Jon Smithie
Tribune
They say that stress can be harmful to your health. But that's only partly true. I say stress can be very beneficial as long as you're the one viewing it or inflicting it on someone else.
Case in point: Stress positions.
Stress positions can be very simple. Standing still can be very taxing, leading over many hours to edema, kidney failure, delusions, even death. Assuming a sitting position with back braced against a wall can become painful after just a few minutes.
Forcing someone to stand with arms raised becomes very uncomfortable in a short period of time.
How long can you stand like this?
Or like this:
Perhaps your interrogator orders you to bend over and place your hands flat on the floor. No problem. You didn't take those Yoga classes at the gym for nothing.
During questioning, still unsatisfied with your answers, he has had you spread your ankles progressively farther and farther apart.
The interrogator is giving you a crash course in "Hot" Yoga.
Yoga inspires many an interrogator. Here, a woman in the "Downward Dog" is trying to explain exactly what she was doing at the anti-government protest, and who she was with. We need names, please.
A classic stress punishment is Murga ( a Hindi word, meaning "rooster.") It was used primarily in India and Pakistan as school punishments and by the police in those countries to punish minor crimes. The arms are looped behind the knees, and the earlobes are grasped with the thumb and forefinger. There are variations: standing Murga, sitting Murga, walking Murga, and I would add sexing Murga.
Here a teacher is in standing murga after school hours for not caning the students vigorously enough
And here a young woman is placed in murga by her husband for not having the correct volume setting on the football game he was going to watch.
Please feel free to post your own favorite stress positions.
Case in point: Stress positions.
Stress positions can be very simple. Standing still can be very taxing, leading over many hours to edema, kidney failure, delusions, even death. Assuming a sitting position with back braced against a wall can become painful after just a few minutes.
Forcing someone to stand with arms raised becomes very uncomfortable in a short period of time.
How long can you stand like this?
Or like this:
Perhaps your interrogator orders you to bend over and place your hands flat on the floor. No problem. You didn't take those Yoga classes at the gym for nothing.
During questioning, still unsatisfied with your answers, he has had you spread your ankles progressively farther and farther apart.
The interrogator is giving you a crash course in "Hot" Yoga.
Yoga inspires many an interrogator. Here, a woman in the "Downward Dog" is trying to explain exactly what she was doing at the anti-government protest, and who she was with. We need names, please.
A classic stress punishment is Murga ( a Hindi word, meaning "rooster.") It was used primarily in India and Pakistan as school punishments and by the police in those countries to punish minor crimes. The arms are looped behind the knees, and the earlobes are grasped with the thumb and forefinger. There are variations: standing Murga, sitting Murga, walking Murga, and I would add sexing Murga.
Here a teacher is in standing murga after school hours for not caning the students vigorously enough
And here a young woman is placed in murga by her husband for not having the correct volume setting on the football game he was going to watch.
Please feel free to post your own favorite stress positions.