Notes:
- When your temperature is high, your physical and mental performance are faster.
- A passing 'grade' for a Tibetan lama from a lamasary school is to go out onto a frozen lake stark naked and with his body heat alone, evaporate the moisture out of two water soaked blankets!
- Even though your normal body temperature is 98.6°F, your finger temperature varies between the 70's and the 90's.
- just thinking of one of your hands increases the blood volume to that hand
- When blood volume increases, the capillaries in the skin dilate and the temperature of the skin increases
- When blood flow decreases, the blood vessels in the skin constrict and temperature decreases.
- As an exercise, take an ordinary medical thermometer and tape it to your forefinger
- Experience the feeling of the tape and thermometer touching it, but ignore the thermometer completely
- try different visualizations (sun's rays, hot water, campfire, etc.) to raise the temperature of the
forefinger and just "feel" it warming up. - Coincide this process with deep, steady abdominal breathing. If you forcefully try to 'will' your finger to get warm, a bodily reaction of 'fight or flight' results in a constriction of the blood vessels in preparation
for violent action, and you achieve the reverse effect -- coolness - To make your fingers cooler, visualize digging with your fingers into the icy snow of an avalanche that has partially engulfed you or visualize some other stressful scene or dangerous situation.
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