What are qigong and meditation?

Meditation is a form of changing consciousness, which enhances self-awareness and good state by obtaining a deep state of peace. In the process of meditation, people may focus on their breathing and adjust their breathing, adopt certain body postures (yoga postures), minimize external stimuli, produce specific psychological appearances, or think nothing.

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The meaning of a word

About meditation: the controversy and development of meditation

A simple exposition of meditation

Introduce meditation in detail

Yoga Meditation

Tarot meditation

Modern medicine has confirmed this.

How to meditate (simple reference)

High-level tricks:

Meditation is gradually recognized by the medical community.

About meditation: the controversy and development of meditation

A simple exposition of meditation

Introduce meditation in detail

Yoga Meditation

Tarot meditation

Modern medicine has confirmed this.

How to meditate (simple reference)

High-level tricks:

Meditation is gradually recognized by the medical community.

[Edit this paragraph] Meaning

[Verb] Think deeply and imagine.

Meditation is an important part of yoga, qigong, magic and religion (Buddhism and Taoism).

[Edit this paragraph] About meditation

Controversy and development of meditation

There is some debate about the measurable effect of meditation.

Critics believe that there is no physiological difference between normal "eyes closed" rest state and special meditation program (Holmes, 1984). However, followers of meditation believe that the true physiology of meditation can be specialized as quiet alertness, a state of low physical arousal but enhanced consciousness (DLIBEC &; OrmeJohnson， 1987； Morrell, 1986).

Therefore, meditation can at least reduce anxiety, especially for those individuals who are stressed in the environment (Anderson et al.,1999; Shapiro et al., 1998).

However, the goal of meditation is not only to temporarily relieve tension. Practitioners of meditation believe that practicing some forms of meditation on a regular basis will enhance their consciousness, help individuals gain enlightenment, look at familiar things in a new way, and liberate their perception and thinking from spontaneous learning mode.

Some researchers also suggest that regular meditation can make psychology go beyond the limitations of western psychology-even lead to the improvement of measurable intelligence and cognitive operation (Cranson et al., 199 1).

Line by line) (199 1+0) The first-level Buddhist teacher in meditation suggested that the perception of breathing, just appreciating things around you, can be a way to achieve psychological balance.

Meditation was originally a spiritual practice in religious activities, such as meditation, yoga and qigong. , but now it has been widely used in many spiritual activities courses. Brian Joseph Xun, an Englishman who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on superconductors, is also a person who cultivates the idea of receiving spiritual information through meditation. He once said: "When you open your intuition through meditation, you can get inspiration from your invention.

A simple exposition of meditation

Meditation is more than relaxation.

The latter is simply relaxing;

Meditation is consciously focusing on a point or idea. After a long period of repeated practice, the brain will enter a higher consciousness (similar to Zen's "meditation"), and finally reach the realm of harmony between man and nature.

"pranayama" and "meditation" are higher-level yoga techniques and are not suitable for self-study. Beginners must practice various yoga postures before they can learn. In addition, people with any emotional or mental illness should not practice "pranayama" or "meditation" to avoid danger. Simply put, practicing pranayama or meditation at will will do great harm to your body.

The so-called meditation is to stop the function of intellectual and rational cerebral cortex and make autonomic nerves active.

Simply put, it is a kind of self-discipline behavior of mind to stop all activities of consciousness and achieve "forgetting me". This is not to make consciousness disappear, but to make the activities of potential consciousness more acute and active when consciousness is in a very awake state, and then connect with the fluctuation of cosmic consciousness in another dimension.

The universe itself is full of fluctuations, and fluctuations are information, full of unknown ideas. People who open their right brain through meditation can freely use the information and thoughts of the universe. The human brain is dominated by the movements of celestial bodies and planets, and is a part of the universe, which has the function of sharing the same channel with all fluctuations. Just like a radio, if you tune the frequency correctly, you can receive the information clearly. Meditation is a way to adjust yourself to the fluctuations of the universe.

Although it is meditation, there are many ways to do it.

There are meditation, standing meditation and even dancing meditation. Also, prayer is also a kind of meditation, reading or chanting. If you don't agree with your dark thoughts, you will not only suffer, but also waste your energy, and finally bring only physical and mental fatigue. Anyone who can achieve "mindlessness", that is, stop activities with low self-awareness (left brain awareness), can use any kind of trick, which is also the most correct trick for others. However, this kind of trick that suits you can only be judged by your own sensibility, and there is no other way. In addition, Mao Xiongchunshan, the author of Revolution in the Brain, believes that watching a favorite movie, listening to favorite music (classical and jazz) or planning your future excitedly can all be regarded as meditation methods.

