Insomnia, in general.
Countless nights, you lie in bed, ready to "visit the Duke of Zhou", but your mind keeps replaying all kinds of annoying things and bad people during the day like a movie. ...
How can you sleep when your body is at night and your spirit is still in the daytime?
So, in order to have a good sleep, you have to keep your body and mind at night.
In ancient China, there was a strange man named Chen Tuan. Yes, the legendary Taoist priest who lived in seclusion in Huashan and played chess with Song Taizu.
Chen Tuan studied sleep all his life and lived to be 1 18 years old. Not only is he a good sleeper, but he also wrote a book called Sleeping Classics.
Chen Tuan Fuyouzi was a Taoist academic master at the end of the Five Dynasties and the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty. Because of his high cultivation in the fields of Taoist health, practice and learning, he was honored as "the founder of Chen Tuan" and "the sleeping fairy" by later generations.
It is said that the bodhi old zu in Chen Tuan sleeps for a month at least, and for three months, six months or even a year at most. For him, sleeping is not only a kind of rest, but also a way of practice. Like a martial arts expert who meditates in seclusion, he practices lying posture, replenishes energy and exercises his mind.
Sleeping Sutra, like Huangdi Neijing, is a classic of Taoist health preservation. Among them, the first sentence can be called the eternal famous prescription for treating insomnia: "Mind first, eyes later, form and spirit empty."
What do you mean? In other words, when you sleep, you should "sleep first, then sleep", clean up the bad mood and bad thoughts, and your body and mind are empty, and then you can fall asleep naturally with your eyes closed.
Think about it, sometimes, your upper and lower eyelids are too sleepy to sleep. Isn't it because there are things in my heart that my mind is in a mess when I close my eyes?
Sleeping is like turning off the computer, the monitor (eyes) is turned off, and the background program (heart) is still running, that is, it is not turned off.
In fact, many times, what is more tormenting than insomnia is the fear of insomnia.
If you pay close attention, you will find that many people with insomnia will have some anxiety to some extent.
A small part of this anxiety is emotional disorder caused by lack of sleep, and more is the worry about insomnia itself.
I suffered from insomnia a few years ago. At that time, it was often before evening, and I began to worry: after all, I might lose sleep today. What if I can't sleep?
The more I think about it, the more anxious I am, and the more anxious I am, the more I can't sleep.
Until I read the story of Samuel Ann Termel, a famous American lawyer, on the Internet.
Insomnia and asthma have been bothering Ann Termel since she went to college. At first, he tried many methods, but none of them worked. He often can't sleep all night and is in poor health.
Later, he gave up his struggle and stopped sleeping when he couldn't sleep. He decided not to worry about insomnia, but also to spend all other people's sleeping time working and studying, and soon became an internationally renowned barrister.
2 1 year, the annual salary is as high as $75,000. 193 1 year, he got a fee of 1 ten thousand dollars in a lawsuit, which set a record for the lawyer's income in history.
It is said that Ann Termel hardly slept a day in her life, but she lived to 8 1 year, and achieved several times more achievements than ordinary people.
Since then, whenever I have insomnia, I will think:
I haven't slept well all my life, but I still have a good life. What's the effect of staying up all night? Tomorrow at most, I will be confused, with dark circles under my eyes, which seems to be no big deal ... If I think so, the whole person will relax a lot and fall asleep slowly.
You see, not afraid of insomnia is the first step to treat insomnia. When you don't force yourself to sleep, it may not threaten you.
Although insomnia is not a big deal, its harm can not be ignored. Rough and dull skin, depression, hypertension, stroke and heart disease are all related to insomnia.
And in the dead of night, the taste of "everyone is asleep and I wake up alone" is really hard.
Qian Zhongshu said in Fortress Besieged: Sleep has quirks. You don't want it, it will come. Invite it, coax it, try every means to seduce it, and it will hide without a trace. Insomnia is like a little monster, it won't eat you up, but it will upset you, make life boring and reduce work efficiency.
Therefore, to treat insomnia, we should despise it tactically, attach importance to it strategically, adjust it as soon as possible, and adjust it as early as possible.
In the treatment of insomnia, there is a saying: understand its reason and treat its root.
Chinese medicine believes that everything in heaven and earth is divided into yin and yang. People live between heaven and earth, and the circulation of qi in human body is also connected with heaven and earth.
Yin dominates stillness, which is a tangible substance. Yang initiative is strength and energy. Only under the promotion and warmth of Yin can it play its role and nourish the whole body, including our spirit and emotions.
Most people with insomnia and anxiety are, yin and yang are misplaced, and yang does not enter yin.
It is manifested in the functions of viscera, mainly: heart, kidney, liver and gallbladder disorders;
1. Heart-kidney disharmony (restless day and night)
2. Stagnation of liver qi (red eyes all day)
3. Lack of bile (insomnia is easy to shock, and people will be surprised)
4. liver blood deficiency (insomnia, MUBI, easy shock)
To treat insomnia, it is necessary to lead yang into yin, lead fire downward, lead yin into yang, and intersect heart and kidney, so as to be endless and endless.
Generally speaking, there are two reasons for insomnia, one is psychological and the other is physiological.
Young people, mostly at the psychological level. Old people usually have both.
Some time ago, there was a big sister who came to the studio for consultation. She has been suffering from severe insomnia for more than ten years. When she is well, she can sleep for an hour or two at night. When it's bad, I can't sleep well all night, always half asleep and half awake.
Because of long-term insomnia, she looks particularly listless, yawns all the time and has a particularly bad temper. She is a little unhappy and wants to get angry.
The first time I saw her, I knew she was menopausal, with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity.
After further discussion, it was found that she still had a heart attack. My son is in his early 30 s and hasn't found a good partner yet. Lying in bed every night, she is worried about her child's marriage. The more worried she is, the more agitated she is, and the more she can't sleep well.
Later, I recommended a method. After using it, the elder sister can sleep for 5 or 6 hours a night on average.
This method is also simple. Use traditional Chinese medicines such as Evodia rutaecarpa, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Cortex Cinnamomi, etc. Crushing and blending, sleeping at navel and Zuyongquan point at night can lead to fire falling, astringe yin and tonify kidney, concentrate on the heart of upper jiao, blend with the kidney of middle jiao, soothe the nerves and help sleep.
After her sleep returned to normal, my sister felt much better and less anxious. During the Spring Festival, there are still many people who want to introduce her son.
In fact, body and emotion are interlinked. A balanced body of yin and yang and a peaceful and positive attitude will naturally attract good people and deeds. Big sister herself thinks that a good sleep can even bring good luck.
On sleeping, Chen Tuan's bodhi old zu also wrote a poem: "The Supreme Man has no dreams, and dreams are immortals. Real people have no sleep, and sleep is a cloud. There is joy in the stove and another day in the pot. If you want to know that in your sleep, the world is the first mystery. "
Supreme, true, holy and virtuous are the four realms defined by Huangdi Neijing for human beings.
For people, being with heaven and earth, sleeping is like wandering around the world like a fairy.
A real man is a master who knows the origin of the universe and life. Sleeping is like floating on a sea of clouds and auspicious winds.
For people who can really keep in good health, sleeping is also a kind of practice. Anyone who can sleep is not too bad luck.