Wim Hof
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
My rumination in the head, thinking brain just went on.
A Sunday morning, very silent, everybody sleeping.
I was out in the park and just thinking as I used to about what is this all about?
Yeah, yeah, troubled, like confused, confused.
And then I saw by a gut feeling the ice.
It was winter time in Amsterdam in a park and a thin layer on the ice and I felt attracted to go in.
Why?
I did not know.
But I looked around, I stripped myself of the clothes.
I went in and there I felt without words, this is it.
I was looking for this.
Without knowing, I had found what I was actually looking for in books.
And it is the cold.
The cold that opens up a deeper realm of the physiology, both in the brain,
And in the body.
But back then, I did not have any scientific knowledge about this.
I just felt it that way.
I felt euphoric afterwards the whole day long.
The other day, I came back with the expectation, oh, is it maybe not going to feel so good like yesterday?
That is just, yeah, a new thing and all.