Simple principle analysis:

Meditation can put the new cortex to sleep and improve the power of our potential consciousness through the role of the old cortex. In order to enter the meditation state, we must slow down the whole body's muscle, cell and blood circulation, as long as any method can make the body and mind feel comfortable.

According to scientific experiments, when you enter a state of meditation, your brain will show regular brain waves (refer to the explanation of alpha brain waves). At this time, the neocortex of the brain that dominates intelligence and rational thinking will be inhibited, while the uncontrollable autonomic nerves that dominate animal sexual instinct and self-will, as well as the brain stem and hypothalamus responsible for regulating hormones will become active.

Meditation can calm our left brain and make our consciousness listen to the voice of the right brain, so that our brain waves will naturally become alpha waves. When brain waves appear as alpha brain waves (especially the alpha brain waves in the middle), imagination, creativity and inspiration will keep pouring out. In addition, the ability to judge and understand things will be greatly improved, and at the same time, the body and mind will feel stable, happy and relaxed.

Each of us can create miracles through meditation. Don't think of it as a superpower. It is something that can be obtained psychologically, and it is easy for anyone to obtain it.

[Edit this paragraph] Introduce meditation in detail.

Meditation is a difficult content to explain, involving many things that cannot be expressed in words. Many books say that meditation can't be said and can't be said. But our ancient Laozi said: "Tao can be Tao, but not extraordinary." In other words, you can still say what you can't say, even if what you say is not the original thing, you still have to experience it and try your best to explain it.

There is a very important word in yoga practice: Zen. The word meditation comes from Sanskrit Zen. In ancient times, the word was translated into Zen, which was spread to China by the founder of Dharma, and then to Japan by China. Japan called it Zen.

There is no word Zen in western languages, which can only be translated into medicine, and medicine comes from medicine. Now meditation comes from the translation of meditation, and it will also be translated into meditation and meditation, and basically translated into online meditation.

Meditation course is the course of Zen. Meditation and Zen are a state of perception.

The literal interpretation of meditation: ghosts are extinct. Thinking is your thinking and thinking, and meditation is to get rid of your thinking and thinking and find your perception.

Meditation, everyone mistakenly thinks that only sitting there is meditation, and even a meditation course is specially set up. In fact, you can enter this state without thinking at any time and anywhere. For example, posture and observing breathing can also enter meditation. When doing posture, you can move your body by breathing. When you move your body through breathing, when your body reaches its limit, you are already in a state of meditation. Some people call asana movement mobile meditation. From what is the entrance to mobile meditation, after observing our body for a period of time, we will find that there are controllable parts and uncontrollable parts in the body.

Controllable: For example, you can move your body, blink, inhale and hold your breath.

Uncontrollable: For example, the growth of nails and hair is beyond your control.

Meditation comes from the controllable part of our body. For example, when you bend down and reach your limit, your mind will stop at this time. Many poses in yoga require you to try your best to reach the limits of your body. After reaching the limit of your body, your consciousness will enter the state of perception and the realm of Zen. The yam in PRANAYAMA has another meaning: infinite extension, infinite extension. When a asana reaches infinite extension, it enters the state of Zen, and practicing asana takes advantage of the limits of the body.

After physical exercise, many teachers will set up some candlelight meditation, OM meditation, breathing meditation and so on. The principle is the same.

Candlelight meditation is with your eyes. Keep your eyes open and don't blink. In fact, as long as you master the principle, you can master meditation without candles, open your eyes without candles, and try not to blink. When the controllable system is uncontrollable, your eyes open for a while, and you need to blink to protect your eyes when you are tired, but you control him not to blink, then your thinking stops, and there is no thinking at this time.

The practice of meditation is actually to use the controllable parts of the body to cut off thinking, and so is breathing. Many teachers will teach exhaling, inhaling and holding your breath. Let's experiment. Take a deep breath and hold your breath. The moment you hold your breath, your mind goes into a vacuum and you can't think. I entered Zen.

When thinking is cut off, there is an energy that automatically flows into perception. Perception and thinking can hardly coexist. When there is too much thinking, perception will disappear.

Zen is in a state of perception, which is wise. A child or a madman who has no consciousness of thinking. Children and lunatics have low-level thinking and have not yet started, and their perception is ignorant and unwise.

Zen is the high unity of perception and wisdom.

Zen is practicing yoga. Through a series of methods, your body and mind are reunited and enter a state of perception, which cannot be expressed in words. Therefore, the word Zen is used to describe this state, which is the purpose and effect of practicing yoga.

Perception and perception mentioned above are different.

Perception means that you hit me or get burned by boiling water. I feel pain, which is a kind of perceptual induction. Our minds are always in a state of thinking, thinking too much and forgetting our perception. If a person thinks too much, he will forget the perception ability of the body. When he is in a state of thinking for a long time, his mind and body will be highly divided. When he is very divided, he will suffer from insomnia, anxiety and nervousness, which will lead to various diseases, such as high blood pressure and heart disease.

