Wim Hof released an album called How to Find the Key to reach people his cold-exposure science cannot. The long, interconnected tracks are designed to awaken listeners to unlimited mental power. He started playing guitar at 12 and now uses music as a heartfelt way to translate inner truth and freedom.
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Together we are searching this time for sure, finding freedom. I was 12 when I started to play music, starting with the guitar. I remember I had one Accord I played it all the weekend and I was somewhere else. From there, I took the guitar up regularly. When I was 16, I made my first song. Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, border zone. You know what I'm talking about. This is the time to become timeless. It is time for the soul. I've been a Basque too, in Amsterdam, together with my little daughter, when I had very little money. And the thing is not how you play the guitar, it's that you play it. And at a certain moment, you get in tune with the people, and then only one or two strings is needed to move the frequencies around you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. We met in the Roundhouse. I had an event over there in London, and he had these two guitars. I said, "Hey, you got two guitars? Give me one." "Can you play?" "Yeah, I play." "Can we play together?" Since then, we are now here.
We play together everywhere. He's like an inspiration to me. I couldn't find a better place to play music than with him.
You see the light.
My father was a conductor in an orchestra. He played the violin, he played the flute, and he wanted to teach me how to play the violin. I said, no, I want to be a rock star. So I pick up electric guitar, you know.
Then when I listened to flamenco for the first time, I just fell in love. When he plays, I can sing because I know there is a genius behind it. He is a translator. He is the one to translate what I got in the deepest core. It's not even mine. It's everybody's.
The first track is more than 10 minutes long, and I did that for a very good purpose. It's storytelling. It's supposed to take you on a journey bit by bit, bit by bit, and the whole tracks are connected, so you can just listen to it nonstop.
We found the key to enter past the threshold of the unlimited power of the mind. And it's here. It's within you, within me, within all of us. It's a matter of awakening. The album we just made, How to Find the Key, the key to yourself. Science is done. Here is the music. Are you listening? The one who is able to control his mind, will direct it towards happiness, sheer happiness, bliss. Satchitananda, Vigraha, the embodiment of bliss, of intelligence and happiness. Sheer happiness.
I think the music will align very well with people who are practicing Wim Hof Method. I'm not taking this responsibility, this job lightly.
When I was 12, I started to believe I can change the world. The method I developed later in life, and I found my way to go further and more in nature. And the most hostile force in nature is the cold. And that's where it all started. But nobody listened. Only after I started to go with science, validated by having injections of bacteria, I could show I could beat inflammation. Inflammation is the cause and effect of any disease. So we got scientific validation. But still the people do not really listen. They don't understand. So that's where music comes in. Because in the end it is about the music. It is about the heart. It is about the love. And that's why we made the album. In chaos from nothing. There we are with the conviction and the confidence. To bring it on, to bring on that resonance, what resonates with everybody, every mind, knowing that you are capable of moving those rocks. There is a song <LYRICS>Music is my first love.</LYRICS> It was my first love. When I was 18, I made this song. I was into Sanskrit and yoga and all, so I called it 'Satchitananda Vigraha.' That means 'that is the energy,' all-pervasive energy. 'Chitta' is intelligent, 'ananda' is happiness, 'vigraha' is embodiment of those qualities. That's freedom, to have the ability to go into any space of our own brain, the seat of the unlimited power to mind. It's all there, and it's a subtle difference that makes all the difference. Together we are searching this time for a shore, finding freedom. Freedom, freedom, freedom. Ain't no doubt about that no more. How many millions of people have been taking on ice bath breathing exercises? We brought it into the mainstream. It's getting everywhere. This music will be received not only to them, my community, but to hundreds of millions of people. We are awakening the soul itself. And we use the music with a message. And the plans of me to perform live is just be a conduit without fear to bring in the divine. That's the way I'm going to be on stage, and I will tell the people that it is all there to serve them.
Can they hear it? And this is also one of his speech in the album. Can you hear the melody? Until you hear it, you keep on listening.
And then it ends into the song of freedom. Of course it is freedom. It's where you become the master of your mind and the captain of your soul. Music with a message. When you listen to this album and you listen well, you will find the key to your soul. You think this is an overstatement? Challenge me. Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom for us all.
