I've noticed a link between my body heat and a meditative state for quite some time, but it hadn't occurred to me until tonight that others on this forum might also experience this, know why it occurs, and might know a way to limit/control it.

The vast majority of the time when I reach a stable meditative state (after ~5-10 minutes of meditation), my body heat starts to go up. My face will flush and if I don't cease and take off some layers of clothes or turn on a fan, I'll start to sweat. If this happens during light and/or quick meditation, it's not very noticeable. Now, during the wintertime, this effect is great. I actually use it to get warm on those winter days when the chill just seems to settle in one's bones. But it's summer now and hot, and really, there's not many more layers of clothes that I can strip off when things start to heat up (in a totally non-sexual way, of course ). I'm not sure if this is relevant, but when I meditate, I sit cross-legged with my hands either resting in my lap or palm-up on my knees, and I focus on my breathing.

If anyone else has similar experiences and knows a way to stop or even reverse (free air-conditioning?!) the effect, I'd be most grateful to hear about it. And I should mention that this rise in body temperature is completely unintentional. I don't concentrate on making it happen (even in the wintertime) - it seems to be some sort of automatic side-effect.