Body aches, dizziness, weakness. Have you experienced similar symptoms during sudden changes in the weather? You probably suffer from weather dependence. How to reduce the intensity of the manifestations of this disease, and eventually completely forget about them? Says an expert in oriental medicine.
In the last article, we talked about the fact that the reaction to the weather develops against the background of incorrect posture: the more stress in the body, the more stress the vascular system is.
This means that every person with weather dependence needs relaxation exercises such as qigong for the spine Sing Shen Juang. This practice relieves muscle clamps, and also restores posture and normal vascular tone.
This is a basic body care program that produces great results over time. However, they will have to wait: if you practice for 15-20 minutes a day, the first relief will follow in a week, but globally the situation will change on average in a few months, or even in six months or a year (everything is individual).
How to speed up the healing process? What additional actions will help reduce the intensity of weather dependence symptoms?
Reducing stress levels
According to my observations, a person after a two-week vacation is less prone to weather dependence than someone who spent the same time at work. What does it say? The fact that we have another lever of influence on weather dependence: reducing stress levels.
The more we worry, the more tense both the nervous and vascular systems are, and if there is a drop in atmospheric pressure, the body breaks out with symptoms of meteorological dependence: headache, weakness, “flies” before the eyes, fainting and other “special effects”.
How to reduce stress levels? You can talk endlessly about how important it is to get enough sleep and take care of yourself … But how will this help? If there is no time to sleep, we will not sleep! In such a situation, meditation comes to our aid: the practice of finding inner silence.
Just 12-15 minutes of meditation a day will allow you to relieve the emotional stress accumulated during the day.
Therefore, it is best to practice meditation in the evening, after a working day – before going to bed.
Please note: if you are learning meditation on your own, you should clearly track the results. There is such a phenomenon: if a person has an anxious temperament, and he tries to do meditation as best as possible, then this “effort”, tension can, on the contrary, cause headaches.
This does not mean that meditation is not suitable for you, just that you are “not preparing it correctly”. When performed correctly, after meditation practices, there should be a feeling of relaxation and lightness.
If this does not happen during independent studies, it is better to take a training course with a specialist who will “set up” the correct state for practice.
We dine properly
One way to keep blood pressure spikes under control is through proper nutrition. Dinner should be delicious, varied, but light!
This will have a purely physiologically positive effect: during sleep, the stomach will be reduced, it will not “pull the blanket over itself” and occupy the space that is reserved for the heart and lungs.
The body will rest more fully, including the cardiovascular system will be actively restored.
Mastering breathing practices
The freer the thoracic diaphragm moves, the more actively it helps the blood to rise from the legs – due to which the entire cardiovascular system works more fully.
The diaphragm is called the “second heart” for a reason. If it is tense and inactive, then blood circulation slows down, blood flows from the lower extremities with great difficulty, the heart has to work more actively – and the entire cardiovascular system enters a state of stress. It is worth adding changes in atmospheric pressure, and again: hello, weather dependence symptoms!
Breathing exercises help to relax the diaphragm and give it mobility – for example, female Taoist practices (respectively, only for women) or neigong (for everyone). With the help of delays and deep breathing, you increase the amplitude of diaphragm mobility, and it unloads the cardiovascular system, helping it to work more productively.