Jonathan_Graehl comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MartinB 07 June 2010 07:20:04PM 7 points [-]

Question: whats your experience with stuff that seems new agy at first look, like yoga, meditation and so on. Anything worth trying?

Case in point: i read in Feynmans book about deprivation tanks, and recently found out that they are available in bigger cities. (Berlin, germany in my case.) will try and hopefully enjoy that soon. Sadly those places are run by new-age folks that offer all kinds of strange stuff, but that might not take away from the experience of floating in a sensory empty space.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 08 June 2010 02:13:20AM 1 point [-]

I've done yoga every week for the last month or two. It's pleasant. Other than paying attention to how I'm holding my body vs. the instruction, I mostly stop thinking for an hour (as we're encouraged to do), which is nice.

I can't say I notice any significant lasting effects yet. I'm slightly more flexible.