Introduction to Self-conditioning Yoga (1): Sitting in a good position to relieve stress
Yoga originated in India and is popular around the world. It is one of the oldest physical strengthening techniques in the East and the crystallization of human wisdom. Through yoga, you can exercise your body, purify your soul, sublimate your emotions and thoughts, help you increase your energy, awaken your sleeping potential, correctly guide yourself into a state of peace, health, beauty, and happiness, and let you live with health. Always.
Characteristic effects: The perfect sitting posture is the basic sitting posture when starting yoga. It can enhance the strength of the legs, make the blood flow in the abdominal cavity and pelvis cavity smooth, and has the effect of stabilizing emotions, increasing self-confidence, and calming the mind. It also has the effect of helping gastrointestinal digestion.
Practice secret: Practice at least once a day and stay in the completion stance for 3 to 5 minutes. Increase or decrease the time according to your physical strength and endurance.
Notes: Beginners don't have to force their knees to sit cross-legged. At the beginning, they can place the back of their right foot under their left foot and practice in a half-plate position.
1 Sit well and place your heels as close to your perineum as possible. Put your hands on top of your head. The spine naturally upward, relax, close your eyes slightly, and breathe fully 8 to 10 times.
2 Place your hands on your chest and close your palms, relax your shoulders naturally, close your eyes slightly, and breathe naturally 8 to 10 times.
3 Hands up, forearms facing each other, arms down to the left, and turn head to the right. Relax the spine naturally, close your eyes slightly, and breathe naturally 8 to 10 times. Make your mood calm and quiet.
4 Repeat once in the opposite direction.
5 Stand your back straight, inhale and stretch your hands upward, exhale and relax, hold your posture for 2 to 3 minutes, and breathe naturally.
6 Open your hands, close your eyes slightly, lift your chin slightly, and spread your chest outwards naturally. Keep breathing naturally to relieve your stress.
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Tips for getting rid of stress quickly
Modern urban people have great survival pressure and work pressure, which can easily cause symptoms such as tension, irritability, insomnia, headache, and poor appetite. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "liver" is mainly caused by emotion, which is related to the relief of emotional pressure. The treatment will choose the way of "soothing liver and relieving depression" to adjust and improve the discomfort caused by high pressure. On weekdays, you can press the acupoints to choose Jianjing, Fengchi, Neiguan, Shenmen, Lingquan, 8 points per day, twice a day, to help relieve tension.
In addition, you can drink Xiaoyao tea, add 15 grams of Bupleurum, 10 grams of Angelica sinensis, 15 grams of white peony root, 15 grams of atractylodes rhizome, 15 grams of Poria cocos, 5 grams of honey-fried licorice root, a little mint, 6 pieces of ginger into 1500 ml of boiled water for 45 minutes, it is an excellent health drink.
5 Benefits of Yoga
1. Eliminate modern civilized diseases and prevent chronic diseases. Modern people have long-term mental stress, oppression and noise due to factors such as work, family, and interpersonal relationships. Coupled with lack of exercise, they have caused diseases such as insomnia, irritability, and accelerated physical aging. The cause of many diseases is physical and mental imbalance. Correcting by yoga with various postures can not only promote blood circulation, relax muscles, and flexibly flex joints, but also balance gland secretions, strengthen nerves, relieve the pressure of modern people's lives. Chronic diseases will not find you.
2. Eliminate tension and focus. Life is busy, complex thoughts are always running, and you often work three times at one time. This will make your judgment inaccurate, or you will often forget everything. It will also be prone to problems such as neurasthenia and anxiety, and it will also lead to poor sleep. Persistently practicing yoga can allow people to naturally focus their willpower on one thing, unify their body and willpower, feel the extension of muscles, and talk to their own body, and naturally concentrate their spirits.
3. Beautify your body curve. A beautiful and slender waist is every woman's dream. Obesity not only makes you look bloated, but also puts a great burden on your body. Through yoga practice, you can transform your physique from the inside out, promote the decomposition of fat, eliminate excess waste and toxins, and then achieve a state of physical and mental balance; in addition, through yoga training, you can have stronger self-control to face the temptation of food.
4. Maintain youth and beautify your skin. In addition to sculpting body curves, yoga also plays an important role in beautifying skin and maintaining youth. When practicing yoga, the cooperation of postures and breathing methods can improve your physique, help eliminate toxins in your body, and have healthy and beautiful skin.
5. Release stress and eliminate depression. For many people, tension and pressure are like lingering shadows that always hang over their hearts. Over time, depression and depression will arise. Yoga emphasizes "unity of body and mind", so when practicing yoga, you must focus your consciousness on the parts of the body that need to be strengthened. When the body and mind are completely relaxed and focus on stretching your limbs, the body will produce a kind of pleasant "brain endorphins", which can release happy emotions, make people have positive thoughts, and gradually reach the state of relaxation and unity of body and mind. (Editor in charge: Liang Liying)