Most Common Wim Hof Method Mistakes And How To Fix Them
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00:00 Intro
01:12 Technique
03:46 Awareness
07:44 Meaning
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Insane, the value in this video is super tight. You can't skip a second.
"Awareness and mindfulness are multipliers for every skill you practice" amen brother.
Another great tip is when breathing into the belly, breathe INTO your belly instead of expanding it outward. Its actually a very good practice to breathe into your belly pulling your stomach inward at the bellybutton for normal breathing as well. This will train the transverse abdominis which hold the lower abs and belly in tight instead of pushing them outward producing a pot belly.
Thanks for the addition - great advice!
I wish I found this comment sooner. I was actually breathing into the belly while expanding it so drastically that it gave me stretch marks.
@@KitaroWaga Your welcome. Thank you as well!
Thank you for this! #THANKYOUFORTHIS @Lionjames #Lionjames
Why am I so confused by this? I seriously don't understand. Any chance you could link a CZcams video explaining this?
Just my two cents.....I've been doing Wim Hof breathing since fall of 2019. I do my breathwork and a cold shower about an hour before bed. I fall asleep quickly and sleep deeply. If for some reason I miss a session (very very rarely), I struggle to fall asleep. The breathwork seems to alleviate stress and calms me down, while the cold shower snaps me into the present moment. A great feeling when I'm done.
Thanks for this video, Kitaro. Good info.
Tom
Yes! Nice to hear from someone who does the WHM in the evening and does sleep well! Thank you for sharing your practice
That’s really interesting. I used to do this as well. But I found it made me feel really drained in the mornings. I’m not sure if it was purely just the Wim Hof method, could have been other factors as well. But now I tend to do the breathing when I first wake up, and then have a cold shower after. Sometimes I will do the breathing again in the afternoon if I’m feeling anxious
I usually "pass out" before finishing 3rd round. I kinda become conscious again and aware that Im not breathing, and not know if I just stopped, and did breath hold early or have been doing the breath hold for a while already, zero concept of time, just total calm being, I try to stay in that moment but...next thing I know Im waking up in the AM 😂
Thank you again for explaining these methods and opening greater depth and connection. I find it miraculous how each time I am feeling low or stuck your videos seem to pop up in front of me at the perfect moment. A gentle steadying hand to help step back on the path. Gracious thanks
Appreciate your channel and thoughtful additions.
I've been doing WH method for over 2 years and I have gone from 1 min to 5 min breath holds. I have developed my style of breathing to something a bit different than Wim instructs but at the heart of it is his method. I think he gives you the skateboard but it's up to you to get good at riding it
But how long could you hold your breath without doing those exercises before holding your breath? Like if you were to just take a deep breath right now and hold it how long could you hold it for?
You have gone from 1 and a half minute to what?
@@mr.broski2427 3 to 3.5. I haven't been sick in over 2 years. Even when my friends had covid. I would do it every day just for that
@@tronik2605 5 minutes of breath retention on an exhale.
@@Salazarsbizzar That is amazing!!
Thank you Mr. Waga, I appreciate your T.A.M. sub method for the WHM. Its always great to learn more about the things one enjoys doing.
This video really helped me. I can hold my breath longer now than I ever could before!
Thank you Kitaro for your clear explanation, I very much appreciate it🙏
Awesome tips, thank you!
Absolutely love this. Thank you. Very interesting and makes great sense
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. This is very helpful.
Thanks! Very useful advice, I picked up a few things to improve my practice.
Many thanks Kitaro...a superb explanation of how to improve whm technique!💛
Thankyou for this video. I love the Wim Hoff method & your advice about the breathing is very timely. I use the breathwork to navigate a very stressful job & it works so well.
This is so great! The meaning you told is very valuable. I started the breathing a year ago with not really a meaning, except the one you have as an example. "It feels good"... So even it felt very good, after some months I quitte. This video was very motivating to pick up and use all of the three settings you told. Thank you so much! You have such a calm and powerful face. I want that too 😆 So again thank you! 🙏
Great video and explanation! Thank you!
Great explanation, I also made the mistake to exhale too slow and use force breathing out until I watched this.Thanks for being so clear on the different aspects of the breathing technique. 🙏
Thank you for an 'outside eye' to ward off bad habits and no clickbait!
Thank you very much Kitaro! You the best man.
Excellent tips. Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s very insightful.
thanks for this man, really helpful!
This explanaton is amazing!! During the past months I haven't been able to hold for more than 2 mins (and this is forced by the way) but after watching this I was able to hold for 2:45 without any struggle at all. My whole body had so much tingling sensations. Thank you so much for this 🙌
Awesome job on this one. Very well explained. Thank you for putting the time in to do this!
