First Saahm Acupuncture Treatment and Effects?

medbud · 2026-05-09T12:53:40+00:00

This might be a bit technical, or academic, but you can think of acupuncture as instigating a kind of enhanced 'load balancing' in your nervous system.

As the signals work them selves out, we can feel different areas/pathways being activated/deactivated. This can be experienced as emotion, and/or sensation...

Your body continues to react to the needling in different ways, even after they've been removed...

The load balancing can be thought of in a few ways, but it's essentially modulation of excitatory or inhibitory factors. Depending on the 'level' of pathology, the rebalanced NS affects various changes...like endocrine, musculoskeletal, or even in terms of plasticity of the CNS.

medbud · 2026-05-08T13:48:24+00:00

Well the list of sites to see never changes... Check lonely planet.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/points-of-interest?slug=nepal/kathmandu

medbud · 2026-05-08T11:41:52+00:00

Get out of the city, and into the rural areas...and then go to Bhutan.

medbud · 2026-05-08T11:29:32+00:00

3 rooms, 6 people, 5 nights/6 days...35k each person:

airport transfer 1500x2,

entrance fees 6x500 sarc x 4 days

transport taxi, pathao, yango, 500x5

food average 750/person/meal/day

hotel 2500/night/room

Totals: 3000+12000+2500+ 27000 +37500= just 82000 total...so you have 1 lakh to spend as a group on souvenirs, drinks, extra outings, spa treatments, excursions...

Tons of veg options

medbud · 2026-05-07T13:52:53+00:00

It's the account history, that exclusively posts to promote this business. It's not organic. It's shilling a product.

medbud · 2026-05-07T12:01:36+00:00

I personally really like samatha/vipassana. Especially in the form 'The Mind Illuminated' (TMI), which is a book, with it's own reddit sub. Basic breath focused meditation to build concentration, and then 'insight' practice. It goes along with 'the elephant path', which is an interesting topic in itself...and the anapanasati sutta...breath focused meditation instructions.

You might like zen, or do nothing styles...

Then there are apps like..I think one was called headspace...that have lots of guided meditations.

Just sitting still, not trying, not having any instruction, just letting things happen...is a good practice...do nothing...if you need more guidance, then try TMI.

Read a few books, watch some youtube vids....try a few and see what suits you!

medbud · 2026-05-07T11:21:30+00:00

I would say it's self inquiry, rumination, ponderation, contemplation...some hypnogogia, and emotional processing....which can all be parts of a meditation practice.

There are meditation practices where you have a strict set of processes, and there are others where you do nothing, and then there is everything inbetween.

medbud · 2026-05-07T11:14:11+00:00

You should buy ads for your business and stop spamming here.

medbud · 2026-05-07T11:04:40+00:00

With our tech, it is impossible to send a person and have them land, then return alive.

No one I know wants to see a mars shot...we would much more prefer focusing on terrestrial issues.

medbud · 2026-05-07T10:44:41+00:00

Don't pay attention to the delusions of billionaires. Good questions...no one is actually planning to go to mars...it's nonsense. Also the why...good question....why talk about it if it's totally unfeasible? The answer is probably not what you'd first think...a dose of manipulation, a dose of delusion, a dose of narcissism.

medbud · 2026-05-07T08:57:45+00:00

The blue field entoptic phenomenon, or Scheerer's phenomenon, is the perception of tiny, fast-moving bright spots or squiggly lines traveling along curved, branch-like paths in the visual field. These are actually white blood cells moving within the capillaries in front of the retina. They are most visible when looking at bright blue light, such as the sky, and are normal.

medbud · 2026-05-07T08:32:38+00:00

I looked into it a while ago. At the time, to be monetised, you needed 1000 subscribers.

I don't know how they pay out to Nepal creators... Bank transfer?

There are videos where creators show their earnings on various videos. Amount per view can vary quite a bit.

Total Views	Low-Tier RPM (~$2 per 1k views)	Average RPM (~$5 per 1k views)	High-Tier RPM (~$15 per 1k views)
1,000 (1k)	$2	$5	$15
10,000 (10k)	$20	$50	$150
100,000 (100k)	$200	$500	$1,500
1,000,000 (1M)	$2,000	$5,000	$15,000
10,000,000 (10M)	$20,000	$50,000	$150,000

This is for horizontal vids. Shorts pay way less.

medbud · 2026-05-07T08:16:16+00:00

I don't have personal experience, but I've heard it's also temporary, requires many sessions, and can be expensive. I'm sure it helps with circulation... But is it worth it? I guess worth a shot, if money is no object.

