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Rebuild Sleep Question:
Teacher Xiao Ming, why are these methods of brain training of yours effective?
Teacher Xiao Ming replied:
Eastern and Western philosophies are different, and Western philosophy has entered the age of subject and object since Descartes, which means that the subject and the object are separated, and the blind behavior that occurs when looking at oneself is avoided.
Westerners have produced the Western way of psychological counseling through the subject-object philosophy, a counselor and a client. The same is true of religions in the West, such as the behavior between a religious figure and a person who asks for help.
And our Chinese's physical and mental cultivation, including the entire Eastern philosophy, talks about a person's inner self, starting from oneself and doing it for oneself, such as the well-known meditation and meditation are one's behavior, which is equivalent to psychological training.
Being Chinese is actually very blessed, because we are easily exposed to these training methods in ancient China, and a foreigner who looks at ancient Chinese things will not learn at all.
Tai Chi is not a martial art used to practice Xi attack, but in the practice of how to achieve the integration of body and mind Xi, the hand that often plays Tai Chi will make a ball, as if dribbling, in fact, when we do this state, we focus our attention on such a wide range.
Whether it is Tai Chi, meditation, meditation, some leaders have training methods and use table tennis rackets to dribble and play Tai Chi, which is very difficult, and the table tennis balls can easily fall off the table tennis rackets.
Whether it is Baduanjin or various **, all the training methods created by the Chinese are actually a attention training method, and at the same time a breathing regulation method, because breathing can adjust the autonomic nervous system.
As Chinese, it is a pity not to understand these methods, because we have many innate advantages.
Computer engineers in Silicon Valley had a lot of mental energy, so they needed a way to decompress, so they went to the East to look for it, because the West didn't have it. After going to the East, I went to India, Japan, and China.
I found a lot of spiritual secrets in Eastern civilizations, and when I arrived in the West, I changed to the most popular mindfulness in Silicon Valley. Mindfulness is restored to China, and in fact everyone does, that is, visualize, breathe, meditate, and stand on a stump.
If you open an ancient book from the past, you can see a variety of training methods. It's just that today's people are reluctant to read ancient books, and prefer to read Western things. In fact, many of our good things have been turned into exports and domestic sales.
If you are willing to seek this kind of training method from ancient Chinese books, there are actually a lot of them. The training methods in "Sleep in Seconds - Sleep Anytime, Anywhere is the Method of Happiness" are actually some of the methods I found in the ancient books of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in ancient China.
So at the end of the day, the most important way to relieve anxiety and stress is to focus on one thing and let your brain go.
Many people who are stressed in big cities will choose to go to Dali regularly to see nature and snow-capped mountains, why?
So he doesn't have to look at the buildings in the city, because when we see the viaducts, buildings, traffic jams, traffic lights in the city, all we actually get is anxiety.
But if we go to a natural place, no matter what kind of natural place it is, we will look at it with our brain, and our attention will start to change, and when we slowly adjust, we will enter a state of daze, and in fact our brain will be empty. According to the old saying, if it can be maintained, it will be settled. For many practitioners, the past meditation is the best way for the brain to practice.
Nowadays, the cost of a city person to travel to a place is very high, in fact, even if you usually look at a pot of flowers or a leaf, you can consciously narrow your attention, leave the time and space of the moment, and forget where you live now.
Children don't have much to do to study mud and leaves, and they can study very intently for a long time, so they have an easier life.
After entering the industrial age, due to the long working hours or when we need to think deeply about work, the brain has to remain excited, and human beings have begun to be inseparable from medicines.
I suggest that you take a few days off for yourself, and use a few days off to stop forcing yourself to sleep, for example, if I can't sleep today, let yourself go to work, or do something you like to do, and you will find that once you don't let yourself sleep, you will soon get tired, what's going on?
The human brain is not actually one command, but two. We think that one is the emotional center headquarters, the other is the cognitive center decision-making headquarters, reason and emotion are two ** states, in these two ** states, if you tell yourself that I can't sleep today, there is a lot of work to do, and I have to work overtime, then the part of the brain that is physiologically needed by you will find that you have violated the circadian rhythm, and it will create stronger hormones that will make you feel tired.
So once you start not to let yourself sleep, but you get tired, then you just lie down. Well, it's from you today, and I'm asleep. But if you say I'm going to force myself to sleep now, the more I force it, the clearer my brain becomes. Why?
Because the brain knows that there must be something undone, it will keep waking you up and making you unable to sleep.
So if we don't have to go to work for a few days, let ourselves adjust completely automatically in those few days, once the brain automatically adjusts, it will return to the normal biological rhythm of the past, and naturally fall asleep.
But if we don't have such a time, and we really want to adjust a normal and natural sleep rhythm while going to work, we have to rely on this book to train our sleep skills and turn sleep into a switch.
After a period of sleep training, about half a year, I adjusted my brain's sleep switch, and as soon as the switch was turned on, it would enter a sleep state.
When you first start training, you may not be able to fully enter biological sleep, and you may even feel vague and a little awake, but it doesn't matter, as long as the prefrontal lobe is closed, the brain is dormant.
As soon as you start saying I'm going to do something to sleep today, you're going to lose sleep. So the secret of sleep is the cognitive remodeling we mentioned earlier, reshaping one's belief system.
If you're really going to sleep well today, you have to tell yourself that I'm going to work overtime today, and then your brain starts to get tired of you. Don't force yourself to sleep anymore, it's good to lie to your brain. I had a lot of insomnia when I was in graduate school, and once because I had to take the master's degree English exam the next day, it was very difficult, I didn't speak English very well, and then I woke up in the middle of the night, in fact, because the brain knew that you didn't study well, it automatically woke you up.
I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that it was only three o'clock, and if I couldn't sleep at this time, I would definitely do a mess in the exam the next day, and then I began to lie to my brain, saying that I would not go to the exam tomorrow, and I would not be ready to go to graduate school, so I began to lie to myself a lot, and after lying for a while, I fell asleep.
Because the brain is not a command. For the brain, if there is a way to tame it, to domesticate it, or even to use deception, the secret is in this book.
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Returning to nature, in the process of interacting with nature, one's self-concept can be restored. Not only children, but also adults. It's easy to get positive feedback on nature activities.