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1199 From: Ramon Sender <rabar@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun Jul 3, 2005 7:48pm
Subject: tum-mo heat yoga report rabar94114
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> From: "andyzz_2002" <andysun3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Nei Gung Masters/Yoga masters
> Not sure where the full paper is published online, but its quite a
> famous study by Dr Herbert Benson in conjuction with Harvard Medical
Meditation changes temperatures:
Mind controls body in extreme experiments
By William J. Cromie
Gazette Staff
In a monastery in northern India, thinly clad Tibetan monks sat quietly in a
room where the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Using a yoga
technique known as g Tum-mo, they entered a state of deep meditation. Other
monks soaked 3-by-6-foot sheets in cold water (49 degrees) and placed them
over the meditators' shoulders. For untrained people, such frigid wrappings
would produce uncontrolled shivering.
If body temperatures continue to drop under these conditions, death can
result. But it was not long before steam began rising from the sheets. As a
result of body heat produced by the monks during meditation, the sheets
dried in about an hour.
Attendants removed the sheets, then covered the meditators with a second
chilled, wet wrapping. Each monk was required to dry three sheets over a
period of several hours.
Why would anyone do this? Herbert Benson, who has been studying g Tum-mo for
20 years, answers that "Buddhists feel the reality we live in is not the
ultimate one. There's another reality we can tap into that's unaffected by
our emotions, by our everyday world. Buddhists believe this state of mind
can be achieved by doing good for others and by meditation. The heat they
generate during the process is just a by-product of g Tum-mo meditation."
Benson is an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School
and president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston. He firmly believes that studying advanced forms of
meditation "can uncover capacities that will help us to better treat
stress-related illnesses."
Benson developed the "relaxation response," which he describes as "a
physiological state opposite to stress." It is characterized by decreases in
metabolism, breathing rate, heart rate, and blood pressure. He and others
have amassed evidence that it can help those suffering from illnesses caused
or exacerbated by stress. Benson and colleagues use it to treat anxiety,
mild and moderate depression, high blood pressure, heartbeat irregularities,
excessive anger, insomnia, and even infertility. His team also uses this
type of simple meditation to calm those who have been traumatized by the
deaths of others, or by diagnoses of cancer or other painful,
life-threatening illnesses.
"More than 60 percent of visits to physicians in the United States are due
to stress-related problems, most of which are poorly treated by drugs,
surgery, or other medical procedures," Benson maintains.
The Mind/Body Medical Institute is now training people to use the relaxation
response to help people working at Ground Zero in New York City, where two
airplanes toppled the World Trade Center Towers last Sept. 11. Facilities
have been set up at nearby St. Paul's Chapel to aid people still working on
clearing wreckage and bodies. Anyone else who feels stressed by those
terrible events can also obtain help at the chapel. "We are training the
trainers who work there," Benson says.
The relaxation response involves repeating a word, sound, phrase, or short
prayer while disregarding intrusive thoughts. "If such an easy-to-master
practice can bring about the remarkable changes we observe," Benson notes.
"I want to investigate what advanced forms of meditation can do to help the
mind control physical processes once thought to be uncontrollable."
Breathtaking results
(for the complete article, go to:
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/...9-tummo.html
1205 From: Randy Callaway <randycallaway@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Jul 4, 2005 8:28am
Subject: Re: tum-mo heat yoga report randycallaway
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If that is the extent of his investigation of this "phenonenon" then there was no real approach to investigating it at all. He merely observed and reported an anecdotal observation. Based on what is written below, he didn't do any scientific investigation. No wonder he (Benson) had his own reservations initially about sharing his research. He didn't do any.
Ramon Sender <rabar@mindspring.com> wrote:
> From: "andyzz_2002" <andysun3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Nei Gung Masters/Yoga masters
> Not sure where the full paper is published online, but its quite a
> famous study by Dr Herbert Benson in conjuction with Harvard Medical
Meditation changes temperatures:
Mind controls body in extreme experiments
By William J. Cromie
Gazette Staff
In a monastery in northern India, thinly clad Tibetan monks sat quietly in a
room where the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Using a yoga
technique known as g Tum-mo, they entered a state of deep meditation. Other
monks soaked 3-by-6-foot sheets in cold water (49 degrees) and placed them
over the meditators' shoulders. For untrained people, such frigid wrappings
would produce uncontrolled shivering.
If body temperatures continue to drop under these conditions, death can
result. But it was not long before steam began rising from the sheets. As a
result of body heat produced by the monks during meditation, the sheets
dried in about an hour.
Attendants removed the sheets, then covered the meditators with a second
chilled, wet wrapping. Each monk was required to dry three sheets over a
period of several hours.
Why would anyone do this? Herbert Benson, who has been studying g Tum-mo for
20 years, answers that "Buddhists feel the reality we live in is not the
ultimate one. There's another reality we can tap into that's unaffected by
our emotions, by our everyday world. Buddhists believe this state of mind
can be achieved by doing good for others and by meditation. The heat they
generate during the process is just a by-product of g Tum-mo meditation."
Benson is an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School
and president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston. He firmly believes that studying advanced forms of
meditation "can uncover capacities that will help us to better treat
stress-related illnesses."
Benson developed the "relaxation response," which he describes as "a
physiological state opposite to stress." It is characterized by decreases in
metabolism, breathing rate, heart rate, and blood pressure. He and others
have amassed evidence that it can help those suffering from illnesses caused
or exacerbated by stress. Benson and colleagues use it to treat anxiety,
mild and moderate depression, high blood pressure, heartbeat irregularities,
excessive anger, insomnia, and even infertility. His team also uses this
type of simple meditation to calm those who have been traumatized by the
deaths of others, or by diagnoses of cancer or other painful,
life-threatening illnesses.
"More than 60 percent of visits to physicians in the United States are due
to stress-related problems, most of which are poorly treated by drugs,
surgery, or other medical procedures," Benson maintains.
The Mind/Body Medical Institute is now training people to use the relaxation
response to help people working at Ground Zero in New York City, where two
airplanes toppled the World Trade Center Towers last Sept. 11. Facilities
have been set up at nearby St. Paul's Chapel to aid people still working on
clearing wreckage and bodies. Anyone else who feels stressed by those
terrible events can also obtain help at the chapel. "We are training the
trainers who work there," Benson says.
The relaxation response involves repeating a word, sound, phrase, or short
prayer while disregarding intrusive thoughts. "If such an easy-to-master
practice can bring about the remarkable changes we observe," Benson notes.
"I want to investigate what advanced forms of meditation can do to help the
mind control physical processes once thought to be uncontrollable."
Breathtaking results
(for the complete article, go to:
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/...9-tummo.html
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