Wim Hof: Do THIS 10-Minute Breathing Exercise And ACTUALLY Lower Your Risk of Disease And Calm Your Anxiety

How do you usually calm down? Have you heard about breathing for anxiety relief? Today, Jay welcomes back world-renowned breathwork pioneer and “Iceman” Wim Hof to explore how the human body and mind are capable of far more than we believe. Together, they dive into the origins of the Wim Hof Method and how it harnesses the transformative power of breath, cold exposure, and commitment to unlock profound healing, emotional resilience, and spiritual clarity. Wim shares the emotional story of how his mother’s invocation at his birth and the tragic loss of his wife became catalysts for his life’s mission: to help others reconnect with their inner strength and soul purpose. He explains how breathwork and cold immersion can help regulate the nervous system, reduce inflammation, conquer anxiety, and even break through grief and trauma. Jay and Wim also discuss the simplicity of the method, its scientific validation, and how surrender and intention unlock states of consciousness once thought to be out of reach. In this interview, you'll learn: How to Reduce Inflammation Naturally with Breathing Techniques How to Strengthen Your Immune System in Just 30 Minutes How to Calm Anxiety Through Simple Daily Breathwork How to Access Inner Peace by Controlling Your Breath How to Unlock Your True Potential in Just One Week You are far more powerful than you realize. Whether you're battling anxiety, feeling stuck, or simply looking to reconnect with yourself, the tools you need are already within you—your breath, your body, and your willingness to try. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty ⁠Safety Disclaimer: Don't do the Wim Hof breathing in a swimming pool, before going underwater, beneath the shower, or piloting any vehicle. Always practice sitting or lying down in a safe environment. Tinnitus symptoms may appear as a result of pushing too forcefully during the breathing exercise. If this happens, take a step back in your future practice – it's important to increase gradually, not forcefully! Join over 750,000 people to receive my most transformative wisdom directly in your inbox every single week with my free newsletter. Subscribe here. What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 00:41 Dedicating a Life to Wellness 05:04 The Benefits of the Wim Hof Method Explained 11:31 Unlocking the Untapped Power of Breath 13:45 Gaining Full Control Over Your Mind and Body 17:59 Cleansing the Body Through Proper Breathing 22:24 The Science-Backed Truth About Anxiety 24:11 Can Breathing Right Strengthen Immunity? 25:54 How Discomfort Training Builds Stress Resilience 28:22 Training the Body to Embrace Cold Plunges 31:37 The Origin Story of the Wim Hof Method 33:43 Finding Mental Clarity Through Cold Exposure 40:01 Simple Steps to Take Charge of Your Life 44:23 Exploring the Practice of Mantra Meditation 45:22 Defining and Strengthening Willpower 49:26 Overcoming Life’s Most Difficult Challenges 51:20 How to Self Soothe on Emotionally Tough Days 52:35 Revealing the Hidden Strength of the Body 54:21 How Ice Baths Can Benefit Society 55:49 The Role of Surrender in Facing Fear 58:22 Healing Grief Through Cold Plunge Practices Episode Resources: Wim Hof | Website Wim Hof | Instagram Wim Hof | X Wim Hof | Facebook Wim Hof | TikTok Wim Hof | YouTube The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 2:19Wim Hof?

  What if we could control the deep autonomic nervous system, the immune system? Inflammation is the cause and effect of actually every disease. I'm into healing, into bringing down inflammation. And that is what I give to people within an hour. So better control over the immune system, better control over the central nervous system. And you learn to clean the biochemical residue, which is the result of our daily life, hectic, modern life.

• 3:01Jay Shetty?

  Hey, everyone. Welcome back to On Purpose, the place you come to become happier, healthier, and more healed. I am so grateful that you decided to tune in today. Today's guest is truly an icon in this world. Someone that has been able to share prolific lessons, life-changing habits, and practices that have transformed millions of people's lives. His personal journey is also remarkable. I'm really excited to reintroduce because we've had him on the podcast once. Please welcome Wim Hof. Wim, it is such a joy. The last time I interviewed you, it was on Zoom during the pandemic. Today, we're finally meeting for the first time.

• 3:44Jay Shetty?

  And as a fan of your work and as a deep believer in your work, I'm so excited to have you here. So thank you so much.

• 3:50Wim Hof?

  It's great to meet you in physical presence. I can feel your energy. It's great. You're really a good man with very important work. Being here, I'm able to transmit something new, organic, alive, from the heart.

• 4:08Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, thank you, Wim. Thank you so much. And the feeling is mutual. And I want to start by asking you, because what I find amazing is people like yourself who've dedicated their lives to certain work. And I wanted to ask you, what do you believe in so deeply? Why do you believe so deeply in your work? And the impact that it's making, that's allowed you to dedicate your whole life to it?

• 4:31Wim Hof?

  I think it was my mother at my birth, who invoked it, is a naive, God-fearing mother, and yet in fear that this baby was going to die. It was the second baby. And nobody knew there was a second one. I was too deep in, so I was too long in and almost suffocated. I came through her fear and pushing and invoking, "Oh God, let this child live. I will make him a missionary." So I don't think it is my drive, but it is invoked by my mother. A naive mother, yet God-fearing, is a formula, is a powerful formula,

• 5:14Wim Hof?

  that is impregnated, it's tattooed on my soul, while I was nothing more than a purple little nothing, coming out there, defenseless, and yet there, her invocation came right into me. And how that all works, it works, because I've been talking to her. And when I was 12, I told my friends, "If the world thinks", that's the way it begins to reveal itself, eh? 12 years, you start thinking about what is life. If the world think that is hunger, abuse, pollution, disease, darkness, depression is normal,

• 5:55Wim Hof?

  then I think it is sick, and I'm going to do something about it. And what I do not know, I just do it. That is where it came from. And since then, it starts, and every moment is a drop. After 40, 50 years, the draw, all those drops have become a tsunami, a way through the thick wall of ignorance. Because I think it is all sickness, disease, darkness, depression, wars, pollution, etc., is just based in ignorance. So I have come up with a way, looking in nature, not in books,

• 6:39Wim Hof?

  something that works, that makes, that overrides my mind of all that has been filled up with. And then the cold water came in, and from the cold water, you learn to breathe different. And with that deep breathing, you go past the conditioning. And then you see all what has been written for real here now. And then, because it is so close, it's so direct. I had no need for looking in esoteric books anymore. Traditions, languages, religions, anything like that. No, God was suddenly here and now. This is it.

