Our emotions are directly related to the state of the body. For example, when we are sick, it is difficult to rejoice, and physically inflexible people often suffer from a lack of flexibility in building relationships, they behave harshly, uncompromisingly. The state of the body reflects our emotional background, and emotions change the body. How to make our body “happy”?
One of the key concepts of Oriental medicine is qi energy, a substance that flows through our body. These are our vital forces, “fuel” for all physiological and emotional processes.
The level of happiness at this energy level depends on two factors: the energy resource (the amount of vitality) and the quality of energy circulation through the body, that is, the ease and freedom of its movement.
We do not have the opportunity to measure these indicators objectively, but Eastern doctors are able to determine them by indirect signs. And knowing where and how energy can stagnate, you can conduct a “self-diagnosis” and understand how to make your body more receptive to joy.
Lack of energy
Emotions, including positive ones, take away strength, and if we don’t have enough of them, we simply “have nothing to be happy about”, there is no resource for this. Life goes on – and it’s good, but there’s no time for a holiday.
Often, due to lack of sleep, increased stress and stress, a lack of strength becomes a conditional norm. We forget that we used to be able to study during the day, earn extra money in the evening, have fun with friends at night, and start a new cycle in the morning. “Well, now the years are not the same,” many of us sigh dejectedly.
As a qigong teacher with more than twenty years of experience, I can say that the energy level can increase over time. In youth, we do not appreciate it and spill it, but with age we can take care of its safety, cultivate, build up. A conscious approach to increasing the level of vitality gives incredible results.
How to increase the energy level in the body
Of course, one cannot do without obvious recommendations. At the heart of everything is healthy sleep and proper nutrition. Patch up the “holes” through which life forces flow in order to be able to accumulate them. The biggest “hole”, as a rule, is a lack of sleep.
In adulthood, it is important to learn how to prioritize correctly, determine what to do and what to refuse – even to the detriment of income, image, habits. The skill of prioritization is excellent for those who practice meditation. Why? Mastering the simplest, basic exercises, we begin to clearly feel which activities nourish us, and which ones take away strength and weaken us. And the choice becomes clear.
It is important to perform breathing exercises that help to receive additional energy and accumulate it.
Every day we need to experience joyful moments. It can be communication with loved ones, pleasant walks or just delicious food. Learn to find small joys in every day, and there will be more and more strength.
It is important to perform breathing exercises that help to receive additional energy and accumulate it. As in the case of meditation, it is enough to practice these exercises for 15-20 minutes a day to feel the effect: replenishment of the resource, a surge of energy. Such practices include, for example, neigong or female Taoist practices.
Stagnation of energy: how to deal
What a person who has little energy looks like, we all more or less imagine: pale, apathetic, with a quiet voice and slow movements. And what does a person look like who has enough energy, but its circulation is disturbed? He is quite energetic, there is a lot of strength and enthusiasm, but inside he has chaos, instability, negative emotions. Why?
Tension in the body blocks the normal flow of energy, and it begins to stagnate. Chinese doctors believe that tensions are usually associated with one or another emotion that “shoots” against the background of this stagnation, as well as with a disease of the organs in which this stagnation has formed.
Here is a typical example. Tension in the chest area, externally manifested as stoop, tightness of the shoulder girdle, is associated simultaneously with sadness (a stooped person is more often sad, thinks about sad things and easily keeps this state, even if there is no objective reason for this), and with a disease of the heart and lungs – organs whose nutrition suffers due to the formed tension.
As the body learns to relax in motion, the emotional background will change – proven by years of qigong practice.
According to the philosophy of qigong, positive emotions fill a relaxed and flexible body by themselves – one through which energy circulates freely, and this relaxation should be easily and confidently achieved in active movement.
How to make the body relaxed and strong at the same time? There are many procedures for this – from SPA to osteopathy, plus, without fail, special relaxation practices. For example, qigong for the spine Sing Shen Juang.
As the body learns to relax in motion, the emotional background will change – proven by years of my personal qigong practice and thousands of years of experience of masters. Look for a new level of relaxation and notice how much joy it is to learn to accommodate such a flexible and free body.