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How to Control Stress Before It Controls You | ⁨@TheDiaryOfACEO⁩

23 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Wim Hof explains how ice baths silence stress and anxiety by giving you control over something that feels dangerous and uncontrollable. Master the cold once, and that confidence cascades into other areas of your life where you take back control.

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People feel being silent in that ice bath, overcoming all that stress, and suddenly feel that they are on top of it. And they are suddenly able to go past this concept of this dangerous cold power energy coming to no control, this anxiety. It's suddenly they got a hold, complete hold over that. And with that comes that paradigm that always thought of that to be impossible to control, suddenly it's a piece of cake. That is then turning into a domino effect, a cascade of feelings of, hey, if I can do that, I can do that, I can do that, I can do that. So you can build personal responsibility by taking control of the cold and not— Oh, absolutely.