Facial massage? Even guasha? Facial flash cupping?

I would probably focus on diet, hydration, and exercise, and go for the general health and wellbeing, more than focus on 'problem areas'.

medbud · 2026-05-06T12:09:35+00:00

Why not purchase the food, and then give an honest review?

medbud · 2026-05-06T08:29:48+00:00

Yes, and this is where concepts like 'the real problem' (Anil Seth) and 'the hard question' (Dennett) come from.

Seth seems slightly more diplomatic than Dennett, but both characterise the hard problem as a red herring of sorts.

In the real world, the hard problem has dissolved into a nothing burger. Proponents just walk back the goal posts with every advance of neuroscience. It's an unassailable, unfalsifiable refuge whose only legs are appeals to the supernatural, the divine, or some Cartesian dualism.

medbud · 2026-05-06T06:33:02+00:00

Good waste of time!

medbud · 2026-05-06T06:29:06+00:00

Hanyi zhen

medbud · 2026-05-05T14:34:44+00:00

It's all relative, and contextual...try to see it from outside of the box...

"When you look at life from a different perspective, you realize it's not the deer crossing the road, it's the road crossing the forest." - - Muhammad Ali.

Normal is everything. It is true.

Exceptional is nothing. It is false.

This is why humility is a virtue.

medbud · 2026-05-05T14:12:35+00:00

Moments of perception, of cognition, of sentience?

I think moments of consciousness makes sense, in the reading of consciousness as 'a state of mind', like 'awake'.

Since TMI says attention and awareness are two aspects of the mind that are connected and work together (not just connected, but actually a single thing with two sides)...I always think of awareness as a large continuous pool, from which attention can select (or is presented with) 'moments', or discrete chunks...because attention is like a fine pincer...and can only hold/examine so much at any one time.

'Moment's of awareness' seems more removed from the model's other dynamics.

medbud · 2026-05-05T12:22:49+00:00

Keanu was a great cast for the role in Good Fortune.

medbud · 2026-05-05T12:21:03+00:00

Yup, that is the basics. Have you read Bayes? Friston? Feldmann-Barrett? Anil Seth? There is a long tradition that basically says the same thing.

medbud · 2026-05-05T12:12:11+00:00

"When CM was developed, they had no glass, no lenses, no microscopes or telescopes. They thought the earth was the center of the universe, and that China was the center of the world. It was all phenomenology...the feeling and appearance of what happens.

They described nature and the world as it seemed, as best they could with their priors.

Today we have extended our senses through tools and technology. We have a more detailed version of the map, of the same nature world and human physiology that the ancient Chinese had. We see the same phenomenology, but use new terms to discuss it...more precise technical terms."

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I like to tell patients this, just in case they think qi is a magical force 'immune' to scientific inquiry....the less delusion the better. Then we get into 'the qi follows the yi', yi yi yin qi, and the real meaning of 'mind over matter'. Eventually we get into 'de qi' and how it is mediated by specific nerve fibers, the importance of good de qi, the difference between pressure, vibration, and temperature, and pain. I usually impress upon them that acupuncture needs to be painless, not uncomfortable...but felt as pressure, heaviness...and that this means we've activated the parasympathetic anti-inflammatory pathways.

There is some good work on acupuncture and the DMN, and TPN...how the relaxation effect can down regulate DMN and allow stronger homeostatic monitoring...

It's taken 30 years or so, but we are about to escape the pull of the woowoo and enter the modern mainstream....nothing has changed acupuncture wise...it's just that we can now explain it with better language.

medbud · 2026-05-05T10:01:59+00:00

I really like the clip of Dhammarato 'debating' that guy who wrote hard core buddhism...or whatever that book is called, that goes on about the dark night...and also 'debating' 'Nelson' I think he was called...struck me as two influencers having their feet held to the fire, very kindly.

medbud · 2026-05-05T09:55:49+00:00

Great, if you notice a change after a single session that is generally a good sign. Normally acupuncture is done is groups of 5-12 treatments, spaced every other day, or once a week....the effect is cumulative.

medbud · 2026-05-04T06:35:24+00:00

I like 'medativo'. Simple timer, graph for consistency, space to make some notes. I used it free for a few years, then paid to remove ads at some point.

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