Problem description:
Is it natural to be angry and upset every day?
Don't do strenuous exercise after the operation.
Seek qigong and cultivate one's morality
Analysis:
With the participation of almost all news media, Qigong is almost a household name in China. However, if you ask, "Can you answer what is Qigong?" Then many people suddenly feel confused, unclear, or mistakenly think that Qigong is to practice "Qi". On the one hand, it shows that years of publicity has not played much role in helping people understand Qigong scientifically, on the other hand, it also shows that the definition of Qigong today is difficult to understand. So, what is Qigong?
There is a passage in Huangdi Neijing, the earliest and most authoritative classic of Chinese medicine, which was written two thousand years ago: "The heart is the monarch and the god is outside." Wisdom leads to security, while health leads to longevity. If the master is unknown, twelve officials will be in danger, which is embarrassing. "This passage clearly shows that mental health, the physiological functions of the five internal organs are coordinated, and health preservation according to this law can lead to longevity; If the mind is unhealthy, the physiological functions of the internal organs will be disordered, and keeping in good health according to this law will inevitably lead to diseases and changes. From this discussion, we can clearly see that the ancients in China attached great importance to the important role of psychology in health preservation. Qigong is the concrete application and practice object of this theory.
In Huangdi Neijing, there is a well-known exposition about Qigong in today's Qigong field, the content is: "Nothing is indifferent, and the true qi follows. The spirit, the disease is always safe. " In this passage, when a person's consciousness enters a very quiet and pleasant state of nothingness, the physiological functions of various systems in the whole body will be coordinated accordingly. Long-term adherence to this exercise of eliminating distractions and relaxing psychological tension will enhance the body's immunity and disease resistance, and play a role in preventing and treating diseases. It can be seen that Qigong is an exercise method to promote the coordination of one's own physiological functions through self-psychological adjustment. Other items about Qigong in Huangdi Neijing include: keeping the spirit inside, keeping the spirit independently, expressing the spirit, realizing the spirit, doing nothing, enjoying the energy and being indifferent, focusing on nothing quickly, keeping the mind clear, keeping the mind focused, focusing on one spirit and focusing on one spirit.
The ancients not only discussed this in theory, but also closely connected with the core of psychological adjustment when creating the achievement method, achieving the perfect unity of theory and practice. Take Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty as an example: "When you close your eyes and think about it, you want to see the vitality in the air, such as Ziyun, covered with five colors, gradually reaching the top, such as rain, Chu Qing, clouds entering the mountains, penetrating the skin into the flesh, reaching the brain and gradually entering the abdomen. It moistens all the limbs and five internal organs, like water seeping into the ground. If it is thorough, you will feel a sound in your abdomen. " People who know psychological knowledge can clearly see from this discussion that this training process is actually a self-psychological adjustment process focusing on self-suggestion, focusing on self-imagination, self-concern and self-perception. In this process, "Taihe Yuan Qi" and its operation mode are also the result of self-suggestion with self-imagination content. Through this kind of imagination, you can get rid of distractions, forget your troubles, bring yourself into an artistic conception that makes you relaxed and happy, and form a beautiful psychological and emotional state, that is, Qigong enters a quiet state.
Quiet is the most important part of Qigong exercise itself, and it is also an important feature that Qigong differs from other fitness methods. Tranquility means that practitioners use focused methods to eliminate distractions, so that consciousness gradually transitions from a normal awake state to a state of "like sleeping without sleeping, like waking without waking". At this time, except that the brain knows that it is awake to practice Qigong, other parts of the brain are in a state of active rest inhibition. In qigong terminology, it is called "one thought replaces all thoughts".
Psychology calls the state of consciousness between waking and sleeping a hypnotic state. The static state of Qigong belongs to hypnosis in essence. Slightly different in form, the hypnosis caused by Qigong uses the means with the national cultural characteristics of China. A large number of laboratory research and clinical observation results show that people who practice subjectively will feel comfortable, happy and open-minded when they are in a quiet state. This beautiful emotional state fully relaxes the psychological tension. Objectively, it can be detected that this benign mental state will directly affect the functional activities of neuroendocrine, and then affect the physiological functions of various systems in the whole body to develop in a coordinated and orderly direction. Long-term adherence to qigong exercise can further repair substantive diseases such as inflammation and ulcer to some extent. This process of coordinating one's own physiological function through self-psychological adjustment, and then affecting the essence of the body, is the main mechanism for Qigong to play its role. Of course, it is also the role of Qigong in eliminating psychosomatic fatigue, enhancing immunity, strengthening body and preventing diseases, and treating psychosomatic diseases.
To sum up, Qigong is not used to practice "Qi". In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong can be defined as an exercise method to balance Yin and Yang and prevent diseases by adjusting the mind and coordinating Qi. In modern scientific language, Qigong can be defined as: Qigong is a kind of self-psychosomatic exercise method that uses self-suggestion to make consciousness enter a state of self-hypnosis, and through benign psychological adjustment, the physiological functions of various systems in the body tend to be coordinated, and even the morphological essence of lesions is repaired, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing diseases and treating diseases.