If you have a disease, you will know it in your heart, and you will also heal yourself when you are sick. When the state of mind is quiet, the body is also quiet, and the heart is still sick. ——Won Zou Hyun, "New Book of ShouQin Pension"
When it comes to the importance of exercise, there is a consensus, which can be seen in the gyms that are everywhere in the city. But how exactly should we exercise? Is it okay to be muscular like an athlete? I don't think so. Building muscle is the Western way of exercising.
Exercising muscles, making muscles overdeveloped, making muscles and bones sore and stiff after excessive exercise, in fact, qi and blood are stagnant, so that the meridians are blocked, which is the most obvious of which is athletes. Athletes exercise a lot, it is said that they should be very healthy and long-lived, but in fact, many athletes have short lifespans, and they appear older than people of the same age, the reason is that they exercise muscles, and exercise too much.
The traditional Chinese way of exercising is to exercise the spirit of the spirit, called "internal training of one breath, external training of muscles and bones". We look at Chinese sports, five birds play, bagua palm, tai chi, eight duan jin... One of the common features of these movements is that they all work with the breath, and the breath becomes deep and long through exercise.
Breathe deeply and long, the diaphragm moves up and down, there is a gentle massage of the internal organs, so that the internal organs begin to be active, the so-called qi sinking Dantian is this meaning, not that the dantian has a breath of composure, but that let the qi go in, promote the internal organs to run, let the internal organs massage inside, so that they will feel that the dantian here is very full.
When we say that the internal organs are strong, the first point is the strength of the internal organs, through various methods to make the internal organs move, so that the internal organs become strong, no longer so weak, let the disease "bullying". If you think about it carefully, you will find that all serious diseases are diseases of internal organs, and diseases of muscles and bones are traumatic injuries, which are relatively easy to treat.
Serious diseases occur in the internal organs, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, respiratory failure, etc., are all internal organ problems. Therefore, it is necessary to exercise the internal organs and let the qi and blood of the internal organs run up, and once the qi and blood run, the problem will be solved by more than half.
Of course, this strength does not mean that the internal organs are exercised like stones, indestructible. On the contrary, our exercise is practiced in the direction of softness, the harder things are less lifeless, as long as the human body is hard, health is poor, the body of the elderly is hard, and the body of the baby is soft.
An external manifestation of inner strength is that the body is soft and the muscles and bones are soft. The body is soft, the qi and blood can circulate, and it can relax. If you make a strong force, the limbs will not relax, and the qi and blood will not be able to run. If the qi and blood do not run smoothly, the body will be sick.
So Lao Tzu said, "A man is born weak, and his death is strong." The life of the grass and trees is also soft and brittle, and its death is also withered. Therefore, the strong die, and the weak are born. If the soldiers are strong, they will be destroyed, the wood will be broken, the strong will be lower, and the weak will be above. ”
Another meaning of inner strength is the strength of the heart, the strength of the heart, and Chinese medicine says that the heart hides the god. Only a strong heart can fight against this complex society. How can we be strong inside? It is a person whose mind is quiet, and one thing will not disturb his mind, and people who have a lot of things in their hearts and are not emotionally peaceful are difficult to be healthy.
The fundamental reason for this is also qi, which Chinese medicine says: "Anger is qi, joy is slow, sadness is dissipation, thinking is qi knotted, fear is qi, shock is chaotic." "When people are emotionally fluctuating, their qi is unstable, up and down. If we assume this "qi" as a villain, you let him go up and down all at once; one moment running fast, the next moment stopping, can he not go crazy?
In Chinese like to put qi and god together, qi is calm, and god is refreshing, such a person has a good mentality, can stabilize, is not in a hurry when encountering things, not only is he in good health, but he can often achieve better results in his career.
Inner strength refers to these two aspects: one is the strength of internal organs; the other is the strength of the mind. These two are mutually causal, the internal organs are strong, the qi is sinking dantian, and the qi and blood are running smoothly, then the dantian is full. In this way, the qi of the whole body is recycled, and people will not be impetuous and have a good mentality. Conversely, if a person has a quiet mind and a good state of mind, his body will also become better.
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The author of this article, Peng Xin, the article is excerpted from the "Peng Xin On the Inner Zhuang Health Law", please indicate the source when reprinting and quoting.
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