Posted on May 13, 2008 by neijia
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 [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2008 by neijia
Another great analogy Yayama makes in his book Qi Healing is concerning reductionism in a mechanistic, scientific way vs. intangibles explained through some other mechanism of understanding.
Car - can take apart and look at all the component pieces and understand how each one works and put the system back together and understand it as the [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2008 by neijia
Neuroscience Unlocks Secrets of Zen Garden
500-year-old rock pattern suggests a tree to our subconscious.
26 September 2002
KENDALL POWELL
The beauty of one of Japan’s most popular Zen gardens has long eluded explanation. Now neuroscientists have found that its minimalist design suggests a pleasing picture to our subconcious.
The 500-year-old Ryoanji Temple garden in Kyoto contains five outcroppings of [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by neijia
Well, it seems my blogging has really turned to gadgets and neuroscience lately. Sometimes i get bored of the martial arts (gasp). I should probably split up my blog but, well, it’s really for myself, and not so much for publishing for readers (I think there are 3 of you out there that check back [...]
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