• 7:21Wim Hof?

  Was the first time my feeling when I went into the cold water. And I've been doing it since ever. And you know what? It was my mother's invocation. She was God fearing, Catholic and all. And right now, the priests of the Catholic Church itself, the doctors, the theologists, they are coming and they are integrating the Wim Hof method in the deep religious esoteric disciplines of the church, which is equals mysticism of Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism. It's all the same layer.

• 8:02Wim Hof?

  And that layer now is being hit and recognized by the best in the Catholic Church, the most learned of men. And if they are able to recognize that, then I say, I am not into abstracting knowledge on philosophies and esoteric disciplines, making it all so difficult. May God, where is he? Where is he? If we go and it is recognized by the best of them to be a highly esoteric discipline, then now the discipline is there for everybody, accessible in a half hour. That means God is back.

• 8:46Jay Shetty?

  For someone who has no idea what the Wim Hof method is, how would you break it down for them and introduce them to it?

• 8:52Wim Hof?

  It is simple. It is scientifically endorsed and I'm inviting all the time. I got big studies done recently, they are into publishing. And it all shows the effectiveness to go past our normal control, willful control within our bodies. What if we could control emotion? What if we could control the deep autonomic nervous system, the immune system? Those matters are now present and shown in science that we are able to control that. So that is based through very simple techniques.

• 9:35Jay Shetty?

  And what would change if we could control those before we know the techniques? If we could control those systems, what does that mean for humans? What are the benefits?

• 9:43Wim Hof?

  Ah, there is multiple benefits from inflammation. Inflammation is the cause and effect of actually every disease. And we showed that people injected with a bacteria could withstand the influence of the bacteria on the immune system. Thus, the inflammation which normally happens within that controlled experiment, this time it doesn't happen. So people bring down the cause and effect of disease, which is inflammation. And we showed that in science. Now we see where we are in the world with the COVID. When there was COVID, we had to talk and medicines and pills.

• 10:28Wim Hof?

  It's all money, money, money, money, money. So I'm into healing, into bringing down inflammation. That is what I give to people within an hour. The techniques come within an hour before they thought, "Rim, how much time does it take for people to learn what you can do, bringing down the inflammation after injection of a bacteria? Does it take a year, one and a half year? I said 10 days and then it became four days and now it's a half hour." So better control over the immune system, better control over the central nervous system, which includes our emotions.

• 11:13Wim Hof?

  So our emotions become much more pacified by doing this. And you learn to clean the biochemical residue, which is the result of our daily life, hectic, daily, modern life. So we bring our emotion, learn to regulate our emotions. We get a lot more energy because of the cardiovascular fitness workout, a cold shower. It's so easy also, eh? It's remarkable. There was, just last week, I was in Poland with 500 people in the mountains. And there was one guy saying, "Oh, I'm doing the cold and I'm doing this, but my results get lower."

• 11:57Wim Hof?

  I said, "Come forward, come here on stage." So how many push-ups can you do? And he said, "15." Now breathe this way for 30 times, fully in. Let it go. Fully in, be with your mind in one thing. You give the best you got. That's, that's all. Follow your breath, fully in, fully. 30 times? 30 times. Last time, you fully in, let it go. On empty lungs, you did 40 push-ups. You see, the breath is power. If you know how to manipulate the nervous system,

• 12:40Wim Hof?

  then you are able to generate a much greater power. And you're breathing in through your nose and out? Yeah, that does, does not matter so much. Doesn't matter whether you breathe out through your mouth or out through your nose? Yeah, it matters a little. They say the nitrogen and through the nose. But if you do it such a short period of time, you go just into the depth of the whole body. You cleanse the body of its biochemical residue, which is caused by stress of daily life. And therefore, just breathe.

• 13:18Wim Hof?

  Don't think about nasal breathing, you know, Surya Beda Tatva and Chandra Beda Tatva and Kumbh Akas and all that. No, don't be, no difficulties. If you, if you, we go back to Patanjali. Patanjali says in the beginning, Ata yoga anushasanaam, yoga chitta vriti naroda atada dhrastoha swarupi vasanaam. Or yoga is the silencing of the modifications of the thinking brain. Then the seer appears. That unconditional power, that is where I am aiming at. I just want to go through the conditioned mind and body.

• 14:00Wim Hof?

  And we are doing the studies with psychiatrists, neuroscientists, immunologists. And it shows that we go where in science was stated, this is not possible for humans, et cetera. And now it is. And that's my aim. Within a half hour, I want people to feel their real power.

• 14:21Jay Shetty?

  So the first step is thirty breaths, full breaths in and out.

• 14:26Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 14:26Jay Shetty?

  And do you recommend this, doing this first thing in the morning? Or is there a...

• 14:31Wim Hof?

  An empty stomach, uh, empty stomach is of course the best. Or where you take shower, take also a cold shower. And, and try it out once that your push, how many pushups can you do? If you look to this podcast and you do only this biohacking great trick, thirty times fully in, relax on a chair or you sit on the ground. And you, you know how many pushups you can do? You wanna see how you can influence the neuromuscular mechanisms in the body for power? Just use your breath. It's so simple.

• 15:13Jay Shetty?

  It's really interesting because if you look at boxes, they all know the value of breath.

• 15:17Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 15:18Jay Shetty?

  If you look at athletes, they all know the value of the breath. If you look at musicians who play wind instruments, they know the value of the breath. If you look at singers, they know the value of the breath. So this is something that we've known, but for some reason, we haven't applied it to normal life. Because we all are athletes in our own way.

• 15:38Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 15:38Jay Shetty?

  In an everyday life, and I think we've lost connection with that. I remember when the first day I went to join the monastery in India, I saw a young monk teaching younger monks. And I went up to that young monk, he was like ten or eleven years old. And I said, what did you teach them? And he said, it's their first day of school. And I said, oh, well, what did you teach them? And he said, what did you learn on your first day of school? And I said, maybe A, B, C, one, two, three, I can't remember. And he said, well, I just taught them how to breathe. And I said, what do you mean, you taught them how to breathe?

