Hi, how are you all?

Haven't been in here for ages!

Can someone please recommend a meditation or similar technique to cool the body? I am overheating to extreme levels and it's very distressing. Mainly it's my hands/feet/head but really the whole body needs cooling.

Thanks.

Is this due to having too much energy? I remember that when I had too much energy and had comfortable heat, my teacher told me to ground myself. Basically, paying attention to where your body touches the ground and have the energy channeled through there.

I hope this helps.

Air conditioner/fan/less clothing?

Or a cold shower?

Thanks guys and girls.

My manipura is on hyperdrive. When I meditate, my abdomen jerks like crazy and I cannot cool down. If I don't meditate I'm still too hot. Already doing the practical stuff. Going to try the grounding.

howdy ccc,
the excercises on AYPsite.org are helpful with grounding in the body too. Good luck with that.

tom

Try this: Clench your teeth together and breathe through your mouth.

Grounding (earth) helps for me but so does water.

Drink cool (but not cold) water.

Visualize water.

Float in water.

Shower.

Shitali pranayama with Jal Vardhak, Shankha, or Surabhi mudra will certainly help you out!

An example,

to heat oneself, laogung breathing, inhaling heat up the yin channels of the arms...yang phase on the inhale...(express hexagram 11)

the "opposite" analog,

yang phase on the exhale, shed heat off the yang channels, especially yangming. (express hexagram 12)

Sometimes when I sleep, I wake up feeling very not and also irritable and sometimes very very tired but could not easily sleep.  If I forced sleep, then irritable unpleasant dreams would immediately begin.  The burn usually lasts like maybe 30 minutes to an hour.  I have tried lots of things but one thing that seems to help quite a bit is to to actually lay down on the hard ground with minimal pillows and padding, I usually just use maybe one head pillow plus there is carpet.  Our house sits on a cement slab, not sure if that is important but it seems like somehow it might be.  I've tried other things like cold showers, eating, etc, but with little effect.  Cold water feels nice on the skin but does not touch the irritable tired component of it.  Only waiting it out and laying on the hard ground seem to help.  During such times, I've checked my body temp with a thermometer but according to the thermometer, my body temp is totally normal the entire time, even if I'm sweating and feel like I'm dieing of fever.   I had this for many many years but in recent years it's really mellowed out a lot.  
-Eva 

Thanks for all the replies.  I had forgotten to check back in on this thread after a while.

Th heat is definitely a stress response (for me) and in that sense I needed to address, where possible, what was stressing me.  That involved some thought substitution style work. The ice packs, showers, breathing etc are helpful too, but very hard to mainatin the cool.