Actually, it is! You can generate heat by physical activity or intense thinking, and you can lower it by sleeping but also through calming yourself and breath control. There’ve been studies about monks who have learned to do this, but anyone can do it through enough practice (or you could just work out or sleep, those are the easy ways).
The mind can control the body to a disturbing degree with practice, to the point where you have to give cred to cooks who claim all sorts of outlandish shit- of course the people who make the big claims are rarely the same who are capable of performing them but there is for sure something more to be said of the power our consciousnesses than we normally accept.
It only stands to reason (pun accidental) that something as powerful as our conscious minds would hide secrets a more materialistic interpretation of biology does not account for.
For the longest time we thought experiences couldn’t influence our genes, but with advances in genetics that turned out to be false- and at least to me it makes sense, something as intricate and complex as conscience surely has more purpose to our organism than “nice to be able to enjoy life”.
Bro, scientifically validated and reproduced experiments tell otherwise. You and I both are uncomfortable with it, but sadly, the “power of the mind” actually has some serious fucking clout regulating basic biological functions.
At the lowest levels we have placebo, which is so well vetted we have to account for it in every medical situation because it’s so prevalent and has such a significant effect on our biology, and it only gets crazier from there, really.
There’s also a key difference between topological temp changes and core temp changes, the tummo Buddhist monk studies are looking mostly at topological changes as a result of core temp changes which look more like metabolic rate changes, one of the key variables they pay attention to is lack of shivering to induce the temp change.
I dont have the link anymore but I read something about how our bodies have vagal neurons that allow us to sense inflammation and modulate immune activity as a result so I think we can even manually control immune response.
People are capable of a lot of manual control over their body but its mostly a result of awareness of the mechanisms and practicing the skill, I think the reason for most people not doing these things but various animals do is because they basically spend all their time being attentive to their body without much reason to distract themselves like us humans.
Thats not a thing … probably
Edit~ glad I added probably
Actually, it is! You can generate heat by physical activity or intense thinking, and you can lower it by sleeping but also through calming yourself and breath control. There’ve been studies about monks who have learned to do this, but anyone can do it through enough practice (or you could just work out or sleep, those are the easy ways).
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-changes-temperatures/
The mind can control the body to a disturbing degree with practice, to the point where you have to give cred to cooks who claim all sorts of outlandish shit- of course the people who make the big claims are rarely the same who are capable of performing them but there is for sure something more to be said of the power our consciousnesses than we normally accept.
It only stands to reason (pun accidental) that something as powerful as our conscious minds would hide secrets a more materialistic interpretation of biology does not account for.
For the longest time we thought experiences couldn’t influence our genes, but with advances in genetics that turned out to be false- and at least to me it makes sense, something as intricate and complex as conscience surely has more purpose to our organism than “nice to be able to enjoy life”.
Bio-regulation is a thing but not like what OP is hinting at.
Bro, scientifically validated and reproduced experiments tell otherwise. You and I both are uncomfortable with it, but sadly, the “power of the mind” actually has some serious fucking clout regulating basic biological functions.
At the lowest levels we have placebo, which is so well vetted we have to account for it in every medical situation because it’s so prevalent and has such a significant effect on our biology, and it only gets crazier from there, really.
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t witnessed her do it yesterday and felt her body temperature change. I didn’t know people were capable of that.
There’s also a key difference between topological temp changes and core temp changes, the tummo Buddhist monk studies are looking mostly at topological changes as a result of core temp changes which look more like metabolic rate changes, one of the key variables they pay attention to is lack of shivering to induce the temp change.
I dont have the link anymore but I read something about how our bodies have vagal neurons that allow us to sense inflammation and modulate immune activity as a result so I think we can even manually control immune response.
People are capable of a lot of manual control over their body but its mostly a result of awareness of the mechanisms and practicing the skill, I think the reason for most people not doing these things but various animals do is because they basically spend all their time being attentive to their body without much reason to distract themselves like us humans.
Beautifully said!