Bear in mind the four commandments of sleep 1, must sleep before the son time: in the Shaolin Temple concept of health, sleep is the first major thing in life. If you do not sleep every day before the hour of the son (equivalent to 11:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. the next day), when you see a doctor, many old monk doctor will say: “Do not give you a cure.” In fact, it’s not that they won’t cure you, but they can’t cure you. People who stay up late for years, both men and women, directly hurt the liver, and over time, the kidneys, gradually causing the body qi and blood loss, every day when you look in the mirror will feel a gray face. At this time is every day nutrition, every day exercise body, but also can not undo the damage caused by lack of sleep or poor sleep. Therefore, it’s okay to get up early, but it’s definitely not okay to sleep late. Many people with low spirits, more than the habit of sleeping late, which is often easy to hurt the liver and essence of the gall. Such people, the eyes are often not good, the mood more depressed, happy time not much (lung gas is also affected, long-term can not effectively promote the cause). Some people think that sleeping late at night can make up for it during the day, but in fact, it does not make up for it at all, either can not sleep, or not enough sleep, even if it feels like making up for it, in fact, the body’s blood has been damaged most of the time. 2, sleep should not think about everything: “see this body as nothing, or as sugar into the water, first melting the big toe, then the other toes, then feet, calves, thighs gradually melted, and finally into nothing, natural sleep. This is the ideal spiritual state of Zen medicine when falling asleep. Many times, insomnia stems from lingering distractions when falling asleep. At this time, do not toss and turn in bed, so as not to drain the mind, more difficult to fall asleep, the best way is to get up and sit for a while and then sleep. In fact, for modern people, to sleep before 11 p.m., it is also crucial to go to bed early to brew emotions in order to give the mind a period of time to slowly settle down. “Sleep your mind first, then your eyes” says it all. If you still can not, you can try to simply press the legs before going to bed, and then sit naturally in bed or cross-legged sitting, overlapping hands on the legs, natural breathing, feel the whole body pores with breathing a closed, if you can tear yawn the best effect, to sleep when you want to fall down and sleep. 3, lunchtime nap or meditation to nourish the spirit: noon (equivalent to 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.), at this time, if conditions are limited, can not sleep, can sit in meditation for a quarter of an hour, eyes closed to nourish the spirit. Zen masters who meditate in Zen halls are accustomed to taking a nap at noon. In fact, at noon, as long as the eyes are closed to really fall asleep for 3 minutes, it is equal to sleeping for two hours, but to the right time of noon. The night to fall asleep at the right time, 5 minutes equal to six hours. 4, sleep must get up early: monks live the life of the morning bell and evening drum, even in winter, will not be more than 6:00 a.m. get up, spring, summer and autumn try to get up before 5:00. For human health, getting up early is good for the metabolism of the body. The advantage of getting up early is that, on the one hand, the metabolic turbidity can be expelled from the body, if you get up too late, the large intestine does not get sufficient activity, can not well complete the excretory function. In addition, the body’s digestive and absorption functions are most active in the morning from 7:00 to 9:00, which is the “golden hour” for nutrient absorption. Therefore, do not stay in bed, dizziness, fatigue is caused by many sleepy.