Does it make you feel special to repost things? Use your brain and at least make something new up, though i'm to lazy to check if you're the original poster.
haha, why are you getting angry? Because he assumed that you didn't read the article as opposed to assuming that you read the article but were too stupid to understand it?
He was a god as much as you or i am. Unfortunately, the CHURCH teaches that he is a god and you are just a piece of shit.
Never understood how a church that teaches you that you're a worthless sinning bastard that has absolutely no control over your life has gotten so popular. Then again, haha, science teaches the same thing.
If you believe that you aren't a god, then you aren't.
a free for all might be better. Maybe then companies would be in the business for other reasons besides profit.
Maybe then we would see drugs that cure and not expensive drugs that you need to take for the rest of your lives.
It's a significant insight into the human mind when companies are in the business of keeping people dependent on them for their lives. Isn't that a definition of evil? Acquiring power and status through the subjugation of millions?
What makes you think i'm trying to make you feel guilty? Would you make a child feel guilty if they couldn't read and had never been taught? One of the biggest 'cures' for most disorders is stepping back and becoming the observer.
Why do you interpret peoples messages the way you do? And why do you let them affect you in a negative manner? Remember, when it comes to subjective reality, we are kings of our own domain. Nothing happens without our say so, even if that say so is far back in the past. Lots of our mechanisms for dealing with reality are developed in childhood (big suprise eh? they develop cause we don't have any).
So what makes me think you can get better? Why not? I did. I'm not anybody special, i'm just a normal everyday person. I just got fed up with the run around i got from medical proffessionals and decided to figure it out on my own. You know what? That's the way it works because nobody can know yourself better than you can.
Granted, i might have had some advantages in getting over the ptsd. You see, i used to have a mild form of autism (aspergers). The extreme focus i got from it helped in finding and matching data from seperate fields to come up with answers. But once i had the answers the aspergers did NOT help in actually implementing a plan, which is why i got rid of the aspergers:)
There's an important point that everybody needs to understand. Life is about balance. Everything lies on continuums. Stagnation is death. Practically every child that is born is capable of experiencing all that there is to experience. We freeze though. We pick spots on the continuums and stay there. Democrat/republican on slashdot are funny because both sides don't recognize that they are both wrong. Neither position is inherently wrong or right because it is a continuum.
We have to leave what we think of ourselves behind to change. We are not our frozen positions on the continuums (ego) we are beings capable of experiencing it all. When we relax all the tension from our body then we can feel our own rhythym, it pulses and flows through us. It is this rhythym that allows us not to be overwhelmed by all the discordant 'vibrations' around us.
It's unfortunate that you posted ac because there is one exercise that suprisingly helps quite a bit for ptsd. YOu see, i've gotten over it twice (different events) so i'm pretty familiar with it.
The startle response usually accompanies ptsd. When we're in danger we tense up, freeze first to assess the danger. Sometimes, we stay frozen. It is our back muscles that do most of it, picture a prairie dog. Loosen our back muscles and it gives us the flexability to confront the issue. The easiest and best stretch for all the muscles along our whole backside is forward bend. The method of doing forward bend is important. We DO NOT bend from the abdomen. We stand in a normal position feet facing forward, keeping the back in a neutral position. We DO NOT pull ourselves down. We push through the front of our feet, which pushes the bottom of the pelvis backwards, bringing the head forward. Any forward movement is just to balance the backward movement of the bottom of the pelvis. This is where our front hinge is. When we do this position through balance instead of brute strength, as lots of yoga is taught, we learn to relax our back in a safe manner. This is because the weight of our torso is counterbalanced with our center of gravity still over our feet. When we don't have our front muscles tense to bring us forward it is easier to feel the tenseness in the back muscles.
Listen, i really do know what it's like. I used to not go out for years, and the most i could deal with was one person at a time. You can contact me anytime. You don't have to blindly accept anything i say. In fact, i discourage it. I hate the appathetic acceptance attitude our society has to almost everything. It's time people start learning how to do things themselves again. Time people started to find
Sorry for the delay. I've been trying to think of the best way to start since I got there through months of trial and error.
