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• Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I dunno, in Japan at least there was a lot of woowoo as far back as 1000 years ago. The gardening version of Feng Shui that Japan adopted has fun stuff in it like ‘don’t put a rock in upside down, or it will curse you for seven generations’.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How do you identify the top of a rock?

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The part that isn’t dirty

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you suggesting meditation is ‘woowoo’?

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  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pretending it is anything more than a way to order your thoughts and slow your heart rate; which reading and journaling both do with about the same scientifically measured effectiveness, is the woowoo part.

    It’s not a tie to a spiritual world, or doesn’t raise nor lower your vibration or frequency or whatever nonsense is pushed by which ever nonsense ‘sect’ decides to use it to back their nonsense.

    It’s useful in creating a relaxed environment for your body to not overreact and start it’s maintenance functions. And can be useful as a practice to control your thoughts into more useful patterns.

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gotcha, so your point is not that meditation is woowoo; your point is that expecting meditation to connect you to the spirit realm is woowoo.

      Just so we’re clear, this is called transcendental meditation and I’m pretty sure it was created and started by an Indian man in India.

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• JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you suggesting that Yoga is “woowoo?”

  It’s a fucking excellent physical workout & emotionally therapeutic when you find the right teachers. And there are plenty of excellent teachers.

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  • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s absolutely a woowoo side to yoga.

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  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, and it as a practice was pretty much wholesale created around the same time as Monty Python and lasers. It’s not an ancient Indian secret of the gurus on how to better prepare your body to serve the universe and aide your recinarnation.

    It’s a moderate workout with mild scientific evidence that it is safe when practiced and learned slowly over a long time. The same as crossfit.

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