Advantages and disadvantages of sitting cross-legged:

I. Benefits

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.