The easiest way i think is by working from gross/known to specific/unknown. Problems with the body should be looked at in three ways, physical, emotional, and mental. Physical is where we start, because it's very evident. Working out the physical restrictions will bring up the emotional attachments and mental reasonings that cement that physical problem in place.
Picture our vision faculty as a camera. There are several things that have to go right for a good picture to be formed. The camera has to be steady, easily moveable for pans, zoom has to work, lens has to work properly for focal length, amount of light has to be adjustable, viewframe has to be resizable, low signal to noise ratio, etc...
Increasing our ability to recognize and control tension on a small scale is achieved by first removing large sources of noise. With vision we can get away with clearing up just the neck and head/face.
So does your neck work properly? What does that mean? For our purposes, you need at least a smooth left right pan. As an exercise observe people with/without glasses and how they move their heads. An energy efficient pan uses only the internal neck muscles, it is just the head rotating smoothly on top of the spine, this means you are not using your head balance muscles (cords on the side of the neck and back of the neck).
If your neck works fine, time to look at skull and eyes. Just look for sensitive spots on your skull, you should be able to feel all the bones without pain. If you find tension, find the bubble. Every tension spot gets a little bubble where if you press it long enough it either just releases or has to be pushed in a certain direction to release.
If your skull is fine then check your face. The biggest problems i still have is my nose which was broken multiple times, so hopefully you don't have a broken nose. Look up accupuncture points along the eye. You could look into what they're connected to, mainly digestive/elimination, but if you don't have these problems skip it. Accupressure points are places where tension can build, so you can search out those spots with your hands (recommended) or look them up online.
This may seem pointless, but it's very important. I can see perfectly, but like everyone else, as tension builds in our necks/shoulders/head we start to lose focus.
For the eyes, look up the bates method. You could read through the whole boring book if you want, but the exercises themselves are enough. I would say the most important one is sunning. Nothing aids relaxation more than the warmth of the sun seeping into your tired muscles.
This is getting long, and i don't think i can cover every situation since everybody is different. I think email would probably be a better venue for this as i could get more specific details, such as do you know how to blink(blinking is effortless, it is not squinting fast)? When you look at something what is the first thing you see? the object as a whole, or a detail of it? When you walk down the street, where is your viewpoint? Do you avoid eye contact? What was vision like before glasses? Some are physical, some are mental, and some are emotional ways that our vision can be impacted.
They did. They did careful observation of the world around them and came up with many of the great religious texts. It's probably clearest in the indian texts. Remember, there are two worlds to explore, the objective and the subjective. Applying the principles of science to either makes you a scientist. It's a small matter of time before science gets to the point where indians got thousands of years ago.
Don't confuse the american christian religious system of blind acceptance with religion.
Religions are all based in the same way. Literal interpretations that keep you healthy, and the deeper meanings that have to be thought out for spiritual advancement. Christianity, for the most part, is stuck on stage one. Jesus made it to stage two.
All paths lead to enlightenment. At the same time, there are certain truths that apply to everyone.
You see, the ONLY way that humans interact and perceive reality is through the use of muscles. Lack of flexibility constrains that which you can perceive and react to.
If you still can't relax doing all these things then you don't feel safe. Yes, that's right, we're biologically animals, we tense when we're in unsafe situations. Make yourself a super safe environment then. Easiest way is to hook something up to your anandamide receptors. Bliss=safety. At the same time, thc heightens sensory awareness so it would be easier to recognise/control/relax muscles. However, it heightens sensory awareness. If you don't know how to breath properly you'll discover that quickly.
So you've absolutely pressed on tense accupressure points/beauty marks and examined the resulting thoughts and emotions? Your tensness runs throughout your personality. Are you sure you are the observer? You must step outside the system to fix it. I can see the routines in your typing. LIke others you're like a tape recorder, press a certain button and out comes the same message over and over again. I don't have to know ABOUT YOU, you need to know about you. I can't ask you what's wrong with you because you don't know. Don't you see? If you had true knowledge of what is wrong with you then there wouldn't be anything wrong with you.
Answers aren't outside yourself as you seem to believe, they're inside.
Don't you see that you are the one not respecting other peoples experiences? Here i am saying i've cured myself and you're saying i don't have the proper medical qualifications for anything?
