Sighing is Good for Health

唉声叹气有利身体健康

BringYourHeartBackHome

摘自《把心带回家》第三讲
Excerpted from Lecture 3 - “Bring Your Heart Back Home”

We can often do some deep breathing after work and in the midst of the day, because delusional thoughts and worries often come to invade us and disturb our mind. We do deep breathing - inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the open mouth. Make a low, relaxing, soft sound, or what we often call a sigh.

在工作之余、生活之中，我们可以常常做些深呼吸，因为平时妄想杂念和烦恼时常会来侵扰我们，扰乱我们的心神。我们做深呼吸——用鼻子吸气，用嘴张开呼气，发出低沉放松的、轻微的声音，也就是我们常说的叹气。

I once heard of an old lady who was asked what her method of living a long and healthy life was. She said, "One of my favourite things to do is to sigh and sigh". Sighing releases your worries. In fact, it is a way of releasing worries and delusions, a kind of unconscious self-protection on our part.

我以前听说有一个老太太，别人问她健康长寿的方法是什么？她说：“我最喜欢做的一件事情就是唉声叹气”。唉声叹气就把你烦恼给释放了，其实这是一种释放烦恼和妄想的方法，是我们的一种不自觉的自我保护。

Now we take the initiative to take deep breaths, a method similar to sighing, which is very beneficial to our health. Because when our worries come, our mind gets on fire and tense. Actively let go of what you are clinging to while observing, let go of the worries in your mind, and let go of them while thinking in this way and using your breath in tandem. This is a very good way to open your mouth and breathe, which disperses the scattered winds of karma. When you have a lot of delusions and worries, you can take a few more deep breaths like this to relax.

现在我们主动地去做深呼吸，这种类似叹气的方法，是很有益我们的健康的。因为我们的烦恼来了，心就会上火紧张。主动地一边观想一边放下你正在执著的事情，放下你心中的烦恼，一边这样想着，一边用呼吸配合来放下，这是一种很好的方法，张嘴呼吸，可以驱散散乱的业风。妄念烦恼多的时候你就多做几次这样的深呼吸放松。

翻译人 koala