Chapter 131 0130 Did I Hear Myself?

"meditation?"

"It's not yoga!"

Chen Jue glanced at the new prompt on the panel with some surprise.

He originally thought that yoga, a physical exercise involving the body, would be included in the panel skills, but he did not expect that the first trigger was not the yoga asanas, but the meditation methods involving mind adjustment.

This was the first skill related to mind movement triggered by Chen Jue, and its appearance made Chen Jue feel a little shaken and confused.

Because Chen Jue has always speculated that the function of the panel is related to the evolutionary theory of "natural selection, survival of the fittest, and survival of the fittest" mentioned by Darwin.

But the appearance of [Meditation] was somewhat beyond Chen Jue's expectations.

"Is it because [meditation] strengthens people's spiritual willpower?"

"Or enhance reflexes or thinking or wisdom?" Chen Jue thought to himself. He happened to be in the middle of class and could only suppress this doubt temporarily.

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With some doubts, he continued to follow Coach Cheng for subsequent yoga exercises.

In addition to the most basic cross-legged meditation to adjust the mind and breath, the subsequent teaching involves the basic body adjustment method of Hatha Yoga. The first class only teaches a total of twelve postures.

According to Coach Cheng, the most classic Hatha Yoga postures include 84 postures.

According to legend, ancient Indian mythology once recorded that Shiva, the god of yoga, created 8.4 million yoga postures. After improvement by ancient yogis, hundreds of them were finally sorted out. Later generations screened out 84 Hatha postures from these hundreds. Yoga poses.

The meditation posture Chen Jue just practiced is the Lotus Pose in Hatha Yoga, which is also the most common yoga posture.

However, after hearing the exaggerated value of 8.4 million, Chen Jue couldn't help but complain: "As expected of the ancestor of Third Brother! This habit of bragging seems to have been inherited from ancient times."

A yoga class lasted for more than an hour, and the pace was very slow and soothing. However, after practicing, Chen Jue found that this yoga exercise was very helpful to him.

In addition to stretching and relaxing ligaments, fascia, and muscles, he also found that the body's "mild fatigue" subsided unconsciously during yoga training.

By the time a class was over, the free attribute had been refreshed by 0.01, and the proficiency of [Meditation] had also increased by +20 points.

And after practicing yoga, Chen Jue can clearly feel that his ligaments are much more relaxed than usual.

Originally, he could only touch the instep with his fingertips when doing forward bends, and it was very difficult to press down further.

As a result, after taking a yoga class with Coach Cheng, Chen Jue found that his fingertips could actually touch his toes. If he pressed down harder, he would only be one or two centimeters short of touching the ground.

Such a significant improvement in stretching effect made Chen Jue look forward to the next yoga class.

Moreover, yoga is a sport that combines movement and stillness, does not consume much physical energy, and can effectively fill Chen Jue's free time at night.

This is why when Li Rui designed a professional training plan for Chen Jue, he specifically mentioned yoga, a sport that focuses on stretching.

But what surprised Chen Jue the most was that the [meditation] of regulating the mind and breathing could be recorded as a skill. On the contrary, the yoga postures involving movement postures did not respond to the panel at all.

"Is it because the yoga I learned is not comprehensive enough? Is my practice wrong?"

"That's not right! The simplified version of Tai Chi I practiced before can also trigger the skill."

"Is it possible that the panel also has colored glasses, specifically discriminating against the sports invented by the third brother?" Chen Jue murmured in his heart.

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With several doubts, Chen Jue changed his clothes and came out of Yiling Yoga Studio.

It was past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He had just eliminated his "mild fatigue" and Chen Jue had no intention of doing high-intensity exercise.

After driving back to the apartment, he first searched for yoga-related information on the Internet, and combined with the content mentioned in Li Rui's training schedule, Chen Jue quickly figured out the reason why [meditation] was triggered.

It turns out that the earliest origin of yoga was not created by the so-called Lord Shiva in Indian legends, but by ancient Indian yogis who accidentally discovered that various animals and plants have natural methods of healing, relaxing, sleeping or staying awake when they were practicing bodybuilding in nature. , it can recover naturally without the help of external force.

So practitioners in ancient India began to imitate and experience the postures of animals, and invented the so-called yoga postures from them, just like the Xiangtong and Xingyiquan in Chinese martial arts that imitated various birds and animals.

The earliest yoga originated in the Himalayas in northern India. It is a high-altitude area with low temperature and pressure and very harsh living conditions.

If you want to survive in that kind of place, you have to keep your head clear at all times.

At the same time, it is necessary to reduce the body's metabolism, reduce the consumption of oxygen, and reduce the consumption of nutrients in the human body such as fat, in order to reserve heat to withstand the extremely short-term environment of severe cold and hypoxia.