Thanks for the comment and watching my videos 🙏
This is most helpful in tuning my technique. Thank you so much.
I'm grateful for these protocols' tips
"Cultivating the courage to face the storm deliberately". What a beautiful quote!!!!
Thank you, this was extremely helpful 🙏
Brilliant information and explanation
You are so articulate in your explanation, I love 💜your clear conscience direction with technique guide 🙌 you are awesome 😎
great video mate thank you, very clear.
Your content is outstanding as always mate - really helpful and on point - your editing is great as well - thankyou 🙂👌
Thank you
Thanks Kitaro. This is one of the best WHM guidance videos I've seen. There's no doubt it will help me move forward with my practice.
Thank you!
Thank you for making this video 🙏
Amazing! Thanks for this instruction :)
Thank you for such detail! Love your work and tutorials brother!
My pleasure, Brother! Thanks for watching
Thank you for this 🙏🏻
Great explanation of the more subtle aspects of the breathwork and collection of tips and techniques. I was searching for this video as I've been practicing for awhile feeling like I wasn't getting the results I've wanted to. I'm off to the guided breathwork video linked at the end to practice this. Thank you!
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Super helpful!
Great video! Thanks
I really enjoyed that video, thank you.
thanks for this information it is very helpful to fully understand what we are doing while practicing this method now I know I have been doing the exhalation totally wrong without knowing the connection between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in the inhalation and exhalation process, thank you again
Have been practising for a few years and while I get alot out of it, this is excellent information. Thanks
Glad, it's helpful for also some more experienced folks out here
Hey `Kitaro, I really enjoy your calm and well-presented video's
Its a great help for better understanding these great work outs
Thanks
Thank you for your support!
Thanks for that video! I really needed this perspective on the method.
Great, that it's helpful
Fantastic video. Since discovering your videos and practicing regularly with them, my experience has deepened and expanded. This video is so helpful in taking my practice forward. Thank you for all you do to further our awareness and understanding.
Thank you so much for your nice words
This is some crazy good value to be receiving for free!! Your channel is great, I've been doing the wim hof method for a while and loving it, but all of your videos have been really helpful to make sure I'm getting the most out of it. Wish you the best!!
Great to hear! Thank you so much for your contribution - much appreciated
This stuff is brilliant.
This is just what I needed. Thank you
thank you
Yes brother!!!!! The awareness part hit home ❤
Thank you brother
Great info!! Thanks 🙏🏻
thx
Thank you so much😀
These are excellent points. I’ve done WHM for almost two years and I’ve had exactly the experience of not ”getting there” on my own - not always but too often. This is a path i’m still on, but it’s nice to see i’m not alone on that path 😊
What is meant with “getting there” ? I just do the breathing and fee a bit less stressed, that’s all
@@annekeyoungs5752 I mean those occasions when doing the breathing felt like I could've just skipped it altoghether. It's missing either technique, awareness or meaning or all of them when that happens. Kitaro explains that quite well - or at least I understood it that way
Terve Kalle. oletko Suomessa? Good to see a Finnish name here. I wish I could go back to having ice hole swim after sauna again. I did and loved it for many years in Finland, but now I am a whimp having lived for too long in 30 degress and more most of the year.
@@andreawenke5545 you don’t need sauna for a cold bath! ☺️
Thank you ❤️
I’m 70 years old and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease years ago. Some of the most common non-motor symptoms of the disease are depression, anxiety and apathy. Most people are only aware of the tremors that can be the most visible symptom of the disease. I refuse to take anti-depressants because I have read that meditation, exercise and breath-work, for many people, do as much or more good than the SSRI’s and other anti-depressants. I have tried your breathing methods and found them to improve the issues I have been dealing with. Next come the cold showers. I’ve always believed there is a very good reason God allowed hot water heaters to be invented, but I’m going to give it a try. Thank you, Mr. Waga, for the content you provide on CZcams. I, for one, am very grateful to you. I’ll let you know how the cold showers go. You may hear my screams wherever it is you live! Jim in Oregon
I am new to this practice. I certainly hope the practice will help to alleviate your symptoms. Best of luck!
wishing you all success. I hated cold showers for a few days but like them now.
Great video thank you I will follow you now
These videos you do are very helpful. Thank you
Pleasure, my friend
Very nice video, lighting music, story, everything on point! nice clothes too
Very informative
Thank you, Kitaro!!
Pleasure
Thank you!!
Such good guidance, thank you!
Thank you for your comment, my friend!
