Maria Kozhevnikov, a neuroscientist at the National University of Singapore and Massachusetts General Hospital
!- reference : Maria Kozhevnikov - neuroscientist at National University of Singapore, Massachusetts General Hospital - Nangchen tow, Amdo region of Tibet - testing if g-tummo vase breathing technique could raise core body temperature. One monk raised body temp to that normally associated with a fever - published results in PLOS One
Russ Pariseau
!- reference : Russ Pariseau - documentary filmmaker - made a film about Herbert Benson's research - Manil, Himachal, Pradesh, India - filmed g-tummo in a room with wet towels heated up in Manil
Herbert Benson
!- reference : Herbert Benson - Harvard Medical School - 1981 experiment's on Buddhist monks in Himalyas on research on g-tummo meditation published in Nature
Can You Warm Yourself with Your Mind?The human body generates its own heat. Some people can adjust the thermostat.
!- for : mind-body relationship
As arousal-based meditative practices are associated with a different autonomic state to mindfulness-related practices (PNS withdrawal vs. PNS dominance), they are likely to recruit a different type of alerting attention (selective or focused vs. sustained) and attentional control (modulated by arousal vs. regulated by monitoring continuous thought processes). In particular, my focus is on Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism) practices, during which a sequence of generation (self-visualization as a deity - Yidam) or completion with sign (inner heat -Tummo) stages necessarily precedes non-dual awareness (NDA) Tantric Mahamudra. I conduct my studies with experienced monks and nuns in Eastern Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal. I studied these practices using cognitive (visual working memory and attention) assessments as well as electrocardiographic (EKG) and (EEG) measures.
!- for : visualization practice - could this research benefit practitioners who have a hard time visualizing ?