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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @11:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the west-meets-east dept.

Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing. Since then, he's climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namib Desert with no water and proven under a laboratory setting that he's able to influence his autonomic nervous system and immune system at will.

Almost everything Wim has done was previously thought to be impossible - but he's not a freak of nature.

To demonstrate that any human can learn his methods, Wim offered to teach Matt Shea and Daisy-May Hudson to climb a freezing cold mountain in their shorts without getting cold.

Buddhist breathing techniques repackaged for westerners? There's an app for that.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @05:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @05:50PM (#622641)

    Mind is the "thinking" thing. Brain is a physically existing biological organ. Presence of brain does not guarantee or imply presence of mind.