in the temple many calculations were made

I need a place to retreat to every once in a while. Some people run, and in there is their 'thinking' time. It's the workout for others.
In this city life, it is impossible to retreat without physical exertion.

In Yoga, you go from "I can bend a little" to "I can bend a lot" after ,say, two-three hundred repetitions. You start within your limits and stretch, both physically and metaphorically, a little more every day, painlessly.

In Zen meditation, you sit in a place and don't move for so long that the mind decides that the body is no longer part of it, and floats away. To get to this stage, you sit through pain, whenever it arises. It is _past_ the pain that anything worthy lies.

And an interesting post tying to the previous one . I'd have said "no" cos of the dopamine spikes..

now, a link says writing by hand improves the brain.

and in case you tend to think less of the GM diet, remember that it was tested in John Hopkins U