Sufi Whirling Dervishes - A Possible Role of Pretendance of Whirling on Cortical Plasticity

Dizziness is the opposite of a meditative state. Dizziness makes you hyper aware of your body and makes it really difficult to focus your mind, right? So i found an interesting paper titled, a possible role of prolonged whirling episodes on structural plasticity in sufi whirling dervishes. And this was combining researches from new zealand, the netherlands and turkey. They use the s w d as thehe abbreviation because, again, we're talking about a level of sustained spinning that most healthy adults are not going to be able to handle without experiencing vertigo.