• 16:10Wim Hof?

  Oh, but this is important, Jay. Here in America with the shootings in the school, to simplify, a monkey has difficulties learning how to swim. And a fish has difficulties learning how to climb. Our minds and every person is different. Some fit into the system and some don't. They get a conflict with their identity. And so much, when the stress comes in and they still have to perform and give results and cognitively keep on and they feel not good compared to others and all, that might jeopardize the identity.

• 16:53Wim Hof?

  And that goes in many cases to where they lose it. Then they shoot their father, their mother, their siblings, and then the people, because they are completely lost. We should bring a regulation of emotions done by breathing. As you say, he was totally right, this man. That was probably the best lesson you got. The inquisitive nature always brings about answers.

• 17:26Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, absolutely. And he was saying the same thing as you're saying. He said that. Your breath is the only thing that stays with you from the moment you're born to the moment you die. He said, you'll change your country, you'll change your family, you change your friends. Like, things change. But your breath is always with you. And he said, what changes when you're happy? Your breath. What changes when you're sad? Your breath. What changes when you're angry? Your breath. And so he said to me, if you learn to manage your breath, you'll be able to manage any emotion in life. Exactly like what you're saying.

• 17:57Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 17:58Jay Shetty?

  So you have these three pillars. Breathing exercises, commitment, and then you have the code.

• 18:04Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 18:04Jay Shetty?

  What is commitment? What do you mean by that?

• 18:07Wim Hof?

  With commitment, just do it.

• 18:09Jay Shetty?

  Just do it regardless.

• 18:11Wim Hof?

  And stay in that discipline. In the end, if you go into an ice bath, you learn to control your thoughts. Because you learn to shut up. If you want it, yes or no? You learn to surrender. Let the body do what the body is capable of. Once you get that, you get a control. Like in the beginning, you said intention. Intention is interoception. And now we found in Detroit, top-down regulated interoception, which is interoceptive focus. And that is the will able to enter into the body and to readjust what needs to be, what is out of balance, to reconnect with the body. That is what the code learns.

• 18:56Wim Hof?

  To shut up and to connect with the body. Let the body do what the body is capable. And then you become aware that you suddenly, willfully are able to control, to make stronger your body without moving. And that is top yoga. Like Darana, Diana, Samadhi. Those things are now here. And we have seen that it activates the corona radiata and the corona radiata, the nerve endings in the human brain, which is the crown chakra. The crown endings, the corona radiata, the radiant crown, it now is able to be activated by us because we learn to surrender.

• 19:41Wim Hof?

  That means we learn to let go. And then we are able to full bloom activate our brain capacity, like a hundred percent.

• 19:52Wim Hof?

  Willfully, that's where we are. In India, in Bangalore, I am going to receive this prize, award for excellence in yoga. What is excellence in yoga? Yoga means connecting. That's what I bring about. And make it simple. Breathing is so much more important than we can cover within this hour. Yeah, within this podcast. Just try it out once. Embrace the full power, partial conditioned mind and body through breathing. And we have simplified these techniques now and made it so accessible

• 20:36Wim Hof?

  that the esoteric disciplines of all the religions, they come knocking at our door. They say, this is highly esoteric. This is mystical. And this is here awaiting for any person. Because God or what is mystical should be there for everybody.

• 20:56Jay Shetty?

  Absolutely.

• 20:57Wim Hof?

  Every time.

• 20:58Jay Shetty?

  Absolutely.

• 20:58Wim Hof?

  All the time.

• 20:59Jay Shetty?

  So you recommend that if ideally people do this on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning, it's going to allow them to have more clarity. It's going to allow them to have more energy. It's going to allow them to focus better.

• 21:10Wim Hof?

  Yes, it cleanses completely the lymphatic system. All our daily habits or activities result in stress biochemical residue. It accumulates in our bodies. And if we don't clean it, then it obstructs our quality of life.

• 21:29Jay Shetty?

  How does breathing clean it?

• 21:31Wim Hof?

  If we do these breathing sessions, within four rounds, you will be able to get into the deepest of all systems, to the deepest, to the bone marrow, to the deepest of your brain and learn to connect willfully. How does it work? If we do this breathing, we blow off the carbon dioxide. And then the alkalinity in the blood goes way up. When it goes way up, you can exhale and be without the need to breathe. Because breathing is because you become acidic. Now, the acid is out of the body and you are very alkaline.

• 22:14Wim Hof?

  So you are able to stay one and a half minutes, two minutes without breathing after exhalation. Now, what happens in the brainstem, the reptilian, the crocodile brain, it says, "You are not breathing. This is dangerous." It doesn't look to pH levels in the blood. Is it alkaline or no? It looks to oxygen and oxygen is completely depleted. And when that happens, then the brainstem, which is connected to the adrenal axis, that is the third eye, pituitary gland, hypothalamus and the adrenal glands.

• 22:53Wim Hof?

  Then it activates the adrenal axis just to spike once in the body with twice as much adrenaline than a person who goes for the first time into a bungee jump in fear. Wow. They have measured the blood of the people going into a bungee jump with fear for vertigo. They took their blood and they took the blood of the people doing this breathing technique. And then they saw twice as much adrenal spike in the blood for people doing this breathing technique. Now, what happens with that double dose of adrenaline?

• 23:37Wim Hof?

  It goes like hormones into the spinal fluid. And this is where we manipulate this breathing techniques, manipulation of the qi, the qi, the qi, the prana. There's 10 kinds, but hey, prana, we call it prana. So we get it sublime, but we make it simple. We say, "Full you in, 30 times breathing and then exhale and stop." And you don't feel the need to breathe. Now, after one and a half minutes, what happens if you don't breathe? Five times more blood flows into the brain. Five times more blood flows into the heart.

• 24:20Wim Hof?

  Nobody knew until they did cardio films on this. And they say this is the future. This diagnostic cardiology, this is for the future. Breathing techniques. Because it flushes like a battery. The heart, if it functions too less. And that's terrible. If you've got a heart that is not strong enough, you can make it stronger just through doing this. And five times more fluid into the brain is flushing it. And now, because there's twice as much adrenaline hormonally in it, it cleanses everything. Anything that should not be there, that is inflammatory markers,

• 25:03Wim Hof?

  but also PFAS, also microplastics, also mRNA techniques, technology. Whatever the shit is and radio waves, biochemical residue, they're from. All that has influence and we don't know how to clean it. Through doing this, you just clean it.

