when i meditate my body heat shoots up for some reason after a few seconds is that normal in mediation ironically my last name is monk
I read in The Intention Experiment about some tibetan monks who would meditate in nothing but their thin robes in freezing teperatures, and then some other monk would come and put a wet towl on them that was like 12 degrees. Normally, this would kill you, but these monks would just meditate and raise their body heat and the towls would dry, and then another towl would be put on them. I guess it is normal for meditation, but don't try anything crazy like I just described. My body gets warmer when I meditate too.
my body heat shoots up too, and usually for the whole 30-40 minutes of meditation. I first thought it was because I was chanting a mantra, but it turns out it shoots up just the same when I meditate in silence. Is that maybe related to breathing? Or to a specific form of brain activity?
It's nothing to worry about, I think that as the body relaxes it 'breathes' better which allows circulation to move around easier and connect to chi etc. Out of interest though I once met a guy who meditated with a technique that made his body cold. I prefer the heat.
I sometimes meditate nude on the beach in mid-winter at close to freezing temperatures. It's not that I deliberately aim to raise my body temperature, more that the external temperature seems irrelevant.
