Data said:

SameThing said:

I think yoga would synergize extremely well with weed. Got a lot of kinks in my body from a hard life to iron out. There must be a connection to them mentally. I think neglecting both amplifies both, or something.. i just had some more of that joint. I could write some good horror stories on this stuff. I feel like i can focus on a thought train for longer and surprisingly clearer. Just 1 drag this time but held in for longer.

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Stretching has actually been shown to be more of a mental relaxation than physically releasing the muscle fibers. The nervous system will tense muscle in preparation for extreme use during fight or flight situations, and so periods of stress will cause muscles to tense up. Conversely, there are mechanoreceptors in the muscle tissues that give feedback to the brain on how tight these muscles are, and these sensors can drift over time...so the brain will think that you are relaxed after a stressful period of work, even though in reality the muscles are tense, and the brain is working hard sending signals to those muscles.

By stretching, you are stimulating those mechanoreceptors, which makes the brain go "whoa wtf, I thought you were relaxed why are you getting so tight?" and down-regulates the contraction signals it was sending to the muscle. When you release the stretch, the brain is now sending a lot less signal to that muscle, and it is actually relaxed. Not only that, but the brain is not working as hard sending contraction signals to the muscle, and as a result, you feel more relaxed.

This is one of the reasons why stretching and yoga is a good technique for calming down during a psychedelic trip.

Hope this makes sense

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Jenny said:

no smoking, although i smelled two guys smoking cigarettes when i went to the store

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So you do not, in fact, even smoke, bro?

Data said:

SameThing said:

I think yoga would synergize extremely well with weed. Got a lot of kinks in my body from a hard life to iron out. There must be a connection to them mentally. I think neglecting both amplifies both, or something.. i just had some more of that joint. I could write some good horror stories on this stuff. I feel like i can focus on a thought train for longer and surprisingly clearer. Just 1 drag this time but held in for longer.

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Stretching has actually been shown to be more of a mental relaxation than physically releasing the muscle fibers. The nervous system will tense muscle in preparation for extreme use during fight or flight situations, and so periods of stress will cause muscles to tense up. Conversely, there are mechanoreceptors in the muscle tissues that give feedback to the brain on how tight these muscles are, and these sensors can drift over time...so the brain will think that you are relaxed after a stressful period of work, even though in reality the muscles are tense, and the brain is working hard sending signals to those muscles.

By stretching, you are stimulating those mechanoreceptors, which makes the brain go "whoa wtf, I thought you were relaxed why are you getting so tight?" and down-regulates the contraction signals it was sending to the muscle. When you release the stretch, the brain is now sending a lot less signal to that muscle, and it is actually relaxed. Not only that, but the brain is not working as hard sending contraction signals to the muscle, and as a result, you feel more relaxed.

This is one of the reasons why stretching and yoga is a good technique for calming down during a psychedelic trip.

Hope this makes sense

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