Meditation, everyone mistakenly thinks that only sitting there is meditation, and even a meditation course is specially set up. In fact, you can enter this state without thinking at any time and anywhere. For example, posture, observing breathing, can also enter meditation. When doing asana, you can move your body by breathing. When you move your body through breathing, when your body reaches its limit, you are already in a state of meditation. Some people call asana movement mobile meditation. From what is the entrance to mobile meditation, after observing our body for a period of time, we will find that there are controllable parts and uncontrollable parts in the body.
Controllable: For example, you can move your body, blink, inhale and hold your breath.
Uncontrollable: For example, the growth of nails and hair is beyond your control.
Meditation comes from the controllable part of our body. For example, when you bend down and reach your limit, your thinking stops at this time. Many poses in yoga require you to try your best to reach the limits of your body. After reaching the limit of your body, your consciousness will enter the state of perception and the realm of Zen. The yam in pranayama has another meaning: infinite extension, infinite extension. When a posture reaches infinite extension, it enters the state of Zen. Practicing asana requires the limits of the body. After physical exercise, many teachers will set up some candlelight meditation, OM meditation, breathing meditation and so on. The principle is the same. Candlelight meditation is with your eyes. Keep your eyes open and don't blink. In fact, as long as you master the principle, you can master meditation without candles, open your eyes without candles, and try not to blink. When the controllable system is uncontrollable, your eyes open for a while, and you need to blink to protect your eyes when you are tired, but you control him not to blink, then your thinking stops, and there is no thinking at this time. The practice of meditation is actually to use the controllable parts of the body to cut off thinking, and so is breathing. Many teachers will teach exhaling, inhaling and holding your breath. Let's experiment. Take a deep breath and hold your breath. The moment you hold your breath, your mind goes into a vacuum and you can't think. I entered Zen.
When thinking is cut off, there is an energy that automatically flows into perception. Perception and thinking can hardly coexist. When there is too much thinking, perception will disappear.
Zen is in a state of perception, which is wise. A child or a madman who has no consciousness of thinking. Children and lunatics have low-level thinking and have not yet started, and their perception is ignorant and unwise. Zen is the high unity of perception and wisdom.
Thinking is a difficult content to explain, involving many things that cannot be expressed in words. Many books say that meditation can't be said and can't be said. But our ancient Laozi said: "Tao can be Tao, but not extraordinary." In other words, you can still say what you can't say, even if what you say is not the original thing, you still have to experience it and try your best to explain it. There is a very important word in yoga practice: Zen. The word meditation comes from Sanskrit Zen. In ancient times, the word was translated into Zen, which was spread to China by the founder of Dharma in ancient times and then to Japan by China. In Japan, it is called Zen.
There is no word Zen in western languages, which can only be translated into medicine, and medicine comes from medicine. Now meditation comes from the translation of meditation, and it will also be translated into meditation and meditation, and basically translated into online meditation.
Meditation course is the course of Zen. Meditation and Zen are a state of perception.
What is perception? Perception: Perception means that you hit me or get scalded by boiling water, and I feel pain. This is a kind of perceptual induction. Zen: Our minds are always in a state of thinking. If we think too much, we will forget our perception. If we think too much, we will forget the body's perception. If we are in a state of thinking for a long time, our body and mind will be highly divided. When we are in a strong division, we will suffer from insomnia, anxiety and nervousness, which will lead to various diseases, such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
When a person is far away from consciousness and in a state of "missing", his mind is completely divorced from his body, and his perception loses its ability to perceive. Pay attention to pedestrians on the road, and you will find that, especially in big cities, when you observe them, everyone is not walking. When he walks, his eyes and movements are taken to another destination in his mind. It is difficult to walk easily. This state of walking is to pull his mind out of his body. If you observe the old people exercising in the park in the early morning or at dusk, you will find that their walking state is completely different from that during the day. In order to walk, they move harmoniously. When a person overthinks, the mind leaves the body, and the body and mind split, leading to various diseases.
Zen is practicing yoga. Through a series of methods, your body and mind are reunited and enter a state of perception, which cannot be expressed in words. Therefore, the word Zen is used to describe this state, which is the purpose and effect of practicing yoga.
Modern medicine confirms that:
1. The famous Japanese doctor of medicine, Mauxiong Chunshan, has confirmed from a large number of clinical practice and scientific research that people who have beneficial thinking can secrete a substance similar to morphine in their brains, which is called "endorphin". It can not only improve the brain and maintain the youthful vitality of brain cells, but also make people feel happy, enhance immune function, prevent aging, and improve the ability of disease prevention and natural treatment (self-healing ability when human diseases occur).
2. From the observation of brain waves, when our bodies are nervous or bored, there will be more than one kind of β wave, which is one of the reasons leading to diseases in living environment or diseases such as cancer, psychosis, insomnia and neurosis. 1997, Dr. Watanabe from Tokyo University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Minghong from Hanoi and Dr. Kazuyoshi from Jingya cooperated in the brain wave experiment during yoga meditation. They found that after meditation, there will be a lot of beta waves, which is a unique effect that other health methods can't achieve. When a large number of waves appear, the brain center will feel refreshed and harmonious, and the disease will be lifted from the brain.
3, meditation into the tip of the tongue against the palate, the root of the tongue is stimulated, which can increase saliva secretion. Saliva is not only necessary for digestion, but also contains a peroxidase that can inhibit cancer and an anti-aging hormone.
4. When meditation reaches the meditation state, the whole body relaxes, the heartbeat slows down obviously, the breathing is in a turtle's rest state, the body's metabolism drops, the brain and tissues and organs are at rest, and the oxygen consumption is minimized, which is the best way to save lives and delay aging.
5. Meditation: After measuring the relaxation of muscles and cranial nerves, the blood flow of the whole body increases by 15- 16 times, and various tissues and organs are stably nourished, so that the inner layer of facial skin is full of water and nutrition is increased, giving people a radiant aesthetic feeling. Therefore, there is a craze for meditation and beauty in Japan at present.
6. Gene theory: Human genetic engineering has proved that genes are a powerful weapon for human body to resist viruses and heal itself. As the fourth medical revolution, the most successful achievement of gene therapy is to treat heart disease. Some progress has also been made in treating genetic diseases and preventing AIDS and cancer. Since humans can use genes for treatment, genetic changes can also affect people's intelligence, appearance, gender, body shape and so on. Meditation can produce a positive way of thinking, eliminate negative emotions, and regulate the nervous and endocrine systems, thus achieving the effect of self-repairing genes.