• 25:24Jay Shetty?

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• 27:53Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 27:53Jay Shetty?

  But obviously, you know today, so many people are struggling with anxiety. And a lot of people listening today, people may have anxiety about meeting new people. People have anxiety about their work. People have anxiety about relationships. There's so much anxiety in the world. How can this help someone who's struggling with anxiety? Is there a different breathing practice or is it the same one?

• 28:17Wim Hof?

  Exactly the same one. That the simplicity is the power.

• 28:22Wim Hof?

  So just try it out. You will be able to cleanse that what obstructs you, the quality of your life under performance. When you need to perform, it really could be a relationship, could be having a new job interview, could be a presentation on stage, or whatever is important to you. There you want to feel more than normal in a functional power. That one needs cleaning, and this one does it. This takes it away because your body knows exactly what you are up against. But it is saying, hey, you are anxious because you cannot function the way you actually want

• 29:05Wim Hof?

  because you're, there's shit inside and we need to get it out. And that's what it is saying. So anxiety actually is a neurosignal, say, tell you, hey, clean up before you go up. And you will see that these simple breathing techniques will lead to suddenly, oh, it's easy on stage. All these, the aha eliteness comes by itself.

• 29:31Jay Shetty?

  Is it true that this can also help us get less sick, less often?

• 29:35Wim Hof?

  Absolutely. It has been shown in a scientific comparative study. People injected with bacteria causing inflammation. That means fever, headaches, vomiting, nausea, muscle aches, back aches. But really, three to six hours is a controlled experiment. Sixteen thousand became very sick. And the twelve I trained, not sick. And we already showed this in 2014. Bacteria, E. coli, virus, it's all the same. We have, like you said, we got the mechanisms, but we don't make use of our inner nature anymore

• 30:19Wim Hof?

  to take down what should not be in there. Like sickness, like anxiety, depression, inflammation of any kind. And it is preventative as well. The thing is, if you do this in the morning preemptively, then your day, you are able to accumulate a lot of stress without feeling that you cannot deal with it.

• 30:46Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 30:47Wim Hof?

  Because you're clean.

• 30:48Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, right. It's almost like we could actually deal with more stress than we believe.

• 30:53Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 30:54Jay Shetty?

  If we were able to be in a state.

• 30:56Wim Hof?

  And then you come into this emotional, spiritual state to take on challenges. Because you feel suddenly, ah, you don't feel that awkward anxiety, fear. You don't feel it anymore. And that makes you able to go into the challenges of life.

• 31:14Jay Shetty?

  You're saying something really important here, but I think the challenge that people have is we've become seekers of an even more comfortable life. If you look at everything we're creating around us, it's so we can be more comfortable, be more safe. And I mean even physically comfortable and we don't want to do something too challenging. We don't want to do something that's uncomfortable. We don't seek discomfort. So how do we encourage people to transform our mind to realize that discomfort is what creates goodness in life?

• 31:46Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 31:46Jay Shetty?

  And comfort is what creates more problems later down the line.

• 31:50Wim Hof?

  Exactly that. So comfort is a false feeling. It is in the long term, it's really getting to you and it will cause psychosomatic disturbances in the body. It will heap up, accumulate. The body needs cleaning. And for that, we need to go into a certain kind of stress. If we stress our bodies up consciously, we learn to connect with the stress mechanisms in the brain and body. And with that, the stress in daily life, because if you're escaping into comfort behavior,

• 32:35Wim Hof?

  will not make you strong for the shit that is going to happen anyway. So better be ready before it. And we provide with these simple techniques, not only the ability to tackle stress in life effectively, but also directly when you did it, when you take a cold shower, you feel good.

• 33:01Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, for sure.

• 33:02Wim Hof?

  You give a little, you get so much more back.

• 33:05Jay Shetty?

  Yeah.

• 33:05Wim Hof?

  And for people who are not motivated to do this, don't wait until the shit comes to you, you go to the shit. I say always, if you don't go to the cold, the cold will come to you. And then you don't like it. So too much disease, too much anxiety, too much depression, too much darkness, all is happening, too much stress, it's all happening. We know this and we found a way to deal with it. We found a key and we just want to hand over, out of love and respect, to the person this key.

• 33:42Jay Shetty?

  When I first started, I think, I mean, I took cold showers when I was in the monastery. It was very normal. But the first time I did a cold plunge was probably around four, five years ago as well. And I can honestly say that as someone who has tried to get massages, to like feel relaxed and de-stressed, and they probably get me to like a seventy, eighty percent. But sitting in the cold and doing the contrast therapy of maybe ten to fifteen minutes in a sauna and maybe three to five minutes in the cold and then doing it three times over, I have never felt that level of relaxation or slept better than when I've done the cold, whether it's in the morning or the evening that day. The whole body just...

• 34:26Jay Shetty?

  Feels loose in a way that I've never felt. You'd assume it feels tight. Like you think when you get in the cold that your body's just gonna like, hold on, but it doesn't. It does the opposite.

• 34:35Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 34:36Jay Shetty?

  And when you get out, you almost feel so much looser, calmer, less stressed. But that's not what the mind thinks. The mind thinks it's probably gonna be really hard. It is. It is challenging in the beginning, for sure. The first time I did it, I was in there for four minutes because I was doing it with a friend and we were trying to encourage each other. But for someone who gets in there and just wants to get out in the first 10 seconds, how did they get more comfortable with that discomfort? What should they do if they're in there for 10 seconds and they're like, I need to get out? Like, how do you get over that hunch?

• 35:07Wim Hof?

  I just know that this really will bring about a much greater uh, control over stress in your daily life. You only have to go through this, say, a minute. Once you are a minute in, and anybody can do it. Last weekend, I had people of 80 years who never had been in an ice bath. They went in for 10 minutes, 10 minutes, and they loved it. I mean, uh, young people should not be in the mind, uh, thinking. Learn to be in the body and then know that you are able to enter into the body, into the depth, and that will be yours.

• 35:51Wim Hof?

