Guidance and yoga are different in both health

Date: 2018-09-13

The silk paintings unearthed from the mawangdui are 100cm long and 40cm high, which are divided into four layers up and down. There are 44 different characters, male, female, old and young, wearing clothes or with bare backs. Everyone is practicing the guiding method, so this picture is named as "the guiding drawing of mawangdui".

Originating in India, yoga has a long history as well as guidance, which is guided by philosophy and supported by traditional medical theories. In recent decades, yoga and fashion have been closely combined and favored by young people. Chinese medicine guidance is also facing unprecedented problems, in France, Switzerland, the United States, Japan and other places to Chinese medicine guidance even more than China. Since yoga has entered the high-end office building in just a few decades, it has been favored by the young people. Can the guidance learn from the development road of yoga? First, we need to understand what is the same and different about guidance and yoga. Practice guidance and yoga have some same requirements. Guidance emphasizes the combination of three tones, namely the combination of body, breath and mind. Yoga also has the close connection of posture, breathing and meditation. So what's different about guided yoga communication?

Body and posture

The Sanskrit for yoga postures is Asana, which means to remain in a comfortable position or position for a period of time. Through a number of twisting, bending, stretching static movements, and the transition between movements, stimulating endocrine glands, massaging the internal organs, relax the nerve, stretch the muscle, strengthen the body, and calm the mind. There are also bionic elements of postures such as snake and rabbit, and some postures are created by the yogis' own experience (such as shoulder upright and torsion).

The content of the body can be summarized as flexion, extension, loose, tight four words, the basic requirements of the body can be summarized as formal, body loose two aspects. To regulate the body and the guidance of yoga asana contain bionic action, wuqinxi is imitation in guiding the tiger, deer, bear, ape and bird five kinds of animals, creative, and combined with traditional Chinese medicine theory of the snake in the yoga asana, cat stretch type is developed by imitating animals pose, the difference lies in the guidance of the body is formed in the process of developing more of a complete set of movements, such as the eight period of jin, yi jin jing, wuqinxi and emei twelve zhuang, etc., and yoga postures rule is given priority to with a single action, such as elevated arm type, stretch the side Angle type, strong side pull, etc.

There are two ways to breathe

Both guided and yoga breathing methods can be divided into chest breathing and abdominal breathing, both of which, after proficiency in movement, emphasize the practice of abdominal breathing. Both of them attach great importance to the coordination of breathing and movement. In the guidance, the body is now in harmony with three tones. Yoga also emphasizes the stretching of movements and follows the prescribed breathing method. The difference is that after a certain foundation, guidance focuses on reverse ventral breathing, and there is no strict distinction between reverse and shun in yoga.

Mind tuning and meditation

The heart attunement of guided art and the meditation of yoga belong to the category of mental, spiritual adjustment, both of them attach great importance to the realization of inner peace through such regulation and eliminate complicated thoughts. Both of them also do not agree with the excessive use of the method of one, but emphasize the method of non-conservation and thinking. For example, the yogic meditation term: "imagine yourself lying on a green grass, soft, continuous, bursts of fragrance. There is not a cloud in the blue sky. Babbling brook, from nearby slowly flow, call not famous wild flower, scramble to open. In the distance a cow was walking with her cubs, and the children were playing happily. A cricket in the field jumping around, and the trees of the birds kept singing. Such meditative words allow our consciousness to proceed continuously in accordance with established procedures, consistent with the method of thinking of the five internal organs in huangting jing neijing, which belongs to the system of mindfulness. The difference is that there is less meditation in yoga and postures are practiced at the same time, and guiding also attaches great importance to mind adjustment during the movement.

Guidance emphasizes the combination of body, heart and qi. The practice of yoga also requires posture, breathing, meditation, second order. The ancients were carrying out breathing activities all the time. What breathes into the human body is qi, and further concluded that qi is the origin and manifestation of human life activities. Man's life is between breath and breath. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi is the life support of the human body, and all kinds of functions and activities of the human body are driven and regulated by qi. Yoga also believes that there is qi in the universe, and calls qi "prana" or "life energy". To sum up, breathing does not only exist at the moment of life and death, it is also closely related to our emotions, hearts and brains.

The aim of health and rehabilitation through breathing is the key problem in guiding and yoga practice. For example, when we are frightened, we gasp and hold our breath. When we are angry or upset, our breathing becomes irregular and fluctuating. Breathing is almost stopped when you concentrate on threading the needle. That is to say, breathing and emotion, brain are mutually dependent, different mental state will have different breathing. There is a discussion about the effect of emotional stimulation on qi machine in the theory of simple question and lifting pain: "anger leads to anger, happiness leads to depression, sadness leads to depression, fear leads to anger, panic leads to confusion, and thinking leads to anger." The state of mind can affect breathing, and breathing can also restrict our state of mind. Practicing breathing, even, gentle and quiet breathing, can reduce mood and brain fluctuations, and a calm state of mind and body is undoubtedly the most beneficial to health.

In terms of physical activity, both of them have formed a system with similarities and differences, and scientific and beautiful physical exercise methods. Chinese medicine guide no matter which kind of body method, it is to raise essence, train qi, tone god for the basic point of movement, take moving form for the basic form of exercise. External physical exercise, on the other hand, is only a form, or means, of internal spiritual and physical harmony. People's body and heart accompany for a lifetime, and there are no lack of contradictions, not always coordinated and unified. The ancient indians and Chinese recognized this and valued the holistic recuperation of the oneness of mind and body. Just as in Chinese medicine, "heart god" is "the master of the five internal organs and six internal organs" "when the heart breaks, god will go, and god will die".

Go back to the basics

Through the comparison of the above guidance method and yoga, it can be seen that guidance and yoga have more similarities or similarities in the theory and practice of health rehabilitation. Can even think, guiding and yoga is the companion piece of human life sciences, from the point of view of health rehabilitation efficacy, principle of guidance and the role of yoga in the root is consistent, mainly summarized as to maintain and promote the body, the system function, especially to improve the function of the endocrine system, massage the internal organs, the balance of body function recovery and so on. If you can use a combination of guidance and yoga, it will have a good effect on daily health maintenance and rehabilitation.

From the perspective of clinical rehabilitation, there have been some beneficial attempts to use the guidance method for disease rehabilitation. For example, the guidance method of traditional Chinese medicine has been applied to the functional recovery of patients with stroke in the convalescence stage, and the guidance method can relax the body and mind and relieve the increase of muscle tension caused by such bad emotions as tension. Guidance is conducive to spiritual recuperation and inner defense. When a patient is emotionally stable, it is more conducive to receive training and produce positive effects.

Generally speaking, guidance and yoga have a lot in common in theory and method, and have their own characteristics in specific movements. Look from current practice crowd, the practitioner of yoga is in the majority with young person, the lover that guides is in with old person in the majority. However, this does not mean that the elderly can not practice yoga, young people can not practice guidance.