"Health Preservation" - The Maintenance of Life

"The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon - Ancient Innocence" says: Most people in ancient times knew how to maintain health, followed the laws of yin and yang changes in heaven and earth, and used Methods to maintain essence and balance yin and yang. Eat in moderation, live regularly, harmonize your body and mind, and enjoy your natural lifespan.

It further points out: between the world of settled peace and stable climate change, obey the changing laws of the four seasons and the four gases, adjust your hobbies to suit the worldly habits, have no resentment, and do not behave in a wrong way. He is separated from the world but does not imitate the world in his behavior but maintains his own unique style. If you don’t overwork your body with business outside, don’t overburden your mind internally, take tranquility and pleasure as your primary duty, and take leisure and contentment as your goal, your body will not show signs of aging, your spirit will not be exhausted, and you can live a hundred years. blessing.

"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" was the first to comprehensively discuss the origin and basic content of traditional Chinese medicine theory. It begins by inheriting the health-preserving methods of "ancient times" and clarifies that health-preserving is the basis of the Chinese medical theoretical system, and its core purpose is to maintain the unity of form and spirit of "form and spirit".

A person's life, from conception to the end, has to go through three hurdles in the physiological growth process:

The gestation period, the 10 months of pregnancy, is the basis for the innate growth of the human body. The physical constitution of the parents And nutrition affects the newborn's physique, and the fetus' consciousness of life in the belly begins to have a preliminary reflection; health care starts from here.

Puberty is a period of obvious physiological changes, usually starting in the ages of 27 or 28. The physical changes of boys and girls begin to differentiate, and they gradually enter the childbearing age. This is the second leap of the human body, which requires a major new maintenance; it must be carefully maintained physically, and it must be carefully cared for in the development of ideological concepts.

During menopause, when one reaches the age of seventy-seven or eighty-eight years of age, various physiological organs begin to obviously age and weaken, and one feels that there is more than enough energy but not enough strength, but the ideology is still growing; this needs to be recognized in maintenance. , and carry out conceptual changes.

If we compare life to a television, the remote control during the pregnancy and adolescence is in the hands of our parents, but by menopause it is completely in our own hands.

When a person is born naked, he is a living human body. The instinctive need is to eat, clothe and keep warm. Its ideas and spiritual consciousness need to be installed. From now on, a person’s life becomes a real thing. life.

Life is like the car we drive. It needs regular maintenance and constant refueling, which is what Chinese medicine calls health maintenance, so that we can grow healthily.

Human thoughts, ideas, and consciousness are collectively called spirit. Spirit is the foundation of life. The development of life consciousness also requires major maintenance in three periods.

Health cultivation stage: Taoist yin and yang theory believes that human consciousness is the unity of yin and yang, the body is yin, and the spirit is yang.

The Yellow Emperor said: Yin and Yang are the universal laws between heaven and earth, the backbone of all things, the origin of the growth, development and change of all things, the source of destruction, and the source of power for regular operations.

In terms of yin and yang of the human body, the outside is yang and the inside is yin. In terms of body parts alone, the back is yang and the abdomen is yin.

Yin stores essence in the body and continuously replenishes yang. Essence is produced from the nutrition of the five flavors in the diet, which stores essence and blood in the internal organs, but it cannot overeat the five flavors. Damage to the internal organs. "Nourishing the mind will make you subtle, and nourishing the muscles will make you soft." If the joints are opened and closed smoothly, the yang energy will run normally in the human body, and you can enjoy the blessing of a hundred years old.

If you are overworked, it will become exuberant and excessive, leading to depletion of yin essence, damage to the internal organs, and serious illness. Be diligent in physical exercise and enhance the smooth flow of blood vessels, and the Yang Qi will continue to thicken and consolidate.

In general, the relationship between yin and yang is that the yang qi is solid and dense on the outside, so that the yin qi can be maintained on the inside. If yin and yang lose the balance and harmony, the yin qi will be too excited and cannot be solid, and the essence will be depleted and destroyed. Exhaustion. If the Yang Qi is strong, the spirit will be strong. When yin and yang are separated and do not intersect, the essence will be exhausted.

If the yin is not stronger than the yang, the meridians will flow back and forth quickly and quickly, leading to madness.

If the yang is not stronger than the yin, then the qi in the internal organs will be out of tune, resulting in the nine orifices being blocked.

For the healthy growth of the body, yin and yang must be adjusted so that they are in their proper places, so that the muscles and veins can be relaxed and the bone marrow can be strong, the qi and blood can flow smoothly and evil spirits can not invade, the ears and eyes can be clear, and the true qi can run normally.

