Obvious in hindsight

I keep finding once I write something down, it almost suddenly seems so obvious, why didn’t I think of it before? However, before, it just wasn’t obvious to me, sometimes even right before I thought of the sentence. A good, unexpected side benefit of blogging. What is the name of that phenomenon? Epiphany is too [...]

An Wu Shu

There is a series of videos recently posted on YouTube called “An Wu Shu”. Here is one below on xingyiquan:

They all seem excellent and worth checking out multiple times. The teacher is apparently a sanda and forms champion in various internal arts.

Regulating the sympathetic nervous system

This part of the ANS controls the “fight or flight” responses. It can produce body reactions such as increasing blood flow to the skeletal muscles as much as 1200%! Whoa. I would think zhan zhuang is more about calming the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system (controls “rest and digest”). However these systems are [...]