Thursday, July 13, 2006
Hibernate
Good morning,
Believe it or not, hibernate off high blood pressure !
Bears are known to hibernate. They do this not only in winter but also in warmer climates. The main reason they hibernate is to conserve energy when food is scarce and also because they do not migrate. When they hibernate their respiration rate drops to as slow as eight breaths a minute during deepest sleep, like chipmunks. Bears also do not need to wake up to eliminate body wastes. Instead, they metabolize their body wastes into usable products and obtain the food they need from their fat reserves.
Human beings are not like bears; yet there are well known stories about man being buried in the ground and survived when they were exhumed, such as The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson and No Coffin for the Corpse by Clayton Rawson, a very good mystery thriller. These are just novels, but were the authors telling us that man can also hibernate. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other famous authors have also written about inventions which were eras ahead of their contemporaries. There was also Chester Gould who told us long ago about two-way television wrist watches, in the Dick Tracy comic strips, which are coming into existence. It turned out that they were not dream makers.
So, can man hibernate ? Actually we do, in man's way. Jigong and Taiji masters do this; they do it for good health only though. They tell us how in the way of breathing, the breathing we were born with and which we lost as we grew. When a baby is born, it breathes naturally by extending its lower abdomen, not by expanding its chest, easily, smoothly and calmly. And they tell us to extend the duration of each breath and lower the breathing rate to about six to eight times per minute, which is what the bears do. People normally breathe between fifteen and twenty times per minute, which is a bit kancheong or excitedly.
Jigong and Taiji practitioners also tell us something else; they tell us that people who practise these exercises regularly do not suffer from high blood pressure. These exercises are in the form of slow deliberate unrestrained natural movements of the whole body and which are aimed at improving blood circulation and maintaining proper qi in the body. The Chinese in China had in the 1950s extracted an eclectic combination of twenty four steps from the original Taiji exercise which comprises over a hundred steps, and called that the 24 Steps Simplified Taiji. This basic and easy to perform form of Taiji is being practised by countless people every day. There are very old practitioners who looked like centenarians. What does that say ?!
It is easy to know the veracity of the Jigong or Taiji masters' claim about maintaining proper body blood pressure. Trying it is one way.
Have a nice day
Ronald
Believe it or not, hibernate off high blood pressure !
Bears are known to hibernate. They do this not only in winter but also in warmer climates. The main reason they hibernate is to conserve energy when food is scarce and also because they do not migrate. When they hibernate their respiration rate drops to as slow as eight breaths a minute during deepest sleep, like chipmunks. Bears also do not need to wake up to eliminate body wastes. Instead, they metabolize their body wastes into usable products and obtain the food they need from their fat reserves.
Human beings are not like bears; yet there are well known stories about man being buried in the ground and survived when they were exhumed, such as The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson and No Coffin for the Corpse by Clayton Rawson, a very good mystery thriller. These are just novels, but were the authors telling us that man can also hibernate. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other famous authors have also written about inventions which were eras ahead of their contemporaries. There was also Chester Gould who told us long ago about two-way television wrist watches, in the Dick Tracy comic strips, which are coming into existence. It turned out that they were not dream makers.
So, can man hibernate ? Actually we do, in man's way. Jigong and Taiji masters do this; they do it for good health only though. They tell us how in the way of breathing, the breathing we were born with and which we lost as we grew. When a baby is born, it breathes naturally by extending its lower abdomen, not by expanding its chest, easily, smoothly and calmly. And they tell us to extend the duration of each breath and lower the breathing rate to about six to eight times per minute, which is what the bears do. People normally breathe between fifteen and twenty times per minute, which is a bit kancheong or excitedly.
Jigong and Taiji practitioners also tell us something else; they tell us that people who practise these exercises regularly do not suffer from high blood pressure. These exercises are in the form of slow deliberate unrestrained natural movements of the whole body and which are aimed at improving blood circulation and maintaining proper qi in the body. The Chinese in China had in the 1950s extracted an eclectic combination of twenty four steps from the original Taiji exercise which comprises over a hundred steps, and called that the 24 Steps Simplified Taiji. This basic and easy to perform form of Taiji is being practised by countless people every day. There are very old practitioners who looked like centenarians. What does that say ?!
It is easy to know the veracity of the Jigong or Taiji masters' claim about maintaining proper body blood pressure. Trying it is one way.
Have a nice day
Ronald
# posted by chunmu @ 7:24 PM 
