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Repair your own heart

You will be immune to all diseases

While in Qianzhou, Chen Jiuchuan fell ill. .

Wang Yangming said: "As for illness, it is also very difficult. How do you feel?" Chen Jiuchuan said: "Kung Fu is indeed difficult."

Wang Yangming said: "Always stay happy , an optimistic mood is kung fu. ”

You may have seen many such examples in real life:

Two people with the same disease, one person has a cheerful personality. , another person has a melancholic personality.

The person who has a cheerful personality and can look at the disease with an optimistic attitude will definitely get better faster than another person who has a melancholic personality and is pessimistic about things.

Modern medicine has proven that for the same thing, if people have different moods, it will have a completely different impact on their physical health.

Even if you encounter very difficult things, as long as you have a positive attitude, see the bright side of things in everything, and be full of optimism, your brain will be in this harmonious state and it will secrete hormones that are beneficial to your body.

On the contrary, if you are depressed and pessimistic, lamenting and sighing all day long, and are in a state of depression and anger, your brain will secrete substances harmful to the body if it is stimulated by this vicious stimulation.

Therefore, if you can cultivate your mind and maintain an optimistic and cheerful attitude no matter what, you can keep your body and mind in balance between yin and yang, thereby maintaining a healthy body and a young spirit.

While Wang Yangming was living in exile in Longchang, he wrote an article called "Ji Travel Wen" that has been recited for thousands of years, which records such an incident:

On the third day of the seventh month in the fourth year of Zhengde, There was a junior official from the capital, who came from Longchang Road with his son and a servant to take up his post. It was rainy and dark, so he stayed in a Miao people's house.

Unexpectedly, someone came from that road at noon the next day and said that the junior official had died on the road. His son died again in the afternoon, and on the third day even his servant died under the hillside.

After hearing the news, Wang Yangming was so sad that he ordered two boys to bury the three bodies and said with emotion:

I knew you would definitely die, because Two days ago, I saw you through the fence with a sad face and a worried look on your face.

If you are really greedy for this five-douchin salary, you should happily take office. Why are you so unhappy?

You must know that on the long journey, you will be exposed to the wind and dew, climb over cliffs, and walk on the tops of mountains and wild mountains. You will often be hungry, thirsty, tired, and your muscles and bones will be exhausted. And there is a miasma that is always intruding on the body. If there is melancholy and sadness accumulating in the heart at this time, attacking from both inside and outside, is there any reason for immortality?

It has been two years since I left my hometown and came here. I have also experienced the miasma, but I am still safe and sound because I have always maintained an open-minded and cheerful heart. Not a day has passed. It’s someone who is so sad and melancholy like you.

Precisely because Wang Yangming could maintain a cheerful and joyful mood at all times, when he was demoted to Longchang, a place with a very harsh environment, all the servants who followed him fell ill, except for He's fine alone, which just proves the importance of being in a good mood.

The experience of national hero Wen Tianxiang is strikingly similar to Wang Yangming.

After he was captured by the Yuan army, he endured three years of inhumane imprisonment. He remained resolute and unyielding, and wrote the "Song of Righteousness" that has been passed down through the ages.

In "Song of Righteousness", Wen Tianxiang said:

I was locked in a dark and damp cell. Even in the sunny spring, it was as dark as night inside.

Even the cows and horses are imprisoned here, and the food I eat is as poor as that given to chickens and birds.

Whenever it rains or there is frost and dew, water leaks everywhere in the cell, and ditches and bumps are washed out on the ground.

In such a harsh environment, with the comings and goings of cold and summer, it is strange that I didn’t get sick at all.

There is no skill in this. It’s just that I have great righteousness. How can various diseases and evils invade my body and mind?

It can be seen that the state of mind has a huge impact on a person, and sometimes it is even a matter of life and death.

So if you want to have a healthy and happy life, the key lies in how to guide and control your own state of mind.

In today's social environment, competition is unprecedentedly fierce, and people's hearts are generally invaded by various pressures. When the pressure reaches a certain level, it will cause serious harm to people's physical and mental health.