When a person is far away from consciousness and in a state of "missing", his mind is completely divorced from his body, and his perception loses its ability to perceive.

Pay attention to pedestrians on the road, and you will find that, especially in big cities, when you observe them, everyone is not walking. When he walks, his eyes and movements are taken to another destination in his mind. It is difficult to walk easily. This state of walking is to pull his mind out of his body.

If you observe the old people exercising in the park in the early morning or at dusk, you will find that their walking state is completely different from that during the day. In order to walk, they move harmoniously.

[Edit this paragraph] Yoga meditation

Of all the yoga meditation systems, none is as direct, tested or widely used as yoga sound meditation. As mentioned above, yoga voice meditation can be practiced together with methods to enhance vitality, or it can be practiced alone.

Yoga voice meditation is also called mantra meditation. The Sanskrit word "mantra" can be divided into two parts, namely "human" and "tra". "Man" is "heart". "Tera" means "pull away". Therefore, "mantras" refer to a group of special sounds, which can guide people's minds from secular thoughts, troubles, desires, mental burdens and so on. As long as a person focuses on his own yoga pronunciation, he can gradually surpass the quality of ignorance and passion and climb to the height of good quality. From this step, yoga meditation further developed, gradually evolved into a perfect meditation, and finally entered a state of meditation.

Trying to focus on an object is contrary to the ability of the mind. It is difficult and futile to do so. This actually violates the principle of yoga meditation. In yoga meditation, one should gently try to focus his attention on an object. If his mind wants to leave this object, he will try to catch it and bring it back. But this is done very gently.

Yoga voice meditation practice is extremely simple. There are no hard and strict rules. Sometimes the heart and mouth repeat at the same time, and sometimes it's just meditation. When reciting aloud, sometimes it is repeated in a low voice, sometimes with the loudness of ordinary voice, and sometimes with rhythmic singing. Sometimes chanting is synchronized with breathing, sometimes not necessarily. Sometimes sitting, sometimes standing, sometimes walking, and so on. The eyes of the yogi are sometimes closed, sometimes half closed, and sometimes completely open.

[Edit this paragraph] Tarot meditation

Tarot cards are often issued at will, so there are also card arrays designed according to personal preferences. Simple and common card arrays are replacement card arrays, psychosomatic card arrays or relationship card arrays. Because a large card array needs to produce the meaning of more than one card, the skill of the fortune teller greatly affects whether the card array can be correctly interpreted. For example, the tree of life card array and the six-pointed star card array were originally used for meditation, but later developed into divination.

[Edit this paragraph] Modern medicine has confirmed that

1. The famous Japanese doctor of medicine, Mauxiong Chunshan, has confirmed from a large number of clinical practice and scientific research that people who have beneficial thinking can secrete a substance similar to morphine in their brains, which is called "endorphin". It can not only improve the brain and maintain the youthful vitality of brain cells, but also make people feel happy, enhance immune function, prevent aging, and improve the ability of disease prevention and natural treatment (self-healing ability when human diseases occur).

2. From the observation of brain waves, when our bodies are nervous or bored, there will be more than one kind of β wave, which is one of the reasons leading to diseases in living environment or diseases such as cancer, psychosis, insomnia and neurosis. 1997, Dr. Watanabe from Tokyo University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Minghong from Hanoi and Dr. Kazuyoshi from Jingya cooperated in the brain wave experiment during yoga meditation. They found that after meditation, there will be a lot of beta waves, which is a unique effect that other health methods can't achieve. When a large number of waves appear, the brain center will feel refreshed and harmonious, and the disease will be lifted from the brain.

3, meditation into the tip of the tongue against the palate, the root of the tongue is stimulated, which can increase saliva secretion. Saliva is not only necessary for digestion, but also contains a peroxidase that can inhibit cancer and an anti-aging hormone.

4. When meditation reaches the meditation state, the whole body relaxes, the heartbeat slows down obviously, the breathing is in a turtle's rest state, the body's metabolism drops, the brain and tissues and organs are at rest, and the oxygen consumption is minimized, which is the best way to save lives and delay aging.

5. Meditation: After measuring the relaxation of muscles and cranial nerves, the blood flow of the whole body increases by 15- 16 times, and various tissues and organs are stably nourished, so that the inner layer of facial skin is full of water and nutrition is increased, giving people a radiant aesthetic feeling. Therefore, there is a craze for meditation and beauty in Japan at present.

6. Gene theory: Human genetic engineering has proved that genes are a powerful weapon for human body to resist viruses and heal itself. As the fourth medical revolution, the most successful achievement of gene therapy is to treat heart disease. Some progress has also been made in treating genetic diseases and preventing AIDS and cancer. Since humans can use genes for treatment, genetic changes can also affect people's intelligence, appearance, gender, body shape and so on. Meditation can produce a positive way of thinking, eliminate negative emotions, and regulate the nervous and endocrine systems, thus achieving the effect of self-repairing genes.

