In this segment of The Wim Hof Podcast, Wim Hof and actress AnnaLynne McCord explore the fundamental role of love as a primal survival mechanism, arguing that love transcends the mind and can be consciously activated to generate energy, creativity, and resilience. They discuss how modern society has lost touch with pure, label‑free feeling, urging a return to childlike openness and spiritual presence. The conversation then shifts to the concept of sacred or positive masculinity, with McCord praising Hof’s embodiment of a ‘Viking‑like’ yet loving masculine archetype. They critique the current cultural backlash against men, distinguishing toxic masculinity from the constructive, compassionate traits they champion, and call for men to be part of the solution alongside women in restoring balance and bringing love to the world.
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The love is stronger than the mind. So don't mind. Learn to love life like you love love. And it is as simple as it is. And love, they say, you know, the primordial survival mechanisms in the brain, they are about food, flee, freeze, and fight. That is simple truth. Yeah?
That's it.
It's a simple truth. Yeah, and so once you get a hold of that, once you get a hold of that, you learn to activate those powers. You learn to be better than the food. You learn to create energy. You learn to be stronger in the fight. You learn to not freeze, but to express yourself. You learn that the— The creative power, the celebrating the love with your person, your sexual partner, to have children or to experience love. You can do that with life itself. And this is what happens. You learn to tap into the feeling, pure feeling without label. And we have lost this.
No words to it. No words. Like, stop putting it in boxes. To actually experience it.
Exactly, yeah. Well, the way you say it, it's like a poetry. You dance and it is this big and there it is. No, that is the passion. It's not just words. It's not an ABC. The words come, but the feeling is the driving force. And it's inside, it's spirituality. With two feet on the ground, giving testimonial of the beauty of life itself in all its unlimitedness, the brain itself, the mind, the seed of the mind, and the unlimited power of the mind. It all gets to us. We become like children again. Like, you don't mind. A child doesn't mind. It just goes because it's got this driving force. And I'm 62. But I am a child of God. I'm a child of being here right now. And I love it. And I'm strong. I'm motherfucking strong because I love life. I challenge it every day. I have no boundaries and I'm going to change the world. We are going to bring love to this world.
Yes, yes.
And we are on the way.
We are. And you know what I love too, Wim? I really, really appreciate what you represent just when someone looks at you, because there's a loss of the divine masculine, of sacred masculinity in our world. And you, you know, you look like a Viking. You kind of sound like what I think a Viking would sound like. And you are, yes, but you're preaching love. You're preaching love. You're preaching openness and sharing and curiosity and acceptance. And these are masculine traits and masculinity is getting shit on right now because there's, there's a little bit of our population that are toxic, and that's for real. I've experienced it obviously with my story, but so many wonderful men are getting pushed down because the— just men are being attacked right now because we're trying to do that thing that we always do where we swing the pendulum too far. And, and we do, we do, we need to, we need to acknowledge the plight of women and, and support women, and— but we need to realize that men are part of the solution.
Yes, absolutely.
They're part of the solution. They are going to be the ones that— it's, it's the 90% of the, the men that are actually good men here supporting and standing by the feminine, by women. There's 10% going around and creating all the problems. We need our men, we need our good men to stand up and be a voice with us and bridge that gap. And, and women have a responsibility, the feminine has a responsibility to stop suppressing the positive side of masculinity and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We've got to look at the issue, cut out the cancer, you know, bring, bring life force to the cancer and enliven it or cut it out, whatever has to be done to remove it so that we can, we can unite the feminine and masculine in our world and have the proper balance. And the swinging from one side to the— it doesn't do anything. It's revolution, and what we need is evolution.
