Rock star Zheng Jun suffered from serious anxiety, depression and insomnia because of the climax of his acting career and long-term unhealthy living habits. He tried many methods to no avail. He came across yoga and chose yoga. Practice yoga for an hour or two every day, sometimes even as long as eight hours. He has been practicing yoga for nearly ten years now. He said: Yoga mediates my body and mind. Without yoga, I'm either crazy or hanged myself. Let me realize for the first time that life can still live in such a relaxed and happy state. For him, yoga is a very good way to relieve anxiety, depression and physical and mental decompression.
In the process of practicing yoga, let our inner strength become strong! So yoga can not only wake up the body, but also heal our own mind! True happiness has nothing to do with the outside world. The pleasure brought by the senses is only temporary and will eventually disappear. For example, traveling brings you such happiness. If your heart is not calm, you will feel empty immediately when you get home. You should go back to real life and face the job and boss you hate. However, if your mind is healthy, no matter how many things you have, as long as you keep mindfulness at all times, even if your body is unhealthy, you can face them optimistically and happily.
0 1 methods of awakening the body and adjusting the position of the body
Thousands of years ago, when yogis meditated and sat in the forest, they realized that animals had natural ways to treat themselves, relax themselves, sleep or stay awake. So according to the postures of these animals, we found that it is very beneficial to the body, and then created a series of physical exercise methods, called yoga postures. Because yoga postures can keep still for a period of time, can oppress glands and promote endocrine balance, it can enhance human immunity, keep the body soft, and also play a role in slimming and beautifying.
Because of obesity, Xiaoqi has no friends, no love and no job! This made her feel inferior. I once saw a successful case of losing weight through yoga practice on TV, which made her see hope. So she found a professional yoga teacher and kept practicing yoga for an hour every day. After practicing for a while, Xiaoqi began to doubt whether yoga can really lose weight. Because she thinks that the movements and postures practiced every day are too gentle and soothing to burn fat strongly. Later, under the professional explanation of the yoga instructor, she finally understood that it is not only strenuous exercise that can lose weight, but yoga poses can also have the same effect as long as the action standards are in place. Xiaoqi was deeply touched when practicing yoga flat support pose. It seems to be simply supported on the ground, but it needs to use the waist and abdomen muscles, arm muscles and back muscles to continue to exert strength. In this process, a strong sense of tension and oppression, sweat dripping from the forehead, this is the fat burning effect of yoga. After a year of persistent practice and reasonable diet, Xiaoqi finally regained her healthy weight, and not only gained the job of yoga instructor, but also gained love ~
The seemingly simple and elegant movements of posture adjustment method can not only awaken the consciousness of the body, but also make the body have a healthy memory through long-term persistence! In practice, we constantly enhance flexibility, strength and balance, so that all parts of the body develop in harmony. Improve body shape, improve body function.
02? Respiratory regulation breathing method
Pranayama is used in Sanskrit for pranayama, in which prana means "Qi of life" and ayama means "expansion". Yoga's pranayama method consciously breathes, stimulates and massages all internal organs through regular inhalation and exhalation, and then awakens the hidden energy in the body, so that it can be conditioned and promoted. In the theory of yoga, when people control the Qi of life, they can control other energies in the universe.
Once in a yoga class, I might be unable to bend forward because of the wind and backache. The yoga instructor took me to do a set of back breathing exercises. When I tried to exhale, I noticed the feeling that my abdomen contracted inward, pushing the gas to my lower back. Slowly, my waist is obviously less tense, and I can move on, which makes me sigh the magical power of breathing!
Through half a year's practice and paying attention to breathing, under the guidance of the coach, I can enter the difficult pose more stably. It is said that yoga is also an exercise of consciousness. Where there is consciousness, there will be qualitative changes in that place. Yes, pranayama is so magical, and yoga is so magical. "When you started practicing yoga, you were still a few years old." Although exaggerated, the healing effect of yoga should not be underestimated. It is a simple breathing exercise, but actually it is not breathing itself, but a way to enhance body function. The ultimate goal is to exercise concentration, enhance driving ability and improve health.
03? Heal your inner thoughts.
Yoga meditation is the most precious technique in yoga, and it is also the way to achieve meditation. The literal interpretation of meditation: ghosts are extinct. Thinking is your thinking and thinking, and meditation is to get rid of your thinking and thinking and find your perception.
In today's stressful real life, a chaotic heart can easily cause trouble, and our biggest enemy is ourselves. Regular meditation can reduce the stress of life, enhance the body's disease resistance and relieve mental stress, and has a good effect on respiratory tract, headache, stomachache, nervous system and other diseases.
My best friend Xiaoqing used to be a man who was often out of control, irritable and uncontrollable ~ a 30-year-old man, who looked nearly half a year older. After watching me practice yoga, my body and mind have changed a lot. Follow me. When she entered the practice of adjusting her mentality and thinking, her inner pressure was constantly relieved, her mood gradually calmed down, her heart became more and more peaceful and quiet, and her happiness came into being!
She said: "I'm really glad that she can find herself and regain her confidence through the practice of adjusting her mentality!" " Yoga not only helped her to ease her mood, but also improved her blood circulation and endocrine system. Her face looks 18 years old again!
Therefore, the real significance of yoga's mind-regulating thought is to completely concentrate on mind, mind and spirit at the beginning of primitive times, thus achieving a kind of self-discipline of the mind. Through careful care, it can be trained into a stable and good horse that is easy to control, and it will not be disturbed no matter what the surrounding situation is, and it can always maintain a stable, clean and calm state.
In yoga, find the direction of the inner heart; In yoga, feel the weight of life.
Meet yoga, let us meet our best self; Meeting yoga gives us more confidence and strength.
Practicing yoga is more than just learning how to hang your legs behind your back. You can catch your toes when your legs are wide open. What's more, let's always take care of our hearts and make our hearts and bodies more flexible and powerful! Wake up your body and heal your heart!
This kind of change, from the outside to the inside, finally through the change of lifestyle, at a certain moment, let us change calmly and bloom wonderfully!