How to Control Your Nervous System with Kasper van der Meulen Body Mind Empowerment Podcast with Sii

Kasper van der Meulen (0:00)

What a lot of people have is the idea that they're living a fully conscious life, but they're not really. So you get to learn how you can change the way you respond to difficult things.

Siim Land (0:12)

Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast episode four. We're starting to gain momentum, I can feel it. We're gonna keep pumping out more content, keep spreading the message, the value, the knowledge of becoming self-empowered and enhancing human life. The last episode was about my adventures at the Biohiker Summit in Helsinki.

And this one is gonna be a more in-depth conversation with one of the speakers from the event Kasper van der Meulen.

Kasper van der Meulen (0:43)

The ability to focus will be the superpower of the 21st century. And the little thing I did with you right at the beginning, that is the main skill that I've been building ever since I was 16, of looking inside, asking what is there, why is it there, where did it come from, how did I get here, and how do I change the state.

And it all starts with the ability to focus.

Siim Land (1:05)

He's the owner of Mindlift, which is a training system and company that teaches people to control their nervous system and physiology. Kasper is from the Netherlands and he's also studied under Wim Hof himself, so he's definitely cold adapted and body mind empowered. If you want to support this podcast, then leave us a review on iTunes, Stitcher and follow Siim Land on social media. I'm gonna take your feedback, learn from my mistakes, keep making improvements and soon enough we're gonna get this thing out there. Another way to support this podcast is to get one of those stay empowered t-shirts that I'm wearing.

What it stands for is showing up for the greatest version of yourself and earning your laurels every day. But without further ado, let's get on with today's episode with Kasper van der Meulen.

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Do you want to know what it is?

Siim Land (1:58)

Body Mind Empowerment.

SPEAKER_3 (2:00)

Get stronger, faster, smarter, quicker, friendlier, more helpful, more driven.

Kasper van der Meulen (2:06)

Everything the body needs.

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Control your mind.

Siim Land (2:11)

Can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do?

Kasper van der Meulen (2:15)

Yeah, so I'm from the Netherlands. That's where I'm from and that's where I was born and raised.

And now I am in Helsinki to talk about the nervous system and about how to hack it, about breathing and about all kinds of different cool ways that you can optimize your life quality.

And that's what most of my work is about. So from my own book, I talk a lot about focus. I talk a lot about cognitive enhancement, hacking the nervous system. And then I also work together with a lot of different people to go to the cutting edge, the forefront of these new techniques. And one of the things I've been doing here is like guiding people into the ice path with the Wim Hof method. Also a lot of fun, different breathing techniques and especially out here. It's just crazy stuff all along. Good conversations and all these cool things to try. So having a good time.

Siim Land (3:12)

What is the key ingredient to this Mindlift Training Systems?

Kasper van der Meulen (3:17)

The key ingredient is taking full responsibility for your own life. That's like the fundamental, underlying thing that is so important for all the work we do.

So in all the biohacking, all the self-improvement, all the health stuff, you can't actually use it if you don't understand, have a deeper underlying understanding that everything in your life is your responsibility.

That's where it all starts. And everywhere I go, all over the world, I meet people who are ready to take that responsibility, but they don't really know how. So they've got the why, they know, okay, this is why I want to do it. They see that there's all these different methods and different ways to do it on the level of what, and then they want a how to go from why to what. They're looking for a way to really put these things into their life. And that's what I try to kind of like the vacuum I try to fill in with my work is to give people a very practical, scientific understanding, simple techniques, but all in their own responsibility. I can't help anybody, I can't fix anybody, but I can maybe teach them a tool that they can help themselves.

Siim Land (4:24)

Yeah, so what does the technique actually look like? What's the practice of it?