The highest state of health: moving the body, recuperating emotions, and enriching the soul

Author: Insight Ciyu

A healthy body is the living room of the soul, and a sick body is a prison of the soul.

Twenty years after Daoguang, Zeng Guofan fell seriously ill and began to pay attention to the way of health.

He wrote in a letter: "The way of health is to be based on junyi and subject labor. ”

"Junyi" is to nourish the heart, sit quietly and meditate, and concentrate on the mind; read and play chess, and enrich the heart.

"Subjects" for the sake of self-sufficiency, he walks often, and after eating, he will walk three thousand steps.

Zeng Guofan's health experience, in the final analysis, is three points: to cultivate the body, to recuperate emotions, and to enrich the soul.

01

Move and nourish the body

The Cambridge University team published the results of a study in The Lancet:

At least 3.9 million people worldwide have avoided premature death each year through full physical activity.

Dr Paul Kelly of the University of Edinburgh affirmed the results: Whether it's a workout, a gym trip or a walk after lunch, the goal of improving health and promoting longevity can be achieved.

The health barrier established by exercise can not only prevent the invasion of disease, but also resist the erosion of time.

China's last great Confucian, Liang Qiming, lived until the age of 95, and the secret of his longevity was to eat less and move more.

Before the age of 85, he often went out to exercise, jogging and boxing in Beihai Park.

After the age of 90, he mainly spent time indoors.

I woke up at 5 a.m. and meticulously in bed, stretching my waist, kicking my legs, and turning my neck.

Usually, in between reading and writing, I will also put aside my pen to move my bones.

Sticking to the good habit of sports allows him to still be able to speak on stage at the age of 90.

There is a saying in the "Theory of the Origin of Diseases": "If you exercise bone and blood, you will be strong." ”

It is better to eat a hundred medicines than to walk a hundred steps.

Exercise regularly, strengthen the muscles and bones, and the body can maintain a healthy state.

Bai Yansong shared his experience of being ill in "White Talk".

For a while, he was often dizzy, and after going to the hospital for examination, he found that his blood pressure had reached a critical point.

The doctor told him to start taking his medicine.

Bai Yansong considered it for a moment and politely refused:

"You give me a few months to adjust myself. If that doesn't work, I'll come back to you for medicine. ”

The adjustment that Bai Yansong said is actually movement.

He walked for an hour every night, and then gradually developed into running, and after a period of persistence, his blood pressure dropped back to the normal range, and all physical indicators returned to normal.

Writer Zhou Ling said: Sedentary people, the internal ecosystem is like a pool of stagnant water, lifeless. People who exercise regularly, the internal ecosystem is more like a clear spring.

Exercise is the best way to manage the body.

02

Calm your emotions

An Arab psychologist did an emotional experiment.

He put the two newborn sheep in different environments.

One is free-range on the prairie and lets it run freely and happily.

The other was tethered to a wolf, staring salivatingly at the wolf every day.

After some time, the sheep on the steppe grew very healthy, but the sheep that was tied to it died.

It was not eaten by wolves, but in the face of the fierce wolves, it was afraid all the time, it had no intention of eating, and finally it died of excessive anxiety.

The book "Emotional Revolution" says that emotional illness is more terrible than physical illness.

Being in a negative energy magnetic field for a long time will cause many harms to health.

The writer He Quanfeng once told a story in the book:

The head of the department of cardiology at a well-known university had a heart attack and was in a very serious condition.

After experiencing a desperate situation on the verge of death, he examined his own life and summed up two rules of life:

Code one, don't waste energy on sesame small things;

Rule two, everything is a small sesame thing.

These two codes are not a health secret, but they are better than any medical remedy.

There is a proper noun called "cancer personality".

Modern medicine has found that long-term anxiety, fear, sadness and other emotions, these bad emotions will affect and reduce the body's immunity with a chronic continuous stimulation, increasing the incidence of cancer.

The heart is not hindered, and there is no disease.

In life, we should become the masters of emotions and get rid of the poison planted by garbage emotions in time.

When encountering the difficulties of work, we must untie the knots in our hearts in time, face the pressure of life, and know how to dispel the anxiety in our hearts.

With a joyful heart, look down on the ups and downs of life, not much sorrow, no anger, no internal friction, the body and mind are one foot wide, and the illness will retreat.

03

Nourish the soul

Mr. Yang Dai wrote in "Walking to the Edge of Life":

Life is really hard, and throughout our lives, we must continue to cultivate our souls and improve ourselves.

Life is devastated, and we must learn to find a spiritual habitat for ourselves.

Grandma Cai Gao, a pioneer in China's picture book industry, won her first international award for "Fox Spirit in the Wild Garden".

Now in her seventies, she lives a self-sufficient and abundant life.

She built a garden on the roof, with red railings and bees dancing in the flowers.

She often sat alone in the garden, propped up her easel, spread out the white paper, and outlined the beautiful moments of life.

Everything in the world flows through her pen and also resides in her spiritual world.

Many people reach a certain age, lonely, childless, there will be a sense of loneliness.

But Grandma Cai Gao won't, and when the children are at home, she tells them picture book stories.

When she is alone, she swims freely in the magnificent nature.

The abundance of her soul has given her the strength to fight against time; her body is old, and her heart is always bursting with vigorous vitality.

Shen Xieyuan, the elder of the field of domestic version bibliography, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, he thunderously runs to the Nanjing Library, he said:

Like the relationship between a fish and water, I am equivalent to a fish swimming in the library, and if I get out of the water, I will die.

After the death of Qian Zhen and Qian Zhongshu, the centenarian Mr. Yang Dai closed the door and put all his time and energy into reading and creating, in the world of words, washing away the sadness and eliminating loneliness.

With a vast spiritual world, we will not be confined to the trivialities of life, nor will we be trapped in the troughs of life.

The most frightening thing in life is that the soul dries up and life is desolate.

If the heart is rich and transparent enough, in the face of the many tribulations of the world, the ruthless rotation of the years, naturally can not worry or be afraid.

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Bacon said that a healthy body is the living room of the soul, and a sick body is a prison of the soul.

The way to health, body, emotion, soul three indispensable.

When we cultivate a strong physique, good emotions, and a rich heart, we can harvest a full and healthy life.

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