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Tying yourself into incredibly painful knots

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To untangle the mind, some practitioners physically tangle their limbs into extreme, pretzel-like contortions. They believe maintaining these agonizing postures purifies the internal pathways and accelerates supreme enlightenment. It mostly just guarantees you will need an ice pack and some heavy anti-inflammatories later.

Tying yourself into incredibly painful knots
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