Traditional Chinese medicine health preservation is to relax body and mind by closing your eyes for at least 30 minutes every day, which mainly includes two aspects, namely, practicing heart and qi, which is equivalent to the ancient methods of meditation, breathing, pranayama and convincing. Among them, cultivating the mind (also known as adjusting the mind) is to relax one's mind and adjust one's mental state, so as to achieve the effect of promoting peace. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing says: "Breathe the essence and nourish the mind independently", and the four essentials of health preservation also say: "People learn to keep healthy, meditate every day and adjust their breath every day, which is the main quiet kung fu. But when you want to meditate and pranayama, you feel that if you are not moved, you should meditate and pranayama. This is just a trick. How can you do that? " It can be seen that TCM health preservation is a kind of exercise method with calming the psychological qi as the main destination, and calming the heart is the premise and foundation of health preservation exercise, so regular practice of calming the heart has the effect of calming the nerves.
2. Close your eyes and ears.
As one of the five senses of human body, eyes and ears are the main organs that God receives external stimuli, and their functions are dominated and regulated by God. If your eyes are clear and your ears are quiet, you will maintain a kind of self-restraint air and your heart will not work. If your eyes are impatient, you will be tired and worried. As the saying goes, "close your eyes", Chinese medicine advocates that everyone sit quietly for 30 minutes every day and close their eyes naturally. Because "the eyes are not confused, the mind belongs to the heart, which is the foundation of quietness", naturally closing your eyes, that is, hanging curtains, will relax the eye points, make them full of qi and blood, and also help protect your eyes.
Laozi once said, "Five colors make people blind and five tones make people deaf", which means that if you look at things and listen to things indiscriminately, your ears will be too confused to use, which will hurt your spirit. Because old people are experienced and easy to think, God is more mobile and difficult to be quiet. In view of this feature of the elderly, Pension Wing emphasizes: "The importance of providing for the elderly lies in not listening, not talking, not moving the body and not moving the heart, which is beneficial to the elderly." For air, it is particularly important to suppress eyes, because "eyes are caused by eyes and the mind is profound", which means that eyes are tired and the mind is moving, so the mind must first suppress the purpose. Of course, the eyes can't help but look and the ears can't help but listen. The key is not to watch it in order to satisfy selfish desires and make the air restless.
3. Be quiet and concentrate on thinking
Just as Sun Simiao said in "A daughter must be determined, and a Taoist forest must be cultivated", "It is dangerous to think too much, it is distracting, it is frustrating to think too much, and it is tiring to do too much". Under the great pressure of work and life, modern people are running around all day, and their spirits and thoughts are highly nervous. If they can't relax, diseases will follow. "Medical Banknotes" said: "Nourishing the heart leads to heart coagulation, which leads to gas accumulation, and gas accumulation is complete. If you are busy all day, you will get old easily. " From the point of view of health preservation, concentrating on one's thoughts is a good way to keep one's mind quiet, which is similar to the method advocated by Lv Dongbin. Of course, this method of concentration and meditation is not ignorance, no desire, no ambition, nor is it artificially suppressing one's thoughts too much, and there is no idle emptiness of spiritual sustenance, so it is absolutely different from idle thoughts that are full of support and unintentional.
Therefore, keeping quiet is actually to cultivate a quiet mood, that is, to put a stable and quiet psychological state in a very important position. Only those who can affirm themselves, accept themselves and like themselves can calm down, not be moved by the external environment, do their own business wholeheartedly, and show a detached and philosophical attitude of "fame as a cloud". Quiet itself is also a complete relaxation. On the road of life, how many grievances, how many honors and disgraces are now like passing clouds. Isn't this a feeling of relaxation and complete liberation? This is a complete understanding of life. There are no winners and losers, only a calm and peaceful mind.