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28 Post author: Cayenne 19 April 2011 07:28PM

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Comment author: gwern 16 December 2011 11:10:46PM 1 point [-]

No, I buy it. This is basically just reinventing the fire or tummo meditation. Like biofeedback in general, it's not easy to learn to control your temperature (and what OP and I do may just be a kind of vasodilation and not genuinely generating extra heat like the studied monks), but it does seem doable.