Sunday, November 1, 2009

There was a Reason behind the Punishment…

When I was in elementary school back in India, the school teachers used to have a number of simple techniques in their bag of tricks to control the hyper and naughty boys. We did not have co-education at that time. To us these were of course punishments.

One of the common punishments was “Kaan pakro aur utthak baithak karo” i.e. Catch your earlobes and squat down and up. Of course we hated to do it. However, doing 15 or 20 of these in a stretch used to calm down even the naughtiest kids. Recently a number of articles have been published on this exercise which is now known by its glamorous name “Super Brain Yoga”.

The following article in AARP Magazine gives a simple description of this exercise.

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/your_brain_on_exercise.html

For more details check out the links below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSs

http://www.superbrainyogatechnique.com/about%20super%20brain%20yoga.html

Decades later, as a grown up, I am voluntarily doing “Kaan pakro aur utthak baithak karo” or should I say the “The Super Brain Yoga” for three to five minutes a day to keep my brain stimulated and intact.

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