Read it.

Granted I'm some times a little fast and loose with the hyperbole.

Are we done now?

For the most part, western medicine treats symptoms, yoga eliminates the cause. I always wonder about cheerleaders of modern western medicine, it's like they're blind and can't see the horrible state that humans in western society are in.

While other societies might have come up with the idea of fasting, yoga wrote it down and had an explanation thousands, read that again, thousands of years ago. You shouldn't be so critical of things you know nothing about, after all, you do know where 'atom' came from don't you? No, obviously you don't.

I don't need to read things supporting what I say, and by replying to me you aren't informing your target audience.

The problem is that you know nothing about yoga and assume that it isn't formal and rigorous and full of experiments that one can repeat and get the exact same results all the time.

The problem with science and medicine is that they dumped all the people who intuitively understood the human body and how it works and left it all to the clueless eggheads to figure out. If you read the 'scientific' literature from the start, you can see where the shift happens. Right about where they had to actually do lots of experiments to try and figure out where the center of gravity of the human body is. Something that anybody with correct posture and an ability to do a handstand can tell you.

But hey, feel free to remain clueless about the deficits of modern medicine and science and keep on being ignorant of how to use your body properly. I'll give you a big hint here that even most medical doctors understand and is the reason for so many pills and external procedures, and the reason for your reaction: The average human doesn't care about learning how to feed or care for themselves properly, they do NOT want to take responsibility for themselves. They just want a solution handed to them on a silver platter. You know, exactly like you.

The problem with studies that study things that require the subjects to develop awareness and control of things that are usually autonomous... well, just take a good look at most of the people around you.

That aside, while Bates provides some good techniques the explanations are seriously lacking. So I turned to the largest and oldest body of work dealing with developing awareness and control of the human body, yoga.

I must admit, it isn't easy, i.e., you have to actually do work and not just pay money to get results.

I had astigmatism, myopia, lazy eye, and barely any peripheral vision. Took me about 2 years to gain control of focus, about 4 for convergence and 3d vision, 6 for enough stamina to maintain vision all day and to expand fov both horizontally and vertically.

The benefit of doing it this way? I can turn it on and off. I can use 3d vision to navigate the world and store information about objects. I can narrow my fov to intensely focus on a singl object. I can switch back to monocular 2d vision for eidetic capture or to speed up perception (3d is computationaly expensive) or just shut the system down and use all that mapping and organizational stuff for visualization and mathematics.

I have to admit thoug, 3d boobs are immensely more distracting.

Gravity is your most treasured teacher in learning to move efficiently.

Understanding the physics of reality and the fluidity to direct forces in any direction is what true strength is about.

Sure, you can constantly destroy your body so that automatic systems kick in to add more fibers to deal with your stupidity but learning how to activate and control all your fibers is where it's at.

Bruce Lee had more practical strength than a monstrosity like Coleman.

granted coleman isn't that frightful but I don't know the names of the truly hiedous

I'm so much happier now that I KNOW how to use my eyes and no longer need to constantly deteriote my eyes by using glasses.

Side benefit/of learning to use your body properly, it's free!

Western science has slowly been catching up to what yogic science discovered millenia ago.

Rob malda would be spinning in his grave but the existence of beta and the new slashdot would never afford him the posibility of resting in peace.

I stuck around after most of the intelligent people left, I even stuck around after the stories dropped about 30-40 iq points to understand, but ffs showing me ads all over the place at the same time as prominently/displaying an ads disabled-for-contributions... well, fuck it.