Wondering what is the best direction to sleep in? Ever scoffed at elders who told you not to sleep with your head placed to the north? Is it just another superstition? Sadhguru explains the reason behind this seemingly strange prescription.
想要知道睡觉的最佳方向是什么吗？你曾经嘲笑过那些告诉你睡觉时头不要朝北的长辈吗？这只是另一种迷信吗？萨古鲁解释了这个看似奇怪的“处方”背后的原因。
Sadhguru: In India, you were told that you should not place your head to the north while sleeping. Why?
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：在印度，人们会告诉你睡觉的时候不要头朝北，为什么？
How your body is engineered
身体是如何运作的
Your heart is not located half-way down, it is placed three-fourths of the way up because pumping blood up against gravity is more difficult than pumping it down. The blood vessels which go upward are a finer arrangement compared to those going down. As they go up into the brain, they are almost hair-like, to such a point that they cannot even take one extra drop. If one extra drop is pumped in, something will burst and you will have a hemorrhage.
Most people have hemorrhages in their brain. This does not incapacitate you in any major way, but small damages happen. You may become duller, which people are becoming. Your level of intelligence after the age of 35 drops in many ways unless you take enormous care to keep it up. You are managing because of your memory, not because of your intelligence.
心脏的位置不是在身体的1/2处，而是在靠上部的3/4处，因为在地球引力的影响下把血液向上运输比向下运输更加困难。向上的血管与向下的相比更细，当它们到达头部时，几乎和头发一样，细得不能再多承受一滴血。假如再多输送一滴血，它就会破裂，于是便出现了脑出血。大多数人大脑中都会出现出血现象，这并不会严重到使人致残，但却存在着轻微的伤害。你可能会变得迟钝呆滞，人们目前就有这种趋势。35岁以后，你的智力在很多方面都会有所下降，除非你做出巨大的努力来加以维持。如果能维持得住，也是因为你的记忆力而不是因为你的智力。
What happens when you put your head to the north?
假如你睡觉时头朝北，会发生什么？
If you have any kind of blood-related problem, let’s say anemia, what would a doctor prescribe? Iron. It is an important ingredient in your blood. You have heard of the magnetic fields on the planet. In many ways, the earth is engineered because of its magnetism. That’s how powerful the magnetic forces are on the planet.
假设你有与血液相关的问题，比如贫血，医生会给你开什么药方？铁。铁是血液的重要成分。你一定听说过有关地球磁场的说法。在很多方面，地球之所以运转是因为磁场的存在，磁场力在地球上就是这么强大。
If you place your head to the north and stay that way for 5 to 6 hours, the magnetic pull will cause pressure on your brain.
如果你把头部放在朝北的位置，保持5-6小时，磁场产生的作用力会对大脑造成压迫。
When the body is positioned horizontally, you can immediately make out that your pulse rate drops. The body makes this adjustment because if blood is pumped at the same level, too much will go into your head, causing damage. Now, if you place your head to the north and stay that way for 5 to 6 hours, the magnetic pull will cause pressure on your brain. If you are beyond a certain age and your blood vessels are weak, you could have hemorrhages and paralytic strokes. Or, if your system is sturdy and these things don’t happen to you, you could get up agitated because there is more circulation in the brain than there should be when you are sleeping. It is not that if you do this for one day, you will fall dead. But if you do this every day, you are asking for trouble. What kind of trouble depends on how strong your system is. So, which is the best direction to sleep with your head pointing towards? East is the best direction. North-east is okay. West is alright. South, if you must. North, no. This is true as long as you are in the northern hemisphere – sleeping with your head towards any side except north is okay. In the southern hemisphere, don’t put your head to the south.如果你的身体水平放置，你会立即感受到脉搏跳动频率的下降。身体做出这样的变化，是因为在血液以相同速度在身体里运输的情况下，有太多的血液会进入大脑从而造成伤害。现在，如果你把头部放在朝北的位置，保持5-6小时，磁场产生的作用力会对大脑造成压迫。如果你过了一定的年纪，血管非常虚弱，你就有可能患脑溢血和麻痹性中风。或许你的身体系统足够强大，这些事情不会发生在你身上，那么你可能会在起床时感到躁动不安，这是因为此时大脑中的血液循环比睡眠中应有的血液循环更快了。并不是说，如果你这样做一天就会死。但是如果你每天这样做，会有什么样的麻烦取决于你的身体系统有多强壮。所以，睡觉时头朝向哪个方向最好？东方最好，西方也可以。南方，如果你必须这么做。北方，不行。只要你生活在北半球这就是事实——睡觉时只要头不朝北就行。在南半球，睡觉时头不要朝南。Your heart is an important aspect of your physiology. The station that pumps life across the body – if this one thing doesn’t happen, nothing happens – starts from your left side. In India, the culture has always said that when you wake up, you must roll to your right side and then get out of bed. When your body is in a certain state of relaxation, its metabolic activity is low. When you get up, there is a certain surge of activity. So you need to roll over to your right side and get up because at a lower level of metabolic activity, if you suddenly roll to your left, you will put pressure upon your cardiac system.心脏是人体重要的器官。它是人体内运输生命的中转站——如果这没有发生，那么什么也不会发生——它始于你身体的左侧。在印度文化中，人们总这样说，起床时要先翻到右侧然后起身下床。当你的身体处于放松状态时，新陈代谢活动是非常缓慢的。起床时，新陈代谢突然加快。因此，你需要先翻到右侧再起床，因为在新陈代谢水平低下的时候，如果你突然翻到左侧，会对心脏系统造成压迫。
Activate your body and brain
Before you get up in the morning, you must rub your hands together and place your palms upon your eyes.
在早上起床之前，你必须搓一搓双手，然后将手掌放在眼睛上。
In the tradition, they also told you that before you get up in the morning, you must rub your hands together and place your palms upon your eyes. They said that if you do this, you will see God. It is not about seeing God.传统上来说，人们也会告诉你早上起床之前，要先搓一搓双手，然后把手掌放在眼睛上。如果这样做，你就会看到神，但重点不是能否看到神。There is a heavy concentration of nerve endings in your hands. If you rub your palms together, all the nerve endings are activated and the system comes awake immediately. When you wake up in the morning and still feel sleepy and drowsy, just do this and see, everything comes awake. Instantly, a whole range of nerves connected with your eyes and other aspects of your senses come awake. Before you move your body, your body and brain should be active. You shouldn’t get up dumb, that’s the idea.你的手上聚集着很多神经末梢，在你搓手的时候，所有的神经末梢都受到刺激，整个系统即刻就清醒过来。当你早上醒来时依旧感到困倦，只是做下这个动作，很快地，由眼部连接的一系列神经以及其它的感官都会清醒过来，你的一切器官都会醒过来。在你起身之前，你的身体和大脑应该活跃起来，你不应该傻呆呆地起来，这就是重点。isha.sadhguru.org/blog/lifestyle/health-fitness/why-we-do-what-we-do-sleeping-right
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