In this confrontation between the extreme environment and the body, the ancient Indian practitioners who first invented [meditation] naturally perfectly fit the principle of "survival of the fittest" mentioned in Darwin's theory of evolution.

In this way, the skill [Meditation] is in line with Chen Jue's initial speculation about the rules and logic of panel triggering skills.

Of course, the invention of asanas is also inseparable from the influence of low-temperature environments.

Practitioners in ancient India sat for half a day. Under the influence of cold, they were prone to frostbite and local limb freezing and necrosis. They needed to cooperate with postures to keep blood flowing in the body and prevent accidents during meditation.

With the spread of Buddhism eastward to China, practice methods such as yoga arrived in China and were improved by local monks and evolved into practice methods such as the "Yi Jin Jing" and "Marrow Cleansing Sutra".

Monks in ancient times could sit and meditate and chant sutras all day long. They could avoid hemorrhoids, keep their limbs healthy, and be less likely to suffer from lumbar disc herniation. They also practiced yoga at the same time.

"In other words, meditation is the foundation of yoga!"

"Asanas are just like the equipment exercises I usually do. They are just auxiliary. Practicing asanas is just to help people enter the state of [meditation] better?"

Chen Jue analyzed secretly, combined with the proficiency growth rules discovered during practice, and finally solved some of the little doubts he encountered in the yoga studio.

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It took nearly 2 hours to check this information and record this major discovery into the "Strongest Human Training Plan". When Chen Jue came to his senses, he realized that it was already dark outside.

After touching his belly and feeling something grunting, Chen Jue went out and took a stroll to the Jiangda cafeteria to finish his dinner. After dinner, he took a walk around the Jiangda campus.

The weather began to slowly turn colder in December, the temperature has dropped to single digits, and there are fewer and fewer students on the playground.

Even members of the self-discipline club such as Wang Xin moved to the public gym to exercise. Chen Jue did not stay outside for too long. He returned to the apartment after being blown away by the cold night wind and feeling stiff on the ground and cold hands.

After checking that it was still early, he spread the yoga mat he had purchased online in the room and began to review the seated lotus pose and several other postures he had learned in the afternoon.

Under the special breathing rhythm, Chen Jue felt calm and his whole body was greatly relaxed.

The [Meditation] proficiency on the panel also began to slowly increase +1+1 under Chen Jue's practice.

However, because he had developed the habit of looking at the panel with his eyes closed, Chen Jue found that as long as he brought up the panel, his proficiency in [Meditation] would stagnate.

Apparently the presence of the panel distracted Chen Jue and ruined the meditative atmosphere.

"It's closed! It's closed!"

"Something in the way!"

(Panel: Shall I leave then?)

Chen Jue grasped the text panel and dropped it, then leaned into the lotus pose and entered meditation again.

His breathing began to become smoother and weaker, and as soon as the distracting thoughts in his mind were eliminated, the sounds that his ears could hear began to shift from external to internal.

Gradually, Chen Jue discovered that he could actually hear his breathing and heartbeat through his ears!

If he did not perform high-intensity exercise on weekdays, or huddled in a closed space under the covers in the dead of night, Chen Jue would not be able to hear his breathing and heartbeat at all!

The [Meditation] proficiency on the panel also changed from the original +1 display to +2+3 and kept jumping around.

It didn’t take long for the upgrade prompt to pop up on the panel:

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【Ding~】

[Skill proficiency reaches 100%, and skill level increases. 】

【Meditation Lv0→Lv1】

[You begin to have a deeper understanding of meditation, a physical and mental exercise, and your speed of entering meditation has increased slightly. 】

[After completing a deep meditation exercise, your brain enters a special low-frequency state, your five senses are slightly increased, the nerve response speed is accelerated, and your sense of danger in the surrounding environment is enhanced. 】

[Mental attribute +0.02]

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Since Chen Jue closed the panel during practice, he did not see this prompt.

On the contrary, after upgrading the [Meditation] skill, he found that his mind became particularly clear, and even the breathing and heartbeat he heard before were much more obvious than before.

Moreover, while he was doing yoga poses to stretch his ligaments and fascia, he also heard two extremely subtle sounds besides breathing and heartbeat.

At first he thought he had misheard, mistaking the noise coming from his next door neighbor for sounds coming from inside his body.

However, as the movements of the postures began to increase, Chen Jue discovered that these two subtle sounds were synchronized extremely cleverly with the postures he was doing.

After listening for a while, he finally figured out the source of these two sounds!

"Stop it!"

"I actually heard the sound of my own gastrointestinal peristalsis and the friction of bones and joints?" Chen Jue suddenly opened his eyes from the yoga mat, with a look of confusion and shock on his face.

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