I'm really glad you put up this video, I am going to be far more aware of the fullest inhale opening the belly and opening the diaphragm more then letting go. I still get the gasp due to trauma to the throat and gullet and have a short breath hold.
About six months ago, I experienced a tightness in the base of my throat and my heart was racing. I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with an attack of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). They explained to me that my vagus nerve had seized in my throat and made my heart stick in, what I prefer to think of, as the wide open position (160bpm). They treated it by injecting me with adrenaline, which wasn't pleasant. It caused the nerve to release and my heart rate went back to normal.
Along with my release paperwork was a link for the Wim Hoff method. I have been making it a daily practice since then.
Yesterday, I was in the middle of a breath hold and my vagus nerve seized again. Admittedly, I was just going through the motions. My mind was completely elsewhere when I could feel my throat seize up and my heart begin racing. I didn't panic and continued , this time being in the moment and focusing on what was going on with my body. After another couple of rounds I could feel my heart rate slow and the tightness in my throat relax. After a cold shower I felt more relaxed and centered than I have in months.
Awareness cannot be underestimated.
I also discovered that doing a body scan and lying down is more effective. Also following up with meditating including movement meditation. Meaning is the reason I started this method.
You truly are born to teach 🙏
Ekaa nu ikwa = you are seen in divine gratitude
Great content, appreciate your insight
Thank you for watching
thank you for the advice : )
I’m doing the breathing technique combined with cold showers for over 3 years already. I don’t know if im doing it perfectly correct but every time during the breath holding and after the exercise I’m feeling like someone is hitting me with 10 tazer guns for at least 15 min after that. After the cold shower hits the feeling gets even stronger and charges my body with energy for the whole day.
Placebo
No way...isnt placebo
I get that feeling in my arms! Took some time to accept it for me haha.. I’ve never done the cold shower immediately after though
@@MrFreePenny Try it buddy, you’re missing a lot more extra dopamine and energy.
@@juandeloera9924Try it before you knock it. This isn’t prescription medicine.
Kitaro, IMHO this is THE BEST video you've made on the WHM. I know you've talked about some of these points before, this is the clearest, and you've put it all on one place. I've watched lots of other WHM tutorials including the official stuff, and I've read three books now, and this video cuts to the heart of the matter. of how to practice correctly once you know the overall framework. Well done.
Thank you for this! #THANKYOUFORTHIS @Lionjames #Lionjames
Thank you for this nice comment!
Thanks you for sharing these tips! I feel like I have been exhaling too slowly or too long and am going to try a shorter exhale. I love your videos. Much appreciated!
Hope it helps and thank you for watching
Thank you for this! #THANKYOUFORTHIS @Lionjames #Lionjames
Awsome!
Thx brother, I've doing wim hoff for years. but you just mentiod some of my mistakes ❤
Thx for the explanation and the inspiration. For me it is sometimes easy and kind of natural to do a "good" breathing. Sometimes it is harder to breath in fully or just letting go while breathing out. Being aware of the technique helps a lot in this moments. - In my experience there is a big difference between a breathing session alone at home or doing it in a group with an instructor leading the session. The energy that is brought in by other persons breathing next to me and the reaction of the instructor to the current atmosphere during the session can bring the experience to another level. So the next session alone at home can feel like not experiencing the highest level. But it is just different and not a lower quality.
Thank you for this beautiful addition about your experience with group breathing!
Thnx for your words 😊
You're voice is hypnotic.
I've been doing whm since November, & it's about time I reevaluate exactly how I'm doing everything. This is helpful. Thank you, Kitaro. 🙏
Great that my video is helpful for your practice
nice, thank you
Thanks That was Great 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you brother 🙏✨️
Thx for watching
Wim Hof made my meditation much more fun. I type A so it takes self-discipline to gear down and empty my mind. I can do that now!
I really need to lay down for the wimhof method. If i sit upright my mind will keep control of my posture and breathing to an extend. If i lay down my body will relax, let me breath much deeper and hold the breath much more comfortably.
It's also interesting to focus your awareness to one part of your body, while holding the breath. It really helps to relax, warms the muscles and has massage like effects.
hello, thank you very much and keep it like this. all esteem and respect.
I'm 44 years old and now I feel better and more energetic than when I was 20. for example, I do the wim hof breathing style depending on how I feel at that moment, = I like to listen to my body, I don't force it. and it helps me a lot. and recently I discovered the keto/carnivore diet = the combination of breathing and the almost carnivorous diet worked wonders for me.
but in vain I try to explain to someone about the benefits of breathing and this diet, no one believes me.
