Are there any benefits to sleeping cross-legged

When many monks practice kung fu, the first thing they need to practice is sitting cross-legged in meditation. This is a very basic kung fu that everyone can practice. When practicing sitting cross-legged in meditation, our spirit and perseverance will become very strong, and the body will become straight, so it is still very good for physical health. So what are the benefits of sitting cross-legged in meditation?

1. Benefits of sitting cross-legged

1. Anyone can practice double-lotus. Even if you start at the age of 60, you can master it in about a year. If you start practicing in your 30s, it won’t take more than a year.

2. The double-lotus position not only strengthens the muscles and bones, but also opens up all the meridians.

3. If you master it and insist on sitting cross-legged for 20 minutes every day, you can ensure that you can climb mountains like a young man at the age of 70. Basically, you won’t get sick in your daily life.

4. After you have mastered the double-lotus position, you will no longer have back pain when you meditate. The kidney qi is sufficient, and even sitting with a hunched back is impossible.

The feet will make the spine very straight.

5. After a few days of training, you will have persistent leg pain and then back pain. It hurts even when I'm not practicing. this

A Chinese medicine doctor started practicing double-lotus at the age of 22 and claimed that he had lower back pain for half a year.

6. The specific practice is to sit in loose cross-legged position for a while every day, then try to sit in double cross-legged position until you are able to sit in the cross-legged position, and then endure the pain.

Until time gets longer and longer.

7. Practicing double-lotus position can quickly promote gastrointestinal motility. Even if you start exercising immediately after a meal, your stomach will be completely empty after 20 minutes.

8. Double-lotus sitting not only opens the meridians and blood vessels in the legs, but also opens the hip joints.

9. The double-lotus position actually presses the ankles against the aorta on the inner thigh. In order to open the aorta, the heart will enlarge.

The force pumps blood, thus opening up the blood vessels in the legs.

10. Before the blood vessels in the legs are opened up, the blood in the body is concentrated in the upper body because the arteries in the legs cannot carry blood.

At this time, the heart is increasing its blood supply, so the internal organs will receive a large amount of blood, which will quickly improve the function of the internal organs and promote blood supply to the brain.

Disadvantages of sitting cross-legged:

1. It can easily cause varicose veins

Since the legs are bent during meditation, maintaining this posture for a long time will cause poor blood circulation in the legs, hindering blood circulation in the lower limbs, and may lead to varicose veins.

2. Damage to the knee joint

Meditation requires sitting cross-legged for a long time. Some adults meditate because their bones are mature. Suddenly sitting for a long time is a passive stretch for the leg ligaments, which can easily cause ligament injuries. In addition, long-term bending of the joints can cause great damage to the meniscus, and the cartilage can also be affected, causing arthritis.

3. It is easy to cause lumbar muscle strain

When meditating, many people try to straighten their waist and back. Not only will they quickly experience back pain and back muscle fatigue, but continuing like this for a long time can easily lead to lumbar muscle strain.

4. Impact on the respiratory tract

It is easiest to fall asleep while meditating. However, when you fall asleep while meditating, your posture will inevitably be to bow your head and hunch your chest, which can easily cause problems such as chest tightness and difficulty breathing. If these problems accumulate over a long period of time, they will cause heart, chest and respiratory diseases. Even the body's spinal shape can be affected.

5. It may cause the buttocks to become larger

The main reason for larger buttocks is sitting for a long time without exercise, which causes fat to accumulate downwards and cause the buttocks to become larger, or it may cause compression of the pelvic cavity. Although meditation has no direct relationship with the enlargement of the buttocks, it does require sitting for a long time. If you only meditate without other exercises, it may cause the buttocks to become larger.

Meditation is a way to maintain health and fitness. Sit cross-legged with your eyes closed, adjust your breath, place your hands in a certain position, and don't think about anything. Meditation is also called "sitting cross-legged" or "sitting quietly". A basic practice in Taoism.

In Buddhism, it is called "Zen sitting" or "Zen meditation", which is a compulsory practice in Zen Buddhism. There are three types of cross-legged sitting: natural cross-legged sitting, double cross-legged sitting and single cross-legged sitting Meditation can not only nourish your body and prolong your life, but also open your mind and increase your wisdom. In the practice of Chinese martial arts, meditation is also a way to cultivate inner strength, cultivate the mind, and enhance willpower. The characteristic of meditation is "stillness". "Long-term stillness leads to concentration, while long-term movement leads to fatigue."

Therefore, after meditation, you should stretch your muscles and bones, such as boxing, sword dancing, shuttlecock kicking, self-massage, etc., to achieve the combination of movement and stillness.