Spain being more progressive than the nations it conquered. The countries you have colonised are stuck with the values you have left them hundreds of years ago.
I remember one of my best teachers, who was a Chinese medicine doctor and whose own teacher was the personal doctor of the dalai lama (a man who smuggled sacred texts out of Tibet for his safety and then taught my own teacher this information), used to tell us that not only do these processes happen in our body but that we can amplify them to much higher levels through visualizing them doing these exact movements while in meditation. He had a long history of helping people who were paralyzed bring back movement to their limbs or getting feeling back after strokes or nervous system illnesses - through meditating on these movements we don’t usually have the privilege of seeing.
Learn about these different movements that occur in body, the synapsis’ and pathways, and try to find photos or videos of what they look like and then you can meditate while visualizing them coming online. Energy always flows where attention goes. Good to use it for these types of processes. Can be greatly amplified and healed over time. Every single thing is Qi.
as a dancer who has worked on her flexibility for years, i swear by these. getting flexible really doesn’t have to be a scary complicated thing, it can be quite simple. do this everyday for 3-6 months and your connective tissue will melt in on itself.
Instead of starting at an wall to fix your attention span, this exercise daily. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Sentence Drill.
Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.
The first time you try it you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, swap an order.
This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.
Do this once or twice a day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your memory, and makes you pay more attention to detail, a very rare skill nowadays.
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