Yawning and stretching is a common phenomenon in people's daily life. Most people stretch involuntarily, but they feel that after stretching, the tight muscles relax and the groggy brain seems to be awake. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, stretching is beneficial to people's health, while unconscious stretching is just a way for the body to instinctively regulate qi and blood. Let's take a look at the fitness truth contained in this little gesture of stretching.

Stretch and massage the whole body. If we carefully observe the stretching action, we will find that it is formed by many actions. First, raise your head, extend your cervical spine backward, then expand your chest with breathing, lift your arms up and extend, and stretch your waist with the traction of your upper body. Many people's legs have also been stretched. Such a small gesture, seemingly simple, is actually stretching and exercising from top to bottom.

People usually curl many parts of muscles and tendons because of incorrect posture. By stretching, these curled-up parts will get a stretch, which is equivalent to massage, so regular stretching will definitely promote the health of the body.

Stretching bones and muscles, dredging qi and blood, is helpful to keep healthy. Chinese medicine believes that poor qi and blood is the source of all diseases. From the point of view of modern medicine, it is that the blood circulation is not good, and the oxygen carried by blood can not be supplied to all parts of the body in time, nor can it take away the garbage produced by metabolism in time, which will inevitably damage the health of various systems and organizations.

From the appearance, stretching is the stretching of muscles and bones, but from the aspect of qi and blood operation, it is the best behavior to dredge qi and blood. When stretching, the Du Meridian in the back and Ren Meridian in the chest are stimulated. These two meridians are important channels for human qi and blood circulation. If they are unblocked, they will promote the blood circulation of other meridians. After a long time, they will play a fitness role that drugs can't achieve and promote human health.

The stretching effect with breathing is better. Stretching is generally a spontaneous behavior of people. When the body feels tired, it will unconsciously make stretching movements, which will make blood circulation and help to quickly eliminate fatigue. If you want to stay healthy, you should take the initiative to do some stretching exercises and cooperate with active breathing. While stretching slowly, you should take a deep breath, bulge your abdomen, relax after a pause, exhale slowly, and so on.