  For 10 seconds, yes, that is your reaction of a body that never has been in the cold. But you are very able. Let me be very clear about it. You, as a young person, uh, I'm talking to the person who's watching this. Uh, you are very capable of staying, uh, one minute. And what happens then? Your body is adapted. What that means is that your inner power is on and it's connecting to your will. And with that, you learn to take on stress of daily life, which you don't need to escape of anymore.

• 36:31Wim Hof?

  You are able to confront yourself with difficult situations in all the other areas. So that little bit of cold you're gonna endure is gonna give you so much more back.

• 36:46Jay Shetty?

  It's funny how the mind, when you're not, when you're in it and you finish it, you have a great experience. And then the mind's like, I don't wanna do it again. It's really hard, like whatever. And then you have to keep reminding yourself. And I've, I've learned over time that things that are good for you feel good after, and things that are bad for you feel good before, right? Anything that's bad for you feels good before. You wanna eat badly, you wanna drink badly.

• 37:10Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 37:11Jay Shetty?

  You wanna do anything, it feels amazing before.

• 37:13Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 37:13Jay Shetty?

  And then afterwards, it's like poison.

• 37:15Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 37:15Jay Shetty?

  It's like pain.

• 37:16Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 37:16Jay Shetty?

  But anything that's good for you before you do it, you're stressed, you're nervous. But then after you do it, you feel the benefits. And you have to keep reminding yourself of that value because it's so easy to lose. Wim, how did you even discover the power of breathwork and the power of cold? How did you even come to this for yourself?

• 37:35Wim Hof?

  Yes, I, I, I was a young kid and very much in the head.

• 37:40Jay Shetty?

  What were you worried about as a young kid? Because I feel like now-

• 37:43Wim Hof?

  About life!

• 37:44Jay Shetty?

  What were you worried about? I'm intrigued because I think-

• 37:45Wim Hof?

  My career, my this, my that, what I'm gonna do.

• 37:48Jay Shetty?

  Same stuff.

• 37:48Wim Hof?

  Yeah, the same stuff as anybody. So I, I read a, a, a lot and I was philosophizing a lot, debate. I was running in my head, crazy. And then one day I found this irrational attraction intuitively to go into cold water. And when I did that, this circling, this-

• 38:14Jay Shetty?

  It came from within.

• 38:15Wim Hof?

  Ruminating, yes. It stopped right there.

• 38:22Wim Hof?

  This is it. I was looking in philosophies and religions. What is it? What is love? It's in you. It's there. It's alive. It's past thinking. And it's here now. And the cold has opened that up to me, past my conditioning. Whatever I had learned, those are patterns. They keep you running in the same conditioning and can be very stubborn. But the cold was there and it went just straight through, by which I started. I never stopped it when I was seventeen.

• 39:02Jay Shetty?

  So for you, it was almost the cold became the pathway to enlightenment to yourself?

• 39:07Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 39:08Jay Shetty?

  That that was the pathway because it just stopped the chatter. You can't hear the noise because the noise becomes, well, initially the noise becomes, oh, God, it's so cold. Then what happens? Walk us through what that journey was.

• 39:21Wim Hof?

  I think I was ready to take on that challenge within me, to get rid of the chatter. What is that what makes me connect instead of chattering? I can say, oh, I meditate and I do this and I do yogic postures and I'm very good at it all and philosopher. That one I was looking for. I found it. And right now, right now, it shows in a big study we did. It's submitted at Nature. There's a big scientific paper with 500 people. And it says, they compared it to meditation and mindfulness.

• 40:04Wim Hof?

  So that the stress result as stress tools, mindfulness and meditation, stress tools in the corporate world. So we took people out of the corporate world, from the corporate world, with a lot of stress. And we took them and we went through and doing this cold practice and the breathing. And it shows that it is able to make this ruminating through the stress of daily life and having to perform and compete constantly, very high up, the Price House Water Coopers people, they are not into yoga or into whatever exercise, they need to perform with numbers,

• 40:47Wim Hof?

  accountancy, and it's very strenuous and arduous and all that. They did this, and they compared thus the meditation and mindfulness with this, and it showed that this is generating much more stress resilience, much higher cognitive awareness, and less stress experience, and beyond all, much more trust in each other, in their reception, in their receptive being. They just had these feelings, and they expressed it. Five hundred people. What I want to say with that, this running, which I had, a lot of people have, and it is not just thinking,

• 41:30Wim Hof?

  it is related to the central nervous system, and the stress accumulates in biochemistry that is wrong, by which we have no control over it, and that is anxiety. And now we have the ability to make it go away. The cold did it for me, then I started to do the breathing, because I found out in the cold, if I do a slower breathing, deeply, I'm able to stay longer in icy water. Yes. And those were the findings. This is almost fifty years ago. And then I started to cultivate, hey, if that happens in the water, what happens when I do it out of the

• 42:15Wim Hof?

  water at home? And I did it. And then I saw all the chakras, all what I have been reading, for the first time, I saw it all. But that's not the goal. The goal is the soul. Goal is God's providence to be direct here, past the chatterbox. And how to surrender, how to let go, how to not think but be. And there you automatically, naturally, from there, you come into your purpose. Yeah. And this, this podcast is on purpose. The purpose of life itself, everybody is different, but everybody has a purpose.

• 43:01Wim Hof?

  From the heart, not thinking, from the mind, the, the, the heart is able to give confidence and trust. And, and, and that power that goes and takes on the, the challenges of life. Because the soul is indestructible. And there is no fear, not even for death. Because you are doing exactly why you are here for, and you feel it. Because God is at your side, is here. And that made me first break through with the cold, then the breathing. And then I learned to control, which I showed in Sydney lately in a brain scan.

• 43:40Wim Hof?

  Nine and a half thousand brain scans showed more or less the bandwidth of what the brain activity is in humans. I did nothing in the brain scan and I was within the bandwidth of the brain activity of these people. And then I did my, what you did in the beginning, intention. I went out for half hour, did some breathing exercises, but very strong intention and let it be. Your body knows when you talk to it. That's a pure inter, inter reception. And you know how to move it if you just have that faith, that power, that inter reception. That's what I did.

• 44:22Wim Hof?

