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Wim Hof’s Simple Confession Says It All

I think this is my favourite thing he’s ever said

Andy Murphy
2 min readMay 4, 2024

This one doesn’t need an introduction.

“I am high the whole bloody day! I don’t need drugs. I don’t need drinks. I have drunk, I took drugs, I smoked, I did it all, but now I do it all without anything!”

Well, not anything. The man breathes himself to happiness every day. As do I.

That’s why he said, “Just breathe, motherfucker!”

And I agree.

I have been teaching breathwork to people all over the world for the last six years and it’s the gateway drug to peace, love, and happiness.

The best part for me is that anyone anywhere in the world at any moment in time can access it, always. Breathing is free of money, dogma, and equipment and because of that, it transcends race, gender, and nationality.

Roughly half of us will inhale at the same time and roughly half of us will exhale at the same time. This, for the average person, occurs every 3.3 seconds.

Each one of those breaths, regardless of where they’re breathed in the world or the age, gender, race, status, or current health condition of the body who breathes them, will activate all ten systems in the body — skeletal, muscular, nervous…

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