Life extension theraphies and more

[xkosmox]

In the same way that the T.I method is easy to do, but many can't.

I believe that it's all a matter of firstly gathering enough knowledge and secondly having very clear vision, goals, motivations and strategy.

Knowledge, for instance, to consider that gaining muscle and losing fat may not lead to a big weight loss; but is still much healthier.

Strategy, for instance, to know that we can't just depend on 'raw willpower to lose weight''; but to come up with a set of highly motivating reasons to tell our brain daily.

[AstuteShift]

In the same way that the T.I method is easy to do, but many can't.

I believe that it's all a matter of firstly gathering enough knowledge and secondly having very clear vision, goals, motivations and strategy.

Knowledge, for instance, to consider that gaining muscle and losing fat may not lead to a big weight loss; but is still much healthier.

Strategy, for instance, to know that we can't just depend on 'raw willpower to lose weight''; but to come up with a set of highly motivating reasons to tell our brain daily.

What gave me results was having my home gym

The equipment is there and is a constant reminder, stay active and exercise, eat right

A pendulum or force but my own. Reverse psychology can work wonders

[Yodean]

What gave me results was having my home gym
The equipment is there and is a constant reminder, stay active and exercise, eat right

Home gym/training = no excuses.

[SOL]

I like to mix biochemistry with exercise and diet and I look for ways to game the system as you can just the way you can game the markets. So far my treatment of Alpha-lipoic acid injection and vit C is going well. My energy is up. It is hard to sleep beyond 6 hours without being fully charged. So I will continue for 30 days. lol Let's hope I don't grow a third leg hahahah

[AstuteShift]

I like to mix biochemistry with exercise and diet and I look for ways to game the system as you can just the way you can game the markets. So far my treatment of Alpha-lipoic acid injection and vit C is going well. My energy is up. It is hard to sleep beyond 6 hours without being fully charged. So I will continue for 30 days. lol Let's hope I don't grow a third leg hahahah

Been interested in experimentation since college. I remember having an excellent combo of racetam with alpha gpc, caffeine and sulbutiamine to study.

The end result was, the focus was so intense that I have gotten a ticket due to not hearing the fire alarm (had techno playing with headphones).

What was awesome about this was also the outer body experience, felt like I was levitating and observing outside myself.

Definitely worth the ticket

[Yodean]

lol Let's hope I don't grow a third leg hahahah

A third leg is fine, as long as it doesn't affect your ability to perceive tradable patterns in recommended stocks.

[stefk]

@Yodean, you are not planning to become a yogi, me too, I am not a yogi. If you want to become a real yogi you have to follow the practices of yoga pradipika. you have to devote all your time to become a real yogi, and the final goal is the perfect meditation, to dilute the atman in the brahman, the individual soul in the cosmic soul, yes for an hindouist is this concept crystal clear.

With yama, niyama, some asanas and some bandhas, we can have a good approach, and we can already experiment an other consciousness state, and we can already equilibrate the three gunnas in our body and mind. For me its enough, and I found with the three asanas and uddiyana bandha and sometimes the three holy mudras a good personal approach. It became a morning routine, before beginning a working day, to charge the batteries with prana......

I practice the king, but not always, I prefer the queen, yes sorry men, I am an old school heterosexual, I am not a big fan of the new trend LGBTQ....

If you want to practice the prince, its all good. You can do it as counterpose of the queen. During the queen, your neck is locked during a certain time, and with the prince you bend the neck on the opposite, its all good.

https://n8yoga.com/2017/05/12/purpose-of-hatha-yoga/

Why I love the queen more than the king, she has an action on the thyroid gland, and equilibrates the metabolism.

[stefk]

https://youtu.be/cDGmsR2ZILE

thyroid gland is very important

Yodean, I invented a good combo for you. When you are in the queen, stay there 10sec or more or less, come back slowly on the back, stay there 10 sec, and go for the prince, come back on the floor 10 sec, and go back for the queen, this is one cycle. For you, I think that five cycles will not be too much. it will be your first yoga flow.

Disclaimer, if you suffer of high blood pressure, dont practice inversed asanas;

[Yodean]

@Yodean, you are not planning to become a yogi, me too, I am not a yogi. If you want to become a real yogi you have to follow the practices of yoga pradipika. you have to devote all your time to become a real yogi, and the final goal is the perfect meditation, to dilute the atman in the brahman, the individual soul in the cosmic soul, yes for an hindouist is this concept crystal clear.

I practice the king, but not always, I prefer the queen, yes sorry men, I am an old school heterosexual, I am not a big fan of the new trend LGBTQ....

If you want to practice the prince, its all good. You can do it as counterpose of the queen. During the queen, your neck is locked during a certain time, and with the prince you bend the neck on the opposite, its all good.

