meyotch
@meyotch@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 days ago:
Yes that’s the method. It’s improperly called yoga nidra, but the correct term for the method is Nadi Shodhana Pranayama.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean. You describe the method that is used. One holds their own hand to the face with the nose between thumb and index finger. On alternate breath cycles, you direct the breath through alternating sides.
Did I understand your question correctly?
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 4 days ago:
Millions of little homunculi
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 days ago:
Do you mean the syndrome that causes lightheadedness when standing up?
I found a 2021 research article that shows 6 months of regular cardiovascular exercise improves the condition. Some forms of physical yoga practice are vigorous and get into the cardio range.
I can’t find yoga-specific studies on POTS, but there are many on other conditions that include dizziness and syncope as main symptoms. That’s what a quick google scholar search revealed.
Yoga emphasizes attention and breath awareness during the movement practices. I personally have a job that requires a lot of stooping and standing. At first I was often dizzy standing up, but as my practice has intensified and progressed that has gone away completely.
I don’t know, if your physician clears you for the activity, there are many benefits to it. Maybe worth a deeper look?
And as for general awareness, hell yes. That is the entire focus of yoga philosophy, to quiet the busy mind. The scientific studies on that are plentiful.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 days ago:
I’m in a yoga teacher training at the moment, and a biologist by training. It’s been amazing seeing how the different yogic breathing techniques impact mental and physical states.
Those crazy folks in the Indus valley civilization made a serious study of this, at least 4,000 years ago according to current evidence. Some techniques, like yiga nidra (alternate nostril breathing for several minutes) have significant impacts on nervous system function.
You can measure this directly with a cheap heart rate monitor and an app that can interpret and returns stats on heart rate variability.
Those old yogis made a study out of exploiting our brain’s dependence on oxygen and developed some pretty cool biohacks.
- Comment on 'Make America Greay Again': are MAGA monarchists? 1 week ago:
Absolutely and unequivocally, yes.
The difference between ’right’ and ‘left’ is frequently over complicated.
What part about ‘no fucking kings’ is difficult to understand?
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
The best way to find hidden treasure is to hide the treasure yourself!
- Comment on I've had this stuck in my head for years... 1 week ago:
The only thing they are losing are their chains!
- Comment on Would you love me if I was a worm? 1 week ago:
What the fsck is that about?
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 1 week ago:
Ok, I had to sleep on this one as it is a crucial life decision.
Froge.
Froge did me a solid.
lizard is basically a suck up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I can’t speak for the original questioner, but your account is very new. Lemmy is a bit clannish and rightly suspicious of these types of account.
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this is a safe place to tell this story.
My roommate had a chameleon. Some mornings I would greet him by saying “what up, my lizard!”
All I would ever get in response was side eye.
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve already done it. You noticed the behavior in others. Just keep an eye on yourself and find better ways to respond to changing situations.
- Comment on space weather 3 weeks ago:
Space is very, very gay. It’s inside you right now. Oh my!
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
Just along the Central Finite Curve.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s that simple.
It serves the university two ways: they get a consistent source of extra money and degree completion rates seem to increase.
- Comment on cowbirbs 3 weeks ago:
Do not shut the fuck up, Jesse! Keep laying down mad facts.
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
I think the term for that is chronospecies?
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 weeks ago:
No incest? :(
- Comment on History in the making. 3 weeks ago:
The 70’s were a sexy, sexy decade. Lotsa polyester and great facial hair.
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 3 weeks ago:
<mic drop>
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 3 weeks ago:
I give this post 3.5 buttholes.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
Spanks!
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
I know, JFC, talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Anyone who can pound sand straight up their own ass for many years and stay focused enough to produce a product sufficient to graduate will be an amazing asset in most any setting.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
NBD. It’s basically always about pussy. Unless it’s dick. Or other sensitive areas. Basically people are gross and are always looking to find validation with others that their grossness is a shared trait.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
Pussy. He means pussy.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
Under communism, the wank bank swank skanks may choose to use their experience to help maintain hyper-local community wank banks!
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
I can’t sugar coat my experience. It was rough. But it is true that it varies widely based on a lot of factors, so definitely don’t freak out.
You have mad skills for sure. The main new skill I meant is a whole new perspective on those skills and how you market them.
For me, I knew I was too wound up in the academic perspective so I consciously took a job that was more physical and social, definitely not a brain-job. That helped clear my mind and remember how non-academics look at the world.
I was able to get a good job in laboratory automation eventually, but it was a trial for a few years.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 3 weeks ago:
Years before the books were written! I am an old :(
But still, I’m sure it’s like riding a bicycle and I have these water balloons…
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
It is that bad. Not an impossible challenge but you have to learn whole new skill sets too. And adjust your mindset radically
- Comment on Mammals Suck 3 weeks ago:
Wow, get the hose! This user is really committed to the bit.
Please don’t stop. Hornyness is a gift.