  And then I went back in to the same brain scan. And then the professor saw what he never had seen before. Such an activity of the subcortical, higher functioning of the brain. That is confidence, fantasy, creativity, trust, empathy. All those areas now willfully, completely activated. He saw this and this, people say, hey, but you are the Iceman, you can do that. No, no, no, no, no, no excuse. I only show what we all can do. And then places like here, a podcast, a platform which you made available, which is great work.

• 45:07Wim Hof?

  Thank you.

• 45:08Jay Shetty?

  Thank you.

• 45:09Wim Hof?

  For the whole wide world. They say, make America healthy. I say, let's make the whole wide world healthy. And it happens through these things.

• 45:18Jay Shetty?

  Absolutely.

• 45:19Wim Hof?

  Faith.

• 45:20Jay Shetty?

  Something you said just really stood out to me in a way that it hasn't before. And you just said that when we talk to our body, it hears us.

• 45:29Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 45:29Jay Shetty?

  And I was just thinking in a really simple way. When I think to myself, I'm gonna take a glass of water. That is me talking to my body.

• 45:37Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 45:38Jay Shetty?

  And my body just did that.

• 45:39Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 45:40Jay Shetty?

  And then I'm like, oh yeah, I'm gonna drink some water and then I drink.

• 45:44Jay Shetty?

  And it's like I am talking to my body, even in the simplest of tasks that I do every day. Because when we hear, oh, you can talk to your body and it hears. You think it's a mystical thing. But the truth is, we're all doing it right now. Like even me lifting my hand, I'm first thinking it. And I'm talking to myself, I'm about to lift my hand. I'm gonna shake Wim's hand, I'm gonna meet him, I'm gonna greet him. It's, I'm already doing that. But then we forget that we can also code our mind and our body with emotion, with intention, with feelings, with states.

• 46:18Wim Hof?

  With the purpose of life.

• 46:19Jay Shetty?

  With a purpose, yeah.

• 46:20Wim Hof?

  And getting there and make the impossible happening. Past our conditioned mind and body. That now is on the threshold. Where I'm working with these universities and showing. For example, twenty-six people. Emotional distress. They cannot get out of it. They got PTSD, people dying within their family, divorces. And they are really victims in that. I mean, they cannot get out of these loops. It keeps anxiety, pure anxiety. It's very tiring. They are exhausted. They went into this study.

• 47:02Wim Hof?

  It took only one afternoon to break those patterns. Wow. And that's the way. And you know what happens? The next thing is that they got the feeling that they got the steering wheel. Their confidence suddenly is there. And suddenly they feel their purpose of life, that they can take on the challenges. Twenty-six people, we just did the study scientifically and all. That shows that we not only here to drink a glass of water. We are here to drink the full cup of life. And to pass it on to our kids. Fully in confidence and trust.

• 47:46Wim Hof?

  And in love and beauty and power and energy and flow. Make a paradise. Yeah, I am here to show scientifically that autonomy is ours. That we have a control far deeper than in science was thought possible. But now it's here. And through the pharmaceutical industry and the whole industry and the governments. They are quite ignorant, let me tell you that. So we need to stand up like podcasts like this. We need to become autonomous. Not believe in governments, but govern ourselves.

• 48:27Wim Hof?

  Because we are good people all. All the so, where we got our soil is goodness deriving from. And we should be able to have faith in the goodness of ourselves. And we bring through these tools autonomy to the people. So they feel confident that they have control over the subcortical areas of the brain. Called the subconscious and all. They told us that is only 60% that we can control. It's 100. Sorry. It's 100. And I'm showing that in brain scans. And now we are shown with cannabinoid receptors.

• 49:08Wim Hof?

  How we are able to create flow in the body, which is a natural state of ours. We only got conditioned. And if we look at society. Too many wars, too many depression, too many inflammation, too many anxiety and all. We can shoot people to the moon. Let's become happy, strong and healthy. I made a song on that, by the way. It's called Sachit Ananda.

• 49:35Jay Shetty?

  Oh wow.

• 49:36Wim Hof?

  Sachit Ananda, Bigra, Jai Radha Radha Om. My roots are in India.

• 49:43Jay Shetty?

  Do you, do you practice mantra meditation as well? Like as you were just singing and chanting right now?

• 49:47Wim Hof?

  I did a lot of that. But now mantras, the repetitive sighting words, sounds, I'm singing.

• 49:59Jay Shetty?

  Yeah.

• 50:00Wim Hof?

  All day should be meditation.

• 50:01Jay Shetty?

  Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it's the culture of India.

• 50:04Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 50:04Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, it's not even just repetition of word. It's singing, it's dancing, it's chanting, it's really beautiful.

• 50:10Wim Hof?

  Meditation should be your natural state.

• 50:12Jay Shetty?

  Joyful, yeah.

• 50:13Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 50:13Jay Shetty?

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, it's almost like a, it's a soundtrack to your life. That's how I think about it. When I think about mantra meditation, it's almost like you're listening to a soundtrack, but the soundtrack's within your own heart and consciousness.

• 50:27Wim Hof?

  Yeah.

• 50:28Jay Shetty?

  And that repeated is kind of creating the rhythm of your life.

• 50:30Wim Hof?

  Yeah, if you sing, you love it.

• 50:33Jay Shetty?

  Yeah.

• 50:34Wim Hof?

  You can yell out it, your heart, you let your heart breathe. It feels great.

• 50:41Jay Shetty?

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• 51:25Jay Shetty?

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• 52:09Jay Shetty?

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• 53:30Wim Hof?

  Willpower is the ability to have control within, it's the six cents, seven cents and eight cents. Willpower, darana, concentration. If I stay one hour in icy water, I need darana, I need concentration. I need to control my core body temperature, to control the nervous system while I'm in this very stressful environment. And I stay there. This is willfully connecting and that makes my body strong. So anytime I need to concentrate, using that connection with my central nervous system, which I exercised in cold water,

• 54:15Wim Hof?

  and it doesn't need an hour. It only needs you adapting. Adapting is two, three minutes. Then you are naturally connected with your central nervous system, which is the instrument of the willpower. You just need to learn to connect. Don't make it too complicated in yourself because it hasn't got to do anything with your thinking. It's taken on the challenge and your body adapts. Doesn't matter what it is, heat, cold, stress on the stage, doesn't matter. You learn to take on, instead of ruminating about it,

• 54:57Wim Hof?

  you go into it because you have control over the central nervous system, which is a connection of the prefrontal cortex and the central nervous system is everywhere and it adapts. How far do you want to go? I tell people. Yeah. If I get people motivated. Last time I went on the Kilimanjaro in shorts was with a man who was seventy-six years old, seventy-six. He had no experience in climbing. He was suffering from Lyme's disease, is a debilitating condition. And he had to go in shorts and he wanted to do this in record time, what young people cannot do.

