Josh Waitzkin

He thought I was holding my breath, but I was only holding my breath while swimming. So if I was still, I was fucking out. His fourth lap, after his fourth lap, he pulled me up. I was blue. My whole body was blue. My head was red. My body saved me. My training saved me and almost killed me. Sent all the blood to my brain. My eyes were blown out red, like bloodshot for three weeks that followed.

He thought I was holding my breath, but I was only holding my breath while swimming. So if I was still, I was fucking out. His fourth lap, after his fourth lap, he pulled me up. I was blue. My whole body was blue. My head was red. My body saved me. My training saved me and almost killed me. Sent all the blood to my brain. My eyes were blown out red, like bloodshot for three weeks that followed.

And I remember waking up and having this, looking at everyone around me and like, what the fuck is everyone, what's going on guys? Like, what's the drama? I was the fucking drama. And I spent that night in the hospital going through old chest variations, trying to like test my brain. Is my brain ruined? Like, do I remember things?

And I remember waking up and having this, looking at everyone around me and like, what the fuck is everyone, what's going on guys? Like, what's the drama? I was the fucking drama. And I spent that night in the hospital going through old chest variations, trying to like test my brain. Is my brain ruined? Like, do I remember things?

And I remember waking up and having this, looking at everyone around me and like, what the fuck is everyone, what's going on guys? Like, what's the drama? I was the fucking drama. And I spent that night in the hospital going through old chest variations, trying to like test my brain. Is my brain ruined? Like, do I remember things?

Somehow my brain, maybe it's fucked up, but it seems to be working pretty well. And that was also a big part of me realizing I had to spend my life in the ocean. Because I could feel the potential for some PTSD response. I could actually feel the potential trauma response like a cloud that was washing away. Like I could see the cloud coming and I just fucking decided not to let it in.

Somehow my brain, maybe it's fucked up, but it seems to be working pretty well. And that was also a big part of me realizing I had to spend my life in the ocean. Because I could feel the potential for some PTSD response. I could actually feel the potential trauma response like a cloud that was washing away. Like I could see the cloud coming and I just fucking decided not to let it in.

Somehow my brain, maybe it's fucked up, but it seems to be working pretty well. And that was also a big part of me realizing I had to spend my life in the ocean. Because I could feel the potential for some PTSD response. I could actually feel the potential trauma response like a cloud that was washing away. Like I could see the cloud coming and I just fucking decided not to let it in.

And I got back in the water the next day. And I just fucking, and I think that's a big part of my relationship with the ocean is having died in water. I need to spend my life in the water.

And I got back in the water the next day. And I just fucking, and I think that's a big part of my relationship with the ocean is having died in water. I need to spend my life in the water.

And I got back in the water the next day. And I just fucking, and I think that's a big part of my relationship with the ocean is having died in water. I need to spend my life in the water.

What's really fucked up about it is no. That's what's really wild. It went just black. That's what's crazy is that I went – my last memory is of just tingles and bliss and then waking up. And so if I hadn't been pulled out, there would have been no flash, no seeing my life pass before my eyes, no tunnel on the other side, nothing.

What's really fucked up about it is no. That's what's really wild. It went just black. That's what's crazy is that I went – my last memory is of just tingles and bliss and then waking up. And so if I hadn't been pulled out, there would have been no flash, no seeing my life pass before my eyes, no tunnel on the other side, nothing.

What's really fucked up about it is no. That's what's really wild. It went just black. That's what's crazy is that I went – my last memory is of just tingles and bliss and then waking up. And so if I hadn't been pulled out, there would have been no flash, no seeing my life pass before my eyes, no tunnel on the other side, nothing.

You know what's really fucking wild though is that many years later, I was doing this –

You know what's really fucking wild though is that many years later, I was doing this –

You know what's really fucking wild though is that many years later, I was doing this –

this guy Brandon Powell is a brilliant guy who's a top Wim Hof trainer and a trainer of trainers of his guys and I was doing some retreats with teams of mine and we were doing some Wim Hof work and he had this methodology of kind of accelerated hypoxic work where that he said, I'm not sure if it's true, but he said release DMT in your body, inhibited the DMT inhibitors in your body and I did these journeys with him twice through pure breath work, no psychedelics and

this guy Brandon Powell is a brilliant guy who's a top Wim Hof trainer and a trainer of trainers of his guys and I was doing some retreats with teams of mine and we were doing some Wim Hof work and he had this methodology of kind of accelerated hypoxic work where that he said, I'm not sure if it's true, but he said release DMT in your body, inhibited the DMT inhibitors in your body and I did these journeys with him twice through pure breath work, no psychedelics and

this guy Brandon Powell is a brilliant guy who's a top Wim Hof trainer and a trainer of trainers of his guys and I was doing some retreats with teams of mine and we were doing some Wim Hof work and he had this methodology of kind of accelerated hypoxic work where that he said, I'm not sure if it's true, but he said release DMT in your body, inhibited the DMT inhibitors in your body and I did these journeys with him twice through pure breath work, no psychedelics and