Wim Hof
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And then they used that in a thermo-physiological experiment in Detroit, in the hospital, to test to see if people are able to use parts of the mind that cope with the stress.
Cold is stress.
So what they do is pumping a cold water into the vest, into the tubes, and they measure the skin temperature and they look inside the brain what is happening, how the person is dealing with stress.
And nobody could really do something against that.
And what I was doing,
There was this, I'm talking squirrels.
There was this not so tall, he looks like Napoleon, a professor.
And he swims every day, he swims every day, 800 meters butterfly.
You know, that it says he is into breathing without knowing.
And he's got a lot of energy.
But he had difficulties pouring ice cubes in the container, which was pumping water, me being in the fMRI, motionless, because I was warming up the water.
Wow.
So my skin temperature never went down.
Wow.
And it came in, and then warming the water again, and then ice cubes again, cold, warm, cold, and you see fluctuation of skin temperature.
And then you look inside the brain.
What did I do?
I just set my intention.
I don't want to call today because today I got the chance to show that we can do more than we think.
That is so powerful.