Brain exercises: good wishes, not so good facts
From the point of view of general health care to position, I think brain exercises help refresh the brain to solve fatigue.
But if the height to be able to education, increase the height of intelligence, can only say that the desire is very good, in fact, not very possible.
Because the human brain is too complex, intelligence enhancement by nutrition, the environment, emotions, sleep quality and other factors, a single factor is difficult to play a decisive role.
According to the Beijing Daily, the elementary school version of the Chinese Medicine Brain Exercise, jointly launched by the Beijing Society of Learning Sciences and the Beijing Acupuncture Society, has been officially released. In the new semester, teachers and students in 10 elementary school will pilot the brain exercise.
According to the different characteristics of the three age groups: low, middle and high, the elementary school version of the Chinese medicine brain exercise is divided into three small sets, one for the first and second grades, one for the third and fourth grades, and one for the fifth and sixth grades. Each set has seven sections, of which the first two sections and the seventh section are the same, including closing the eyes and turning the eyes, following the Governor’s vein and stretching the bladder meridian. The other four sections increase with the age of the students action amplitude also relatively increased, focus on refreshing the brain, stress reduction and relaxation, such as the third section of the exercise, first and second grade is to press and rub the Zanzhu point, third and fourth grade is to press the solar plexus scraping hair, fifth and sixth grade is to rub and press the Fengchi point.
It is reported that the elementary school version of Chinese medicine brain exercise is mainly for elementary school teachers and students, the action design range is not large, and a small footprint, easy to carry out in the classroom and indoor. Each set of exercises to do down to about 10 minutes, do not have to do exercises like eye exercises that take up special time, but by the teacher in the classroom flexible control, if the teacher found that students look tired, energy is not concentrated, you can let students do one or two of the sections to adjust.
Ma Xianping, president of the Beijing Learning Science Society, said that in the future, the type of design of brain exercises will be refined into three major parts before, during and after class. “In addition, we are going to design a series of brain-building exercises for early rising, after lunch, before exams and self-study.”
In the new semester, teachers and students in 10 elementary school, including Yongtai Primary School, Jingtong Primary School, Fresh Hutong Primary School and Fengtai Experimental Primary School of Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, will take the lead in doing brain-healthy exercises. During the year, the junior high school version of the Chinese medicine brain exercise will also be released.
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Various kinds of Chinese and foreign brain exercises
Content varies from fan to fan
In fact, from the domestic folk passed down for hundreds of years of simple “sounding the sky drum”, to a lot of finger movement, and even the American advocates of cross-crawling, hip swinging legs, symmetrical graffiti and other more complex twenty-six “brain exercise”, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, in the form of Brain exercises have existed for many years. Although the content varies, but there is no shortage of fans. Many training institutions at home and abroad see business opportunities in a variety of parenting or extracurricular coaching classes in the timely introduction of “brain exercises” to increase the appeal.
Whether it is “Mingtian drum” or finger exercises, many of the domestic brain exercises refer to traditional medical theory and health methods; while foreign brain exercises, more references to modern medical theory; which, left and right brain balance, strengthen the application of right brain development in order to educate and increase the wisdom of the point of view has been repeatedly stressed.
The reporter learned that the practice of brain exercise groups especially the elderly and children and adolescents most prominent. Most of the elderly people take the initiative to practice on their own, children and teenagers are mostly under the guidance of their parents to participate in extra-curricular tutoring institutions, more or less passive and for. For children, parents hope that they do brain exercises can be educational, learning more efficiently, while the elderly hope that the practice can slow brain aging, prevention of dementia.
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I heard that an elementary school will pilot the brain exercise, some parents expressed support: “Although always shouted to reduce the burden, but to this day, children’s learning pressure is still very large. Schools and teachers can consciously guide their children to refresh and relax according to their learning status in the classroom, and that’s really what I want.”
According to an article on the Beijing Learning Science Society, on January 14 this year, the Chinese medicine brain exercise conference was held in Beijing, the person in charge introduced the “Chinese medicine brain exercise” is a combination of traditional Chinese culture, Chinese medicine theory and health care methods and Western brain exercise theory created from the exercise method reflects the combination of movement and static. The “static exercise” is based on the regulation of the meridians of Chinese medicine, and the “dynamic exercise” is based on the appropriate movement of various parts of the body. Both exercises with the rest, can harmonize the meridians and blood, moderately promote breathing, heart rate and blood circulation, relieve fatigue, improve the functional state of the brain, enhance the coordination of various parts of the body, promote metabolism, play the role of brain, brain and brain enhancement.
”But can it really be as effective as it is said to be?” Some parents expressed doubts. These years, in the name of “brain” “speculation concept” a lot, especially for students, a variety of brain health food, health care products, which are not lack of exaggerated propaganda. Some netizens’ comments are more pointed, that “the same as eye exercises, are deceptive things.”
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”All kinds of brain exercises at home and abroad, whether based on the theory of Chinese medicine or modern medicine, in guiding people to stimulate certain parts may be able to cause the corresponding feedback, to wake up the brain and relieve fatigue will have some help, but its role can not be blindly exaggerated.” Professor Zhuang Lixing, director of acupuncture department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that even though all kinds of brain exercises have a certain theoretical basis, but the human brain is too complex, its changes are not only affected by daily behavior, but also with nutrition, environment, emotions, sleep quality and other various influences, and not a few sets of “theoretical seem to be justified “The action will be able to play a decisive role in the control.
”If the brain exercise to the height of the educational, intellectual height, can only say that the desire is very good, in fact, not likely.” Zhuang Lixing, for example, like the much-discussed eye exercises in recent years, it would have only helped to relieve eye fatigue, there is not a convincing enough research results to prove that it can prevent myopia, a variety of brain exercises claimed educational function, there is no evidence to explain its role. In fact, the improvement of one’s intelligence is influenced by a combination of factors, and it is almost impossible to assess the contribution of a particular factor to intelligence alone to determine how much it educates and increases intelligence.
(Objective evaluation: Pressing multiple acupuncture points helps to refresh and relieve fatigue
”But from the perspective of general health care to locate, I think brain exercises have a certain role.” Zhuang Lixing to the “Beijing Daily” report disclosed the “Chinese medicine brain exercise” as an example of analysis, said, from which mentioned a number of acupuncture points, this set of brain exercise does use the theory of Chinese medicine meridians. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, this set of exercises mentioned in the Governor’s vein, bladder meridian are able to “into the brain”, take the two meridians on the corresponding points are certain brain-opening role of points, appropriate pressure does help refresh the brain to relieve fatigue. And from the perspective of modern medicine, appropriate head massage, but also help to promote blood circulation in the brain, relieve brain fatigue.
”No matter what age, to refresh the brain is actually not complicated, you can properly press the Zanzhu, Sun, Fengchi points, and if you add the Hall of Yin and Houxi two points, the effect may be better (see the schematic and QR code video).” Zhuang Lixing suggests that, as a common daily self-regulatory health care, the pressure does not need to be too complicated, the strength should be moderate, to the extent that each can tolerate.