This set of longevity secrets is actually applicable to humans. In summary, it is to eat less, move less, maintain adequate sleep, ensure a stable mentality, do not put pressure on yourself, slow down the pace of life as much as possible, and have a calm and leisurely attitude towards life.
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Some people may wonder, isn’t the prerequisite for good health based on a good appetite and more exercise?
In fact, it’s not necessarily true!
Eat less and move less is just a relative term, you have to be careful and only eat in moderation.
In comparison, whether you eat less and exercise more, or eat more and exercise less, it will have a negative impact on your body.
Similarly, eating more and moving more will not work, as it will speed up metabolism and cause various organs and tissues of the human body to enter the aging period in advance.
As early as the end of the last century, scientists once published the rate of living theory, which believed that metabolism and lifespan are inversely proportional, meaning that the faster the metabolism, the shorter the lifespan.
For example, bodybuilding is popular in Western countries. There are many muscular men who take in sufficient nutrients and do a lot of exercise every day. They should be healthy and live a long life. However, not many live long. Instead, they often die young.
Phenomenon that consumes one’s life energy early.
Let’s look at those old longevity stars in rural areas. They have lived in poverty all their lives. They don’t eat and drink well. They don’t have developed muscles. They are as thin as firewood. But they live a long life. It is very common to be eighty or ninety years old, and there are also some who are hundreds of years old.
Quite a few.
Of course, if a person wants to live longer, eating less and moving less is just one of them. The more important thing is the mentality. You can't worry about this or worry about that all day long. You must be simple-minded, pure-minded, and have as few desires as possible, so as to reduce the distracting thoughts in your heart as much as possible.
Only in this way can you live a long life.
This is also the key reason why immortal cultivators do not have the physical strength of martial cultivators, but their lifespans are longer.
You must know that cultivating immortality means cultivating the mind, and the impact of the mind on life span is beyond imagination and far exceeds physical factors.
The reason why Ye Xingyu mentioned this is because the Xuanwu Qi Training Technique is not only an internal skill and mental method, but also very consistent with health preservation.
"The way of practicing this set of exercises is a bit strange. You don't practice standing up or sitting down. Instead, you lie down to move your Qi while sleeping. It is very quiet and the Tao method is natural. This is different from other methods.
Qi training method can be regarded as a new approach, and it has many similarities with ancient seal yoga."
Ye Xingyu was right. Common internal skills and mental methods can be roughly divided into two categories. One is to practice while standing, just like boxing, relying on body movements to guide the movement of Qi and penetrate the whole body; the other is to practice while sitting.
, concentrate on meditation and visualization, and rely solely on thoughts to guide the circulation of qi and blood in the body. The body does not move and the mind moves.
In fact, there are also internal qi-moving techniques practiced while lying down, which can also fall into the second category, but they are only in a lying position, with high concentration and extremely clear consciousness. They are essentially different from the Xuanwu qi-training techniques practiced while sleeping.
The Xuanwu Qi Training Technique is very miraculous. It can put people into a very unique state of cultivation. It can circulate the true energy in the body during sleep without the need for deliberate guidance by the mind. This is a special feature that other Qi training methods do not have.
Because of this, the threshold for Xuanwu Qi Training Technique is set very high, making it difficult for ordinary people to understand and not know how to start practicing.
Fortunately, Ye Xingyu summarized and organized the obscure "Xuan Ming Zhen Jie" and described it again, which reduced the difficulty of understanding by several levels, otherwise no one would understand it.
In this regard, Ye Xingyu reminded: "The practice of this technique is quite interesting. To put it bluntly, it is actually about mastering a scientific method of sleeping. You can enter the cultivation state during rest without having to work hard, and the true energy will grow naturally.
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In fact, this is somewhat similar to Ye Xingyu's way of cultivating the soul. The difference is that one is to strengthen the soul and the other is to strengthen the true energy, and the results obtained are different.
The reason why Ye Xingyu did not use this technique was because he had a better Tongshen Fist that was more efficient.
Another point is that the Xuanwu Qi Training Technique has a strong yin-cold attribute, and the five elements govern water, so it is more suitable for women to practice. If it is replaced by a man, the effect will be slightly reduced, and the fit will be much worse.
"Finally, I give you three words, which are concentration, tranquility, and slowness." Ye Xingyu deliberately emphasized, "You must remember these three words, because they are the key to practicing Xuanwu Qi Training Technique!
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"What is concentration, tranquility, and slowness? How should we do it specifically?" Xuan Rumeng couldn't help but ask for advice.
"To put it simply, the mind should be kept stable, the body should be relatively still, and the flow of Qi should be as slow as possible." Ye Xingyu gave the answer on the spot and explained it one by one.
"Concentration of mind is the first prerequisite for sleeping peacefully. If there are various thoughts flashing in your mind, how can you possibly fall asleep? Since you can't fall asleep, there is no way to practice. But this technique is quite wonderful, and you can really fall asleep
It doesn’t work, without the participation and guidance of thinking consciousness, it will become a simple dormancy, and there will be no cultivation effect.”
"It's impossible to sleep, and it's impossible not to sleep. Isn't this very contradictory?" Xuan Rumeng was confused when he heard this.
"No contradiction!" Ye Xingyu waved his hand, "The so-called 'concentration' does not mean not thinking about anything, having an empty mind, but letting one's thinking consciousness enter a mysterious state that seems to be there but not to be.
state."
This seemed hard to understand. Xuan Rumeng still didn't understand and was still confused.
Ye Xingyu changed his explanation: "In other words, you have to cut off your five senses and enter a closed and isolated state of chaos. Everything in the outside world has nothing to do with you. There is only a little clarity left in your mind, just like
It’s like a vegetative state.”
It was more specific when he said it this way. Xuan Rumeng probably understood it and nodded repeatedly.
"Of course, vegetative state is what modern medicine calls it. In ancient times, we would have called this state the living dead."
Immediately afterwards, Ye Xingyu told an allusion: "Wang Chongyang, the founder of Quanzhen Taoism, once built a living dead tomb for himself, practiced in the tomb, isolated from the world, and lasted for nearly three years. After that, he reached
In the realm of the living dead, your martial arts will greatly increase, and your cultivation will reach the sky."
"The living dead? It feels so magical!" Xuan Rumeng was yearning for it after hearing it.
Ye Xingyu added: "Actually, this is very similar to the cultivation state of ancient Indian yoga. Those accomplished monks in ancient India were all living dead. They cut off the five senses and had only one mind. They completely controlled the body with their mind. As long as
As long as a thought remains, it is eternal and endless.”
After hearing these words, Xuan Rumeng finally understood why Ye Xingyu always said that Xuanwu Qi training and Guyin yoga had many similarities. It turned out that they both trained themselves to become a living dead.