Wim Hof explains how unprocessed emotions create rigidity and shares when he last cried. He describes a BBC interviewee who suppressed tears for decades until his breathing method helped her confront her brother's death, and says he'd have little regret if he died soon, having lived well and left love behind.
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Hey folks! Q&A. Ask Wim. Right over here. Wim here. Ask there. When did I last cry in front of another person? That was in December. But many times I've been crying. I let my emotions come. Many times. And they come and tears are beautiful. Yesterday I had a 3-hour kind of master interview. And we talked about emotions. Emotions stay in all the life. Only the burden, if you don't process them, they will block you. And then you become rigid. I remember a person who I just had with the BBC. And she couldn't cry for, say, 30 years. Like, not really cry. Always Victorian-style being. And then she cried in this breathing. And she saw her trauma of when she lost her brother when he was 16 years old of a heart attack. I mean, I cried and I'm letting it go. And it is able to ascend. Many times, but in presence of Jeff Pope, who wrote the screenplay of the feature film upcoming, he dove into my psyche and what he wrote made me cry, but also him. We cried together and it was amazing. It was recognition, emotion, beautiful. If a crystal ball would be able to tell me something of my past, present, and/or future, what would that be? Well, I would have, you know, a couple of questions, of course. What could I have done in the past that would have improved my being here and now? Because I'm a man on a mission. I always like to know what could have been better. Because in the present moment, I would then, through that observation, be able to readjust. So that crystal ball, I would ask, what happened in the past that I can rehabilitate here in the present to ensure a better future? Man on a mission always is on for those things. So that is what I would ask the crystal ball. If I would die in 1 year, would I change the course of my life, my mentality, my mind, my everything? Not too much. I'm always ready to die, but even more ready to live. How do I feel about my relationship with my mother? My mother is like Mother Nature. I do not adore her. I love her. She is gone, but she's here. She's in me, in my memory, in my being. And the way nature, Mother Nature works is that the mother has given you birth and then she goes and you stay behind. No, she is paving the way. She will be there when I go. She will be there. I love my mother. If I would die this evening, what would I most regret not to have said to anyone? And what would that be? Nothing much. I've been a good person. I'm a good person. I love everybody. I think I'm leaving everybody well behind. It's not behind, it's— they are there where they should be. There is nothing hidden in me. It's all out. If I would die, then I just keep on living. My soul keeps on living. So that's about that. But for those who stay behind, or behind, behind on this earth, who is better off? You never know. You know, like my little kid. But he knows I love him. My partner knows. And even the cameraman right now, he knows I love him. It's all okay. How close I am to my family? Very, very close. But also with my spiritual brothers and sisters. Very, very close. When I am together with people who are very lovable, like open and with a great passion for life, those are my spiritual brothers. It's really great sharing and to be with these people. Right now my family is huge. I got millions of brothers and sisters. They all love me and I love them back.
