Originally Posted by
MaxPen
Win Hof is incredible. I once considered seriously taking a class. But I really hate the cold.
It shouldn't be hard for a person of your caliber and military background to get his mind right.
That would be step one.
Step two would be to focus on the breathing techniques to the point of experiencing blackouts, hallucinations and the temporary loss of some motor skills.
Step three would be to acclimate yourself to the cold with cold showers trying to increase your time as you focus on your breathing.
Once you got used to cold showers without moving back to warm/hot water you can move to step four which would be ice baths.
This is all just mind over matter and takes as much time as you are willing to put into it.
I have no doubt that you could do it and be very successful at it within days or weeks.
I highly doubt that it would take you months to master it.
Obviously you just don't want to or you do not feel that it is worth the effort.
It could be a problem that you don't have a buddy or support group doing it with you.
That always seems to speed up any process dealing with this sort of thing.
The whole thing is the breathing technique.
If you are doing it right, you should have no loss of core body temperature.
Sort of like our discussion about Carbon Steel Woks or Iron Woks.
It seems you would rather spend your time doing other things.
Which is fine.
As I said we only have a limited amount of time in our current body or lifespan.
You are somewhat of a math guy and if you crunch the numbers you will find that it is very difficult to get away from that 40 year old average.
The 77 year old average lifespan is basically new and a very skewed number.
Even if you make it to 120 years old, you still have to go through the experience of physical death.
The main point is that an individual should be currently focused on strengthening their immune system.
This obviously can be done other ways through exercise, diet, nutrition and vitamins.
However, the breathing and ice water is moving up another level or two or three.
Nothing can beat the sheer power of the mind though.
You can pretty much do or beat anything if you got your mind right.
Today you may say or think you hate the cold but if you focused your mind you could transform into embracing and loving the cold forever.
One thing is for sure... Charlie don't care about the rain, mud or cold.
All Charlie think about is slip our throats!
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