The direct relationship between man and nature is the process of inhaling and exhaling the atmosphere, so it is said: people live a breath, Buddha receives a blaze of incense. When sleeping, that is, the process of nourishing qi, how to sleep? The old man said: If you don't do it five before going to bed, you will live long if you are not rich, what do you mean?
1. Do not lie on your back for a long time
No matter when and where, everyone lives in the atmosphere on the surface of the earth, and there is what kind of qi there is what kind of person. To conform to nature is to adapt to climate change at this moment. Among the four seasons, spring and summer are yang, autumn and winter are overcast, and the same is true during the day, day is yang and night is overcast.
Yang Qi is characterized by rising and divergence, and Yin Qi is characterized by convergence and sinking. Spring and summer nourish the sun, autumn and winter raise the yin, mortals lie down, spring and summer to the east, autumn and winter to the west. Spring and summer should be scattered, autumn and winter should be harvested. When people sleep, that is, when the yin qi is strong, the force of nature converges, so when they sleep, it is also when the atmosphere converges.
Since the force of the atmosphere is convergent, the sleeping posture should also be convergent, that is, curl up sideways and lie down. To the left side, extend the right leg, and to the right side, extend the left leg. As the saying goes: you can't get tired of sleeping, and you can't get tired of sleeping. This means lying on your side and bending your knees when you sleep, so that you can keep your energy away. When you wake up, stretch your whole body and let your breath flow.
So sleep should be curled up sideways, because the time to sleep is at night. If you lie on your back for a long time, it means that your own strength has been fighting against nature, which is not only not easy to relax, but also easy to lead to dreams, and even affect breathing. Therefore, it is said in the "Sleep Recipe": sleep on the side and bend, sleep and stretch. Morning and evening. Sleep first, then sleep.
2. Do not be sad and sad
Sleeping is the process of nourishing qi in nature, first to fall asleep, and then to sleep the eyes. So closing your eyes does not mean you are asleep. Just like Zhang Fei sleeping, although his eyes are open, he sleeps very steadily. Therefore, first sleep first, first of all, we must be calm, that is, we must not fall asleep in pain, sorrow or anger.
There is a folk proverb that says: Do not discipline your wife before going to bed, and do not train your children before meals. If you are trained before going to bed and go to bed with depression, your body will not go well. Therefore, it is said in the "Suwen": anger is angry, joy is slow, sadness is anger, fear is anger, and thinking is angry.
Therefore, before going to bed, first of all, we must relax our mood, not angry, not happy or sad, but any emotional and falling asleep can easily lead to insomnia or dreams. If you don't get enough sleep, you don't have enough breath, and if you don't breathe, you don't have enough health. Even if two people have a quarrel, they must reconcile before going to bed, and everyone will fall asleep peacefully and nourish their qi.
3. Do not overeat
The ancients paid attention to "sunrise and sunset", and after sunset is the time of day when the yin is strongest. The human body also has five elements, of which the liver and gallbladder belong to wood, and the wood is less yang, and after eating food, it needs the strength of the liver and gallbladder and the spleen and stomach to digest, one of the two is the main consumption, the other is the main transformation.
Then when the yin qi is strong, the power of Shaoyang becomes fragile, that is, the qi of the liver and gallbladder is fragile, and at this time, the fragile liver wood is used to suppress the soil of the spleen and stomach, just like using small branches to plow the ground, both are injured. Shaoyang bile is injured, and the result is dry eyes and hair loss, which is the sign of aging.
Therefore, it is said in the "Suwen": If the stomach is not harmonious, it is restless, and if you are full and lying down, you will be angry. As the old saying goes, "eat less after Shen Shi", that is, you have to eat less after Shen Shi. Nowadays, people generally sleep late, even if it is late, they should go to bed before the child, of course, it is not suitable to eat when the child is young.
In the "Five Miscellaneous Tricks", it is said: When reading cannot be passed, when the people are covered, all blood returns to the heart, and if you cannot sleep, the blood is consumed and sick. Therefore, eating when you are a child is also called ghost food.
4. Do not open your mouth
Sleeping is to nourish qi, let yourself and the aura of nature merge with each other, first of all, to ensure the smooth circulation of qi. The exchange of its own qi with nature's atmosphere is done through the lungs. The lungs are gold, gold is less yin, and the power of less yin is convergence, which is the canopy of the five internal organs. When people lie down to sleep, the golden qi begins to converge, so keep your mouth shut and talk less to avoid losing the gold qi.
As the saying goes: eat without speaking, sleep without speaking. That is, when sleeping, you must close your mouth and breathe with your nose, so Sun Simiao said: Lying down at night and practicing to close your mouth is the best way to maintain vitality. The so-called do not open your mouth to cover your head, that is, do not open your mouth wide, cover your head in the quilt and breathe, so that the exhaled air flow is covered in it and sucked in through the mouth.
5. The head does not face the wind and fire
For people, the head is yang, the feet are yin, and sleeping is the time to nourish qi, so spring and summer go east, autumn and winter to the west. The head is the old yang, the old yang is the fire, the power that can neutralize the fire is water, and the water is black. Therefore, fire sees fire, just as it adds oil to fire, and fire sees water, and it helps each other.
So the head should be rested on a black and cold pillow, so the ancients used jade pillows and stone pillows, and modern people used buckwheat husks, etc., the purpose of which is to use cool air to neutralize the old yang qi on the head. Since the head is the old yang and the sun is the old yang, if the head is exposed to the sun, it is to add fire to the fire, it is easy to suffer from heat stroke, but the feet are exposed to the sun, there will be no heat stroke.
So the ancients washed their hair with cool water and soaked their feet with hot water, and if they soaked their heads with hot water and washed their feet with cool water, it was like adding fire to fire and ice to cold. Therefore, when sleeping, the head is not facing the fire, and of course not towards the wind. The wind is transformed by wood qi, and wood is less yang, and its power can help the fire qi.
"Trivial Records" said: Do not lie close to the fire, for fear of hurting the brain. The lying place should not be the wind, for fear of head wind, back wind, shoulder wind and arm pain, good tuning, although the summer is not windy and sitting and lying down. Since the head is yang, it should be neutralized with gold and water vapor, that is, white and black, so the color of the pillow should not be red or green, and of course it is not suitable for wearing a big red or green hat.
Therefore, when sleeping, we should be calm, sleep first and then sleep, head not towards the fire, not towards the wind, do not eat before going to bed, it is advisable to lie on your side, close your mouth and speak less, breathe through your nose, sleep at sunset, rise at sunrise, sleep converge, and stretch when you get up to conform to the changes in nature's aura. If you sleep well, you will breathe enough, and the more breath you have, the easier it is to live a long and healthy life.