Why are you seeking medical knowledge built upon objective reality when YOU are totally subjective? Your cure is subjective.
We perceive the world around us through ourselves, you need to get rid of your arrogance and narcissism.
Fallacy of genus. I'm a yogi. I also have a specialization in psych. I used to have more diseases than you could count on your hands. Migraines, vision problems, anxiety, panic disorders, arthritis, blood diseases, etc... I'm fine now.
Do you do western yoga? Or yoga?
There are set stages for yoga. You learn a muscle by learning how to tense it. Then you learn to relax it. Then you learn to relax the fascia surrounding it. Then from there you step back and become the observer in all situations where that muscle/fascia gets tense, are there emotional/mental aspects to it. Ashtanga is good for loose people, but hatha is better for tense people. Once the body is flexible then comes meditation to change your data gathering/analzying routines.
Yoga is not about physical routines or proper posture. Yoga is about learning to be yourself so that everything you do is an expression of yourself. It's not about holding yourself straight, or 'trying' to get into a posture. When we relax enough to be ourselves our body is straight. The more advanced you are the less physical movement/effort is needed to achieve any pose.
Specific techniques are hard to describe, but there are tools you can use. The most important being your hands and the other being your mind. Close your eyes and touch your body. Your hands can find every source of tension in your body. Find a source, learn how to move it by experimenting with different motions, is it 'connected' to something else? (e.g. lift your arm up and your shoulder moves) It's important to be able to isolate muscle movements. Where is the tension, origin/insertion? Is the muscle tense in only one location, or multiple locations throughout the muscle mass? What feelings get stirred up when you touch the tenseness? Does it tense up more? What happens when you relax it.
You see, all you need is your hands to gather data, your mind to analyze and learn from it, and your desire to explore and understand yourself.
I do realize that specific examples can help and will provide any if you want them.
It is not suprising that 'scientific' literature has 'found' objective 'causes' of mental disorders when it can only be used to find objective 'causes' of mental disorders.
How can we outright deny subjective causes when they're impossible to quantify? This is why the details of anecdotal evidence should be reseached to find 'subjective truths' that are applicable across subjects.
As long as we neglect one side of reality we'll never get the bigger picture.
How a person chooses to use their eyes is behaviour.
YOu see, focal length changes with were your eyes are focused. Do you have a narrow focus, or bigger picture.
The big problem most people have is that squinting doesn't help. And yet, everybody with glasses will mention this.
Simply because people with glasses understand control, to focus on things you use your muscles to direct your eyes. They simply don't understand that 'proper' eyesight doesn't require effort, it requires dynamic relaxation. When you truly understand this you won't need glasses.
Umm, that's wrong as well. Glasses fix a persons preference for a certain focal length. Blood pressure medications are for a preference for being uptight. RSI is a persons preference to use their body incorrectly. Back, knee, ankle, wrist, etc... surgeries are usually because the person 'prefers' to have a certain posture, scoliosis as well.
The list goes on. You would say constraints and yet it's all because of how we've 'chosen' to use our bodies. Whenever we 'freeze' into a certain pattern, that's when problems happen. The key to life is being alive/dynamic.
The thing with relaxation techniques. They're only as effective as the persons understanding of their own body. The more knowledge of the internal workings of your body (from a subjective viewpoint) the more effective anything that requires knowledge of the workings of your body. Since everything requires the use of your body (it's the only connection we have to interact with reality), the more you learn about it the better life is.
Note that 'flow' is equivalent to dynamic balance/relaxation, the most efficient use of energy. It is in fact the holy grail of life, and all it requires is getting to know yourself.
I used to have bad migraines, flashing lights with intense pain, pain with flickering lights and low refresh rates, intense pain with bright sun light, etc...
Then i figured out that i was tensing my head in all the wrong places and using my eyes incorrectly. Now i don't need glasses anymore, flickering not a bother anymore (note, hows your depth perception) and not only can i go into full sun without sunglasses or staring at the ground, i can actually stare at the sun now(low uv times). Which was actually part of my 'cure'.
And that's the sad part. Why should it take somebody so long?