Why I love the queen more than the king, she has an action on the thyroid gland, and equilibrates the metabolism.

It's interesting how the ancient traditions get assimilated into more modern traditions (some would say bastardized or diluted). Many years ago I trained in traditional zazen (seated meditation) under a Zen teacher and it was a fairly serious practice for me for several years.

He told me that all the ancient yoga training, ultimately, was for the purpose of developing the ability to engage in zazen in the full lotus position for hours, and that once you could do that, yoga was basically unnecessary unless you wanted the "side" benefits (i.e. precise physiological control, better health, etc.).

In his eyes and seemingly quite a few Zen teachers, zazen was the true goal, to help one see through the temporary nature of reality, and embrace and accept each moment fully as it is, without trying to change it or make it better - to see through the illusion of the individual body-mind, ideally to the point that you do not even really care about what happens to your body, since you cease to identify with your body-mind at the point of awakening.

Historically, quite a few Zen teachers died from some type of horrible cancer, often at young ages. They generally didn't try very hard to get cured or better. I have always had mixed feelings about this.

In any case, I got to the point where I could sit in full lotus for up to an hour at a time while still being able to walk afterwards. Eventually, I suffered a knee injury during sparring in Muay Thai that required surgical repair, and I could never quite get back to doing the full lotus comfortably, so I had to stop (but unfortunately not before I injured my other knee, lol).

So yeah, I think I will stick with the "Queen asana" and the "Prince asana" (this one I just call the back bridge, it seems to also counter the negative effects of sitting too much, as well).

Thanks for the yoga lessons.

[stefk]

""He told me that all the ancient yoga training, ultimately, was for the purpose of developing the ability to engage in zazen in the full lotus position for hours, and that once you could do that, yoga was basically unnecessary unless you wanted the "side" benefits (i.e. precise physiological control, better health, etc.).""

It makes me think at the story, true or legend, nobody knows, of the indian buddhist monk Boddidharma.

https://depts.washington.edu/triolive/q ... harma.html

it seems this indian monk imported in shaolin temple the techniques of yoga and kalaripayat, and nowadays the shaolin monks still practice yoga postures, they call it ""little kungfu"".

kalaripayat, the martial yoga, maybe the father of kungfu and all asian martial arts.

https://youtu.be/oI84oM_bJeg

[Yodean]

Yodean, I invented a good combo for you. When you are in the queen, stay there 10sec or more or less, come back slowly on the back, stay there 10 sec, and go for the prince, come back on the floor 10 sec, and go back for the queen, this is one cycle. For you, I think that five cycles will not be too much. it will be your first yoga flow.

Thanks! I actually just tried this, but because of my ego with this kind of stuff (I still believe I was a ninja in a previous life), I increased it a bit, to:

Queen x 20+ seconds, 10 seconds in corpse posture, Prince x 20+ seconds, 10 seconds corpse, x 5 rounds; felt pretty good afterwards, I'll probably incorporate it into my warm-up before kettlebell training, or as a cool-down after running or something like that;

During this yoga flow, I only do nose breathing on both inhale/exhale, relaxed face, with tongue at roof of mouth (near junction of soft and hard palate, a type of yoga tongue "lock," I believe) - this is okay, I assume? I did a little bit of ashtanga yoga and a touch of dilute, modernized form of kriya yoga in my younger years.

[stefk]

There are fantastic standing yoga postures. trikonasana and prasarita padottanasana and also padangusthasana. You can include them as warming ups and cool downs.

[stefk]

Yodean said on another file:

""Btw, thanks again for the "yoga flow" routine - been doing it every day, sometimes more than once, and feel great. The Queen and Prince Asanas are a great combination for me personally. Not too hard, but not too easy either - just right.""

We can improve this sequence, because your spine is in serious tension during this sequence. We could finish it with paschimottanasana to liberate the tension in the spine. We can also do it in standing position.



The word yoga comes from the sanskrit "jug". Sanskrit is the origin of all indo european languages. In french its "joug" in english its "yoke". Its a link. Yoga is the link between atman and brahman, between the individual soul and the cosmic soul, between the man and God, between the superior and the inferior, between the animal side and the spiritual side of the man. The excretory organs are linked with the spiritual part (brain) by the spine. Therefore is the spine so important in the asanas. There are asanas for torsions, tensions, flexions. The spine is the best symbol of yoga, its the tree of life, its the link.

[Yodean]

We can improve this sequence, because your spine is in serious tension during this sequence. We could finish it with paschimottanasana to liberate the tension in the spine. We can also do it in standing position.

Merci beaucoup. I will add this to the routine, although I think this one will be a bit challenging for me.

[stefk]

little challenge for you, begin in standing position with legs apart, and slowly join more and more the legs. I begin and finish all my workouts with this posture. Its an important posture in kungfu and qigong