Re: Please Help Me - Very Strange Holistic Technique!

Lou Stein <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:cL2dnXiBfby88LfZnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

I'd like some help naming this very strange alternative health
technique. I attended the Omega Institute about 20 years ago and
there was this guy there advocating a very strange exercise. I never
got to take his class but the intro discussion was something like
this:

Some doctor/practitioner in Germany (swedish? swiss? somewhere
else?) discovered a technique of contracting your voluntary sphincter
muscles (eyes, mouth, anus) all at the same time over and over (I
think it was like, one contraction per second or two). What this
would do, supposedly, is trigger the brain to continue these
contractions and I think it would synchronize with your involuntary
sphincter muscles and perhaps other skelatal muscular contractions.
I think he said you get to experience a full body workout while your
mind
disassociates from your body. This supposedly promotes improved
physical and mental health. I think he characterized it as an induced
seizure.

I'm not sure about all the facts, but it was definitely a synchronized
voluntary sphincter muscle contraction exercise that caused one to go
into some altered state of consciousness to get a physical workout
while somehow freeing the mind.

Anyone know anything more about this strange modality?

Exercises involving the voluntary contraction of certain sphincter
muscles (which, unless I'm badly wrong, aren't present in the mouth or
the eyes) are commonly called "Kegel exercises" and are, as far as I
know, quite effective in reducting post-partum incontinence in women and
(though there's less evidence) increasing orgasmic intensity in men. I
know of no evidence to support claims beyond those.
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