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[Kagus]

A significant part of (good) yoga is meditation. Clearing the mind and either focusing on your pose, or on nothing at all. Sometimes you get the bad yoga where the instructor is entirely too obsessed with your aura and your chakras and it starts getting a little irritating, but I've had primarily good experiences.

Also a lot of breathe training in yoga, which is central to most forms of focused meditation.

[Frumple]

I mean, the purely physical side of meditation (paying attention to/keeping breathing steady, relaxing your muscles/keeping yourself from physically tensing up) you can do basically whenever -- it's about the only way I was physically able to drive through the panic/anxiety doing so induced when I started, ferex. It's harder when you have something interfering with breath and/or muscle control but that's about it. Meditation mixed with yoga or similar things is pretty bog standard.

[Yoink]

The cure is as old as civilization itself.

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[Kagus]

The cure is as old as civilization itself.

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Gotta chop the "s" off of "https"'

[Yoink]

Argh, what was that movie where, at various points throughout, this pair of Orthodox Jews (you know, with the hats and hair going on etc.) showed up to confront the main characters, (I think) due to being after the same MacGuffin or somethin'?

I know at some point they were revealed to be brothers. I think this was either an action film or some sort of crime drama, but I really barely remember it at all. I feel like I watched it recently enough that once I work it out it'll be an "Oh, duhhhh!" kind of moment.

Google and Bing are no help. Searching "orthodox jew brothers in action movie" just completely disregards half of my search terms and shovels a bunch of lefty, trendy, LGBT-themed romance drek at me that would no doubt offend the shit out of any actual Hasidic types who happened to be searching the web for movies related to their weird-ass faith.   

[scriver]

...are you referring to the Dupontes? From Tintin. They're not Hasidic though so that would explain why nothing comes up.

[Yoink]

Definitely not Thompson and Thompson, haha.   

[McTraveller]

Argh, what was that movie where, at various points throughout, this pair of Orthodox Jews (you know, with the hats and hair going on etc.) showed up to confront the main characters, (I think) due to being after the same MacGuffin or somethin'?

I know at some point they were revealed to be brothers. I think this was either an action film or some sort of crime drama, but I really barely remember it at all. I feel like I watched it recently enough that once I work it out it'll be an "Oh, duhhhh!" kind of moment.

Google and Bing are no help. Searching "orthodox jew brothers in action movie" just completely disregards half of my search terms and shovels a bunch of lefty, trendy, LGBT-themed romance drek at me that would no doubt offend the shit out of any actual Hasidic types who happened to be searching the web for movies related to their weird-ass faith.   

If the movie was black and white about a savant - perhaps it was π

Yes, that is the name of the movie - it is the Greek letter.

[Yoink]

Hmmm, I don't think it was Black and White, but I'll look that up in a minute. Thanks!


New question: what do panic attacks feel like? What are common causes for them? How frequently do they tend to occur, and how long do they last?

[scriver]

Panic attacks tens to feel like panic

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[itisnotlogical]

New question: what do panic attacks feel like? What are common causes for them? How frequently do they tend to occur, and how long do they last?

I have them once in a great while but not as often as my mother.

It feels like I can't breathe. I'm trembling and sweating. My heart is beating so fast, it feels like the blood will burst out from under my skin. My head spins and I wonder if I'm going to faint. It's horrific.

As for causes, some people have triggers and sometimes it's totally random. Sometimes my mother would work herself into one by focusing on something that bothered her, sometimes it would happen at night for no reason I could see. For me it usually happens during truly extreme stress, which I guess at that point it's not a "panic attack" so much as just regular panic.

[Arx]

The most standard thing is difficulty breathing. For me, it's been a while, but I think it was difficulty breathing, heavy sweating, and intense dizziness.

[scriver]

Apart from the panicky feeling the most memorable thing for me was feeling as if I was about to both shit and piss myself in any second.

Not very dramatic, but it's what I felt. It's kind of funny in hindsight because there I was on the bus thinking something was really fucking wrong with me and that I might die and yet the most worrisome thing was still "oh god I'm going to shit myself"

[Yoink]

Thanks for the answers, guys! It definitely didn't feel like regular, garden-variety panic, which I've been known to indulge in from time to time.
I didn't exactly take note of my heart rate but I'm sure it was quite high. The tightness of chest made my regularly scheduled anxiety attacks look like some weak shit by comparison; honestly felt like being crushed.
Dizziness may have been there, too.



Anyways, new question!
Is the classic line, "that's what she said" still funny when the that in question was actually said by a she?