As a natural food, the Spring Festival holiday is of course to eat, eat and eat ~ but! Do you think the digestion ability of your body is getting worse and worse when you relax and eat and drink during the holiday? So you start brain tonic.
If you go on like this, will I not be able to eat my favorite food? Will health get worse? Is there a problem with the function? Will the body…
Beep -! STOP！ Food has always been dripping, and so will health! Here are four simple yoga techniques to break the digestive crisis of previous eating habits during the Spring Festival.
Tiffanycruikshank is an expert in sports medicine and plastic surgery.
Tiffanycruikshank has a bachelor’s degree in medical plant biology and nutrition and a master’s degree in Oriental Medicine and acupuncture, It is also an expert who integrates holistic medicine and yoga.
In her book optimal health for a vibrant life, she proposed an orderly 30 day detoxification plan.
With the awakening of natural forces, we can take a little time every day to relax our bodies and focus on the depths of our hearts.
Here, together with Tiffany Cruikshank, the founder of Yoga medicine, we use a new practice to “detoxify” the body and help ourselves digest better.
In almost all alternative medical therapies (traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic therapy, natural therapy, etc.), good digestion has always been the cornerstone of health.
However, in today’s busy social life, digestion has become our last consideration.
We often think for the first time that digestion is related to what we eat, but in fact, there are many other factors that affect digestion, even more important than what we eat.
You may be well aware of the connection between the nervous system and the digestive system and the importance of eating slowly, because in this way, the parasympathetic nervous system can play its role in digesting and absorbing important nutrients from food.
From the perspective of holistic yoga, we can influence digestion in different ways.
Here are four very simple tips that you can do every day or when you need to.
You can choose.
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try to pre prandial this step is easy to ignore, but it is very effective, before eating 5-10 minutes to convert the nervous system to the eating mode, can help us digest better.
This is especially useful if you are under a lot of pressure or feel emotionally stressed at work.
Tiffany has found the quickest way from her own and patients’ experience, that is to use a simple breathing technique to directly transform the nervous system from stress mode (sympathetic nervous system) to digestive mode (parasympathetic nervous system).
Leave your job first and start by finding a comfortable sitting position.
Close your eyes and begin to deepen your breathing, counting four times silently as you inhale and four times silently as you exhale.
As you feel more comfortable, slowly start increasing the duration of your exhalation until you can inhale four times and exhale eight times.
The key here is to slowly increase the duration of exhalation to make you feel comfortable between breaths.
If you think you can’t do it, it doesn’t matter.
You can keep inhaling four times and exhaling six times until you can inhale four times and breathe eight times and repeat 3-5 times.
When you’re done, simply release your breath and slowly return to normal breathing.
Pay attention to the effect before you start eating.
Once you get used to the whole process, it only takes a few minutes to improve your nervous system, and your body will become easier to digest food.
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Eat carefully.
Our meals are often accompanied by all kinds of social exchanges or entertainment.
This is the best way to maintain emotion with the people around us.
It is also China’s ancient “table culture”, but do you know? This may also be an obstacle to the digestion process and absorption of food nutrition! In fact, before food is put into the mouth, most digestive functions in the human body have begun to work.
The brain sends signals through smell and thoughts about food to prepare for the arrival of food; Salivary glands secrete major digestive enzymes in the stomach; The pancreas begins to release acids and enzymes to assist in the digestion of food.
So when we wolf down, we may limit the nutrients our body gets from food because of the lack of some important steps.
So when we eat, we might as well take some time to pay attention to the sensory experience.
Pay attention to the aroma, touch and taste of those foods, and let yourself fully in the process of chewing and swallowing slowly.
It’s simple, but it’s easy to forget – slow down, experience all the feelings, absorb all the experience, and imagine being nourished by the consumption of gratitude.
Of course, it can also better taste delicious food.
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Use your blanket.
This position can stimulate the digestive process, preferably on an empty stomach between meals.
To do this, you just need a blanket and roll it up, 7-12 cm in diameter.
Place the rolled up blanket horizontally on the cushion and lie on it.
The rolled up blanket is facing the stomach (between the chest and pelvis).
Hang your head directly on the floor or put a pillow on it.
Inhale and gently move the blanket.
As you exhale, your abdomen is also relaxing.
At this time, move the blanket down to the lower abdomen.
Continue for 2-5 minutes and then relax slowly.
If you find this a little difficult and want to reduce the strength, you just need to roll the blanket a little smaller.
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Lying on your side can also stimulate the digestive process, and it is also the best way to complete it on an empty stomach between meals.
To complete this position, you need to fold two blankets folded into a rectangle together..