Talking about postpartum yoga
The life activities of the human body, like all beings in the universe, have their own certain "Tao". China classical philosophy claims that "Tao" is divided into "yin and yang." The two extremes of human life activities are health and unhealthy. A healthy state is a state in which the human body is highly balanced. There are many factors that affect this balance, such as genetics, age factors, environmental factors, living conditions, psychological factors, etc. Once this balance is broken, unhealthy conditions will become prominent. The more this balance is disturbed, the more serious the unhealthy state will be. Most people are in a state between healthy and unhealthy throughout their lives. How to bring oneself closer to health, that is, to the ideal balance of life, is everyone's conscious or unconscious desire.
There are several stages in a person's life when one's own balance changes. If the positive effects of internal and external factors in all aspects are stronger than the negative effects, it will bring people closer to health. This is what people often call puberty and menopause. For women, there will be one or several more pregnancy and childbirth periods. During this period for women, opportunities and dangers coexist, which should attract the attention of herself and her relatives. At present, my country implements the established national policy of family planning. Especially for urban women, there is only one pregnancy and childbirth period. This is the only opportunity to improve their health level and it is extremely precious. In addition to diet, health care, psychological environment, ethical education and other factors of positive protection, yoga practice is a very strange to most China women, but it is very effective to promote and enhance the balance of life activities means.
India is a country with an earlier glorious ancient civilization than my country, and yoga is a shining gem in the treasure house of ancient Indian civilization. The types of yoga suitable for women to practice during pregnancy and childbirth include pregnant women's yoga, postpartum yoga, and parent-child yoga. The following focuses on postpartum yoga.
According to modern medical perspectives, women's birth is a period of major physiological and psychological changes. Most women after childbirth face the following problems: First, major psychological changes in ethical relationships. As a new mother, how to correctly handle the relationship between husband and wife., the establishment of a new balance of rationality and emotions in the relationship between mother and child (or female) and social roles. The second is the establishment of a balance of endocrine levels of various hormones in the body. The third is the establishment of a new balance in body shape and physical strength, and of course, also the establishment of breast-feeding capabilities.
The basic principles of yoga have been written a lot and will not be detailed here. The core is that through the practice of asana, standardized breathing and meditation, people can absorb the energy of the universe and various field energy elements in nature that are beneficial to human life activities. Help people establish psychological and psychological balance. This is not only very consistent with the theory of "harmony between man and nature" elaborated in ancient Chinese philosophy, but also has many similarities with modern psychological science and physiological science.
During pregnancy, all life activities of pregnant women revolve around the important mission of enjoying a new life, including blood volume, blood gas volume, hormone levels, immune function, skin fat, balance between muscle growth and consumption, and their own awareness of protection. Everyone serves this mission. Once childbirth, the old mission is completed, and a new balance is urgently needed. This period is a process of swallowing the past and accepting the new, both mentally and physically. my country's traditional "confinement" lifestyle is not an efficient, improved, positive and scientific postpartum lifestyle. Especially for the future life and collective demands of modern professional women, there will be many negative results. Enriched nutrient intake, bedridden cultivation, closed living environment, and sharply reduced interpersonal relationships will cause fatigue, irritability, indigestion, poor meridians, insufficient oxygen supply, excessive fat accumulation, and decreased body temperature control ability., blocked communication with the natural energy field. This is a new way to balance and establish passive waiting cultivation. The introduction of postpartum yoga just makes up for and corrects the shortcomings of this cultivation method. Its role actively promotes the establishment of a new healthy and dynamic balance, various specific dynamic poses, effective breathing activities, and calm meditation. All of this completely abandons the negative factors in life that arise from the traditional "confinement style". After understanding the above principles, when you see those women who have adopted a lifestyle that combines postpartum yoga with the traditional "confinement style" and spent the postpartum life class are all high-spirited, heroic, slim, and shiny with skin., abundant breast milk, abundant physical strength, and significantly improved health in all aspects compared with prenatal. You won't be surprised at all.
Really excellent things can withstand the test of time and space. Why have all kinds of magical drugs and health products that once lived and were hyped up in media advertisements disappeared one after another? However, the ancient yoga technique that has been passed down for thousands of years has spread across time and space from distant ancient India to all over the world and come to us. I believe that in the near future, the combination of postpartum yoga and my country's traditional "confinement" will become a new "confinement" recuperation method for women in our country. Become an immortal "traditional classic model". (Internship Editor: Lin Xiaodong)