That simplicity, the gravity of that simplicity,
the gravity of that exercise, should be known throughout the world.
Good stress is a conscious, a conscious going into a stressful situation
and thus activating consciously your stress mechanisms
inside your own brain. It's also good for the body,
but I'm talking the brain now. And inside your own brain,
you have these stress mechanisms and we are able to connect
with them. That is good stress. Now, then you have bad stress in daily life
which is constantly coming to us. And we are not able to deal
with it at a certain moment. And this is the underlying problem,
stress becomes bad when the body is not able to adapt to it anymore.
And this is part of the vascular system which you just mentioned.
The vascular system is about 100.000km, 70.000mi inside of us,
capillaries, arteries and veins. They contain millions of little muscles.
If you go into stressful situations like the cold, you train these millions of little muscles.
And they then help the blood flow go through the body a lot better.
That means the richer is the cell with nutrients, vitamins and oxygen, a lot better.
And here it comes, then the heart rate goes down 20-30 beats a minute, 24-hours a day.
There you have the chronic stress. Because when the condition
of the vascular system is weakened, then the heart needs to compensate for
the loss of blood pressure cause the millions of little
muscles are not helping the right way, so the blood flow needs to go through
anyway, so the reaction of the heart is beat more, more, more, more.
But at the same time, that reaction is sending a signal to the liver
to activate glucose and to activate cortisol. And because our vascular system is constantly
creating a deficit for the heart to pump more, more, more
because we have to perform outside all the time,
then there is no moment of relief anymore, no moment of repair,
no moment of restoration, because accelerated heart rate
is directly connected to the sympathetic nervous system,
adrenaline, cortisol, cortisol, so we live in a constant presence of cortisol
and no more is the cortisol not present, therefore at a certain moment there is no
parasympathetic nervous system activity which comes when the cortisol goes away,
parasympathetic comes to repair, restore, create new energy, it's not there anymore.
And logically, we get all these auto-immune diseases,
we get burnouts, we get tired, we become sleepless,
and all these nasty things happen and they are very easy to get rid of.
Take a cold shower a day, keeps the doctor away. As simple as it is. That simplicity,
the gravity of that simplicity, the gravity of that exercise,
should be known throughout the world. The vascular system is present
within everybody of us, 100.000km that is the inner vascular fitness
exercising should be there and not only the "look how I look," big muscles and
fitness rooms and this and that, your inner power, your inner life
is waiting for you. For external
stimulation, environmental stimulation. With that comes the brain stem, with
that comes the limbic system in the brain with sufficient blood flow fully alive!
And then, you will have no problems to know who you are, what you are here for and
what you're gonna do. Because you are alive!
And you feel, when you are alive, you feel happy. When you feel happy, you don't build
up any frustration or anything, you radiate great energy for everybody.
Cause we are connected all. That is the simple truth.