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"The Wim Hof Method" by Wim Hof

book review by Riley Burnham 2/24/2022

really really really good stuff

audiobook was great; content is stellar/extraordinary

Wim takes us on the journey from before his finding "God in the cold" until his current state of work: teaching his method & its results to people around the world; helped by his children(!) which is cool [he points out he'd basically embarrass them at school when they were growing up, & now they're very close]

the brunt of this work/method is in breathing & focus, teetering between hyperventilation & breath-holding; learning to focus the mind & resultantly influence the body [he says autonomous nervous system & inflammation system]

he describes doing & teaching [successfully] being able to suppress or control his faculties when injected w/ illness-causing concoctions; being able to warm his hand by 12°F w/ his mind [in front of an audience -- first try]

he talks about how cold exposure does unique things to breathing & the body; more or less resetting or recalibration systems that often otherwise harm us [vasoconstriction, inflammation...]; & teaches taking progressively colder shows as we acclimate ourselves to temperature variance

by the end, i went to his website & downloaded the free PDF ["The Journey of the Iceman"] which has detailed instructions for his technique -- then wrote/codified my own technique w/ the conclusion "compare w/ Wim Hof Method for effectiveness"