Is it so hard to teach in school that your body's natural state is relaxed? Or that touching, yes, actually just touching your body, will relax it? It's the simplest thing in the world that should be taught to everybody and yet, western civ just doesn't get it for the most part.
No, it's not a fact. Remember, psych is allopathic. Medications don't cure anything, they are band-aids, that's all. Medications, are targeted at eliminating symptoms not at removing causes.
Probably be more effective to prescribe bliss and ANY communication of the problem to ANYONE.
Psych's are rarely more effective than a good friend who knows you well.
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Does it make you feel special to repost things? Use your brain and at least make something new up, though i'm to lazy to check if you're the original poster.
haha, why are you getting angry? Because he assumed that you didn't read the article as opposed to assuming that you read the article but were too stupid to understand it?
It's not a thesis, it's a song, and guess what? It did exactly what it was meant to do which is sell and make money.
I wish we were paid in accordance with our knowledge. To some extent we seem to be, too bad it's usually an inverse relationship.
Never understood how a church that teaches you that you're a worthless sinning bastard that has absolutely no control over your life has gotten so popular. Then again, haha, science teaches the same thing.
If you believe that you aren't a god, then you aren't.
It's very simple if you can't recoup your r&d costs AND make profit then you don't research something.
Maybe then we would see drugs that cure and not expensive drugs that you need to take for the rest of your lives.
It's a significant insight into the human mind when companies are in the business of keeping people dependent on them for their lives. Isn't that a definition of evil? Acquiring power and status through the subjugation of millions?
Or it'll make for a nice romantic evening with all the flaming debris. :)
Why do you interpret peoples messages the way you do? And why do you let them affect you in a negative manner? Remember, when it comes to subjective reality, we are kings of our own domain. Nothing happens without our say so, even if that say so is far back in the past. Lots of our mechanisms for dealing with reality are developed in childhood (big suprise eh? they develop cause we don't have any).
So what makes me think you can get better? Why not? I did. I'm not anybody special, i'm just a normal everyday person. I just got fed up with the run around i got from medical proffessionals and decided to figure it out on my own. You know what? That's the way it works because nobody can know yourself better than you can.
Granted, i might have had some advantages in getting over the ptsd. You see, i used to have a mild form of autism (aspergers). The extreme focus i got from it helped in finding and matching data from seperate fields to come up with answers. But once i had the answers the aspergers did NOT help in actually implementing a plan, which is why i got rid of the aspergers :)
There's an important point that everybody needs to understand. Life is about balance. Everything lies on continuums. Stagnation is death. Practically every child that is born is capable of experiencing all that there is to experience. We freeze though. We pick spots on the continuums and stay there. Democrat/republican on slashdot are funny because both sides don't recognize that they are both wrong. Neither position is inherently wrong or right because it is a continuum.
We have to leave what we think of ourselves behind to change. We are not our frozen positions on the continuums (ego) we are beings capable of experiencing it all. When we relax all the tension from our body then we can feel our own rhythym, it pulses and flows through us. It is this rhythym that allows us not to be overwhelmed by all the discordant 'vibrations' around us.
It's unfortunate that you posted ac because there is one exercise that suprisingly helps quite a bit for ptsd. YOu see, i've gotten over it twice (different events) so i'm pretty familiar with it.
The startle response usually accompanies ptsd. When we're in danger we tense up, freeze first to assess the danger. Sometimes, we stay frozen. It is our back muscles that do most of it, picture a prairie dog. Loosen our back muscles and it gives us the flexability to confront the issue. The easiest and best stretch for all the muscles along our whole backside is forward bend. The method of doing forward bend is important. We DO NOT bend from the abdomen. We stand in a normal position feet facing forward, keeping the back in a neutral position. We DO NOT pull ourselves down. We push through the front of our feet, which pushes the bottom of the pelvis backwards, bringing the head forward. Any forward movement is just to balance the backward movement of the bottom of the pelvis. This is where our front hinge is. When we do this position through balance instead of brute strength, as lots of yoga is taught, we learn to relax our back in a safe manner. This is because the weight of our torso is counterbalanced with our center of gravity still over our feet. When we don't have our front muscles tense to bring us forward it is easier to feel the tenseness in the back muscles.
