Sometimes I wonder, what exactly determines where our lives go?
Why do many times a lot of effort be made, but in the end it is Lan Yin Fu Guo, and all efforts are eliminated into invisibility?
Later, I realized that in fact, many times, the body makes choices for us more honestly than the brain, and this is the power of habit.
In the first thirty years of life, we develop habits; in the next thirty years or even longer, habits determine us.
The more inconspicuous the small habits in life, the more powerful they are to manipulate life.
And if you can develop good habits, it will benefit you for life.
01
Stick to skincare
If you talk about the "beauty king", many people will think of big S for the first time, but in fact, long before her, there was a diva-level beauty godmother in Japan - Sabo Chizu.
Mr. Chizu Sabe, who used to work as a beauty consultant mentor in Guerlain, Dior and other companies, refused medical beauty and refused plastic surgery.
But thanks to diligent skincare habits, at the age of 76, he still has porcelain white skin that cannot feel the pores whether he looks closely or touches.
But such a teacher, Sawa Chizu, has a very bumpy life, his parents divorced and abandoned him when he was young, and later met his beloved husband, who fell ill with cancer at the age of forty and died shortly after.
Deeply devastated, Mr. Zob once gave up the energy to continue to live, committed suicide, autistic, and wanted to follow her husband.
Until the age of 43, she tortured herself to the point that her hair was all white, her skin was dry, and she didn't look like the beauty god of the year.
Later, she relied on her dreams to support her to come out, and it took a year to adjust her skin and mental state and return to the public eye.
The poor skin condition was revived by the famous "three-minute water film method".
Once a day in the morning and once in the evening, wet for three minutes with ordinary lotion and mask paper to help open pores, it is such a simple and efficient skin care method, helping her restart the path of beauty.
She created more than forty beauty books in her lifetime, influencing skincare concepts throughout Southeast Asia.
If you're interested, there are still a lot of books on the Internet that she left behind, so you can buy them to read deeper and learn to communicate better with your skin.
02
Clean yourself
Haruki Murakami once said, "The flesh is everyone's temple, and no matter what is enshrined in it, it should be kept strong, beautiful, and clean." ”
The education we have received from childhood tells us that we must have a clean and healthy soul, but in fact, many times, a clean soul is closely related to a clean body.
Even many religious rituals are closely related to cleanliness.
Infant baptism ceremonies have long been popular in Europe and symbolize the purification of the body and mind.
Every July, kyoto, Japan, holds a ceremony of "hand washing", which is in line with the ancient Chinese rule of "burning incense and bathing" before major ceremonies.
As water flows from your face and body, learn to feel it wash every pore throughout your body.
Imagining that all the souls are dirty and unbearable, melting in the clear water and leaving their souls, is the right way to clean themselves.
As the Japanese psychologist Hitosuke Shinya wrote in his book "The Way to Live in Middle Age":
"We can allow ourselves some degree of freedom. Allow yourself to be rude in the face of extreme anger, but distinguish between the people who lose your temper; allow yourself not to clean up the room, but to love cleaning. ”
03
Keep reading
There is a very interesting photo album on Douban called "Readers on the Beijing Subway", which was initiated by An ordinary book editor Zhu Liwei.
At first, she just found that reading books on the subway during rush hour was very efficient, even if it was only twenty or thirty minutes at a time, but she could read dozens of books in a year.
Later, out of curiosity about "the same kind of people", she began to shoot those "comrades" who also used the subway ride time to read.
What she didn't expect was that when she uploaded these photos to Douban without any utilitarianism, it attracted a lot of attention.
Fans are like chasing more, urging her to update, and even add the books taken in the photos to their shopping lists.
"In Zhu Liwei's lens, the crowded Beijing subway during rush hour becomes a mobile underground library."
As one reader "North Wind Blows" said, "Now there are chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, and you can also have qinqi calligraphy and painting poetry hops." ”
If skin care and cleansing can make us have a clean and beautiful body, then insisting on reading can give us a more free and beautiful soul.
04
Strong heart
Recently, the epidemic has recurred, and many people have lost sleep again. Late spring and early summer are the seasons when melancholy is more likely to breed.
For example, every time I write without inspiration, I am extremely anxious.
Even during the lunch break, there are always two little people fighting in my mind, one saying: Why can't I write like this? Another said: Don't dwell on it, time is running out.
And today, I want to tell you two words, you can quickly stop this mental attrition, that is: concentration.
Don't you think these two words sound very stressful?
In fact, this is not the case, when we are focused, our attention will be focused on the sensory experience of the moment, and it will be automatically isolated from other thoughts in the mind, so that we will gain a calm state of mind.
And once your ability to "focus" on something gets stronger and stronger, it is easier and easier to enter the state of "flow".
The energy flowing from the depths of your heart will allow you to transcend the limitations of time and space and enter a magical spiritual universe.
This is also the underlying logic of the "meditation" practice that has become more and more popular in recent years, but in order to grasp the essence of "meditation", it is actually necessary to practice continuously.
Here I recommend the movie "Spiritual Journey", although it is an animation film, it cutely expounds the secret of "flow", hoping to become your lantern bearer on the road to "meditation".
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Man's life is so short, if we can't broaden its width, it is better to cultivate its depth.
The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago, followed by now. It is a blessing for my generation to internalize the pursuit of beauty into the habits of life.