Andrew Huberman· PhD
Raise your stress threshold: Use (safe!) deliberate cold exposure or any other reliable way to safely & quickly increase your adrenaline levels, while also controlling your mental focus.
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Raise your stress threshold: Use (safe!) deliberate cold exposure or any other reliable way to safely & quickly increase your adrenaline levels, while also controlling your mental focus.
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Physiological sigh is one. If we're going to activate our stress response intentionally by ice baths, cold showers, cyclic hyperoxygenated breathing, aka Tummo breathing or Wim Hof breathing, we also need to learn how to press the brake.
they involve placing oneself deliberately into a situation where our adrenaline is increased somewhat not to the extreme and then when we are feel flooded with adrenaline and normally we would Panic it's about cognitively mentally emotionally calming ourselves and being comfortable with that response in our body and what would this look like you can use the cyclic hyper oxygenation breathing to combat infection if you're feeling kind of run down and there is also a way in which you can use things like cold showers or if you exercise and you bring your heart rate up very high you kind of go into that high intensity realm where your heart is beating a little bit harder than you're comfortable with the key in those moments is to learn to relax the mind while the body is very activated
you're using this as a practice as a tool to build you could call it resilience but the ability to stay calm in the mind while being stressed in the body epinephrine in the body and you do that by subjectively trying to calm yourself
pretty much anything that will give you a really heightened state of alertness offers you the opportunity to try and stay calm in the mind