Post Date December, 03 2023
As the saying goes, 'Food is better than medicine, and food is better than sleep.' Ultimately, sleep is a good medicine for tonifying the kidneys! The large amount of energy consumed by people in labor, work, and study is not only compensated by diet, but also by sleep. The ancients said, 'It's better to lie alone than to take medicine.' This means that a good night's sleep is better than taking tonic medicine.
1、 Two sleeping positions have a kidney tonifying effect
Recumbent yang
When practicing, the first step is to become proficient in the technique of recumbent yang, which can be practiced every night before falling asleep. Lie on your back naturally, with your hips relaxed, your legs bent, your calves retracted, your feet facing each other, your heels facing your perineum, your hands on your lower abdomen, and your palms facing your abdomen. After setting up the posture, Hui closed her eyes and silently recited the word "Xu" in her heart. She inhaled through her nose, intending to gather her energy in her lower abdomen, and then rolled it to her back waist; Exhale with your mouth, intending to expel evil energy from your body as you exhale. Practice for half an hour before going to bed every night.
Mixed yuan sleeper
After practicing for a month, the highest level of practice is the Hunyuan recumbent. The posture is still supine, with the palms of the feet facing each other, and the hands should cross with ten fingers and cover the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head. By practicing the Huanyang recumbent and Hunyuan recumbent, you can quickly replenish your yang energy!
2、 Sleeping precautions
Sleep direction
Sleep from the north to the south. The human body is influenced by the Earth's magnetic field anytime and anywhere, and the brain is also disturbed by the magnetic field during sleep. When a person sleeps, they adopt a position of head north and foot south to smoothly pass through the human body, minimizing the interference of the Earth's magnetic field.
Sleeping posture
Sleeping like a bow has a good effect, and lying on the right side has a light burden. Due to the fact that the human heart is mostly located on the left side of the body, lying on the right side can reduce the pressure on the heart, while avoiding placing hands near the heart to avoid waking up from nightmares.
Sleep time
Sleep throughout the year. In spring and summer, one should "sleep late and wake up early", in autumn, one should "sleep early and wake up early", and in winter, one should "sleep early and wake up late". It is best to wake up before sunrise and not too late. The normal sleep time for people is generally around 8 hours per day, and those who are physically weak and sickly should increase their sleep time appropriately.
Sleeping period
Both "night owl" and "early to bed and late to rise" individuals should identify their biological clock and improve the efficiency of sleep and rest. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the hours of midnight (from 11am to 1am) and noon (from 11pm to 1pm during the day) are the time when the temperature difference changes the most daily. During this period, the human body needs to rest appropriately.
Sleep environment
In the bedroom, excessive electrical appliances should be avoided as much as possible to ensure that the human brain is not disturbed too much during rest. In addition, do not wear items such as "watches", "teeth", or mobile phones to sleep, as this can affect your health.
People who stay up late for many years, regardless of gender, directly harm their liver and kidneys over time, gradually causing a loss of both qi and blood in their bodies. When looking in the mirror every day, they feel a gray and dusty complexion. At this point, even with daily nutrition and physical exercise, the harm caused by insufficient or poor sleep cannot be recovered.
Therefore, it's okay to wake up early, but sleeping late is definitely not acceptable. Many people with low energy often have the habit of staying up late, which can easily damage the liver, essence, and gallbladder. People like this often have difficulty using their eyes, are often depressed, and do not have many happy moments (their lungs are also affected, which is the reason for not being effectively promoted for a long time).
Some people believe that if they sleep late at night, they can make up for it during the day. However, they cannot make up for it at all, either they cannot sleep or they cannot sleep enough. Even if they feel that they have made up for it, their body's qi and blood have already been mostly damaged.
