to control your physiological responses:
1. Deep Breathing Techniques
  - With proper breathing, you can alter the chemistry of your body and produce intentional physiological responses
2. Mental Willpower
  - By focusing your intentions you can control your body with thoughts alone
Exposing your body to cold temperatures induces a stress response which forces your mind and body to adapt and grow stronger
- The cardiovascular system adapts to perform all of its life-giving functions better through the greater thermogenesis forced onto your body by the cold
- By repeatedly going through the pain and euphoria of cold temperatures your mind learns how to process stress for all future endeavors
Enjoy the beauty of life spontaneously as a child would and stimulate yourself with many different intellectual and physical pursuits
- These stimulations, which include cold showers and weightlifting, act on our lives to create greater realities and possibilities
- Without stimulation, we stagnate into nothingness according to entropy

The Wim Hof Method App is free for iOS and Android and will teach you to how to properly utilize breathing techniques as well as many other healthy pursuits

Wim Hof (@Iceman_Hof) is a Dutch extreme athlete able to withstand freezing temperatures for hours naked due to his Wim Hof Method of breathing
Host: Tom Bilyeu (@TomBilyeu)

Exposing your body to cold temperatures induces a stress response which forces your mind and body to adapt and grow stronger
- Like how the stress of lifting heavy weights forces your muscle to grow stronger
The cardiovascular system is particularly strengthened because it is forced to pump blood and body chemicals more quickly in order to maintain a stable internal temperature
- As a result of this stress, your cardiovascular system will be able to perform all other life-giving functions better, not only thermogenesis – the heat production process
Cold temperatures also force you into the survival state of mind found in your brainstem, something rarely accessed in our comfortable modern lives
- By repeatedly going through the pain and euphoria of surviving the experience you improve mental strength
- “If you go into the cold you learn about stress, then when stress comes your body is ready to deal with the stress” – Wim Hof
“A cold shower a day keeps the doctor away” – Wim Hof
- Cold showers eventually become addicting if you manage to get over the hump because of how invigorating they make you feel

Wim views children as the greatest teachers in enjoying the beauty and spontaneity of life
- Even in quarantine, Wim is never bored because he is constantly playing with his two-year old
Waterfowl will often dance in rainbows formed by waterfalls for no apparent practical reason; it is merely a spontaneous act of life
- Humans have a higher capacity to enjoy life. We should therefore savor every moment and be childlike in our delight of the world.
The spontaneity of life is stimulation. The modern lifestyle has taken the stimulation out of our lives because of our increasing reliance on technology and other comforts.
- These stimulations, which include cold showers and weightlifting, act on our lives to create greater realities and possibilities
- In technical terms it is the Second Law of Thermodynamics; without outside stimulation we will eventually stagnate into nothingness