Because people thought of me as a crazy man, "who is going to sit in the freezing waters?",
like thirty-five years ago. "He must be crazy".
And what people think it affects in a certain way, I just kept it secluded,
for about 25 years. I didn't tell nobody.
Many books I've been reading,
many esoteric disciplines I went in because I felt there is more between
heaven and Earth, but I couldn't find it.
And I had this feeling inside, and after years,
I found myself in the park on a Sunday morning, everybody still sleeping.
And I was, you know, pondering within once again, like always
because it doesn't stop you know. The brain doesn't stop if you
really search for something and you haven't found it,
your brain just keeps on. You are into your mind.
So this Sunday morning, I was walking through the park
and I just felt this attraction to this thin layer of ice on the water.
I looked around, if there was somebody and just the idea came up.
I go into that water. Once again, I looked around, I undressed myself,
went into the water, and I fell deeply inside, it silenced me.
I felt this is it without thinking. Later, I began to know,
yes, the cold brings you in a deeper connection with the deeper parts of the brain,
which is the adrenaline, the reptilian mode, the primitive brain, the reactionary brain,
which is not thinking but only feeling.
This is what I was looking for something beyond religion,
beyond concepts of philosophy. Or if you do this, this happens,
all kinds of disciplines, but never this depth in my brain
connected with the depth of my body. And that moment is just,
it's blank, but it’s there. And it made me feel really good.
Just one minute, it was the first time. I played a little bit with the ice
and I was witnessing I had no, I didn't feel the cold whatsoever,
I felt power. Power, just internal power,
which is connection. And this connection, if you feel it
and you get out, then you have triggered something inside,
something deep, and it makes you feel good
because feeling good is deep connection.
And I took it home, I wasn't thinking about it,
I was just into this feeling, gave me a rush.
So, the other day I came back. And did the same thing, I had the same feel.
And I came back every day and I lengthened
in time because I felt I was able to do that. At a certain moment, I began to become aware
I was breathing deeper. And that deeper breathing brought about
an oxygen in my body tingling and all kinds sensations,
and I could after like twenty-five of these breaths,
I could go into fetus position under the water,
in the ice water, stay five minutes, six minutes, seven minutes,
no problem, no force just feeling underneath the ice.
Silence, pure silence from within and out, connection.
It brought this deeper feeling connection and from there, I never, I was totally convinced
within and always went back, always went back. So, it brings you into
this quarrelling of the mind is stilled, you just survive
and not only survive, you find out if you are relaxed
that you are able to endure, and this power within begins to grow,
which is dealing with the impact of this force, called the cold.
And then afterwards you feel, “wow, I'm filled up with power and it feels good”.
And once you control that you begin to control
and finding out that it is in the brain that we, that we tap into the deepest part of our brain,
which is pure feeling, and it's great. and it hasn't got anything to do with the cold.
Because people thought of me as a crazy man, "who is going to sit in the freezing waters?",
like thirty-five years ago. "He must be crazy".
And what people think it affects in a certain way, I just kept it secluded,
for about 25 years. I didn't tell nobody.
Because I've always been looking for, what is life about?
What is the real sense of life? And you cannot find it in the books.
You are in the book, you got to open up.
And begin to read, to be conscious of what you have inside.
That's my conviction. We are made to be happy, strong and healthy.
And right now, we are making a big step, we got it into the science,
that we are able everybody to tap into the autonomic nervous system
in two days. I found this shortcut, I found the missing link,
the key to the depth of our physiology, the way nature has meant it to be,
the ability to tap into the deepest layers, which is the endocrine system, immune systems.
And what is endocrine systems? All that makes you happy,
those are those are hormones, happy hormones.
All that makes you powerful, those are adrenaline hormones.
And what is health? Is just tapping in all the
layers of the immune system, and we got it.
And now it's in the books in the third year in American university books,
it's all there. The chapter, “The Ice Man”.
Endocrine systems, immune systems, possibly giving hope for those who have
suffered for example from HIV and things like that.
Because we could not tap into these immune systems.
Now we do. My conviction is once again,
we are meant to be able to tap in any time into our system to make us happy, strong, healthy.
We alienated from that, and I'm going to bring it back.