Consciously warming the body?
The other day I was waiting in line to see the Lord of the Rings. I got there more than an hour early because it just came out and me and my friends wanted good seats. It was really, really cold, and all I had over my t-shirt was a relatively light jacket that wouldn't zip up(zipper broke off a while ago).
Anyway, to get to the point, instead of getting up and moving around like my friends were, I sat down cross-legged and quieted my mind, like a was doing my meditation. I didn't actually do the meditation method, but I did the breathing part. I also took my mind away from my body (that wording makes me sound really high-level, but I'm not).
After only about 10 seconds or so of doing this, I was not cold at all. Not only was I not cold, but I also felt warm. If I stopped doing this for more than about 5-10 minutes, I went back to being really cold.
Have any of you experienced this kind of thing before? I have noticed being generally warm in cold weather before, but never consciously warming my body for cold weather. It was really cool and amazing.
Have any of you noticed this ability as a by-product of internal training?
"Duifang jing zhi meng ji, wo fang tui zhi ce fang xi zhi."