<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>Please don&amp;#x27;t post shallow dismissals, flamebait, or name-calling comments to HN.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;d like to make your substantive points without those things, that would be great.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>philipwhiuk</author><text>Well that would require some critical thinking about the pseudoscience.</text></item><item><author>vmurthy</author><text>The author&amp;#x27;s blog post should come with a disclaimer :) .&lt;p&gt;A while ago I tried a few breathing techniques which were given in a nice book [0]. I really enjoyed the after-effects of the said techniques so I decided to mix and match some of them etc. The effects were awesome .. at first.&lt;p&gt;After a couple of weeks, I started feeling very low for no particular reason (no dietary changes or anything) and just downright weird. I eliminated one factor after another and checked if my energy levels were OK. I finally gave up the experiment on breathing techniques  and restarted what was in the book. I am good, now.&lt;p&gt;So.. despite a sample size of one and a trial which wasn&amp;#x27;t random or controlled (:)) ,  my advice on this whole thing : Get a qualified teacher and do what is taught. YMMV otherwise.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.in&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B07WSBS5S4&amp;#x2F;ref=kinw_myk_ro_title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.in&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B07WSBS5S4&amp;#x2F;ref=kinw_myk_ro_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My customized Wim Hof breathing method</title><url>https://ugjka.net/blog/breathwork/2022/07/30/wim-hof-breathing-customized/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mekoka</author><text>About 20 years ago people used to say the same thing about mindfulness and meditation. When looking for books at the library or bookstore, you were guided to the spiritual or esoteric section. It&amp;#x27;s been funny to see them slowly migrate to the medical one.&lt;p&gt;Today we&amp;#x27;re living something of a renaissance for psychedelics, with promises of therapeutic benefits for myriad of mental issues. At the time they were forbidden, someone came up with a breathing technique to induce the same therapeutic effects (see Stanislav Grof, holotropic breathwork), which is pretty much an offshoot of the same original techniques Wim Hof expands from.&lt;p&gt;Connect those dots with critical thinking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>philipwhiuk</author><text>Well that would require some critical thinking about the pseudoscience.</text></item><item><author>vmurthy</author><text>The author&amp;#x27;s blog post should come with a disclaimer :) .&lt;p&gt;A while ago I tried a few breathing techniques which were given in a nice book [0]. I really enjoyed the after-effects of the said techniques so I decided to mix and match some of them etc. The effects were awesome .. at first.&lt;p&gt;After a couple of weeks, I started feeling very low for no particular reason (no dietary changes or anything) and just downright weird. I eliminated one factor after another and checked if my energy levels were OK. I finally gave up the experiment on breathing techniques  and restarted what was in the book. I am good, now.&lt;p&gt;So.. despite a sample size of one and a trial which wasn&amp;#x27;t random or controlled (:)) ,  my advice on this whole thing : Get a qualified teacher and do what is taught. YMMV otherwise.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.in&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B07WSBS5S4&amp;#x2F;ref=kinw_myk_ro_title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.in&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B07WSBS5S4&amp;#x2F;ref=kinw_myk_ro_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My customized Wim Hof breathing method</title><url>https://ugjka.net/blog/breathwork/2022/07/30/wim-hof-breathing-customized/</url></story>