Listen, i really do know what it's like. I used to not go out for years, and the most i could deal with was one person at a time. You can contact me anytime. You don't have to blindly accept anything i say. In fact, i discourage it. I hate the appathetic acceptance attitude our society has to almost everything. It's time people start learning how to do things themselves again. Time people started to find
except there were no italians 4000 years ago. :)
The easiest way i think is by working from gross/known to specific/unknown. Problems with the body should be looked at in three ways, physical, emotional, and mental. Physical is where we start, because it's very evident. Working out the physical restrictions will bring up the emotional attachments and mental reasonings that cement that physical problem in place.
Picture our vision faculty as a camera. There are several things that have to go right for a good picture to be formed. The camera has to be steady, easily moveable for pans, zoom has to work, lens has to work properly for focal length, amount of light has to be adjustable, viewframe has to be resizable, low signal to noise ratio, etc...
Increasing our ability to recognize and control tension on a small scale is achieved by first removing large sources of noise. With vision we can get away with clearing up just the neck and head/face.
So does your neck work properly? What does that mean? For our purposes, you need at least a smooth left right pan. As an exercise observe people with/without glasses and how they move their heads. An energy efficient pan uses only the internal neck muscles, it is just the head rotating smoothly on top of the spine, this means you are not using your head balance muscles (cords on the side of the neck and back of the neck).
If your neck works fine, time to look at skull and eyes. Just look for sensitive spots on your skull, you should be able to feel all the bones without pain. If you find tension, find the bubble. Every tension spot gets a little bubble where if you press it long enough it either just releases or has to be pushed in a certain direction to release.
If your skull is fine then check your face. The biggest problems i still have is my nose which was broken multiple times, so hopefully you don't have a broken nose. Look up accupuncture points along the eye. You could look into what they're connected to, mainly digestive/elimination, but if you don't have these problems skip it. Accupressure points are places where tension can build, so you can search out those spots with your hands (recommended) or look them up online.
This may seem pointless, but it's very important. I can see perfectly, but like everyone else, as tension builds in our necks/shoulders/head we start to lose focus.
For the eyes, look up the bates method. You could read through the whole boring book if you want, but the exercises themselves are enough. I would say the most important one is sunning. Nothing aids relaxation more than the warmth of the sun seeping into your tired muscles.
This is getting long, and i don't think i can cover every situation since everybody is different. I think email would probably be a better venue for this as i could get more specific details, such as do you know how to blink(blinking is effortless, it is not squinting fast)? When you look at something what is the first thing you see? the object as a whole, or a detail of it? When you walk down the street, where is your viewpoint? Do you avoid eye contact? What was vision like before glasses? Some are physical, some are mental, and some are emotional ways that our vision can be impacted.
straw man
They did. They did careful observation of the world around them and came up with many of the great religious texts. It's probably clearest in the indian texts. Remember, there are two worlds to explore, the objective and the subjective. Applying the principles of science to either makes you a scientist. It's a small matter of time before science gets to the point where indians got thousands of years ago.
Religions are all based in the same way. Literal interpretations that keep you healthy, and the deeper meanings that have to be thought out for spiritual advancement. Christianity, for the most part, is stuck on stage one. Jesus made it to stage two.
There are copious amounts of false data, intentionally falsified data, and contradictory data within the body of 'science'.
You see, science is done by humans.
You see, the ONLY way that humans interact and perceive reality is through the use of muscles. Lack of flexibility constrains that which you can perceive and react to.
If you still can't relax doing all these things then you don't feel safe. Yes, that's right, we're biologically animals, we tense when we're in unsafe situations. Make yourself a super safe environment then. Easiest way is to hook something up to your anandamide receptors. Bliss=safety. At the same time, thc heightens sensory awareness so it would be easier to recognise/control/relax muscles. However, it heightens sensory awareness. If you don't know how to breath properly you'll discover that quickly.
So you've absolutely pressed on tense accupressure points/beauty marks and examined the resulting thoughts and emotions? Your tensness runs throughout your personality. Are you sure you are the observer? You must step outside the system to fix it. I can see the routines in your typing. LIke others you're like a tape recorder, press a certain button and out comes the same message over and over again. I don't have to know ABOUT YOU, you need to know about you. I can't ask you what's wrong with you because you don't know. Don't you see? If you had true knowledge of what is wrong with you then there wouldn't be anything wrong with you.
