Tummo

Mm.

So example, for instance, uh, there is one practice in our tradition called Tummo.

Tummo.

Heat practice.

So in the snow-capped mountain, a meditator can stay in the cave or outside the cave, and all the snow around him will melt.

So one of the groups, uh, and then I'll say what the mechanism is, did cyclic hyperventilation.

Some people call this Wim Hof breathing, Tummo breathing, pranayama breathing.

It's big inhales, passive exhales, repeated for five minutes.

[inhales, exhales] Massively spikes adrenaline, which isn't a bad thing.

So humming, chanting, breathwork, float tanks, psychedelics, all those things are fascinating to me to tinker with and explore.

Maybe even thinking of someone like the ancient yogis, Tummo Breathing, Wim Hof.

that think that you can then actually have access to your inner organs and maybe even have the capacity to control or influence how we heal from within and you know in our traditional models right now that would be woo or unscientific to think that way but when we start to explore these things some people seem to be able to prove that we can do these things in the lab get injected with an endotoxin per se and be able to boost the immune system or change body temperature.

And I heard you go into the analogy of the tongue.

Oh, yes.

Uh, Tummo breathing is very much like that.

Yes.

Yeah, G Tummo or, yeah.

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Don't, don't, don't do that when you're driving a car.

What's remarkable is how this practice demonstrates the mind's ability to influence core physiological processes once thought automatic.

Tummo shows us that the boundary between mind and body is far thinner than science once assumed.

Certain yogis can slow their heartbeats dramatically.

Advanced yogis have demonstrated an ability to control heart rate through meditation and breath regulation, sometimes slowing it to fewer than half its usual pace.

The thing is, is we o- like be- thanks to Nixon, we only have a little bit of, uh, historic data studying endogenous DMT, and there's not enough study, there's not enough funding going into endogenous DMT, except for my friend John Chavez from DMT Quest, and he is funding most of the research that's out there right now, and it's incredible.

And he's finding that Wim Hof breathing, so just a, a form of breathing that resembles Tummo breathing, uh, Tibetan Tummo br- breathing, um- Increases gamma by like 400%.

So gamma is a brainwave that is not super rare, but it's rarely seen because it's in peak concentration moments.

So say like you all of a sudden realize that there's, uh, you know, a puma or a bear 15 yards from you.

And let's, Carlita, if we could go to the, uh, uh, first slide.

This is a, a Tibetan m- this is, uh, this is, uh, an image of Donald practicing Tummo.

No, not really.

Uh, this is, uh, uh, a person practicing Tummo, you know, with fire coming out of the top and, uh, you know, the, the three red things going from the head to the belly area are actually the channels.

And one can actually develop through this practice ...

You know, my experience is when it's at its height, when it's most, uh, developed, it's actually everything starts to become like radiating energy with no distinction between inner and outer.