The first step in practicing posture is not to stretch tendons, but to strengthen physical strength and muscle ligaments. Many people have this experience. At the beginning of class, they often sweat all over or yawn repeatedly. This is the phenomenon of lack of physical strength. After getting used to it for a while, you won't sweat all over, but you will often feel sore all over. This is the relationship that the body tissue is not strong enough. At this level, practitioners should not force their bodies to be soft, nor should they rush to challenge positions that they can't do. They should wait until they are strong enough, and their physical strength will increase after a few months. It's hard to say how long this period will last. Some people are young and energetic and get used to it in a month or two, while others have to wait a few months. However, even if you are young enough to have more than three classes a week, you should not rush to keep up with the progress, because although you can persist for a long time, your strength is still weak, so challenging and difficult movements will hurt your health. So remember, at this stage, don't care about your actions, and don't force yourself to complete those seemingly possible actions. The focus of this stage is to strengthen physical strength and physical strength. Wait until you feel strong enough, and then proceed to the next stage of training.
The second stage of practicing posture is usually the most easily overlooked stage, that is, practicing relaxation. It's really hard to relax. Some yoga masters didn't realize how to relax until they practiced for years. Relaxation is not just the relaxation of a big break, but the relaxation of the whole class as much as possible. You should release your clumsy strength by relaxing, otherwise you will easily become a muscular bodybuilder and get hurt easily. The initial relaxation should be cultivated in the first stage of the big break. It would be a pity if you really sleep there as a rest. The real rest should be the natural relaxation of the whole body after a class, feeling tired and twisted. At this time, it is necessary to relax unless you are not tired. If you have a good experience of this kind of relaxation in the first stage and keep this feeling firmly in your mind, you can slowly explore how to relax when doing the second stage.
So in the second stage of practice, when you stay there and keep moving, because you have enough physical strength, it won't be as painful as when you are a beginner. You must learn to relax your body in this short time, not to let go of your movements, but to maintain a perfect posture with the least effort and find out the most rigid and hard parts of your body to let go.
What you need to exercise at this stage is to observe your own body. Because you want to practice relaxation, you need to find out which parts of your body are not relaxed enough. This is observation. Maybe you can only find a few parts at first, don't stop looking, and slowly you can observe more and more parts at the same time. Your heart must be like the radar on a fighter plane. The old radar can only lock one or two enemy planes for tracking at a time, while the new radar can lock multiple enemy planes at a time. When you are proficient in this kind of exercise, you can find many parts of your body that are not stiff enough to relax and learn to relax one by one. Occasionally, I met a friend who has practiced yoga for many years, but I just managed to stretch my body ligaments to the extreme in some postures. Although I have achieved my goal, my body is stiff and tight, and I often have to go to a masseur for massage after practice, so I have never found the key to relaxation.
There is a challenge at this stage, that is, you will gradually feel that you are not tired after practicing a class, as if you have never practiced, and your spirit is still full. Don't take more classes just because you don't feel enough physical stimulation and exercise. Be patient, physical changes can't be completed in a few weeks, and it's not a matter of three or two years to relax and concentrate on your studies. At this stage, you should set a good goal direction and what to do, be clear in your heart, and don't be confused.
The second stage is also a good time to start training breathing control, because you have learned how to relax your body, so you should use breathing control to internalize this relaxation into your body. There is no need to set the goal of breathing control too high, as long as it can help you relax. When you have enough relaxation power, you will gradually discover the interactive relationship between breathing and mind, and how to use breathing to help you recover from fatigue or tension, and you can enter the third stage.
Relaxation is a lifelong effort, but if you have some relaxation experience, you can enter the third stage of practice, that is, exertion.
Do you think it's strange to use force at this time? In fact, the previous exercise was also hard, but it was very different from the hard work at this stage. The efforts at this stage should be smart, and the relatively clumsy efforts before will be called clumsy efforts. China Wushu likes to use hard work to describe that this clever way of hard work is different. Clumsy exertion will make the body tired and sore, and it is easy to pull. For some people's physical characteristics, clumsy exertion will make you hungry for a big meal after a class, and it won't take long to gain muscle, which is not the same as the familiar yoga impression.
Explain further what is clumsy power? When ordinary people use muscle expansion joints, not all muscle fibers are used, so some muscle fibers need to bear most of the burden. Many times, strength is wasted in some unnecessary parts, and those parts will be strained over time, or the muscle tissue in some parts will be particularly developed. Another part of the body is a continuum, and many parts need to work together to make small movements. If you can control the parts that are used less, you call these forces clumsy forces.
So how do you turn clumsy power into real power? Remember to try to avoid the clumsy exertion just mentioned and try to use more muscles to complete the posture. Because of your relaxation, more muscle fibers will be awakened to work together, and you will know how to control excess strength. Gradually, you will find that your body is like a string of gears and chains, and your hands and feet, left and right, are transparent and don't go your own way. It's hard at first, and you will gradually get some experience, especially during a big break, and then remember that feeling in practice, and you will find that when you successfully evoke that memory, your body seems to be really liberated.
In the process of force transformation, the body may undergo qualitative changes, the cell tissue of the body will change, and the metabolism will be smoother. Some people may have a detoxification reaction, some people don't feel much, just feel better, and some people's changes will be reflected in their hearts, such as their personality becoming more calm and calm. You will find that some postures that you couldn't do before can now be done suddenly, and you can relax yourself at ordinary times. It is far more important for you to correct your physical habits and adjust your sitting posture, standing posture and daily routine during this period than to increase your exercise.
After several years of practice, the next stage began unconsciously. At this time, you may have been able to do a lot of difficult postures, or you may have to start a challenge. In any case, the focus of this stage is not how to practice, but how to practice. That is, do you know the goal of your practice? If you don't have a specific goal, as long as you keep your current practice uninterrupted, your current skills are enough for you to enjoy a healthy and happy life. You can also challenge the series of eight yoga settings and become a master of yoga posture. Or want to strengthen the practice of meditation, this time is very handy. Can further challenge Darini's awakening. Just remember that your goal determines your practice content, and the ways to achieve various goals are very different, and the practice content is also very different. Posture is the most basic exercise to help you get to a good starting point. When you look at your goal, you can run smoothly, and you will live a full and happy life in the following days.
Doing anything requires a healthy and useful physical support, and it is difficult to do anything when you are dying. It's just that many people become healthy and forget what to do. Unfortunately, I just want to do more physical behavior. The system of yoga is very rich, including compassion karma yoga, self-confident Bhakti yoga, wise genana yoga, and raja yoga, which combine the above to achieve perfection and eternity. How will these be achieved? What should I do? It depends on the practitioner's confidence and karma, and whether the foundation obtained from asana can be used depends on your gains in the first and second stages.