Is Balancing Chakras a Legitimate University Health Event?

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The discussion centers around an email promoting a meditation session focused on "Balancing of Chakras" at a university health center. Participants express strong opinions about the appropriateness of a university promoting concepts associated with New Age practices, particularly the term "chakras," which many view as pseudoscientific. Some argue that while meditation can offer genuine health benefits, the framing of the session with New Age terminology detracts from its credibility. Others acknowledge that meditation has been shown to reduce stress and improve mental health, citing various studies that support its efficacy. However, there is concern that the inclusion of unscientific elements could mislead students and undermine the institution's reputation. The conversation also touches on personal experiences with meditation and hypnosis, highlighting the variability in individual responses to these practices. Overall, the thread reflects a tension between traditional medical perspectives and alternative wellness practices, questioning the role of educational institutions in endorsing such approaches.
  • #51
I think people could do with a dose of "Shut the hell up and stop critiquing stupid sh!t".
 
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  • #52
Evo said:
It is fun, in an aggravating way. You get interrupted while you are working on a written math problem and go and make all these changes to earlier problems and re-do the math, then just as you get back to the question you left and try to remember what you were doing, the voice tells you to start making more changes, you begin to think that you're never going to finish that problem that keeps getting interrupted. And some don't. :biggrin: You also have no calculators or scratch paper. The math is easy, problems similar to those on an SAT, I believe they actually were taken from an SAT, come to think of it, they are just checking your ability to multi-task.

I was told that on average less than 2% of the people that get to take the 2 day asssessment get recommended by the review board.

sounds like most don't have the 'chakras' to do it
 
  • #53
Evo said:
It is fun, in an aggravating way. You get interrupted while you are working on a written math problem and go and make all these changes to earlier problems and re-do the math, then just as you get back to the question you left and try to remember what you were doing, the voice tells you to start making more changes, you begin to think that you're never going to finish that problem that keeps getting interrupted. And some don't. :biggrin: You also have no calculators or scratch paper. The math is easy, problems similar to those on an SAT, I believe they actually were taken from an SAT, come to think of it, they are just checking your ability to multi-task.

I was told that on average less than 2% of the people that get to take the 2 day asssessment get recommended by the review board.


How can you get interrupted when you're thinking about a problem if you can think a million things? Just add that thinking to the millions of other things.
 
  • #54
Andre said:
Being able to intercept the final radial correcting for the wind, reducing to approach speed while leveling off, reporting the initial approach fix, call the bravo in close formation, while changing frequencies to final approach 126,15, while changing squawk to 4512
Hmmm... I never squawked, because my birds weren't transponder-equipped. It's been over 30 years since I've been in the air, so my memory is pretty screwed, but I thought that our tower frequency was 128.5, not 126.15. Also, there wasn't a separate frequency for regular control as opposed to final. Once we were down, we switched to the Ground Control channel. I can't remember what that was. You're European, though, aren't you, and currently or recently active? That might make a difference.
Also, since you reference formation flight and reporting your own fix, I assume that you are talking about your military experience. I was strictly civilian.
 
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  • #55
Evo said:
Daydreamed yes, to the point of forgetting my surroundings, no. The closest would have to be driving to work while thinking of a million other things, but I am all the while fully cognizant of what's happening on the road. It's kind of like washing dishes and watching tv at the same time. That's just doing two things at once. At my job, one of the tests for hiring consists of reading instructions, listening to and following verbal changes to the written answers you are doing and using physical objects all at the same time to see how many things you can handle at once without making mistakes and it's all timed. The test starts with doing a long list of written math problems, which I guess made some people's eyes glaze over, then a very soft monotone voice tells you if you answered "5" in problem 8 change 5 to C and replace the C in problem 10 to 5, this happens every couple of minutes and the voice only tells you what to do once, so if you miss a verbal command, you are hosed for the rest of test. No talking is allowed and you hear a lot of whispers of "what?, what are we supposed to do?" :-p It's fun. There are 2 days of psychological tests for the job. They really try to crack you. By lunch of the first day, one woman was doubled over and crying and they had to send her home. Next day, out of the 6 being tested only 3 of us showed up. It was a real eye opener, I learned a lot about myself that I did not know.

I think if that little voice did that more than once, I say, "are you sure?--and why can't and didn't YOU get it right the FIRST time?"
 
  • #56
If you consider meditation just to be another relaxation technique (like zoning out in a hot bathtub...without the water), then it makes sense that it helps relieve stress, which in turn can have health benefits. It's the "chakra" part that's the nonsense, unless they're using chakra as a synonym for stress hormones or some such.

Cyrus should write to them and tell them how much they've added to his stress rather than relieved it with such a class being offered. :biggrin:
 
  • #57
MB--having a rough day?---do you want someone to rub your chakras?
 
  • #58
rewebster said:
MB--having a rough day?---do you want someone to rub your chakras?

:-p :-p Where do the volunteers line up?
I just got back, too late to edit my previous post. I'm thinking that it was 128.6, not 128.5. Still, that was one hell of a long time ago, and I can't even remember my own home phone number. :rolleyes:
 
  • #59
MB--having a rough day?---do you want someone to rub your chakras?

"Barman! Two double vodkas, three chakra-rubs and a round of "Kundalini Awakening" for everyone!"

:-p
 
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  • #60
Too bad that we just got home from the bar, because I just realized what my next graffiti will be: 'Moonbear has awesome Chakras!'

And anybody who doesn't believe that (or still thinks that she's a he) should check out the Members Photos thread. :-p
 
  • #61
rewebster said:
MB--having a rough day?---do you want someone to rub your chakras?

:smile: Now, in that context, it all makes sense. :biggrin: Though, I'm a bit concerned about phyzmatix who seems to have three chakras in need of rubbing. :wink:
 
  • #62
Moonbear said:
:smile: Now, in that context, it all makes sense. :biggrin: Though, I'm a bit concerned about phyzmatix who seems to have three chakras in need of rubbing. :wink:

yang a-doodle!-----it's hard to tell whether he's bragging, or ying bad shape
 
  • #63
Though, I'm a bit concerned about phyzmatix who seems to have three chakras in need of rubbing.:wink:

Aye! Go big or go home, ye ken? :smile:
 

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