Legend has it that some people became saints and some became practitioners on the 8000-meter-high Notre Dame in ancient India.
They passed on the secret of cultivation to interested pursuers, which has been passed down to this day.
At first, there were only a few yogis, who usually practiced in temples, country cottages, Himalayan caves and dense forest centers, and were taught by yogis to those disciples who were willing to accept them. Later, yoga gradually spread among ordinary people in India. Today's yoga has been a practice of human science summed up by the Indian people for thousands of years, and it is no longer the only secret confined to a few hermits. At present, yoga has been widely spread all over the world. There are many schools specializing in yoga in India.
Yoga has an extremely complete set of practice methods from body to mind. Today's yoga is not only in the category of philosophy and religion, but also has a broader meaning, enduring and powerful vitality.
When yoga practitioners enter the deepest realm in deep meditation, they will awaken the self-nature of life and the perfect realm of life, thus obtaining the combination of individual consciousness and universal consciousness, awakening the inner sleeping energy, and obtaining the highest enlightenment and the greatest pleasure.
The word yoga comes from Sanskrit transliteration, which means combination and connection. This is also the purpose and purpose of yoga, and it is the meaning of concentration for meditation. But what is the "combination" with what? Yoga actually refers to the "combination" of human instinct from low to high. Similarly, it can also be "combination" or self-combination from high to low. This also means freeing yourself from pain and disaster, just like the highest universal spirit.
The practice method of yoga can concentrate the scattered spirit and calm it down. Yoga practice pays attention to physical strength first, and then requires the unity of body and mind. On this basis, guide practitioners into the realm of perfection. In the process of yoga practice, practitioners gradually deepen the inner spirit, from the outside to the inside, from feeling, rationality to consciousness, and finally grasp the integration of self and inner spirit to achieve the unity of heaven and man.
Yoga makes people move from ignorance to wisdom. Because of ignorance in daily life, people have anxiety and pain, which makes people suffer from many diseases. Through the practice of yoga, people's ignorance can be turned into wisdom, and diseases can be cured from now on, and their body and mind are healthier year by year.
The way of yoga is to wake up from ignorance and illusion and let the spiritual light dominate you.
The principles and suggestions put forward by yoga theory can not only help patients recover, but also make people healthier.
Yoga theory opposes imposition. It advocates that untested things cannot be trusted, including yoga itself. When learning yoga, you must experience it by yourself. It is to let practitioners try voluntarily, choose several postures, and judge yoga after practicing for one or two months.
Yoga practice method is divided into eight stages:
Ethics: Morality comes first. Without morality, you can't practice martial arts. We must be guided by virtue, which is the mother of success and the source of virtue. The basic contents of yoga morality: non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, abstinence and no desire. This is the first moral standard that yoga requires practitioners to abide by.
Self-purification inside and outside. External purification is to correct behavior habits and strive for the surrounding environment of plum blossom, while internal purification is to eradicate six bad habits: lust, anger, greed, madness, delusion, malice and jealousy.
Posture method is a posture exercise, which can purify, protect and treat the body and mind. There are countless kinds of postures, which have a good effect on muscles, digestive organs, glands, nervous system and other tissues of the body. Not only improve physical quality, but also improve psychological quality, so as to balance body and mind.
Breathe. It refers to consciously prolonging the time of inhalation, breath holding and exhalation. Inhaling is the action of receiving cosmic energy, holding your breath is the action of activating cosmic energy, and exhaling is the action of removing all thoughts and emotions, and at the same time eliminating waste gas and polluted air in the body, so as to stabilize the body and mind.
To control spiritual feelings, the spirit is in two contradictory activities at any time. Desire and emotion are intertwined, followed by self-related activities. To control one's psychological feelings is to suppress one's desires and calm one's feelings.
Focus on one point or one thing, so as to calm your mind.
Meditation and rest. It's hard to describe only through actual experience.