[Edit this paragraph] How to meditate (simple reference)

First, learn to meditate. If you meditate from an early age, it is not difficult, but for adults, it seems very difficult. ......

Sit on the mat with your legs crossed (the mat should be 10cm thick), with your left heel as close to your body as possible and your right foot on your left calf (if possible). You can put your left and right feet alternately. The goal is that one day when your right foot is placed on your left thigh, your left foot can still be placed on your right leg, and that's it. If it hurts, don't be hard, slowly and naturally.

Maybe you can wear a special ornament and do some special actions (such as praying first). You can give these actions and ornaments religious significance (such as elves or ... anything). You can also burn incense or play music, but in the end, make the music disappear, otherwise it will only affect your future achievements. Not too complicated. Simple rituals can get you into the state easily.

Then, start making your meditation plan. We need to practice often. It is best to spend 1 day meditating every week. I mean the best, it doesn't matter if you don't have time. On that day, you should meditate at least four times for half an hour each time. It would be better if I could do it all day. Do some simple work every once in a while, such as cleaning or reading books related to meditation. Do everything. Just keep it simple and easy. Eating salad all day can also help you lose weight. ) Don't eat or drink irritating things. If you need anything else, you'd better prepare it in advance. Finding trouble will only upset people. You can retire by yourself or with like-minded people. But there is a rule: don't advertise these things everywhere except your companions.

If you feel that sitting for half an hour is painful, you can slowly extend the time. Sometimes, you can deliberately measure it, freely extend the meditation time when you feel comfortable, and then look at your watch after you finish. You may find that the past time is much more than you feel! Of course, everyone is different. Maybe the time is just right.

After each meditation, try to keep that cheerful and objective mood. It may disappear for a while at first, and then it will gradually extend. If you keep this state in every moment of your life, you will be enlightened.

You can do simple exercises anytime, anywhere. Feel your emotions and actions all the time and tell yourself what you are doing. You can also put aside your distractions and listen to the wind ... whatever you like.

Although I only wrote a few short lines on this issue, this is the most important part of this class: meditation and practice at any time, life can be a long river of learning ... this class is a small summary, with no special content. If you have already started, you will find that some contents are very important. If you haven't started yet, but you are eager for another miracle ... what I said is not good.

[Edit this paragraph] High-level thoughts:

The obscure idea has its major defects, which is also the reason why it is not popular, that is, it is too slow and takes a lot of time to get certain results. As far as speed is concerned, it is far less than the spiritual cultivation method (Baidu Encyclopedia). However, meditation cannot purify and sublimate the spirit. The following is a high-level trick that can purify the spirit and has a high speed.

Threshold: As a method higher than meditation, advanced meditation naturally requires a high level of meditation, at least for at least 10 minutes at a time.

Chance: When a person has a fever, he will feel the least about his body, and his brain will be in a vague state, but he can still stay awake when he reaches a certain state of meditation. And this time, it is precisely the moment when a person is closest to his own spirit. When it is difficult to feel externally, consciousness is not enough to be distracted, which is the legendary "ecstasy" state.

Action: the body can be placed at will, no matter what posture, but the premise is that the body can't be stressed, and there can't be any pressure or tingling. You can bend one leg, lay the other leg flat, put your hands on your legs, sit on the ground and lean against the wall. It can't make the body feel obviously hot or cold.

Realm: external things can be perceived, and internal things are nothing. You can hear voices outside, but you can't talk. You can feel things outside, but you can't feel yourself. )

Spirit: Feel your breath. Don't imagine that energy is poured into your head. It's unrealistic. Don't imagine that energy is transmitted to the brain through breathing, which will make the brain feel oppressive. Imagine that energy is transmitted to the brain through the ear. Every time you breathe, there is an energy coming in from your ear and passing it to your brain. The brain produces a sense of relaxation, as if a cold force erupts from the inside of the brain, making the whole brain refreshing, pure and relaxed.

Meditation is not sitting in one place, and you don't have to close your eyes. Meditation is a realm, not a way.

[Edit this paragraph] Meditation is gradually recognized by the medical community.

Meditation and concentration, which were once considered mysterious, are increasingly recognized by the medical community. A large number of medical research shows that meditation can relieve pain, concentrate, enhance immunity, lower blood pressure, suppress anxiety, improve sleep, and even prevent depression. The research control group has made progress in human emotions, children's brain development, brain attention and nervous system. With the deepening of research, scientists are expected to uncover more mysteries of meditation. Even some famous scientists claim that the benefits of meditation are obvious.