doubtful. research coming out of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig Germany has shown otherwise with Sufis, various hindu mystics and Zen Buddhist masters. While they do show a remarkable control over their physiology, its not at the cellular level. The single muscle unit training methods work at the level of a single muscle fiber. There's some really cool research going on at Walter Reid that's helping vets with brain trauma or significant nerve damage retrain their system using this set of techniques.
As for being able to train yourself look at what's being done with athletics right now. But generally I think it depends on what you want Personally I think its a lot of work with a minimal return for most people. As for the Douglas Adams quote, well it shows nothing. It could also be the result of Invisible Pink Unicorns, or Reds under your bed. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:38 AM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> >> Your comments about being hooked up to a heart monitor reminded me of >> one of the more interesting areas of this field, applying behavioral >> psychology to biofeedback. One cool area is single muscle unit >> training. You can train individual muscle fibers to selectively fire >> based on visual or auditory input. One fo the things this has been >> used for is to train amputees to control artificial limbs and actually >> achieve some fairly fine-grained control over the limb's movements. > > Ninjas have known this for thousands of years. ;) > >> As for the (semi-coherent) comments about what happens when the person >> is aware of the shaping. Well what do you think that a lot of >> psychotherapy is? That said, there is a lot of research that shows >> that these methods are just as effective with the person's knowledge >> that it its occurring as when there is no immediate awareness. > > Thanks. I'm nothing if not semi-something. :) > > > Maybe you can train yourself in ways most people wouldn't dream possible. > > But to what ends (manipulation-wise)? Hrm. > > I was kinda thinking about how in HHGTTG, the mice.... you know. > > Arthur thought about this for a second, and then his face cleared. > > "Ah no," he said, "I see the source of the misunderstanding now. No, > look you see, what happened was that we used to do experiments on > them. They were often used in behavioural research, Pavlov and all > that sort of stuff. So what happened was hat the mice would be set all > sorts of tests, learning to ring bells, run around mazes and things so > that the whole nature of the learning process could be examined. From > our observations of their behaviour we were able to learn all sorts of > things about our own ..." > > Arthur's voice tailed off. > > "Such subtlety ..." said Slartibartfast, "one has to admire it." > > -- > Slartibartfast: [talking about the Earth] Best laid plans of mice. > Arthur: And men. > Slartibartfast: What? > Arthur: Best laid plans of mice and men. > Slartibartfast: Oh. No, I don't think men had much to do with it. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312838 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