Thanks
Thank you so much! Much appreciated!
Ktiaro San, your teaching are great contributions for humanity ❤
One advice though, since there is a accent in your speaking, on top of that the loud background music . . . . it needs some extra efforts to understand what you are actually speaking.
I wonder if it's possible for you to re- upload this video either with no music OR very low volume in the background ?
Waiting for your kind reply 🙏
Thank you again!
Healing energy
Thank you for the tips and very timely arrival too as coincidentally today my spouse and I had been talking about having entered some kind cycle of diminishing returns with the breathing method.
After a great start for both, we individually seem to have hit some kind of gradual down curve in regards to achieving the same initial plateau of effect, the full blown shimmering (which I presume is down to blood oxygenation) which made for a great Somatic experience and consequent relaxation and feeling of wellbeing. It left me wondering what could it be, what happened, what have I started doing wrong - which only lead me to try harder, perhaps too hard thus missing the point.
I’ll take your advice in and re-evaluate my practice accordingly.
I must say, though, that I still struggle with the notion of ‘full inhale and just let go’ because if I don’t force it out I feel as if can’t quite do a full inhale and don’t get the full load of oxygen I’m after.
Thanks for sharing your experience and your struggle. Sometimes it can help to be guided through the breathwork where you don't need to think about what you need to do. It can help relaxing more.
But hitting this plateau of diminishing returns happening to many people. Happened to me as well.
As oppose the others , this video came to me. It was a fresh breath of air on a matter where the subject is actually air..
The WHM is special to me.
You are for real the best wim hof guy on here hands down
I'm honored that you think so 🧡
@@KitaroWagalove all your videos and they’ve been so helpful with my journey of personal development and re-regulating my nervous system after a lifetime of trauma and severe loss. So once again, thank you so much.
All the best brilliant🎉
My pleasure!
I love the wim hof method!
I've had amazing results with the breathing method. At 77, and having a serious heart condition, I could barely walk a block 3 years ago. After doing the breathwork for 40 months I am now walking about 4 miles a day. I could hardly hold my breath for 30 seconds at first, now I can go for 2:30. I actually think people my age would benefit most from Wim's methods. My comment is already too long to elaborate on that point.
Congratulations, sir. It's very cool to see someone your age take the time to change your habits.
Thanks. Closing in on the 3 year mark and haven't missed a day. Stay with it.@@discipline-my5hi
I always grt migraine after wim hof breathing @@discipline-my5hi
That’s incredible results.
@@whiskyweasal89 thanks to Wim!
Great video. Thankyou. Do you have any advice or experiences with anyone with Long Covid. I have had it for 2.5 years now and still dabble with the WHM but with daily bouts of fatigue/ tingling (like a pins and needle/ light headaches I a cautious not to be excerting y system. Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks again.J
Well, you explain it better than Wim ! thanks, man
I often don't get around to what I need to do, because I fail to clearly set my intention. I am afraid that if I set the intention and don't succeed, then it is worse than just not setting the intention and staying in limbo.
My goal for now will to be that I set my intention clearly before my next breathwork tomorrow. I am doing this to be healthy, and to enjoy the current moment, for however long I can be present in it.
This is an awesome video! Thanks for this...also...who does your video editing? It's great
Thanks Josh! I‘m doing the editing myself at rhe moment
@@KitaroWaga the editing is great, well done!
I am relatively new to the method. And I experience strong crumps thru the whole body. So I slowed down the pace and now rather practice method slower to integrate it within myself. I still get little crumps, but not as strong as before. And I feel the benefits, although I know there is still much to improve. Has anyone had similar experience? Am I on the right path? And also how long did you guys take to fully empty your mind and reach awareness? Last time I believe I managed to empty it for like 20 seconds.
Thanks . I do Wim Hoff every morning before eating. Always lying down. I always do the awareness protocol first and it does help and make the breath holding easy and spiritual. I will continue doing it. I don’t do the ice work . Not brave enough yet. Thanks for this independent explanation.
Thank you for sharing your experience with the breathwork. As for the cold exposure, you can start with baby steps. It doesn't need to be an ice bath. End your shower by shower cold for a few seconds and progress from there.
@@KitaroWaga how cold does it have to be? Max coldness on the shower, or just until i want to leave?
you'll never be brave enough just do it it's not gonna kill you, other people are doing it
Thank you so much for this! I have never heard the whm explained so clearly with so many helpful tips! I stopped doing the whm because it didn’t seem like it was making any difference. I am now going to resume and incorporate the info and tips that you gave in the video. (But first, I will watch again, taking notes this time!😊)