Answers aren't outside yourself as you seem to believe, they're inside.
Don't you see that you are the one not respecting other peoples experiences? Here i am saying i've cured myself and you're saying i don't have the proper medical qualifications for anything?
Why are you seeking medical knowledge built upon objective reality when YOU are totally subjective? Your cure is subjective.
I know. If others discover the tactics of the USA and uses them we're all done for.
I'm not being condescending, it's just true.
We perceive the world around us through ourselves, you need to get rid of your arrogance and narcissism.
Fallacy of genus. I'm a yogi. I also have a specialization in psych. I used to have more diseases than you could count on your hands. Migraines, vision problems, anxiety, panic disorders, arthritis, blood diseases, etc... I'm fine now.
Do you do western yoga? Or yoga?
There are set stages for yoga. You learn a muscle by learning how to tense it. Then you learn to relax it. Then you learn to relax the fascia surrounding it. Then from there you step back and become the observer in all situations where that muscle/fascia gets tense, are there emotional/mental aspects to it. Ashtanga is good for loose people, but hatha is better for tense people. Once the body is flexible then comes meditation to change your data gathering/analzying routines.
Yoga is not about physical routines or proper posture. Yoga is about learning to be yourself so that everything you do is an expression of yourself. It's not about holding yourself straight, or 'trying' to get into a posture. When we relax enough to be ourselves our body is straight. The more advanced you are the less physical movement/effort is needed to achieve any pose.
Specific techniques are hard to describe, but there are tools you can use. The most important being your hands and the other being your mind. Close your eyes and touch your body. Your hands can find every source of tension in your body. Find a source, learn how to move it by experimenting with different motions, is it 'connected' to something else? (e.g. lift your arm up and your shoulder moves) It's important to be able to isolate muscle movements. Where is the tension, origin/insertion? Is the muscle tense in only one location, or multiple locations throughout the muscle mass? What feelings get stirred up when you touch the tenseness? Does it tense up more? What happens when you relax it.
You see, all you need is your hands to gather data, your mind to analyze and learn from it, and your desire to explore and understand yourself.
I do realize that specific examples can help and will provide any if you want them.
How can we outright deny subjective causes when they're impossible to quantify? This is why the details of anecdotal evidence should be reseached to find 'subjective truths' that are applicable across subjects.
As long as we neglect one side of reality we'll never get the bigger picture.
YOu see, focal length changes with were your eyes are focused. Do you have a narrow focus, or bigger picture.
The big problem most people have is that squinting doesn't help. And yet, everybody with glasses will mention this.
Simply because people with glasses understand control, to focus on things you use your muscles to direct your eyes. They simply don't understand that 'proper' eyesight doesn't require effort, it requires dynamic relaxation. When you truly understand this you won't need glasses.
Maybe you're talking about consciously rational?
The list goes on. You would say constraints and yet it's all because of how we've 'chosen' to use our bodies. Whenever we 'freeze' into a certain pattern, that's when problems happen. The key to life is being alive/dynamic.
Note that 'flow' is equivalent to dynamic balance/relaxation, the most efficient use of energy. It is in fact the holy grail of life, and all it requires is getting to know yourself.
I used to have bad migraines, flashing lights with intense pain, pain with flickering lights and low refresh rates, intense pain with bright sun light, etc...
Then i figured out that i was tensing my head in all the wrong places and using my eyes incorrectly. Now i don't need glasses anymore, flickering not a bother anymore (note, hows your depth perception) and not only can i go into full sun without sunglasses or staring at the ground, i can actually stare at the sun now(low uv times). Which was actually part of my 'cure'.
Is it so hard to teach in school that your body's natural state is relaxed? Or that touching, yes, actually just touching your body, will relax it? It's the simplest thing in the world that should be taught to everybody and yet, western civ just doesn't get it for the most part.
Probably be more effective to prescribe bliss and ANY communication of the problem to ANYONE.
Psych's are rarely more effective than a good friend who knows you well.