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Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking
Paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain.
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Ease your mind and let you body unwide.
When free from the meddling of the mind, the body can ease into an unwind/release-mode. This can be achieved easiest via non-directive/do nothing meditation. Once the i is out of the way, the body can make the intuitive movements to restore itself towards natural, perfect posture.
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Wang Xiang Zhai doesn’t like Tai Chi
Somebody posted a quote by (founder of Yi Quan) Wang Xiang Zhai from his 1940s interview containing his thoughts on Tai Chi. It is pretty clear, unambiguous and to the point. Have a read:
Wang Xiang Zhai on Taijiquan (from an early 1940’s interview):As masters of the original Taijiquan, I should recommend the Yang brothers Shouhou and Chengfu. They are my friends, and I know that their Taiji has some knowledge of mechanics. But out of one hundred students, not even one gains its essence…and even then, it is still one-sided, because the skills of intuitive perception died out a long time ago. Originally, Taiji consisted of three fists, Wang Zongyue changed it into thirteen postures, and it was later embellished into as much as one hundred and fifty postures. This is the cause of the distortion.Sticking to mechanical movements, seeking beautiful postures and mistaking it for the glory of martial arts…that is terrible. Such a person cannot comprehend boxing for life. If a man of insight sees such a performance, he will feel sick for ten days.As a means of health preservation, Taijiquan restrains the spirit, and brings discomfort to its practitioner. For combat, it harms the practitioner’s limbs and trunk, and causes a useful body to become a mechanical and stiff thing…it’s nothing more than a waste of time.As for the training method—a punch with the fist here, a slap with the palm there, a kick to the left, and another one to the right—it is pitiful and laughable.As for dealing with an enemy in a fight: please do not even consider it. So ruined is this boxing that it has become useless. There are many more things, but I feel embarrassed to say them.
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Genome-wide sperm DNA methylation changes after 3 months of exercise training in humans
Exercise can affect your unborn children's genes by altering the chemistry of DNA in sperm and egg cells. Aerobic exercise for 3 months altered sperm DNA by silencing genes linked to the risk of autism, OCD, Alzheimer’s, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
This is called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Animal studies have shown that exercise-induced genetic changes are a direct factor driving beneficial changes to offspring’s brain physiology, cognition, neurogenesis, & mitochondrial activity.
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"How do feel something that you are truly in harmony with? You don't. It's when you resist something, that's what you feel. When you fight against something, that's what you feel. When you are in harmony with it, the only perception and feeling is one of peace." - Adam Mizner.
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“The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one’s life?” — Li Bai (李白, 701–762)
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On Meditation and Open-endedness
"That is why I think meditation and relaxation research is in effect open-endedness research: because a deeply open-ended process is inevitable when humans introspect in the real world, understanding what it means to constrain processes that are fundamentally unconstrainable."
Was my comment in reaction to:
And finally, Niti's comment in reaction to mine:
As you have said before, decentering the seat of consciousness from the brain to flow through to the rest of body is a disruptive process, and I highly recommend its practice.