In this case, we need to adjust our physical and mental state in time.

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Repair your own heart

You can reverse your destiny

Wang Yangming once said about practicing calligraphy: "The ancients always Things only need to be learned in the mind. If the mind is shrewd, good calligraphy will also be included in it."

The ancients always studied in the mind no matter what. When the mind is shrewd and thorough, the handwriting will naturally be good.

He summed up this method in eight words: meditate quietly and imitate the shape in the heart.

This reveals a big secret for us: the mental image formed by what you are thinking will attract the corresponding things.

Throughout Wang Yangming’s life, despite numerous ups and downs, what is surprising is that whenever faced with a critical moment of crisis, there are always noble people appearing, and opportunities are always there when it seems hopeless. arrival.

One of the important reasons is that he used this method intentionally or unintentionally.

Because no matter how difficult the environment is, Wang Yangming can quickly adjust his mood and try to stay in a calm, cheerful and happy state.

In this state, the mental image presented in his mind must be positive, containing both a beautiful pursuit of life and an eager expectation for career.

If the spirit is so focused on the beautiful and bright realm, it will naturally attract beautiful and bright things.

At this time, his expectations for himself will stay on those negative levels intentionally or unintentionally.

For example, if he borrows a sum of money from others, he will often think like this: "Life is really difficult. When can I earn this money so that I can pay it back to others as soon as possible?"

There is always a kind of worried and anxious thought in my heart, so the mental image that comes to my mind must be that life is difficult and money is difficult to earn.

Most of his attention and life energy are focused on these negative thoughts, and he naturally attracts things corresponding to them.

Therefore, if we want to obtain happiness in life, we must "meditate quietly and imitate it in our hearts." Let your mind calm down, and often imagine the beautiful and happy things you want in your mind, so that it can form a stable and vivid mental image and play a leading role.

Concentrate your energy on those valuable things, so that you can achieve success.

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Cultivating your own mind

requires a high degree of self-discipline

Wang Yangming said: "When you work during the day, you will feel disturbed. Sit quietly and read if you feel too lazy to read. This is also medicine for illness. ”

If you feel bothered by working during the day, just sit quietly; if you are too lazy to read, read a book; this is the right medicine.

He told us that the key to cultivating the mind is to exercise self-denial and have a spirit of self-discipline.

To achieve self-denial and self-discipline, the key is to do something every day that you don’t want to do but that is beneficial to you, so as to sharpen and regulate your mind.

In other words, you must always force yourself to enter the state.

This way, you won’t feel the pain of obligations that really need you to complete.

Over time, this kind of self-discipline becomes a habit and dominates your behavior.

Some people may not agree with the saying and practice of forcing yourself to do things, but think that a person should study, read and do things in a pleasant and cheerful mood, thinking that this is in line with psychology and brain thinking. law.

Because according to research, the human brain can function best only in a state of pleasure and happiness.

But how can there be so many willing and happy things in the world?

Unless you are indolent, entertainment and enjoyment. The more useful things are, the more uncomfortable they are to do.

Therefore, we must consider the weaknesses of human nature. Wang Yangming and Zeng Guofan both advocated: grit your teeth and do it!

Human beings are very contradictory animals. Strong inertia and huge potential exist in the body. When there is no pressure, people will become very lazy and procrastinate in doing things. Just muddling through, a completely mediocre person.

After exerting a certain amount of pressure and coercion, and continuously working towards a goal, people's potential will be stimulated and show differences from ordinary people.

It can be said that many things in the world are forced. People must force themselves to give full play to their potential talents and wisdom.

All great and successful people are people who are hard enough on themselves.

Everyone has habits that blind their own minds. The heavier the habits and blindness, the harder it is to force yourself.

But there is no other way. Only by putting in more efforts and efforts than others, and slowly eliminating your bad habits through forced tempering, can you restore the original brightness of your heart.

This is the path pointed out by Wang Yangming.

Therefore, if you force yourself in everything, you can achieve unexpected cultivation and success.

