Wim Hof

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1,034 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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And at the time, you were a student of, you know, you were studying like, was it religion, philosophy, Buddhism?

Oh, languages, traditions, esoteric disciplines.

Yeah.

Practices.

So reading about it and doing it.

But it didn't really fulfill me.

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,

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