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Posted by linkadge on January 14, 2006, at 15:43:14
Get a really strong stationary magnet, such as one found from a mid-range speaker, and rub it over your head very rapidly for about 20 minautes.
Positive effects on mood, though, most of you probably won't bother (it is a workout).
Linkadge
Posted by mako23 on January 15, 2006, at 12:54:29
In reply to Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by linkadge on January 14, 2006, at 15:43:14
Linkadge
Is there anything you haven't tried :)
Posted by linkadge on January 15, 2006, at 13:14:17
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by mako23 on January 15, 2006, at 12:54:29
No seriously, this one has effect.
But to answer your second question.....no :(
Linkadge
Posted by Iansf on January 15, 2006, at 18:20:35
In reply to Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by linkadge on January 14, 2006, at 15:43:14
> Get a really strong stationary magnet, such as one found from a mid-range speaker, and rub it over your head very rapidly for about 20 minautes.
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> Positive effects on mood, though, most of you probably won't bother (it is a workout).
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>What exactly is a stationary magnet, as opposed to a standard one? And where can you get one, other than by cannibalizing your sound system? Thanks.
John
Posted by linkadge on January 15, 2006, at 19:47:11
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by Iansf on January 15, 2006, at 18:20:35
Stationary as in not an electromagnet.
You can usually get some smaller rectangular ones at a hardware store. You can stick a few of them together. Its cheap, and I really do think it has an effect.
I rub it over the left prefrontal cortex. If I do it long enough, I can actually feel some movement inside my head. I feel something at the back of my head slowly pull forward, kind of hard to explain.
Linkadge
Posted by fairywings on January 15, 2006, at 21:08:08
In reply to Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by linkadge on January 14, 2006, at 15:43:14
Hey link you're in the UK, right? If so, in the US they're called medical magnets, but I think they are the same kind you find in stereos - neodymium magnets I think.
For a long time I used a pad with about 20 small neodymiun magnets for back pain, worked wonders! I couldn't sleep w/o it. I think the magnets were maybe 5,000 gauss each.
I've had shoe insoles - the expensive ones work. I have two very small about peas sized magnets that are 5,000 guass each (I think), and once I made the mistake of messing around and trying to clip one on the front of my ear and one on the back, BIG mistake! I also have two quarter sized magnets,they are so strong that if I put them together it takes all my strength and something strong to pry them apart. I think those are 15,000 gauss.
Our vet sells Nikken magnets. They are good magnets, you can count on their quality, but they're expensive, and if anyone's interested, you don't have to pay that much.
Some ppl are skeptical, but I say don't knock it till you've tried it. I haven't tried the head thing though.
fw
Posted by linkadge on January 16, 2006, at 9:49:56
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head. » linkadge, posted by fairywings on January 15, 2006, at 21:08:08
This is the way I see it. You can use a rTMS machiene to illicit changes in mood.
We also know that powerful stationary magnets can do many of the same things as electromagnets if motion is created.
Generators work by creating movement with stationary magnets.
I say give it a try, seems to help me.
Maybe its just the process, but I feel myself relaxing and calming down the more i do it.
Linkadge
Posted by robot on January 16, 2006, at 16:43:47
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by linkadge on January 16, 2006, at 9:49:56
THanks, linkadge. Ill try it. I will say that I suspect some of the effect is from focusing your attention on your brain (or the workout itself). Ive found that concentrating on parts of my brain can slightly change my mood, like breathing into the right side of my brain has made me more receptive to music. But Im not sure how dependent it even is, at least in short amounts of time, on focusing on a part of the brain rather than the whole brain.
I would be curious to see if focusing your mind on you left prefrontal cortex would get an effect similar to the magnet.
Ive been interested in brain-focusing, for lack of a better term, for awhile but I cant find good information on it. I have read about some great results from breathing into your amygdala.
Posted by mako23 on January 16, 2006, at 17:35:44
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by robot on January 16, 2006, at 16:43:47
Ok I have to ask this
What dose breathing into your amygdala mean ??
Posted by linkadge on January 16, 2006, at 21:07:39
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by robot on January 16, 2006, at 16:43:47
I can always feel inside myhead. I feel motion inside my head like a swirling ocean.
When I took ritalin for instance, I could feel like a pulling towards the front of my head, I could demonstrate the motion with my hands.
Linkadge
Posted by Spector on January 16, 2006, at 23:19:08
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by robot on January 16, 2006, at 16:43:47
Neurofedback is supposed to be so promising for doing things just like this -- focusing of "retraining" wave patterns in parts of the brain where the patterns seem to be causing distress. I did neurofeedback for five bloody months for a severe depression with crippling terror. For a good part of that time we focused on exercises designed to try to "calm down" the amygdala. So promising. And some researchers have gotten seemingly impressive clinical results. But for me it was a devastating dead end. Has ANYONE on here tried neurofeedback with any success?????
Posted by robot on January 17, 2006, at 23:25:11
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by mako23 on January 16, 2006, at 17:35:44
> Ok I have to ask this
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> What dose breathing into your amygdala mean ??The amygdala are little almond-sized nodes behind your eyes and an inch or 2 inside your temples, or something like that, and they play a big role in emotion. 'Breathing into'-meditators call it that when you use your imagination to pretend you are directing energy from your breath into some area of your body.
Sorry for the vagueness.
I like experimenting with it. Have had some subtle effects.
Posted by robot on January 17, 2006, at 23:32:21
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by linkadge on January 16, 2006, at 21:07:39
Thats really awesome. I wish I had that perceptual sensitivity. Have you tried to cause that kind of activity through intent?
Sometimes when Ive meditated Ive spontaneously felt tingling/pressure around my third eye, and Ive also felt a bit up on the crown of my head (supposed to be the doorway to god and our future self).> I can always feel inside myhead. I feel motion inside my head like a swirling ocean.
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Posted by linkadge on January 18, 2006, at 18:36:19
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by robot on January 17, 2006, at 23:32:21
It all started out as a vague headache. I would feel strange pressures in certain areas. Somtimes my brain would itch, and it would drive me mad!
It never really donned on me that it was abnormal. I really dont know when it started.
When my mood is fine, my head seems transperent. It's ususally when I feel awefull that I have all this strange activity inside.
It's really weird. It could be a perceptual disorder. But I think it almost fits into a spectrum of migrane.
Linkadge
Posted by linkadge on January 18, 2006, at 18:36:59
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by robot on January 17, 2006, at 23:32:21
Third eye ? Can you explain ?
Linkadge
Posted by rovers95 on March 1, 2016, at 10:18:02
In reply to Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by linkadge on January 14, 2006, at 15:43:14
> Get a really strong stationary magnet, such as one found from a mid-range speaker, and rub it over your head very rapidly for about 20 minautes.
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Do you still do this? How effective is it?
Cheers
Rover
Posted by rovers95 on March 1, 2016, at 10:18:57
In reply to Re: Rub a stationary magnet over your head., posted by rovers95 on March 1, 2016, at 10:18:02
> > Get a really strong stationary magnet, such as one found from a mid-range speaker, and rub it over your head very rapidly for about 20 minautes.
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> RoverSorry should have included your name in the title!
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