Wim Hof outlines a daily lockdown routine: cold shower, 30-breath breathing exercise, push-ups, then simple exercises like stone-handling drills for focus. He emphasizes creative play, breath work, and cold exposure as tools to strengthen the mind and view lockdown as a chance for inner growth.
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Hi guys, as you see, I'm outside. It's still not completely a lockdown, but with the lockdown at home, what could you do? Hi guys, the lockdown, the quarantine, the being obligated to stay at home in one place, it's a great opportunity to get to know your own mind. Because your mind wants to go everywhere and now you cannot. It's like a prison. What would you do? You have to learn to calm the mind. You have to learn to control the mind. This is a great opportunity to do so and to learn of all that. Amazing. Good luck with this. Do I have any tips for starting the day positively in this coronavirus situation? Like every day I do and take the cold shower. I take the cold shower which wakes me up. And then I want to go everywhere because I got so much energy. No, I go into breathing. Breathing exercises. And from the breathing exercises which stills my mind in the deep. I'm suddenly aware and just being there. Being here. Amazing feeling. That's the way to start the day. Eventually, a push-up exercise after doing 30 breaths is an amazing jolt of adrenaline rushing through you. Then you are able to start into any other way. Because you have stilled your mind and you have stilled your body through the cold shower, the breathing exercises, and the push-up exercise. You're really on. From there we can go anywhere. This is the way I start my day. Every day. How to still do exercises while you are in a limited area like home? Oh, you can do all. You can do painting. You can learn to take 3 stones. You begin with 2. Look, it takes all the concentration of both the areas of the brain. Up. 1, 2. Follow. 1, 2. Takes all your mind and your motorical nerves to connect. 1, 2. Can you do this? From here we go. If you can do this, You got 2 stones in one hand and you do the same. 1, 2, 3. You see? 1, 2, 3. Whoa! That one fell. Many times it will not succeed. Doesn't matter. You just go on until you know how to do it. You know? But it all begins with 1, 2. Not like this. 1, 2. And pay attention with your neighbor. Now it's a great time, the coronavirus, 1.5 meters from each other when you are at home. Because sometimes it just goes, oh! You know, you don't want somebody within the 1.5 meters. So you take it. One, two. That's control your mind wants to do. Where is it? Where is it? You know, that's your mind. You want to learn to control the mind. Do it playfully. One, two, and this is Just one of the thousand exercises you could do. Painting, making things of cardboard. I got a little one of 2 years old. I'm making things out of cardboard and paint with him. All the education for him is there. All the creativity. All the being together, me and him. It's amazing what you can make. You can make aeroplanes, churches. You can make your old home or a castle. You can make anything with your mind and your hands. Or write poems. I love poetry. Once I get into poetry, then the mind gets into it. Then the poems come out. They pop out like a chicken popping out eggs. There's so much, man. There's so much. Just start. Just start. Use the coronavirus situation, the lockdown, as an opportunity to learn about your own The power of your mind actually is unlimited. Get to know the power of your mind. Your beautiful mind. We as humans are able to do so much more than we thought possible. And that is now inside the books, but yet not implemented. So my message to you here directly: Make use of these breathing techniques. Make use of a cold shower. Make use of the belief and your own inner mental power and bring them together. And with that, you are able to effectively battle this situation. No problem. Just do it. Easy does it. Easy does it, guys. Have a nice time. Bye. Bye, guys. Yeah, spread the love, man. It's all there. But seriously, spread the love, spread the power, because you got it, we got it. And this is what I've been showing a long time, and people thought I was crazy. Man, I am crazy. I am so crazy about life, my wife, my children, the nature, harmony, and you. I love it all. I love it all and I'm crazy about it. And we got so much more within us than we thought possible. It's not outside, it's inside. Get in connection back there in the depth. And now we got the opportunity with the lockdown. Take on the opportunity. We are here. It's spirituality. And it's time for spirituality. Because we are spirits. And we have a beautiful mind. Let's bring it all together. Heart, mind coming together.
