anatomist
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Aug 9, 2001, 12:20 AM
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There are many kinds of yogic practice for different purposes. I practice yoga primarily to promote physical wholeness, injury resistance, and increased athletic capacity.
I have found pot can be useful occasionally to shake up stagnant practice in yoga and martial arts -- it confuses my mind in some ways, but it heightens it in others. Of course, in the long run, it's better to realize that highs come from your mind, not from drugs, and to migrate towards non-drug ways of getting where you need to go. I only use it a few times a year now, but when I do, it often yeilds useful experiences. Smoking all the time would certainly ruin it, though.
Categorically denying the usefulness of a drug to everyone everywhere in the name of one's own understanding of "truth" sounds like high-falutin' pretentious nonsense to me. I don't think yoga is a waste of time under any circumstance if you pursue it earnestly. Wherever you're going, you have to start from where you're at. If you're a pothead now, that's the reality, and you have to work with it. In my experience, most people with any sense of direction or purpose in life tend to lose interest in pot over time naturally, as doing it too much begins to seem like a waste of time and energy.
K.
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