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Repair your own mind

Need to decompress your mind

Wang Yangming said: “Reading and writing can make people tired. ? People are burdened by gains and losses. ”

How can reading and writing bother people? People are actually burdened by their own calculations about gains and losses.

This sentence expresses the fundamental reason why people live a tired life - the internal consumption of the spirit.

This internal friction comes from the inner calculation of gains and losses.

For example, when you do something important, you will hope to do it well, but you will be afraid of not doing it well, and you will think about what will happen if you do well and what will happen if you do not do well. This is care and internal friction begins. .

Anxiety also arises in this way.

In this state, you will inevitably worry about gains and losses, and have distracting thoughts, and you will not be able to enter a fully focused and efficient state.

On the surface, he works very hard, but in fact, he cannot truly invest in it. The efficiency is very low, and of course there will be no good results and effects.

How to deal with it? Wang Yangming tells us that as long as the mind reaches a certain level and has the ability to control itself, it will not burden the mind; even if it does burden it, it can be easily detected and removed.

For example, when you are studying, if you know that the attachment of memorizing is wrong, then get rid of it; if you know that the attachment of seeking pleasure is wrong, then get rid of it; if you know that the attachment of striving for victory is wrong, then get rid of it... …

In this way, it is a mind that has no self-care at all and is purely based on heavenly principles.

Therefore, we must have higher goals and pursuits in everything we do, so that the mind can escape from the things in front of us and look at this matter from a deeper and higher perspective. There is no longer so much care.

This way you can do a lot without getting tired of it.

What kind of spiritual state is this?

Wang Yangming said: "The heart of a sage is like a bright mirror. It is just a bright mirror. It responds to the feeling and illuminates everything. There is no way that the shape of the past is still there, and the shape that has not been illuminated is already there."

The heart of a saint is like a clear mirror, clear and bright. It can see anything when it comes and leave no trace when it goes away.

Zhuangzi once said the same thing: "The heart of a perfect person is like a mirror. It does not accept or welcome, responds but does not hide."

Only in this way can the mind deal with all kinds of problems. When doing business, you can move freely, be calm and unhurried, and have endless adaptability.

In today's era of information explosion and increasingly faster pace of life, we especially need this kind of "mind as a mirror" state in order to live a more relaxed and happy life.

People today are pursuing speed, but the ancients said: Haste makes waste.

Although we want to be fast, if we are mentally impatient, we will lose the ability to calmly and calmly handle things, we will feel difficult and painful, and we will treat life in a worse mood, falling into a vicious cycle .

In fact, our minds have amazing abilities and wisdom. When there is no external interference and there is peace and tranquility, we can deal with everything we encounter with higher efficiency and in a more correct way. .

How can we achieve this state? The answer is one word: leisure.

Bai Yansong said: "Sitting in a daze, drinking tea, and watching the changes of the four seasons are all considered useless things and are not done. So how can we improve useful things? Do you have time for creativity?

I take out my mobile phone whenever I have free time, and the time is immediately filled. The mobile phone takes away people’s boredom, and also takes away the great ideas that accompany boredom. Many of my ideas came up while drinking tea and being in a daze. , On the contrary, I didn’t think of it when I was busy.”

There are two types of leisure. One is when people are busy and have a leisurely mind, giving themselves some time to escape from the busyness; the other is when people are busy and are not busy. This needs to be cultivated through one's leisure and through awareness and restraint.

No matter which one, it is actually more beneficial for us to do things.

This is also what Zhuangzi said: Use useless things to make great use.

Don’t be like what an American sociologist said: Chinese people live too tiredly. There are only two words in their lives, success and hard work...

I am very strange. They can't even feel happiness, but they want to pursue happiness.

Wang Yangming said: "It is easy to break a thief in the mountain, but it is difficult to break a thief in the heart."

If you feel that everything is not going well, you are exhausted, and your body is getting worse, but you have achieved very good results. Wei, maybe you should turn your eyes to your own heart, search for the bad habits in your heart, and go beyond your own heart.

If you can get rid of the thief in your heart, your studies, family fortune, and career will change, and life problems can be solved at once.

Only when your heart is bright can your life be bright.