We are told that meditation is good for your mind, and that we
need sleep to form memories and to relax, regroup, and allow our bodies
to take a break. Okay, but what if I told you that you can lose weight
in your sleep too. I am sure you've already considered this thought, but
let's go to a higher place and take this conversation to a higher level
shall we?
There is a great paper to read that might be apropos to
this topic and intellectual inquiry titled; "VR Solutions for Improving
Physical Therapy," by Carlo Camporesi, Marcelo Kallmann, and Jay J. Han
published in 2013. The abstract is straight forward and simple;
"We
present new solutions based on Virtual Reality technologies for
improving the delivery of physical therapy and rehabilitation. Three
main aspects are addressed: 1) the ability to allow therapists to create
new exercises and therapy programs intuitively by direct demonstration,
2) automatic therapy delivery and monitoring with the use of an
autonomous virtual tutor that can monitor and quantitatively assess the
motions performed by the patient, and 3) networked collaborative remote
therapy sessions via connected applications dis- playing the motions of
both the therapist and the patient."
Okay so, VR physical therapy
is basically tricking your mind into healing itself, convincing your
muscles that you are doing what you intend and that your mind is
connected to the rest of your body correctly and that everything is
fine, you can even see it, thus, your body makes those connections
stronger, you retrain your biosystem to work together again, and viola,
you are whole - at least that is the goal. Well, what about dreaming.
Can you trick your mind into believing you are doing something?
Sure,
ever have dreams of flying, we all do from time to time, how about
dreams of running? Well, we are not the only species that can do that
one, watch your pets paws move while they are sleeping sometime, they
are most likely dreaming about something they do all the time, run.
Guess what? They are probably burning fat, have elevated metabolisms and
are strengthening the connections from their brain to all those
muscles, perhaps even forming muscle memory.
You can do the same
thing, just go for a run in your mind as you start to fall asleep, as
you go from lucid dreaming to sleep think about running in a particular
place, maybe around your neighborhood. This will help you burn fat
cells. How do I know? Simple, I've done it and lost weight in the
process. Please consider all this and think on it.
