Top Highlights

• “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.”
• stressful exposure can have harmful effects at high doses, but at low doses it can actually create changes in our body that make us healthier and stronger — that’s what we call “hormetic stress.”
• Acute short-term stress can lead to powerful positive changes in our cells.
• The underlying method requires something uniquely human—the power of belief in ourselves, the power of strong intention combined with directed attention.
• unique dialectical state of relaxing into physical discomfort and pain—of ice, of cold water, of breath-holding—I find this to be a remarkable state.