The reasons that we overheat can vary extremely, and there is no one answer fits all, but there are some techniques that we can utilize to help produce a cooling sensation throughout the body. Do not let this replace any medical advice from a medical practitioner, and if there is anything out of the ordinary in your experience seek medical advice.
Consider some very basic physics. When we have a high particle system (more particles in a given area) which creates a high-pressure system. Energy moves along the path of least resistance, so the high-pressure system moves towards a low particle/low-pressure system.
The same concept exists for our bodies. If you feel like your torso is overheating if you relax, reach your arms gently out to the sides and gently open the hands and stand with legs gently apart without holding tension throughout the legs. If the torso has created a high-pressure system, we can use our arms and our legs to help reduce the pressure by releasing tension in the muscles of our limbs, this would be most pronounced laying down in a star pattern so that we maximize the airflow across the skin. Adding to this the cooling breath (shitali) we can help to even more rapidly cool down the torso.
This is just a method to help reduce heating, but will not completely remove it. It is one of the methods of how to use the bandhas throughout the 9 joint complexes of the body.
If you want to get more in-depth into these concepts I highly recommend to study Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss contribution to understanding applied anatomy and physiology to Yoga.
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