• 55:42Wim Hof?

  So, and I looked in his eyes and I saw connection. I saw motivation. Motivation is the right connection with your central nervous. You really want it because you really are there. And I went with him and this is a mountain you can do between five and nine days, fully dressed because it's very cold up there and it's half the oxygen and less and you need oxygen to combust for energy. And it's not there, so.

• 56:17Wim Hof?

  Five to nine days and then forty percent only summit. Fully dressed. This man did it in thirty one hours. In his shorts.

• 56:28Jay Shetty?

  What?

• 56:29Wim Hof?

  You know what happened? His Lyme's disease was also gone. At the same time. What is willpower? It's there. Do you got it? Do you really want it? It's there. And it's not complicated.

• 56:44Jay Shetty?

  Wow.

• 56:45Wim Hof?

  And you can test it. That it is able to go way past what you think you can do. And it takes a half hour. Just try this out. We simplified these techniques. So to make it a usable tool. Then it's only a matter of choice. What do you want with it? Because you will be able, as you shoot, owning your own mind and body in its full splendor.

• 57:17Jay Shetty?

  Wim, you've done so many difficult, challenging things. You encourage people to do them with you as well. What's the hardest thing you believe you've ever overcome?

• 57:27Wim Hof?

  Wow. At a certain moment, I could do a world record every day. You know, you get your body ready, yeah? And the connection is in the flow. Every day you can run a marathon barefoot, outside in the snow or stay two hours in icy water. Do crazy stuff. And at a certain moment, I was thinking to myself, actually, I don't want some ridiculous new challenge doing, showing. I showed enough. And what I want right now, and that is might be the most difficult, is to settle down.

• 58:10Wim Hof?

  And to let hundreds of millions of people are doing what I'm doing now. This is real, with or without my name, doesn't matter. I started this, this is my mission. My mother told me to do this and to be the missionary. I did it. I got to the Catholic Church itself, to the esoteric departments of the Catholic Church, the best of them, they came to me. My mother is in peace. So right now, I want to go on. I want to go on on my own. And the challenge is, I want to reach billions of people, which is happening.

• 58:49Wim Hof?

  That is the power of faith that keeps on going when actually I thought I did my mission. I will be keeping on going. Because I, actually, a normal life is a bit boring. I wanna change the world. And that, it can be difficult. I don't care, I love.

• 59:10Jay Shetty?

  Well, Wim, I think it's very clear that you have no doubt been the modern greatest proponent of breathwork, of spending time in the cold and cold exposure. I don't think there's anyone else who has not only popularized but taught those principles and made them as big and as famous and popular as they are now. And honestly, all that credit goes to you for sure. I don't think those conversations were being had in the modern world. And so I thank you for doing that because it's such a, it's such a great unlock for the world to recognize the power that can be there for free, right? It's like, you don't have to pay for breathwork, you don't have to pay to have a cold shower every day.

• 59:52Wim Hof?

  Freedom is for free.

• 59:54Jay Shetty?

  Exactly.

• 59:55Wim Hof?

  Autonomy is there. And we wanna bring, that is love. We want to bring love to the people. We want them to be able to feel good whenever they feel bad.

• 1:00:08Wim Hof?

  You do that, I do that, that's why we are here talking to each other. Five years ago, we talked and it's the same right there. That's the war we're gonna win.

• 1:00:19Jay Shetty?

  Absolutely.

• 1:00:19Wim Hof?

  General. Yes.

• 1:00:22Jay Shetty?

  Your energy is infectious. I love it. It's such a like. And my team was telling me, just to let everyone know. My team was telling me, you walked here today to my house. How long was that journey?

• 1:00:34Wim Hof?

  An hour and a quarter.

• 1:00:35Jay Shetty?

  Is that all it? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. It's pretty impressive. I think it might have taken people a bit longer than that.

• 1:00:40Wim Hof?

  Yeah, it was a nice walk. I was way too early here, but I enjoyed your cool.

• 1:00:48Jay Shetty?

  You live, you live, you live everything. Like, it was hot today. It was a hot day in L.A. You walked here from your hotel or wherever you're staying. Like, it's amazing because you live and breathe this. Like, this is who you are. And some of my friends, Louis Howes is a good friend of mine, and he brought a lot of friends to you a few years ago in Poland. They had the best time.

• 1:01:07Wim Hof?

  Ah, yeah.

• 1:01:08Jay Shetty?

  And, and everyone came out of that just saying they couldn't believe how much time they spent in the cold. And I think that's my favorite thing about what you unlock for people, beyond the breath, beyond the cold, is we don't know what we're capable of.

• 1:01:24Wim Hof?

  Exactly.

• 1:01:24Jay Shetty?

  We have no idea what this body and this mind is capable of doing. And if everyone listening and watching can remember that you are so much more capable than you believe you are, you're able to do so much more than you think you can. Your mind and body are so much stronger than you believe they are. If you walk away with that message from today, that will change your life. Because in your head, you think you're a lot more limited than you actually are.

• 1:01:50Wim Hof?

  If people take one message, love is where you are able to make that what is going bad within, good. And that, that love we want to share, and it's not complicated. Just try it out once, and then you will see for yourself. Feeling is understanding.

• 1:02:13Jay Shetty?

  Wim, a couple of last questions. We've talked about the like mental and physical health benefits. What benefits do you see for society at large if they practice your method?

• 1:02:23Wim Hof?

  I think it is the soul itself. We are now being approached, I was in the Middle East, with the Catholic Church, with the highest esoteric departments about providence, or God's providence, and the mortification about deep religious practices. They are taking this all on and see that God's presence itself comes much better toward the moment again. And that is unconditional love to me. And that is now accessible also for anybody else.

• 1:03:04Wim Hof?