The yogi enters the state of "forgetting me", that is, he is unaware of his physical breathing, self-spirit and intellectual existence. Into an infinitely vast peaceful world.
The combination of the above eight stages forms yoga.
These eight stages are realized in four steps.
1 and 2 stages are the ideological basis and preparation.
The third and fourth stages are physical training, and the purpose of getting rid of illness and strengthening the body is achieved through various posture training.
In the fifth and sixth stages, the initial meditation and static exercises are carried out.
The latter two stages are high-level practice, meditation and meditation.
Breathing method
Breathing is the most important function of human beings, but people know little about breathing and often breathe in an incorrect way. In our daily life, due to human factors, our breathing is generally random and irregular. Most people breathe shallowly and irregularly, which violates the natural rhythm of the human respiratory system. In this way, the body can't absorb enough cosmic energy, the nervous system is gradually damaged, and the endocrine system can't function normally. As a result, the body began to lose strength and vitality, leading to frequent fatigue and depression.
People's physical condition depends largely on the regularity of breathing, and even the way of breathing can highly reflect a person's mood. When people are upset, such as depression, sadness or depression, their breathing will become slow and irregular. When angry, anxious and nervous, breathing becomes rapid, superficial and chaotic. Persistent irregular breathing not only damages the nervous system, but also hinders the inherent function of endocrine, eventually making the body weak.
Breathing changes with age, and the older you get, the shallower your breath is. Because we never take the initiative to care about our breathing. How important deep breathing is to health. It can make your mind flexible, energetic and feel younger and younger. Ordinary people breathe 65,438+05-65,438+06 times per minute, 5-6 times during meditation, and practice 65,438+0-2 times per minute properly, even breathing slightly like turtles and snakes without consuming energy.
Yoga believes that there is a certain limit to the amount of breathing in a person's life. People who are short of breath must die young. On the contrary, people who breathe slowly, like people who taste the air, can live a long life. For example, grumpy monkeys breathe very fast and don't live long, while cranes and turtles breathe slowly and gently and live long. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a thousand-year-old crane is a thousand-year-old turtle, which shows that slow breathing is the key to longevity.
Adjusting breathing is the basic factor of our survival and the necessary foundation of health. Sucking enough cosmic energy into the lungs and supplying it to the body can promote the blood circulation of the heart. The blood flow of money transports energy to all parts of the body. Therefore, if you want to live forever, the secret is to make your breath naturally long.
There are usually three ways of breathing: chest breathing, abdominal breathing and controlled breathing. Most people breathe in the chest (that is, shallow breathing), which makes it a chest exercise. Abdominal breathing is the downward movement of diaphragm, and practicing breathing should be our way of survival.
Diaphragm breathing exercise
You can take any posture, such as lying on your back, sitting still or standing. When lying flat or standing, your feet are moderately separated, your eyes are lightly closed, one hand is placed on your chest and the other hand is placed above your abdomen. So as to feel the activities of diaphragm and abdominal muscles.
Then inhale and exhale slowly and slender through the nasal cavity, without vibration or pause. Then increase the process of normal breathing. When exhaling, try to spit out the air for several times, then deliberately deflate the abdominal muscles inward and gently contract the lungs to exhale. Then inhale and suck it up, but don't force it, the abdomen will return to its original state. When inhaling, you will find that the lower part of the abdominal wall and ribs are pushed outward, and the chest is only slightly moved. This breathing is formed by the contraction and depression of the diaphragm. Practice 3-5 times a day for 3-5 minutes each time. Diaphragm breathing has three major effects on the body:
Diaphragm breathing is different from shallow breathing. It can fill the whole lung with cosmic energy and supply enough oxygen to the body.
Diaphragm breathes and exhales waste gas, polluted air and carbon dioxide in the body.
The diaphragm moves up and down, just like a gentle massage, which promotes the blood circulation of viscera and enhances its function.
Diaphragm breathing is an extremely effective breathing method, because it can get a lot of fresh air with the least effort.