oragami_itto wrote:There was a post about meditation and taijiquan on Facebook that got me thinking about something I've been meaning to talk about. Time dilation.
Meditation, for me, has been a way to achieve a certain stillness and clarity with a particular purpose, to move my perception and understanding closer to the moment things actually happen, as opposed to being formed from memories of what happened a few microseconds prior.
The practical effect is a reduced reaction time, not due to faster physical reflexes or faster muscles but by perceiving and understanding sooner than I would if I did not practice what I practice.
Examples are, because I'm still clumsy, knocking a fast food cup off of a table but in the same motion catching it before it hits the floor without squeezing it hard enough to pop the lid off, or feeling/hearing a partners energy gathering in preparation for an attack and moving to swallow or stuff it.
I once, for fun, grabbed a foil and fooled around with a fencing teacher. Neither of us could touch each other even though I'd never fenced and his comment afterwards was, "wow, you're pretty fast". It didn't feel to me like I was moving quickly, but just leisurely getting out of the way of his attacks.
I call it getting closer to now.
Anybody else notice this sort of stuff or is it just my acid flashbacks?
oragami_itto wrote:The practical effect is a reduced reaction time, not due to faster physical reflexes or faster muscles but by perceiving and understanding sooner than I would if I did not practice what I practice.
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Anybody else notice this sort of stuff or is it just my acid flashbacks?
oragami_itto wrote:Meditation, for me, has been a way to achieve a certain stillness and clarity with a particular purpose, to move my perception and understanding closer to the moment things actually happen, as opposed to being formed from memories of what happened a few microseconds prior.
The practical effect is a reduced reaction time, not due to faster physical reflexes or faster muscles but by perceiving and understanding sooner than I would if I did not practice what I practice.
Examples are, because I'm still clumsy, knocking a fast food cup off of a table but in the same motion catching it before it hits the floor without squeezing it hard enough to pop the lid off, or feeling/hearing a partners energy gathering in preparation for an attack and moving to swallow or stuff it.
I once, for fun, grabbed a foil and fooled around with a fencing teacher. Neither of us could touch each other even though I'd never fenced and his comment afterwards was, "wow, you're pretty fast". It didn't feel to me like I was moving quickly, but just leisurely getting out of the way of his attacks.
Published online Jan 10, 2019 wrote:
Conclusion
We created a task and methodology to measure whether or not training and experience could change the typical performance difference between LVF- and UVF-processing. The results demonstrated this to be the case, suggesting that even the highly conserved differences in information processing in LVF and UVF can be modified through experience. The current finding has implications for both training and rehabilitation after nervous system damage.
oragami_itto wrote:Looks like we're not alone and there's even some science about it
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23778017/
https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/s ... p-freedom/
marvin8 wrote:oragami_itto wrote:
jimmy wrote:marvin8 wrote:oragami_itto wrote:
Sooooo.... next step? Map this onto a wing chun dummy?
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