Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests

Post by graderjs » Sat, Mar 04, 2023, 1:57 AM UTC

winnit wrote: post #66

graderjs wrote: post #45

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I don't know. Nicotine can produce that intense relaxation. But why take a toxin for what you can get with just your body and some intelligent practices? All upside. Except it takes effort! :) But the longer term effects are way better for yoga than nicotine. Those two paths diverge pretty quickly by a lot I think.

Nicotine is only toxic in high doses, which naturally greatly exceed that which you get from a patch. You could say the same thing about basically anything; say someone recommended eating a banana to cure cramps. Potassium is also toxic in high doses. I agree yoga is a great practice but that doesn’t exclude the beneficial effects nicotine can provide. For example, I can chew nicotine gum during exams but I can’t do…

Post by graderjs » Sat, Mar 04, 2023, 3:04 AM UTC

time_to_smile wrote: post #71

graderjs wrote: post #13

Yes that's why yoga is so good at calming you down and making you healthy. It soothes and calms the parasympathetic nervous system, and helps relieve and release many held tensions in the body. It's no good just to do meditation and calm your mind if your body and nervous system is still holding on to so much stress. The body remembers many things and "embodies" many emotions. You can notice this if you do part-by-pa…

> It's no good just to do meditation and calm your mind if your body and nervous system is still holding on to so much stress. I just want to point out that for nearly all of its history yoga is primarily about meditation, with the asanas being preliminary, quickly covered material in most classic texts. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali are a good reference for anyone curious (though the sections on the siddhis is... int…

Post by ikekkdcjkfke » Sat, Mar 04, 2023, 4:43 AM UTC

can16358p wrote: post #9

zacharyvoase wrote: post #4

People with anxiety could have told you this :)

Exactly. I have anxiety and panic attacks. When my heart beats faster for whatever reason, it triggers anxiety and in more extreme cases, panic attack. It's kind of obvious, really.

Post by roywiggins » Sat, Mar 04, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

lubujackson wrote: post #22

roywiggins wrote: post #19

> It’s possible, he says, that this heart–brain loop evolved to help animals process danger signals more quickly: when the animal sees a potential threat, even before the brain can fully process what the situation means, the heart rate rises, essentially telling the brain that it should be worried. I suppose, but how does the information about danger get from the eyes to the heart to the brain faster than from the ey…

Brain is still in charge - I think the key is bypassing consciousness and reacting sub-consciously. Which makes sense, your body will starts releasing adrenaline before you ever think "oh no!"

Post by graderjs » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 10:38 AM UTC

anubiskhan wrote: post #63

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Hehe. The linguist has identified a distinction. Whatever works for you: maybe some stimulation, maybe some relaxation. :) We calm it and maybe it isn't active. We stimulate it and then it's relaxing us. I see what you're saying. Is there another side to it? Isn't calm and soothed a form of stimulation? An active, easy coherence? Maybe we don't want to be over-stimulated. Stimulated in the right way creates coherence…

I would argue that the verb forms of calm and sooth connote stimulation, whereas the adjective form of calm might be a lack of stimuli. I'm not sure there is a present tense adjective form of sooth? But certainly one might say, "this music is very calming" so in that case the stimulus is causing the non-stimulated (by my definition) state... Offsetting the anxiety causing stimuli? I am neither a linguist nor a medica…