New Year’s bustle is a strong emotional stress. And when it ends and the holidays come, we are overtaken by physical stress: unusual food, a lot of alcohol, a failure in the mode. How to maintain strength and health at the end of the outgoing year and without any problems to celebrate the coming year?
We can tell ourselves a hundred times that before the New Year it is better not to fuss, and during the celebration you should not overeat, get drunk and sit in front of the TV night. But it is unlikely that many will listen to these ideas. So, we will face a festive stress one way or another.
What techniques of Taoists will help to bring themselves to life as quickly as possible and celebrate the New Year without stress for the body?
1.Meditation
This practice “pulls us out of the bustle, clarifies the mind and allows you to correctly prioritize: which is really important to complete before the New Year, what can be postponed for later, and what should be forgotten, even if everyone is talking about the opposite.
If you do not know how to meditate, try a simple Taoist technique of immersion in “internal silence”. With its help, you can turn off the flow of thoughts and listen to yourself.
- Put a timer or alarm for 3 minutes.
- Sit evenly. You can – on a chair or crossing the legs. As you wish. close your eyes.
- Relax your tongue. When we think, the language is reflexively tensing – we are preparing to express thoughts that spin in our heads. When the language is relaxed, and thoughts slow down.
- Pares attention to the breath, mentally “see” every breath and exhale. Do not accelerate and slow down. Just watch how it flows through the nose and throat in the chest.
For the first time you will be enough for these 3 minutes, but then you can increase the time of meditation. The next day, repeat the exercise. The key to success is in the regularity of practice.
2.Energy accumulation
The more our strength, the easier we cope with business, the more joy we even bring us routine chores. Just where to get energy from? For this, Taoists have a special practice – Neugun. These are breathing exercises that develop body capabilities and make us more energetic
. It is better to master these exercises under the control of the instructor.
3. The practice of “correct” intention
Taoists believe that our energy – that is, vitality – is spent on what we pay more attention to. Attention, in turn, is drawn to where we fasten our intentions. That is, knowing exactly what we want to achieve, we can control the flow of energy, directing it exactly where we need, and without wasting it to negative emotions, empty experiences and anxiety.
The correct formulation of intent is one of the most important skills of the Taoist tradition. It is believed that it is necessary to do this like this: “I want to be able to or create something, I want to be someone”.
If we formulate our aspiration correctly, it comes true exactly as we want. But if you say the goal wrong: “I want to have something,” we can get not at all what we dreamed about. Check in practice, the Taoist method works or not. Make wishes for the new year correctly.
