The School of Greatness - 399 4 Minute Stress Relief Breathing Method with Wim Hof

Episode Date: October 28, 2016

"Just be and feel who you are." - Wim Hof If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes at http://lewishowes.com/399

This is 5-Minute Friday! Just loosen up the body a little. Stand. Just mind your body for now. Just for a minute. So shut up there. Just be and feel who you are. You feel your feet on the ground your arms and that's it now breathe in and let go what we do right now is uh do make a physiological reset

of the nervous system and the shape of the body is becoming better. And it is no effort. It feels like, hey, I can go on. What's happening? That's chemistry. Learning how to control stress hormone. So if we are too stressed, we got to go to the mechanism who is producing the stress and we have no control. With this one, you reset the stress hormone mechanism the brain stand within four minutes and after which you feel good because the connection is there and i'm not saying

feeling is understanding okay there you go okay i say now breathe in. Let go. Breathe in. 28. Get them in again. Just go with the flow. No minding. Just go. You feel what you feel as you're breathing.

We are oxy-energizing the body right now. It's getting into all the cells. Not only the carbon dioxide is going down, oxygen is getting in. Body becomes alkaline. What do you need to perform? You need alkalinity. Because of the oxygenization, alkalinity comes in. That's what you need to perform. Now, because you are so stressed, you are not connected to the brainstem. In the brainstem, there is the directory of the hormonal system. In the brainstem, there is the directory of the hormonal system. We will consciously go into a physiological state of not having oxygen,

because we're going to do push-ups after exhalation. That turns on the brainstem and resets whatever is causing the stress the hormonal system the stress hormone adrenaline epinephrine cortisol and it is controlled it resets it okay yeah and you get a good figure out of it yeah you got already good figure okay no minding about that go on 15 14 let it go go into 13 get your mind on you know what the mind is able to do just get your mind on into the cell i do my, the best will come about. And no competition. It's just going into the depth of the body and the brain. Eleven. Ten.

Nine. Take a minute. Come on, Lewis. And how? Lewis Howes. That's the way. Yeah, it's fun too. Five. Four. Five. Three.

Two. One. Here comes the last one. Pull the head. Let it go. Stop. Push it in. Let it go. Stop. Push-ups. Let's go.

Looking good. No air in the lungs. Mind is resetting. The hormonal system is resetting. There is no doubt. Amazing. Good. Good. Good.

And relax. This is the way to get into the depth of the brain, the directory of stress hormone, and all cells. Wow. Yeah, man. It's the adrenal axis completely under control it's four minutes how much did it take oh less than four minutes so anybody can do this gets a good figure resets the nervous system

doing great job you know Thank you. Bye.