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Anonymous No.16757928 [Report] >>16759356 >>16759987 >>16760075 >>16760085
when new age people talk about "energy flow" or "qi" or whatever, i think they're talking about a real thing. it's a real feeling in the body, i started feeling it after i started meditating. i don't think there's anything spiritual or mystical about it, it's just....well, i dunno. if i had to guess, i'd say...serotonin? dopamine? idk, some neurotransmitter?
Anonymous No.16759356 [Report]
>>16757928 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Anonymous No.16759987 [Report] >>16760104
>>16757928 (OP)
Directing your attention to a particular part of the body is well known to cause a tingling sensation. Try just consciously thinking about your left pinky or some shit and you'll feel it.
There is at least one empirical study claiming to demonstrate evidence of real neuron firing when participants are tested on this but it's paywalled and I can't be fucked to try to pirate it somewhere.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810017302805

My best guess is it has to do with proprioception (sense of one's own body orientation and position in space). Like an unnoticeable amount of "tingle" is always there and focusing on the body part tells your brain to instruct those neurons to fire harder since you're obviously interested in its position/orientation.
Anonymous No.16760075 [Report] >>16760086
>>16757928 (OP)
You see what you want to see. You feel what you want to feel.
Anonymous No.16760085 [Report]
>>16757928 (OP)
your brain has control over your body, it can also make you "feel" things. or see things.
the best way to differentiate is through science, it's meant to bypass our senses and what we "feel" because that's not reliable.
Anonymous No.16760086 [Report]
>>16760075
this proves steve jobs just didn't believe strongly enough in homeopathy to cure his cancer smdh
Anonymous No.16760104 [Report]
>>16759987
>(sense of one's own body orientation and position in space)
I've trained my mind to produce this sensation even for places my body isn't occupying. It creates hallucinations of those places as if my conscious awareness occupies the space I am thinking about. I sort of have to hack perceptions, due to not having senses in those places. Its something like imagining the light is passing through a bit of space my mind occupies, and I can see things based on that light passing through the area of space I imagine. Sometimes I try to create an imagined sense of light, that those photons spontaneously pass through a particular space and illuminate it and the things surrounding it.
The hard part of this, is that these sensations are extremely subtle. Its like looking at the world with 1/1000th the intensity of the senses. That may not seem like a lot, but when the mind becomes perfectly still in its meditation, that 1/1000th level of intensity becomes enough to perceive as vividly as if its the waking world seen through the senses.
You can train this type of thing just by meditating while walking, and feeling the sense of where you are in space, and then trying to imagine that you are in the space you were several footsteps before, or in the space several footsteps ahead of where you actually are. Once you hack the 'where are you' data in your mind, you can be anywhere you imagine yourself to be.