#wim hof method

[3liza]

it's extremely important to submit to the full body sniffing inspection upon returning home from some strange destination outside. you never know what demons could be clinging to you until your dog or cat hunts them down and dispels them with powerful huffy sniffs

[the-path-inside]

Tummo (Inner Heat)

Image generated by the-path-inside using Stable Diffusion. View my other creations here. “Air is the element most needed by fire. This is why you need open spaces, the wind, and to fly. Because you have fire in you. This is why you look into the sky, why you make wishes, why you tread lightly. You, too, are the air, because inside you there is fire. Why do you think we breathe? Because we are kindling our fires.” - C. JoyBell C.

[hereticallyeverafter]

[nord-thoughts]

[didanawisgi]

Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans

Hitherto, both the autonomic nervous system and innate immune system were regarded as systems that cannot be voluntarily influenced. The present study demonstrates that, through practicing techniques learned in a short-term training program, the sympathetic ...

Hitherto, both the autonomic nervous system and innate immune system were regarded as systems that cannot be voluntarily influenced. The present study demonstrates that, through practicing techniques learned in a short-term training program, the sympathetic nervous system and immune system can indeed be voluntarily influenced. Healthy volunteers practicing the learned techniques exhibited profound increases in the release of epinephrine, which in turn led to increased production of anti-inflammatory mediators and subsequent dampening of the proinflammatory cytokine response elicited by intravenous administration of bacterial endotoxin. This study could have important implications for the treatment of a variety of conditions associated with excessive or persistent inflammation, especially autoimmune diseases in which therapies that antagonize proinflammatory cytokines have shown great benefit.

[janinebaechle]

Sandra practicing the Wim Hof Method, Italian Rainbow Gathering, Tramonti di Spora, Italy, July 2019

[From the series: 'Inner Journey'] 

[captynclyde]

For those interested in taking cold showers for the health benefits, Clyde's found a loophole.

[rainb0w-ph0enix]