It can improve the flexibility of legs, ankles and buttocks, and make them soft, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of joint pain. Cross-legged movement is the most basic movement in yoga. For healthy people, practicing cross-legged exercise is beneficial to their health.

Every day before going to bed or getting up in the morning, you might as well meditate cross-legged on the bed 10 minutes, which can slow down the blood circulation in the lower body, thus increasing the blood circulation in the upper body, especially in the chest and brain.

People who start cross-legged can put a cushion about 10 cm high under the coccyx. After putting the pelvis high, the pressure on the hip and thigh muscles can be slightly reduced. Also note that if you feel your feet are swollen and numb, you'd better stand up and exercise.

Second, shortcomings.

When sitting on your knees, it's like erecting an invisible gate between your upper and lower body, and only a small amount of qi and blood can go down. People with leg and foot diseases or weak blood circulation tend to feel sore.

If you blindly pursue the time and posture of sitting, regardless of your tolerance and individual differences, it will hurt bones and muscles, cause insufficient oxygen supply to lower limbs, and even damage body tissues.

Don't practice hard at this time, relax your legs in time, supplemented by massage or walking. The qi and blood in the lower limbs will rush out like water that opens the floodgates, and it feels as if there is heat flow through the legs and feet. This process can promote blood circulation and is good for health.

Extended data:

Some people feel backache when sitting cross-legged, which shows that their legs, ankles and hips lack flexibility and need to strengthen flexibility practice. In this respect, men are often inferior to women of the same age. In addition, this may also suggest that there is too much abdominal fat, and the belly affects the action of sitting cross-legged. At this time, it is necessary to "reduce the abdomen" to the body.

You can do a self-test when sitting cross-legged on the bed or chair. Place the ankle joint of the right leg on the knee of the left leg and press it down with your hand. A healthy person's right leg can be completely flat, and there is no pain or only slight pain at the root of the thigh, and then the left and right legs are exchanged.

If the left and right feet can't be placed on the knee of the other leg at all, or there is severe pain when they are put up and pressed down, it means that there is inflammation in the hip joint or waist and you need to go to the hospital for examination.

References:

People's Daily Online-The simplest physical examination turned out to be cross-legged. Give it a try!

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People's Network-Can meditation cultivate self-cultivation and prolong life? But you need to master two "temperatures"