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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.
I've had great results from modest (2-3 hrs/wk) investments in hatha yoga, over and above what I get from standard Greco-Roman "calisthenics."
Besides the flexibility, breathing, and posture benefits, I find that the idea of 'chakras' is vaguely useful for focusing my conscious attention on involuntary muscle systems. I would be extremely surprised if chakras "cleaved reality at the joints" in any straightforward sense, but the idea of chakras helps me pay attention to my digestion, heart rate, bladder, etc. by making mentally uninteresting but nevertheless important bodily functions more interesting.