Question: whats your experience with stuff that seems new agy at first look, like yoga, meditation and so on. Anything worth trying?
The Five Tibetans are a set of physical exercises which rejuvenate the body to youthful vigour and prolong life indefinitely. They are at least 2,500 years old, and practiced by hidden masters of secret wisdom living in remote monasteries in Tibet, where, in the earlier part of the 20th century, a retired British army colonel sought out these monasteries, studied with the ancient masters to great effect, and eventually brought the exercises to the West, where they were first published in 1939.
Ok, you don’t believe any of that, do you? Neither do I, except for the first eight words and the last six. I’ve been doing these exercises since the beginning of 2009, since being turned on to them by Steven Barnes’ blog and they do seem to have made a dramatic improvement in my general level of physical energy. Whether it’s these exercises specifically or just the discipline of doing a similar amount of exercise first thing in the morning, every morning, I haven’t taken the trouble to determine by varying them.
I also do yoga for flexibility (it works) and occasionally meditation (to little detectable effect). I’d be interested to hear from anyone here who meditates and gets more from it than I do.
The Five Tibetans are a set of physical exercises which rejuvenate the body to youthful vigour and prolong life indefinitely. They are at least 2,500 years old, and practiced by hidden masters of secret wisdom living in remote monasteries in Tibet, where, in the earlier part of the 20th century, a retired British army colonel sought out these monasteries, studied with the ancient masters to great effect, and eventually brought the exercises to the West, where they were first published in 1939.
Ok, you don’t believe any of that, do you? Neither do I, except for the first eight words and the last six. I’ve been doing these exercises since the beginning of 2009, since being turned on to them by Steven Barnes’ blog and they do seem to have made a dramatic improvement in my general level of physical energy. Whether it’s these exercises specifically or just the discipline of doing a similar amount of exercise first thing in the morning, every morning, I haven’t taken the trouble to determine by varying them.
More here and here. Nancy Lebovitz also mentioned them.
I also do yoga for flexibility (it works) and occasionally meditation (to little detectable effect). I’d be interested to hear from anyone here who meditates and gets more from it than I do.
My spreadsheet about effects of the Tibetans