Man's life is the unity of spirit and flesh, and the fundamental difference between man and ordinary animals lies in his unique spiritual activity-consciousness activity. "Huai Nan Zi Dao Yuan Xun" said: "Those who are in the shape of a husband are born; Angry people are full of life; Heaven, the system of life is also. " From the perspective of the trinity of form, qi and spirit, the comprehensive exercise of health qigong is the key to distinguish it from other physical exercises. Physical exercise, manifested as the external movement of limbs, does not pay attention to the use of goodness and harmony. The characteristic of health qigong exercise lies in the active and introversion use of consciousness, which can improve and enhance people's overall function by regulating their internal potential, so as to achieve the purpose of keeping fit.
Second, the sports style is slow.
The combination of rigidity and softness is a remarkable feature of health qigong. Not only in body and movement drills, it should be relaxed, generous and gentle, but also deep, thin, even and long in breathing regulation, that is, in the use of ideas, it also requires mental relaxation, calm consciousness, light intention and seemingly nothing. This kind of rhythmic exercise with mellow movements and slow thinking embodies the characteristics of low intensity and long time threshold, which can avoid all kinds of negative effects on human physiology after high intensity exercise and is conducive to the balanced improvement of various physiological functions of the body under the condition of energy saving. The ancients said, "Being diligent is endless." Fitness Qigong is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and patients with chronic diseases because of its slow, steady and small load per unit time.
Third, the health care effect is obvious.
Health preservation, also known as health preservation, means "preventing diseases". People's physical quality and the occurrence of diseases mainly depend on the state of human function. In a certain sense, health qigong is an exercise to improve human function. For example, people's emotional fluctuation is a psychological reaction, which is generally not enough to cause diseases, but beyond the scope of psychological activities, it will cause the dysfunction of yin and yang, qi and blood and viscera in the body and cause diseases. Qigong exercises emphasize relaxing the body, balancing breathing and calming the brain. It can directly act on the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system, buffer the stimulation of bad emotions to the brain, reduce the emergency response of the brain, thus maintaining the relative stability of the internal environment of the human body, and achieving the purposes of resisting external evils, eliminating diseases and strengthening the body. As Su Wen's "Ancient Naivety" said: "Nothing is indifferent, and the true qi follows, and the spirit is included, and the disease is always safe."