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There is a meditation technique common in Europe called Autogenic Training that is focused on warming up parts of the body as its central technique. There's a l

• borroka 5y ago
  Warmth is the second (and fifth) of the six steps of "basic" AT: heaviness of limbs, warmth all over thee body, heart beating strong and regularly, breathing (many formulas), warm solar plexus (or irradiating heat), cool forehead, with the optional warm head and shoulders before the cool forehead. I've been trying for a few years to get friends engage with TA, given the extraordinary benefits I've gained from regular practice (I've thought about writing a simple guide to TA, something that is missing in English), but “meditation practice" in the broad sense seems to capture people's imaginations better. Oddly enough, I might add, since TA is easy to understand and "scientific," while meditation is rooted in an anachronistic spirituality, with sources, even modern ones, that are largely incomprehensible*, and gurus/guides that are terribly unappealing and look like they are living outside this world. *Right Concentration was recommended for understanding jhanas, but I found it a very challenging reading. I mean, we teach general relativity to ambitious high school students, I am sure we can do better with meditation/jhanas etc.