In order to obtain good practice effect, several basic conditions must be observed when practicing posture.
First of all, it is a quiet practice place.
Second, it is a relaxed mood and body.
Third, don't be rash and don't expect immediate results.
A quiet place allows us to concentrate on our bodies and achieve the purpose of yoga. A relaxed body means that the body is in an empty stomach, has no burden of digesting food, wears loose clothes, is relaxed, has no time pressure, has no worries, has no complicated emotions such as anger or sadness, and so on. In fact, you don't have to wait until you practice your posture to prepare these conditions. These are all necessary conditions for physical and mental health and harmony. As long as you keep these conditions at all times, you can always keep yourself comfortable and healthy without practicing posture. This is the so-called way of keeping in good health. People who know how to keep in good health will naturally look younger and more energetic than the average person, and they don't have to practice qigong or yoga deliberately. Those of us who can't do it for the time being have to find a way to practice yoga two or three times a week.
Practicing posture is most afraid of recklessness and excessive oppression on the body. Impatience is the biggest obstacle to progress, and excessive oppression of the body is often the main cause of injury. Personal experience is that beginners don't have to care about progress or effect. As long as you keep practicing regularly, even if you only do posture once or twice a week, you can feel obvious progress in two or three months.
Many people think that yoga is just a lot of stretching postures, which is wrong. Streaking is part of the process, not the purpose of yoga. I have seen some people overstretch before, leading to muscle ligament relaxation or physical injury, and then come back to count the advantages and disadvantages of yoga. This is their own misunderstanding, but also let the public have a wrong understanding.
The practice pose should be:
Move slowly all the way, breathe slowly (excluding the mouth), focus your sensory attention on the parts that feel sore, and take deep and exaggerated deep breaths when you relax.
Practitioners will certainly have a lot of bad postures at first, so there is no need to be impatient. Just do what you can at present, and pay attention to your physical endurance. After a few weeks, you will find that you have made great progress. After a few months, you can easily do all kinds of postures.
Relaxing the body is also a very important posture exercise. Many people don't understand what relaxation is, or have a wrong concept of relaxation. If you don't know enough about your body, you don't know if your body is really relaxed. When we practice posture, we will feel that all parts of the body, tissues, muscles and even internal organs will move in various ways. At this time, it will be more rewarding to experience relaxation, and the body will feel a relaxed state beyond the general situation. Practitioners should remember this state and review it at any time in their daily lives, and the corresponding degree of body and mind will increase dramatically.
Take a deep breath while relaxing, which can enhance the operating efficiency of the body's respiratory and circulatory system and fully send oxygen and vitality to every part of the body (you can check for yourself, how much is your cardiopulmonary function usually used? )。 Finally, at the end of posture exercises, we will do full-body relaxation exercises. For some people, this relaxation exercise is even more rewarding than doing various posture exercises.
Knowing your body is a very important topic for human beings, and protecting yourself is also the nature of all living things. For practitioners, the body is a tool and a useful companion, so we should know how to love and not destroy it.