Breathing is the basic vital characteristic of everyone, but few people pay attention to their own breathing. If you have time, you might as well stop and count your breaths.

According to the standard of modern medicine, the respiratory rate of most people is 16-20 times per minute, more than 24 times is considered too fast, and 16 times lower than 16 times too slow. But let's go back and look at the breath of the ancients, and find that they only have 13,500 breaths per day and night (one breath and one breath), which translates to no more than ten breaths per minute. This comparison is very meaningful, because modern research shows that lifespan is inversely proportional to breathing rate, and the slower the breathing, the longer the lifespan, a conclusion that surprised many people.

An old Chinese doctor once said: "Life is like a burning candle. The more it burns, the faster it goes out." Therefore, a person who is good at maintaining health must understand the truth of water flowing. Therefore, modern people should maintain health slowly, breathe slowly, heartbeat should be slow, and taste life quietly in a calm and gentle way. However, real life is often fast-paced and high-pressure, which makes people exhausted and has no time to take care of their physical conditions. So, I think we should choose different ways to slow down the pace of our lives.

Xu Shangying, a qin master in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "When playing the qin, one is adjusting the breath and the other is practicing the fingers." Guqin can help us adjust our breathing. A person who is short of breath and impatient is unlikely to perfectly display the harmonious and elegant voiceless sounds in the guqin. On the other hand, if we perform the guqin music well through practice, then the time to adjust the breath will be almost the same. .

Actually, it's not just playing the piano. A person who can understand the music of the piano will inevitably be able to integrate himself into the harmonious and soothing rhythm of life.

Here are a few important principles of healthy breathing.

First, calm down.

Second, be gentle. And to achieve such a level, "put the feather on the nose and mouth, and exhale without the feather moving."

Third, abdominal breathing.

"The real person in ancient times has a deep breath. The real person's breath is through the heel, and the breath of everyone is through the throat." The breath of the ancients was based on Dantian. In the sense of modern science, abdominal breathing can accelerate the blood circulation of the abdomen, accelerate the metabolism of the abdomen, and is conducive to the elimination of toxins and wastes. As the saying goes, "all medicines are poisonous." If we can achieve the purpose of health care in the most natural way, without the use of medicine, why not do it? Every day, it is very helpful for our life to just take a short time to adjust our breath to calm our minds.