Six secrets that yoga masters never tell others

There is no shortage of masters in this world, and there are masters in every walk of life. Take yoga for example, there are countless masters of it. However, yoga masters all have the same secrets, and these secrets are what they are unwilling to tell others.

1. I need to breathe

Are you breathing? Breathing is a magic weapon for health preservation that everyone is born with, but we usually only achieve 30% of breathing. The rest is not only not fully utilized, but even ignored! In fact, as long as you return to the simple exploration of infancy, you will be surprised that the breathing method of yoga is so simple and easy. Here I want to shout out loud: Breathe! Take a big deep breath, and then take a few more deep breaths - do you feel relaxed now? Let us practice yoga to find the remaining 70% of our potential and discover our simplicity and energy!

If you still don't know how to breathe correctly, don't worry. As you read this article, aren't you breathing? It's that simple! Next, you just need to learn to focus all your energy on your breathing and consciously control your breathing instead of breathing casually as usual. This is the beginning of learning the breathing technique. It's that easy!

Remember, always consciously remind yourself: I need to breathe.

2. I want to warm up

Do you often feel numb all over and unable to move when you move your body after sitting in a fixed posture for a few minutes? Be careful, be careful, your blood circulation is so slow that it is protesting to you with numbness! You may be sitting as steady as a rock now, but be careful or you will soon become a fossil - you must know that fossils will break, bend, crack or injure if they fall! So if you are a person who does not exercise at all, get up quickly and move your stiff body. But remember, you must warm up first to avoid hurting your body like a fossil! "Warming up" is something you must do before doing any exercise, especially before starting yoga practice. Whether you are a completely motionless fossil or an active person who exercises regularly, "warming up" is a very important and necessary sports safety concept before doing any exercise to avoid unnecessary sports injuries.

Remember, tell yourself before practicing: I need to warm up.

3. I want to relax

We often see some graceful dancers exuding a soft, flexible and elegant body language when they dance, which attracts our eyes for a long time. Such a soft posture is really enviable. If you change to a picture where you jump up and down with your hands and feet together and your whole body stiff like a wooden stake, it would be unbearable! So the key to being soft and beautiful is to learn to relax first, and to become a yoga beauty, you must have a magic weapon to relax!

Think about it, if you clench your fists and then pound the table to show relaxation, then when you practice yoga it will become a miserable scene of hard old bones pounding the floor, not to mention entering the gentle world of yoga! So stop clenching your fists. Take a deep breath and relax the strength of your fists...see! Your hands become soft. Come on! Start by relaxing your hands, then extend that to your shoulders, and then your whole body. With relaxation, you will be soft; with softness, your muscles and bones will become elastic; with elasticity, you will become as graceful and coordinated as a dancer. It's that simple! When your body is relaxed, it becomes flexible, and no one will dare to say that you are a hard-headed person and not suitable for yoga!

Remember, the first tip for beginners of yoga is to remind yourself often: I need to relax.

4. I want to feel

In fact, practicing yoga is very simple and easy. There is only one trick, which is to "follow your feeling" when practicing! Please say loudly with me: "I want to feel!" It is because "feeling" is a very simple thing and it is easily overlooked. For example, in daily life, do you always feel that you are breathing? Do you always feel that you are relaxing? As long as you are more sensitive to your own "feelings", you can feel whether your body and mind are balanced, and whether your whole body is affected by stress or discomfort. By practicing yoga postures, you can feel your body twisting, folding, leaning back, bending forward, etc., to apply force, massage, stretch, squeeze, and relax your whole body, and in the process of practice, operate and implement it to the degree that you can feel most.

Relieving physical and mental discomfort by feeling, and practicing within your ability by feeling is the safest and most unforced method! By experiencing the feelings in this way, you can develop your body's potential, communicate with your deep body self, release endorphins through yoga, and get results, happiness and satisfaction from yoga postures. So when practicing yoga, always remind yourself: I want to feel.

5. I want to focus

Serious women are the most beautiful, because seriousness and concentration is a charming factor. If you spread this factor to every part and every cell of your body, you will certainly be beautiful! To practice yoga, you must be so serious and focused on the feeling of every inch and every minute of your body inside and outside, and awaken your body's functions. Feel and love your body, and use your focused consciousness to feel, experience, and protect the most sensitive parts. Practice yoga asanas, and feel press, press, touch, push, pull, squeeze, tighten, and loosen your body due to changes in postures. Use your focused consciousness to taste, experience, gain, improve, and enjoy, and feel the changes and comfort of soreness, pain, swelling, and numbness to achieve the best results.

Being serious can make you the most beautiful woman, and being focused can make you the healthiest woman. Therefore, when practicing yoga, you must declare: I want to focus.

6. I want balance

How long has it been since you last felt balanced? "Balance" is very important to health. A balanced body and mind will make you radiant. A person who has lost balance will definitely be dull, just like a house cannot be built into a tall building without a solid and balanced foundation. The only exception is the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, which is a miracle that has only appeared for several centuries. In order to maintain its balance, later generations have tried their best to repair and maintain it, and find the "balance in imbalance" to maintain it. Therefore, balance is very important. Only with balance can we have a solid pillar and a healthy body and mind. So another trick to practicing yoga is to be "balanced": after doing a simple backbend, remember to bend forward; after doing the left side, don't forget the right side; after twisting the right side, remember to twist the left side as well. This is the correct way to practice in a balanced way!

Of course, you can also strengthen the practice of parts of the body that you don't often move in daily life. If you are an office worker who sits for long periods of time, you need to practice standing postures often to maintain balance; if you are a worker who stands for long periods of time, you need to practice lying, reclining, sitting, etc. to balance the imbalance of standing for long periods of time and regain the balance of your whole body. In this way, your body will exude a balanced, healthy sense of comfort! Therefore, when practicing yoga, you must remember: I want to be balanced.