From birth to adolescence, the normal growth of the body and the initial installation of ideas are cared for and installed by the parents. The school education and social experience received after adolescence slowly take effect.

Sports knowledge and sports training make most people aware of the need to protect the body and enhance physical fitness. Competitive sports have aroused interest in many young people and enriched the concept of self-care and fitness. Through continuous high-intensity scientific activities, people's masculinity can overflow their bodies, their mental outlook is full of sunshine, and their whole body is full of vitality. The situation continued until May 7 and May 8 entered the sideways period. This stage is mainly about physical cultivation, and ideas, spiritual awareness, and social knowledge are constantly accumulated and enhanced.

Mind-nurturing stage: The human body has no life without ideology. Consciousness is the foundation of life and the source of life and longevity.

Nourishing the mind is the highest state of health!

A healthy mental state depends on a person's mentality. There are two types of mentality: one is the physiological mentality, and the other is the ideological mentality.

There is a famous saying in traditional Chinese medicine: "It is better to observe the physical appearance than to observe the qi, and to observe the qi it is better to observe the heart." Restlessness and irritability are physiological problems that require rest and recuperation. The five internal organs are headed by the heart. The heart is the center of the body, and aging starts from the heart. Fully understanding and mastering physiological and mental changes is the basis for maintaining ideological and mental health.

The understanding of the life process, the understanding of one's own abilities and physical condition, self-cultivation and perfect action measures all need to be endured with the heart, so these factors that affect the mind and mentality are very important.

After the hard work in the health-care stage and reaching the age of 57 or 58, it is very necessary to calm down to think and take care of our thoughts and mentality.

We will understand that after the age of 40, what people compete for is temperament, knowledge and mind, and we will no longer complain about the congenital deficiencies our parents gave us.

We will understand that the depth of the soul is not purity and cowardice, but struggle and guarding. It is a life-and-death struggle, a desperate guardianship and defense; it is also the place of loneliness and loneliness in life, and it is also the place of enjoyment in life. The highest state.

We will understand that people’s ideas and concepts were originally installed by their parents. If we want to change and improve them, we must read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles; reading cannot directly bring us wealth, it It is a shortcut to increase human wisdom. Traveling thousands of miles makes us smarter and helps us deal with various things correctly in social practice.

Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles can enable us to keep strategic issues in mind and grasp tactical issues accurately.

Changing and improving ideas and concepts also requires spiritual training. The spiritual enlightenment and life experience before the age of 40 are selectively used for mental training, and communication of the heart and the exchange of ideas are used. Be strong and resilient in enduring psychological pressure.

We must understand that this is the best time to work hard in life; the brain is flexible and constantly changing, and we use the brain to "see" the world clearly.

Spirit-rest stage: By this time we are already octogenarians, both physically and mentally. How to become a healthy old man, the spirit is very important. Although the body and mind are old, the spirit cannot grow old.

What is the spirit of the elderly? Dignity and backbone? Or is it broad-minded and wise? Or is it the master deep in the soul?

Anyway, I understand that human beings are the products of the universe, heaven and earth, and they only cry when they come and go; human life activities are inseparable from nature, and they are the spirit of all things. Strictly follow the specific methods of "four seasons and four qi" to regulate the spirit, regulate the spirit and emotions, and then you can leave calmly and naturally.

The "four seasons" are spring, growth, summer, autumn, harvest and winter. The "four Qi" are warm Qi in spring, hot Qi in summer, cool Qi in autumn, and cold Qi in winter.

Complying with the laws of man and nature to take care of the heart and liver in spring and summer, and the lungs and kidneys in autumn and winter, the blood vessels will be smooth and the spirit will be full. This is also the principle of nourishing the mind. If you violate this principle, it will destroy the original essence and destroy the body. Yin and Yang are in balance, causing damage to the body and disease.

The "Four Seasons and Four Qi" method of nourishing the mind cannot cure the disease that has already occurred, but advocates prevention before the disease and killing the disease seedlings.

After many years of ups and downs in life, I have been thinking about my future life path for seven or eight years, and I have understood many principles. The most important of them is "health preservation", which is an indispensable lesson in life. Every day there is a need to maintain health, but some people do it instinctively, some people ignore it, and few people grasp it systematically and theoretically when they are young. Living scientifically can enable us to grow up healthily until old age.

Without a good body and a healthy mind, what's the use of having a huge fortune.