Meditation is the key to yoga

For a yogi, the most important practice should be meditation. Many people think that it means putting your head on the ground or changing your body into many different postures. Others think that yoga is a sport or performance, such as walking through a hot charcoal fire, or swallowing fire, or lying on a nail bed, or buried in the ground, and can live for weeks. This is a big misunderstanding. In fact, the practice of yoga movements is only one part of yoga. The most important part should be meditation. Each yoga movement only helps the practitioner sit more perfectly.

Everyone can and should practice meditation, know themselves, and develop their potential. It is everyone's birthright. There is no difference in age, gender, occupation, race, or religion. So far, humans have only used one percent of their potential. One to two percent, which means that we still have more than 90% of our potential yet to be developed. It is precisely because modern people are too busy that they should sit quietly. There is no specific direction or location restriction for meditation. Busy office workers can even use the bus time to sit still. In terms of the most practical interests, meditation can make our work, studies, and life more efficient. The scientific principle is that once a scattered and floating mind is focused on the right goal, it will be like a magnifying glass under the sun, gathering the sun's heat, making the paper burn and generate heat. Living in today's colorful and turbulent social environment, if you can practice meditation every day, you can know yourself better and be more confident. Finding the true value of your life can be incredibly helpful to life.

In other words, meditation is when you make friends with your inner self and lead you to ultimate perfection. Almost few people can sit cross-legged for a long time at the beginning. This is very normal. As long as most people practice regularly and slowly, their blood and blood will be smooth and their bones will be soft. As long as they follow the teacher's instructions, they can quickly enjoy the joy of sitting quietly. If you are really busy at ordinary times, you can practice every morning and evening, starting from 20 minutes each time. This kind of time will not only not affect your daily routine, but will make your daily work more efficient. Don't underestimate the effect of sitting twice a day for 20 minutes each time. Gradually, as you can better control the world of your inner soul, your life has begun to unfold subtly and gradually bloom brightly. Meditation is not a religious act, it is a science of the mind with a history of more than thousands of years. Through meditation, people can explore the infinite treasures within themselves, rather than binding themselves to limited things outside. Therefore, meditation allows the mind to expand and embrace all things.

Here is a basic method of sitting in meditation.

Bend your right leg inwards and place your right foot on the left cavity, then bend your left leg and place your left foot on the right leg, place your left foot on the right cavity, place your palms flat in front of the navel, and straighten your back. Relax, close your eyes slightly, and look at the tip of your nose, intending to breathe in and out, inhale and spit out, inhale deeply and slowly breathe. Keep this state for 20 minutes at a time. Over time, you will understand it more deeply.

Lotus sign is the best position to sit still. It calms and controls the entire nervous system. Many doctors and scientists in the UK and India have conducted many experiments on people using this sitting posture and found that they can calm their brain waves almost immediately without even practicing meditation. So it's obvious that this posture helps us concentrate while sitting still. If you are a perfectionist, the lotus symbol will be your best assistant to perfection. However, a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, and you will never succeed by looking at it without practice. Those who are interested in this may wish to give it a try. (Internship Editor: Shi Yixiong)