"When I was young, I liked sports. I tried all kinds of sports: running, cycling, playing tennis, swimming ... Later, when I was old, my mentality gradually changed, and I started practicing yoga. Since then, I have never stopped because yoga can't give me anything else. "
Yoga brings some benefits to the body. Why can't other sports replace it?
1. Yoga is self-cultivation rather than competition.
Whether we like running, fitness or cycling before, we will pay special attention to the gains and losses and success or failure in the process of sports. For example, when running, I will deliberately shoot some apps on my mobile phone to record my running distance. It seems that running more proves that I am better.
When exercising and riding, I always habitually compare with others: Did I do a squat more than others? Or did you insist on riding 1 km?
When we start practicing yoga, we only need to take care of our state and breathing, and we only need to concentrate on ourselves and do what we can.
"What yoga gives us is to let go of competition and comparison, just be yourself; Other sports may be winning or losing, paying attention to winning or losing. 」
2. Yoga nourishes the spirit, not consumes it.
When the word "exercise" was mentioned before, everyone would instinctively be afraid and refused, afraid of sweating and sports injury, and refused to feel tired after exercise. Yoga is different from yoga. Yoga belongs to exercise, but it is higher than exercise.
It is easy to see from the form of yoga courses that other sports are just sports themselves. For example, if you want to run, you just need to stretch and run, such as swimming, and you can get into the water by changing your swimsuit. Yoga is different. A 60-minute yoga class includes: 10 minutes of meditation+10 minutes of warm-up +30 minutes of posture practice+10 minutes of relaxation and rest.
This is also in line with the eight lotus flowers introduced in the Yoga Sutra. The spirit of yoga includes: 1, keeping precepts; 2. Diligence; 3. Body position; 4. Adjustment of interests; 5. feeling; 6. focus; 7. meditation; 8. God decides. It's not just posture or meditation or anything. This process is not only an exercise, but also an inner spiritual cultivation, so yoga is to restore physical strength compared with other sports that only consume physical strength.
"Yoga brings us physical recovery, and we feel relaxed after practice. Other sports require physical exertion and exhaustion. 」
Yoga makes people calm, not excited.
When doing other sports, we often feel very excited, excited at first and excited at the end. This excitement may last for a long time.
People who often practice yoga should feel the same way: no matter what happens before practicing yoga, they will feel anxious and impatient. Once they get on the yoga mat and are ready to meditate, people will automatically become calm and serene. As if everything has nothing to do with this moment, the whole world is just me and my breath.
"Yoga gives me a combination of calm, body and mind and breathing, while other sports give me excitement, which is the beginning and end of staying on the surface. 」
4, the heart has yoga, you can practice anytime, anywhere.
I used to stop practicing when I was running because I couldn't go to the gym on rainy days, and I didn't go when I was swimming because I was afraid of cold water in winter. Some sports are often limited by geography and need the support of the environment.
When I started practicing yoga, I found that as long as I was calm and serene at the moment, I could spread out my yoga mat and practice at home at will.
I can also meditate quietly in the office 10 minutes to relieve stress. Since then, yoga has been integrated into my life, into my temperament, mind and body. ...
"Yoga gives me a heart that I can practice at any time, while other sports give me environmental restrictions and constraints. 」
5. Yoga is inclusive, can be integrated and can be withdrawn.
Before learning to dance, the dance teacher advised me not to run, because dancing needs softness and fluency, but running will make muscles obvious, so it is not suitable for practicing dance.
Yoga, just like the spirit it made me understand, made me learn to be tolerant, tolerant of myself and everything, and it is also an inclusive exercise.
Yoga does not conflict with other sports, and can be integrated into various sports. Since practicing yoga, my body has become soft and my bones and muscles have been pulled apart, so running is not so easy to get hurt. Yoga pays more attention to shaping and thread building, and dancing is lighter and more beautiful than before.
"Yoga gives people a feeling of tolerance and mastery. It's a pity that you can only choose one other sport. 」
"The yoga you have practiced is hidden in your temperament." As described in this sentence, yoga is not an ordinary sport, but a practice, a lifestyle and an attitude towards life.