It has cured all my chronic training aches. I had a tweaked lower back and my wrists were breaking down. Ever since i started the ice baths at least once a week, gone. I stopped once and it all came back. Started back and gone again.Awesome, have you found it to be as beneficial as it seems to be? I almost want to do it just to be able to take ice baths more often to help with inflammation. Just that alone is pretty awesome.
So thats why i kept with it, but the breathing method is a fantastic way to meditate and i do it daily. The method of breathing and controlling your breathing during the ice is basically just practicing overriding your fight or flight responses to relax. So i do the breathing meditation in the morning after stretching and doing what my wife has labeled my "old man excercises". Its crazy beneficial for will power, aches, depression amd mood, problems, etc.
Wim Hof said he started doing it cuz when his wife died it was the only thing that could pull him from his depression to be in the freezing environment.