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Are there any implications to this? Sometimes my entire body can be hot yet my feet or particularly my toes alone are cold.

Blackbox:
Does this happen all the time or only when you are practicing qigong or other meditative exercises? Many times when I practice SFQ, my body will get very hot (like a furnice kicking in) but then levels off as I continue the exercies. I do not experience cold toes or fingers, however. I guess my main question to you is when does this coldness in toes occur?

It is not particular to during meditation, etc, it's a natural occurence as I notice their always cold and sometimes I notice when I feel the most comfortable they are warm.

It's not a problem or anything but I was just wondering since maybe practioners know of why feet, toes, remain cold when the entire body isn't. Just a wierd phenomena that I have a hunch has a deeper implication.

Hi Blackbox
Are you protecting your internal climate? People in China are careful to keep their feet warm by wearing socks and shoes and by bathing their feet in hot water before bed, while keeping the upper part of the body cool. Tibetans often leave the shoulder uncovered, even in high altitude, while at the same time wearing padded trousers and boots. This ensures good health, strength and resistance to infection.

It might just mean that your shoes are too tight across the foot and you're not getting enough circulation to your toes.

Poor blood circulation seems to be a possible reason for it too. I remember at a physical the doctor saying "good, good" after feeling the temperature of my toes and asking me if I suffer from cold feet or toes. I said no, I didn't count the days I walk around bare foot on really cold days (the kind where most people wear two or 3 jumpers ). I asked what's good. he said warm toes means you don't have any problems with your blood circulation. Whether that's true or not I don't know the rest of the physical made me decide he's a quack and I never went back to him.

Something from my grandmother you could try to check if it is circulation problems. When you get cold feet get a bowl of cold water or snow, have a towel and dry socks handy. Dunk your feet for a minute or so ( working one foot at a time is easiest cause you leave the other in the cold water or snow while you briskly dry your feet and put on socks. Your feet should become toasty warm within minutes.

A byline for parents with babies and childreen who have difficulty falling asleep. Check if the feet are cold, research has found that "it is impossible for a person to sleep with cold feet". (this information is from research, I don't agree 100% that it's impossible but I'll concede that it is a highly probable factor for having difficulty in falling asleep.) My neice had the problem of not sleeping and had cold feet, I found that all I had to do was hold my hand near her feet for a couple of minutes this quickly warmed her feet and she'd nod off in no time. I mentioned the problem to her mother (I discovered it because I was her day care when she was about 4 months old.) Her mum took care to keep her feet warm and now more sleep problem. Hot water bottles are not recommended because they can to overheat the baby and small child. I couldn't actually place my hands on her feet because they were by far too hot also. This is a good time to use qigong by just placing your hand under the cover near the feet, focusing on generating warmth.

For small children the trick my grandmother taught works well. Use cold water or rub snow on the feet then towel dry briskly and then straight to bed; bedsocks optional. Read them a story and by that time the feet are warm and they'll probably stay in bed and fall asleep shortly after.

Alex

Thanks a lot Alex, that may also explain a few other things. Grazie as always you spendid photoreader, you.

I have been plagued with cold feet and toes all my life. After completing the Seven Steps to New Life routine the tops of my feet would be hot to the touch, but the warmth never seemed to make it to my toes. I eventualy discovered that rubbing my feet as part of the harvesting of the qi was quite helpful. I held the bottom of one foot with one hand while vigorously rubbing the tops of the toes with the other hand for a couple of minutes. Afterwards I could fall asleep right away with nice toasty toes. After a few weeks, the problem seemed to be much less, so maybe it has something to do with opening energy channels. Hope you are staying warm.