Wim Hof answers whether cold showers should be nightly. Start with 15 seconds and work up to 2 minutes, morning showers activate your cardiovascular system, and multiple showers daily are fine if they feel energizing. Listen to your body, not a schedule.
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Hi guys, here we are back on the Ask Wim. Questions and answers, here they come. What would I do right now if I wouldn't have, you know, discovered the method and all? I would be still doing the method because it works regardless of being famous, yes or no? Because I found it through intuition, through instinct. I was doing it without knowing this could be a method. I was doing it already for 40 years before I made it into a method. Maybe then the method became fruitful to share. And that's what I do right now. Otherwise, I would be doing the same thing. Because it works. Because it makes me feel great. Regardless. Unconditionally. I have poor circulation in the hands and feet. Can I still practice the method? No. First, go and practice with your hands alone and with your feet alone. Do that a couple of days for 2 minutes each in icy water and feel the difference. Once you feel that you are able to do that without pain, then the circulation in the hands and the feet, the extremities, are established to its natural condition. And then you're able to go into full immersion, do the Wim Hof Method fully. Good luck! Some people are more sensitive to the cold, and for them it is not suitable to go directly into the cold. For those people, strengthen your cardiovascular system through breathing, Thirst. Become to know how to control the breath within and changing your biochemistry, which makes you able to activate the adrenal axis by which you become stronger. But through the breathing techniques, you will be able soon— first take cold showers for 15 seconds, then 30, 45, 1 minute, up to 2 minutes. Then you are ready for the ice bath. Yes. Can I have more than one cold shower a day? Yes. As many as you feel. If you feel the cold shower gives you energy and you are depleted again of energy, just go into the cold shower. You will see it resets the body. Always works. I love it. Ice baths? I do when I feel it. Don't think just once a day or something. No. If it is more times, I do it more times. I just follow my feeling. Follow your feeling. You can't do too much cold exposure if you follow your feeling. Your feeling is there to give you the right information. Hey, get out! Now it's enough. Learn to feel, not to think and coerce your body to go more and more and more. No, no, no, no, no. Feel. If you feel, man, you cannot make a mistake. How would I go with injury recovery? Retrieve within yourself. Find a relationship with your injury. Do the breathing. Do cold compresses. Wherever that is. Be gentle to yourself. Sensitive. Build up a relationship that is interoception. That is healing. That is the fastest way to willfully supplement your power of your being into the healing. And letting your body heal by itself from within. No coercing. A gentle relationship is love. Love your healing. Do I think that teens should do my methods and try it out? Oh, absolutely. This is a great solution and great answer to bring down mental disorders, to bring down anxiety, to take on energy and have plenty, to bring down inflammation, and to process trauma. Any teen should know this. Is it okay to take a cold shower every night instead of the morning? If you feel so, yes. But mostly in the morning is the best because then you activate the cardiovascular system to the deepest. And that is when action starts. Yet when you have cortisol in yourself, you can't sleep really well. Because of the presence of cortisol, then going into a cold shower could be an answer. It raises the adrenaline, brings down the cortisol. Hi guys, thank you very much for having asked me. Ask Wim, you know. Come on, man, keep on shooting questions. I like to answer. Hey, there is the answer.
