the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Not when I read about it on RSF.

wayne hansen wrote:https://youtu.be/aiIvsW9PL_c?si=3LXzDk6CKPkbmSS1

Chris Marshall, featured in this interview, is a forum member ("shoreline").

Go to PubMed and search "taijiquan" "tai chi chuan" "tai chi" to see the variations of benefit that tai chi can bring.
Also search "qigong" "Chigong".

I prefer to be shown

Sure it can.

If you relax long enough and strongly enough over enough time, it's inevitable that your mind is going to change as well. That's awesome. What's really cool is that you can't tire out from relaxation the way you can do from activity. You can always relax deeper and deeper. The only limiting factor is your attention, mind, available time. And how fast you can process what's being brought up to the surface. How good you are at adapting.

Peace of mind and ease of mind are close together imo. It's not bliss tho. Striving for bliss will make you disappointed.

Haven't watched the talk yet. But I had to laugh a bit, bc 'shore' is slang for heroin in Germany . So Shoreline was kinda funny. Thanks for the reference. I'm curious who else might be lurking this board.

So if you manage to bring down your central nervous system to the bare minimum you need to function for in life, while not getting stuck in that state but being able to up and down regulate as required, it will be very healing. Basically de-stressing.

This ties in with increased body awareness, deeper sensations, better mental mapping of the insides.

Also, the lower your baseline is for nervous system activity, the higher will be your explosiveness.

It cannot give you what you deny yourself.

Duly noted, but it's not how that works. Bliss is unsustainable. Eventually you can just choose to experience bliss at will, that's not so hard.