  So we made God accessible, the unconditional love accessible, just by learning how to surrender. And to show scientifically that we are capable of controlling this deep, autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, much better than we have learned in our schools to battle inflammation, depression, and energy itself. It's all there, and it's not complicated. If you take something away, just do it once.

• 1:03:40Jay Shetty?

  How can people understand that breathing and being in the cold and surrendering ultimately leads you to God? Because I think a lot of people are doing it, they do it for the health benefits, they do it for the physical benefits. They may not even understand the concept of surrender, which is what's actually happening when you're in the water, you have to. How do you connect that dot for people? Or is it just something people have to do and they'll get there?

• 1:04:04Wim Hof?

  During this conversation, we already actually talked about it. It's your purpose.

• 1:04:09Jay Shetty?

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 1:04:09Wim Hof?

  Once you are driven by your purpose, it's like, if you love somebody, you just, there's nothing that can stop you. If you get your purpose by learning to control fear, to have a deeper control over the central nervous system inside, which we showed, within a half hour, then suddenly fear doesn't block you anymore. The quality of life doesn't... You take on the challenges. Suddenly, our nature is to take on challenges, to take away blockages, to live up to our purpose, and our purpose is rooted in goodness. And that, once we are in that power,

• 1:04:53Wim Hof?

  we are stronger than what we think.

• 1:04:55Jay Shetty?

  Hmm.

• 1:04:56Wim Hof?

  Because love is stronger than what you think.

• 1:04:58Jay Shetty?

  Hmm hmm.

• 1:04:59Wim Hof?

  That is happening. I'm not gonna go into philosophies, because this is not about philosophies. But the best philosophers, they come now saying, they are recognizing that the real core principle of, uh, the, uh, the best of philosophy is being done by do- doing this. So I take that, but this is not my starting point. Yet I, I take it as, hey, these people, they are experts in those fields of what is God? How to behave there, how to do, uh, how to practice and all.

• 1:05:41Wim Hof?

  They are coming and they say, uh, uh, that this, and it makes sense to me. But I say feeling is understanding. If you do this, then God will be there.

• 1:05:52Jay Shetty?

  Hmm.

• 1:05:53Wim Hof?

  I have no doubt, God's presence is a goodness that is rooted within every person in the world. And this makes all the blockages go away. You connect and your purpose is like a flower, is like a strong power that goes past your thinking.

• 1:06:13Jay Shetty?

  Wim, last question. You've talked before about this, but you talked about losing your wife and how that was such a transformative moment in your life, even though it was tragic. And you've talked today about the definition of love. Is being able to transform something that felt like pain into something good or purposeful. What helped you grieve and what helped you walk through that grief?

• 1:06:40Wim Hof?

  Yeah, grief. And we did lately a grief study. And that shows in within one afternoon, people are able to get out of these patterns.

• 1:06:50Jay Shetty?

  Through breathwork and?

• 1:06:52Wim Hof?

  Yes, because neurologically you are connected with the love of your life. She was the mother of my four children and she still is. And we got completely on it. She is here. The afterlife, but that is another discussion. She is here. She's with us and I'm with her children. And we have a very successful enterprise in the whole world on breathing. A mission to bring love and how to de-block. So when I went grieving about losing her in a suicide, the mother of my children, the love of my life,

• 1:07:34Wim Hof?

  nothing could help me except for going into cold water. Cold water makes your mind shut up. Different areas of the brain suddenly start to be activated. The sense of life, the brain stem is about survival, just to live. What is the purpose of life? To be alive fully. So it started over there. It opened a little bit my grief. It stopped my grief in those moments by which I opened up to myself. And there the healing started. I became a person missing my wife.

• 1:08:19Wim Hof?

  Missing the mother, but I made my family, for my family, my kids, with very little money, a warm nest and a lot of energy. And that's because I could heal within. And we still have in all our honor, and we can still think about all the emotions. But here we are. From there, from that negative story, this movement now is evolving. So I've learned of the grief. I've learned of my negativity inside, my darkness inside,

• 1:09:04Wim Hof?

  and come out. And so can anybody else. This is what we are showing now in scientific studies. People who also have loss of family members or divorces can be very strong inside. Or PTSD, the gruesome situations of war inside, and you can't change your behavior anymore. You're in despair. This breaks it. So it broke me back then, and I had to find it, its science. And it works for millions of people.

• 1:09:43Jay Shetty?

  Wim, I thank you for your work. I'm grateful to have spoken to you twice. I'm hoping that everyone who's listening and watching downloads the Wim Hof method to actually practice it, to breathe every morning. What I really wish for you is that for the next seven days, just seven days, if you can start your day with the Wim Hof method on an empty stomach, just watch how your life changes. Just seven days of either the breath work or the cold shower, whichever one you can. If you can do both, amazing. But just either one of them. And just watch how your life changes, because this is all about testing. It's all about practicing. It's all about building it. And I don't want you to think that you've got to learn a new technique

• 1:10:28Jay Shetty?

  or whatever it may be. This is really, really simple. Wim has made it absolutely accessible for each and every one of us. And I think one of the things that I'm gonna do based off of this is just constantly remind myself that whenever you think you've reached a limit, to realize that. That's actually not the limit. Your mind and body can do so much more.

• 1:10:51Wim Hof?

  Yes.

• 1:10:51Jay Shetty?

  So, thank you so much, Wim. Please read the Wim Hof method, download the Wim Hof method, follow Wim on social media across platforms. And Wim, I'm sure we're gonna meet again and continue this mission together.

• 1:11:03Wim Hof?

  I love your work.

• 1:11:04Jay Shetty?

  I love yours.

• 1:11:04Wim Hof?

  And I respect it and thank you so much. I came yesterday all the way out of Europe and tonight I fly on. Maybe not so good for the ecological footprint, but I had to see you. I had to be with you and it's worthwhile all.

• 1:11:21Jay Shetty?

  Thank you.

• 1:11:22Wim Hof?

  Thank you very much.

• 1:11:23Jay Shetty?

  Thank you. Thank you so much for listening to this conversation. If you enjoyed it, you'll love my chat with Adam Grant on why discomfort is the key to growth and the strategies for unlocking your hidden potential. If you know you wanna be more and achieve more this year, go check it out right now.

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