"Zhuangzi Qiu Shui" said: "If you are born without talking about it, and if you die without disaster, you will know the end and the beginning."

Traditional Chinese Medicine as an oriental characteristic of health care and treatment The knowledge of medicine is also a method of disease management, longevity and health preservation for individuals. Traditional Chinese medicine pays special attention to mental health. The first step in maintaining health is to nourish the heart, and to adjust the body first to adjust the mind. Quietness is an important form, carrier and condition for nourishing the heart and regulating the mind. It can be said that the first step of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine is "quietness", which is reflected in the dominant thought of tranquility. The background of this health-preserving thought is Laozi's Taoist philosophy. Taoism attaches great importance to spiritual cultivation and advocates tranquility and inaction to purify the soul.

Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, is good at tranquility and health preservation. As a centenarian, he advocated the lofty spiritual realm of "reaching the extreme of emptiness and observing tranquility and sincerity". He should cultivate his mind calmly, abandon all desires, and advocated "get rid of all desires." ", go away from luxury, go away from Thailand", which warns people to get rid of those extreme, extravagant and excessive requirements in the process of health preservation, and pursue a tranquil, leisurely, peaceful, free and transcendent state of mind. Zhuangzi also believes that human existence is just one of the complex phenomena in the world. Birth, old age, illness and death are just the necessary procedures of life, the same as everything in the world. Therefore, he pointed out in "Zhuangzi Qiu Shui": "No talk about life, no disaster in death, knowing the end and the beginning cannot be the reason." He warned people not to be happy or sad because of the changes in life and death, and advocated tranquility and inaction in health preservation. Pay attention to spiritual cultivation so that you can have no desires in your heart and maintain a good mental state.

Quietness helps to keep the spirit. Sit quietly and rest your mind, get rid of distracting thoughts, keep your breath smooth and calm, and breathe naturally so that your mind does not move rashly, your mind returns to its home, and you return to the state of mind of a child. You can achieve a state of tranquility by guiding breathing and clearing your mind in silence. At this time, the body is quiet, the muscles are relaxed, the mind is concentrated, all worries are silent, the true energy is prevalent, and the mind and body are in a completely comfortable state. This is what Confucianism calls "concentration and then being able to be still" and "cultivating awe-inspiring energy", what the "Nei Jing" calls "spiritual internal defense", Taoism's so-called "inner contemplation" and "mindfulness guarding of the Dantian", what Buddhism calls "meditation" and other skills. It can make qi and blood flourish, strengthen and cure diseases, resist aging and prolong life. In this way, just like the ancient real person, he can "breathe the essence, guard the spirit independently, and the muscles are as one, so his life span covers the heaven and the earth, and there is no end." This is the key to the reason why health practitioners in the past dynasties focused on maintaining their health in peace and keeping active even after their longevity.