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Our Meditation Practice under the Ravage of covid-19 Epidemic

It has been more than a year and a half since we have been living this life of staying at home regularly under the preventive and control measures of covid-19. Faced with an increasingly critical situation, doctors, patients, and those of us who live a day-to-day life in our homes are constantly going to the news these days to see how many more patients have been added in which city today? Which country has started to implement some severe protection measures? Which friend has been cured and discharged from the hospital? Where will humanity go if the virus is finally out of control? Those fears, anxieties, and insecurities in our hearts are constantly being pulled out, and the psychological pressure from all sides is increasing. The world seems to have hit the pause button, and humanity is caught in an endless fear. In the face of the virus, we are ignorant, our lives are fragile and vulnerable, lightly floating in the sky like withered leaves in late autumn, young or old, women or men, poor or rich, stupid or smart, all are the same.

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The days of being confined at home are as long as a whole century, and there is only the loneliness of our solitude. When we do not have a normal work schedule, we easily lose ourselves, all kinds of stress, coupled with irregular work and rest, our tempers become more and more irritable. Grumpiness is because we feel very confused about the uncertainty of the future, so we neglect the present moment instead. The essence of meditation is precisely to focus on the present moment. When we get angry, it is mostly because we are dissatisfied with ourselves, and this dissatisfaction often stems from a lack of hope for the future. However, it is of no use to keep thinking about this; the future will not be bright by empty thoughts. In fact, we have always been this way to guide ourselves. Here's a special compliment for Doris. While staying at home, we go to make a link with our soul, enhance our awareness and enhance our body's immunity.

Our body's awareness and immunity are constantly and continuously strengthened through the consistent daily practice of meditation. We have significant changes in our body and brain during and after meditation, which are related to our positive emotional state. Therefore, we train our positive emotions through meditation. During meditation, our breathing slows down and our heart rate and blood oxygen levels rise. The benefit of meditating at the same time each day is that the biorhythms can be naturally adjusted so that a habit is developed, as if waking up, eating and sleeping, the nervous system will get used to sitting still at a specific time, which makes it easier to enter a deep meditative state. Find a time to meditate that soothes us, perhaps before dawn or after a bath. The length of meditation depends on the specific situation we are in at the time. Emotional state is closely related to immunity, and a stable mood is a strong barrier against viruses. Perform scientific methods of stress relief, such as abdominal breathing, etc.

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Abdominal breathing simply means to inhale deeply into the abdomen and then exhale slowly from the abdomen. When our body is very relaxed or asleep, the body will automatically adjust to abdominal breathing. Meditation, in plain language, means to let the mind think of nothing and enter a state of brain emptiness. We begin our meditation practice with music that aligns our body - preparing it for deep meditation. We adjust our awareness inward through deep breathing. Exclude all outside distractions and focus our awareness on our breath, inhaling deeply, drawing fresh air into our abdomen, which slowly rises outward, and then exhaling slowly, expelling the exhausted, foul air from our body outward, and contract the small abdomen inward. Maintain this breathing rhythm, slowly become calm inside, leave all worries and distractions behind, relax our body and brain, enter a state of thinking about nothing, and enter meditation.

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We again pay attention to our breath, inhale deeply, exhale slowly, move our fingers and toes gently, and after 5-6 breaths, we relax our hands, our legs, our whole body. In a peaceful atmosphere, we enter the world of meditation with devotion, we enter our own sacred soul: The wise man is happy with water, water benefits all things but does not compete，water is so soft that it can accommodate everything, water is also so rigid that a drop of water can penetrate a stone. Its property of being both rigid and flexible is compatible with many states of life. When we practice "water meditation", we can adopt any posture that makes us feel as comfortable as possible，either sitting or lying down. Imagine ourselves as a lake or a stream, or even an imperceptible drop of water. Merge our body and mind with the water. Sometimes the breath is like waves, sometimes like ripples, until it slowly fades away, leaving a clear surface of water, like a mirror, reflecting the woods, the sky, the clouds, everything in nature.

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With the meditation of water, we open our hearts and minds to reflect everything without judgement. We focus on our breath and mind and see when it is calm and when the wind and waves roll in. The world is a volatile place and life is unpredictable, but we can choose to live a peaceful self. When facing the confusion of life, benevolent people can always find support and spiritual guidance in the mountains. The mountain symbolizes eternity and tranquility. When we practice "Mountain Meditation", we sit cross-legged and imagine ourselves as a mountain, our crossed legs are the foot of the mountain, our chest is the waist of the mountain, our head is the top of the mountain, we breathe in the gentle breeze of the mountain and exhale the dark clouds in the sky. We focus on the majesty, calmness and beauty of the mountain, we imagine the trees, the streams and the temples among the mountains, and from the appearance to the character, we unite our life experience with the spirit of the mountain. Sometimes it is difficult for us to sit still, but as long as we are attentive, we can meditate while sitting, lying and walking.

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Walking itself conceals wisdom, and meditating while walking requires us to break free from the inertia of daily life and make walking the focus of awareness. During this time, we focus our attention on our feet, feeling each movement as we lift our legs, drop our feet, and land, and the connections between the movements. Each step is as soothing as possible, with deep breathing, feeling how the body is subtly moving and how the earth is powerfully holding us up. We can choose to walk slowly on the sparsely populated trails, or we can choose to walk back and forth in our homes, we can go fast and then slow, or we can go slow and then fast. When we focus on our feet, our anxiety and restlessness will be soothed by the earth, and we can see ourselves as we have never known us before by being fully present in the moment. The object of meditation while standing is to see a tree, a magnificent thousand-year-old pine tree，or a willow on the river bank. Imagine ourselves as big trees, with our feet rooted in the earth. Men will have more strength, women will add a few charming.

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Imagine the breath as the dawn breeze of spring, or the sea breeze of an island, it is on our skin, it is in every pore of our body, it is between our chest cavities. It is as if the earth can hear our heartbeat and begins to murmur to us. When we stand on the balcony of our home, or anywhere, if we are alone, we can open our hands like the branches of a tree, stretching out in various positions and accepting everything inclusively. Meditation while lying down can relax the body and mind more easily and as desired. Every night before we go to bed, we lie down in bed and give our body a relaxing scan. Give each part of our own body a command to relax completely. The brain slows down, the neck slowly stretches, and from the top of the head to the soles of the feet, one part at a time, relaxes, guiding the breath to continuously integrate with each part of the body. Once the meditation is complete, it is necessary to give our body some time to adjust. Move our and shoulders and neck slowly...

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