Add Wim Hof Breathing: Next Level Super-O

Thanks for reminding me of this type of breathing. I practiced it a lot in the past and really liked it however that was before my Aneros days.  I can hardly wait to put this into practice before my session.

That's a great idea, do you use the vibrate tool with your aneros or not?

@sam5524 I just ordered Helix Syn V and can't wait to try it. Wim Hof breathing, when done properly, makes your whole body enter a high state of vibration too. Practice a few times and you should experience a new type of natural high.

I am an avid practitioner of the Wim Hof method. I stumbled onto this forum and seeing this thread is what pushed me from "curiosity" to locating a retailer and buying an aneros. What happened next compelled me to make an account so I can reply and share.

First a bit about WHM and my practice with it. I don't just engage in the breathing, I engage with all three pillars of the practice - Breathing, Cold Therapy, and Commitment (training one's willpower). All three are very important to me but I think the Breathing and Commitment training are what's mostly relevant to this community. Self-control and discipline are key to WHM. Deliberate cold exposure, lengthy intense breathing sessions, etc. demand great patience and dedication from the practitioner. I am at the point where I can sit in an ice bath or freezing cold shower for 10 minutes or more and feel invigorated. I do intense breathing sessions and have hit a maximum breath retention (holding breath) of 3m30s. 

Advanced practitioners of WHM develop the ability to willingly activate systems in the body that were previously thought to science to be autonomic, or in other words involuntary and not accessible consciously. Getting to that advanced level requires you to develop many skills which I surmise are directly overlapping with skills required on "the journey" to a super-O. 

Principally, WHM prompts the practitioner to practice and hone the skill of INTEROCEPTION. Put in plain english, this is the ability to sense signals coming from within the body. To look inward and feel your heart beating. Being able to focus intensely and actually feel blood circulating through your fingers. The practice of deliberately working to improve your skills of interoception is a cornerstone in WHM. During a breathing session, after raising your blood oxygen to artificially high levels through deep breathing you then go into a prolonged breath retention phase. During this breath hold it is very easy to enter a deep state of relaxation and connection with the signals coming from within one's body. 

So, on to my first Aneros experience coming from a WHM background. 

I started by spending about 20 minutes ensuring I was adequately aroused. When I couldn't take it any longer I applied lubrication to myself, then the massager, liberally. Insertion was easy and comfortable (I have used normal buttplugs once or twice). I then laid down on my back which is how I normally do a breathing session, and spend just a minute or two practicing the "do nothing" method and just getting used to the feeling of fullness.

Then I went into a medium intensity breath session. Immediately on the first round of deep breathing I noticed that the normal motions the body goes through when doing such exercises generates what felt to me like a long, rhythmic thrusting or tapping against my prostate. I was already experiencing small pleasure waves within minutes of having the aneros inserted for the first time. Neat.

So I arrived at the first breath hold phase. My original plan had been to continue to "do nothing" during this part of the phase but it felt all too natural to instead engage in some activation of the PC muscles while focusing on interoception. This was somewhat distracting and made it hard for me to hold my breath as long as I normally would, which is fine, as the breathwork is taking 2nd priority here. The pleasure and new sensations eventually reached a high enough point where it caused me to take a deep breath by reflex. OK- on to the next breath round.

In the next round of deep breathing I become extremely, almost uncomfortably erect. I managed to ignore this and not touch it. This comes with more intense pleasure waves. Neat! In the following breath retention, I continued as before with some PC activation. I can tell I am not just leaking, but gushing. 

At this stage I have achieved the normal state of deep relaxation that a breathwork session brings me, but I have also in parallel reached a state of arousal that exceeds nearly anything I'd previously experienced. I decide to stop the breath session here. 

I decide to try a new position so I roll onto my side and raise my knee as recommended by the manufacturer. This position increased the intensity of the feelings quite a bit. I pull the massager out and apply more lubrication to be on the safe side. At this point I decide to "do nothing" for a bit because I feel like if I don't I'll be tempted to start working too hard on chasing a specific outcome.

This turned out to be an excellent decision. Within minutes of "doing nothing" I have entered a state where the aneros feels like it's moving around and doing it's own thing. These small involuntary movements began to yield pleasure, and it felt like the pleasure was causing more involuntary muscle contractions, resulting in more pleasure...

At this point I have almost completely given myself over to it. I'm getting massive waves of pleasure one after another. I am still consciously "doing nothing" but in practice a lot is going on. I realize I'm definitely dry-orgasming. Things are so intense I kind of loose track of what is going on down there. By the time I get past the peak and start coming down I look at my watch and realize I'm about 30m into the session.

I decided to finish the session with a warm shower. Standing with the massager in is surprisingly intense. Before I know it I'm erect in the shower. I say screw it and decide to finish with an ejaculatory orgasm. I edge myself, get near, pull my hands away and start contracting my PC muscles. At this point I have an explosive finish, take the massager out, and finish my shower. Pleasure waves continue sporadically until I go to bed.

I suspect that getting that much out of a 1st session is not very common. I think I attribute my fortune in this to my WHM practice. 

@iceman-disciple excellent info. I'm doing cold-soak too and have surpassed 3 min breath hold with ease. Combining Aneros and WHM breathing has taken my Super-O to next level and glad you experienced similar results. My Helix Syn V arrived yesterday! So excited to add this new tool.

@jbingo68 It sounds like you understand the lingo better than I do. Does it sound I achieved a super-O? I am still a bit confused as to what even happened to me, lol

@iceman-disciple as they say you'll know it when it happens. It's like your first teen orgasm only 100x better. I get convulsions and can't stay quiet. If you've seen videos of Super-O convulsions you'll understand what it entails. It's a whole body experience and next-level bliss that will leave you in a puddle, and it goes on and on in cycles. With patience and practice you'll find it. Binaural beats helps me a lot, with moaning sounds even better.

@jbingo68 well I found the glossary. I don't think I hit Super-O status but I experienced auto-f***, dry-O's, and possibly MMO. I'm guessing this isn't common for a first timer based on what I've gathered from reading the wiki and some forum posts

iceman disciple What are long term effects of daily Wim Hoff/Tummo breathing practice? I've been practicing it for a long while but not consistent.

@astronaut daily WHM breathing sessions have been known to cause the desire to hike Mt Everest in shorts without Oxygen. Just kidding but he really did that. The main benefit: you keep your body alkaline which keeps your immune system in tip-top shape. Cancers don't like an alkaline body either.

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iceman disciple What are long term effects of daily Wim Hoff/Tummo breathing practice? I've been practicing it for a long while but not consistent.

My understanding is that every session triggers a release of adrenaline and norepinephrine during the breathing, which is a hormetic stress that strengthens the immune system among other benefits. This release of adrenaline also has the downstream effect of releasing dopamine, which causes us to feel good and modulates our overall mood. 

Other effects, such as being able to "turn on" the immune system to fight a pathogen at will, can in part be attributed to the breathing methods but arguably involve the other pillars of WHM (cold exposure, commitment).

@jbingo68 Binaureal beats with moaning sounds good, where do you find these? Thanks!

@namuh try searching in PH or even YouTube hosts such audio files. Some are better than others keep searching till you find a few good ones.