Global Wellness Summit 2017 - Day 3
23 October, 2017
First up there were, like some time slots on other days, there were multiple streams. The first session I attended was with Wim Hoff, Author, Athlete and Inspirator, affectionately known as The Ice Man. This is a man who climbed Everest in shorts and who swam under polar ice caps without a wetsuit.
Wim has discovered a method to overcome a method of overcoming and getting in control of his own autonomic nervous system. Doing so, he is able to control his body’s natural survival reflexes and change how his body responds to external stimuli like cold.
At the end of the session he took us through a powerful exercise of high rate, deep breathing and led us into a breath holding activity, first for a minute, then for 90 seconds and then for two minutes. Most people in the room were able to achieve it.
He talked about preventing and curing disease and as I did the exercise, I realised that breathing in such a way flooded the body with oxygen. This is a key to healing a number of conditions that may be related to low systemic oxygen levels including infections and cancer.
His technique has been analysed rigorously by a variety of Physiologists and Medical Scientists and has been proven to be effective. His work has led to new learning and discovery.