Meditiate your way to faster times

Loads and loads of pot.

I'm curious; does anyone on here do yoga? I guess I'm considering it, but know little about it.

'Tanks,

Monty

I support and do Yoga for the physical aspect, but meditating on nothingness or an apple sounds quite silly to me.

Is Legalizit now posting as Zipperman?

Freddie,

Is yoga very time consuming? Is it physically tiring?

Monty

I am a yoga practioner and must say that it is the best way to stay injury free. And as for meditation, one who truly practices yoga cannot say they believe in yoga and not in meditation because there are 8 branches of the yoga art, and only a few actually deal with the physical body. Another example is martial arts. The ancient shoalin monks, after years of physical training, only worked on training their minds all day, every day. Why? because mastering the physcial body will only take you so far before you reach a plateau.

Ok, I practice americanized Yoga :)

please so many people practive yoga without accepting the whole new age mumbo jumbo....for many it is empty spirituality....aka Madonna.

I never said anyone has to embrace all the limbs of the shavasana, I merely said that one should not be so quick to discredit meditation. And as for "new age mumbo jumbo" you may want to rethink that one, what I am referring to dates back to a time before any of us could comprehend.

Thirtysomething,

Nope. He just inspired me.

Thinkin' I might give it a try...

C'mon Zipperman, are you Gabe Jennings?

I don't discredit meditation....i just think it is silly when people meditate on stupid objects and feel spiritual about it.

No, I am not Gabe Jennings. Legalizit may be Jennings, but I am not, and Legalizit and I are not the same person.

I will agree with you there. I'm not into that meditation stuff either. I do think that visualization works though. Certainly you have to do the work, but if you can spend a few minutes each day before or after a workout putting yourself in different situations (like being behind when it is time to kick) and then visualize yourself conquering that situation, it can only help.

I figured. I made those posts in jest.

how is your comment not discrediting. For some this is the essence of spirtuality. It is not up to you or I to validate meditation. You would be suprised how well focusing on "stupid" objects trains the brain.

well i hope it doesn't train the brain to join a cult and jump off a cliff...

There are different ways of meditating, but to do it to

run faster is abuse of a spiritual process. If you were

really meditating you would begin to question why it is

necessary to run faster.

Fred get real! If you even think about running faster it is a "spiritual" process. For thought is spirit, thought is the only part of us that is truly invisible, science cannot pull a thought out of our head and put it on a slide and examine it. To think is a spiritual process, and if we subscribe to your line of reasoning thinking is a waste of time.

Really meditating is really thinking in a very focused way, and that is the only way any champion was ever successfull. Consider the great olympian Jim Thorpe 1912, on the way to the games the other athletes and coaches were wondering what was wrong with him, because all he did was sit back and look relaxed as everyone else jumped, hopped and skipped about the ship. Finnally when some one asked if he was ok, he said "sure I am thinking about how I will compete in my events" The dude was (meditating) focusing, he focused all the way to five gold medals! Question why it is necessary to run faster? you say?! Thats the same as questioning why it's necessary to breathe! Mankind is and always will be a competitor - that's the inherant nature of the beast! WELCOME TO THE HUMAN "RACE" Fred.