Nice Jees!

Thanks so much for this contribution.

I dig the iceman. I'd perhaps pull back a little on the hype, on all the superhuman type rhetoric, and the expectations.

And. And, there are much more gentle ways to do pranayama or breathing exercises and to work with the "inner heat". I don't do "forceful" exercises at all.

And when I see people doing "forceful" fire breathing, I kind of wince a little.

I'm kind of a gentle mini-iceman myself as I do love the freezing cold water and what it does for me.

And I do hold a few "gentle" breaths. And I hold very gently.

breathing *is* emotional. And what they call kumbhaka or the "hold" actually happens naturally and gently in deep states of "love".

So, minus all the hype and the expectations, it is indeed very natural, or seems so to me.

In fact, I'm leaving for the mountains today to do my mini iceman thing!