Living and living in a regular manner, over time will develop habits to form a biological clock, want to change is difficult. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is difficult for people to grow old by keeping in mind the four precepts of sleep.


Rule 1: Sleep before childhood

In the concept of health preservation of the ancients, sleep is the first important thing in life.


If you don't go to bed before the second hour of the day (equivalent to 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. the next day), you will injure the liver and kidney, and over time you will lose both your energy and blood. When you look in the mirror every day, you will feel dirt and grey.


At this time, even if daily nutrition, daily exercise, can not recover the damage caused by lack of sleep or poor sleep.

Therefore, it's better not to go to bed late. Many depressed people have the habit of sleeping late. Such a person, the mood will be greatly affected, happy time is not much.

Others think that sleeping late at night can make up for it during the day, but it's hard to make up for it. Either you can't sleep or you can't sleep enough. Even if you feel compensated, your body's Qi and blood have actually been damaged.


Rule 2: Sleep without thinking


"See this body as nothing, or as sugar in water, first melt the big toes, then the other toes, then the feet, legs, thighs gradually melt, and finally disappear, naturally fall asleep."
This is the ideal state of mind when you fall asleep. Many times, insomnia results from lingering miscellaneous thoughts when you fall asleep.

At this time, do not toss and turn in bed, in order to avoid wasting energy, more difficult to fall asleep. If you toss and turn, the best way is to sit up for a while and then sleep.

In fact, for modern people, it is also crucial to go to bed early and nurture emotions in order to give the mind a time to slow down.

"Sleep first, then sleep eyes", that is the truth.

If you still can't, you can try to simply press your legs before going to bed, then sit naturally in bed, overlap your hands on your legs, breathe naturally, feel the whole body pore as you breathe. If you can yawn with tears, you can fall asleep when you want to sleep.

Article 3: It is advisable to take a nap or sit quietly to refresh oneself at noon (equivalent to 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.). At this time, if conditions are limited and one cannot sleep, one can sit quietly for a quarter of an hour and keep one's eyes closed.

In fact, as long as you close your eyes at noon and really fall asleep for three minutes, it's equivalent to two hours'sleep, but it's just at noon. At night, you have to fall asleep at the time of your son. Five minutes equals six hours.

Article 4: Early rising is good for health

It's best to get up before 6 o'clock.

For human health, getting up early is beneficial to human metabolism. The advantage of getting up early is that the metabolic turbidity can be discharged out of the body in time. If you get up too late, the large intestine can not be fully mobilized, it will not be able to complete excretion function well.

In addition, the digestive and absorption function of the human body is the most active from 7 to 9 in the morning, which is the "golden time" of nutrient absorption.


Therefore, do not stay in bed, dizziness, fatigue, many are caused by sleepiness.