Westerners who are good at logical thinking put too much pressure on the left brain, so the progress of science and technology reduces people's happiness; Orientals who are good at epiphany make their right brain in a state of high pleasure, but the memory bank of the left brain has not been well sorted out, so happy orientals have been taught by westerners with guns.
Although westerners' thinking is effective, it is a waste of thinking. Although oriental thinking can preserve one's health, it is a conservative thinking. Nowadays, with the exchange of Chinese and western cultures, the two ways of thinking are also merging. At present, what everyone wants to discuss is a way of thinking that can not only preserve health but also promote the development of science and technology.
The ancients made a lot of achievements in "nourishing qi" and "practicing qi", but they never put forward "nourishing heart" and "practicing heart" because the ancients were worried that thinking would make people "worry and hurt their health.
Today, it is time for us to break through the cultural barriers left by the ancients, because we know that if we handle it well, human thinking progress and happiness can develop together.
(A) dredge the channels of thinking
Why do people call insoluble problems "knots"? This word is too vivid. In fact, when thinking is difficult, if you continue to think hard, the brain will secrete norepinephrine, a toxic hormone that will cause blood vessels to contract, and many acupoints at the back of the brain will be easily blocked. At this time, the blood channel is like a knot. It is difficult for blood to pass through here, and the brain will not be replenished in time.
The Book of Changes "On Cohesion" said: "Yi has no thoughts, no actions, no movements, but a sense of communication." It means that the flow of qi and blood is conducive to the flow of ideas; And smooth thinking is also conducive to smooth blood flow.
The weight of the brain is only 2% of the body weight, but its oxygen consumption accounts for 20% of the whole body oxygen consumption, and its blood supply accounts for 15% of the cardiac output. Brain tissue can not store energy, nor can it carry out anaerobic glycolysis, so the requirements for oxygen and blood supply are particularly high. Ischemia and hypoxia can lead to neuron death for 4 minutes. From this, we can draw a conclusion that the invisible channel of thinking is the tangible channel-the channel of qi and blood. If you can't think clearly, your qi and blood will be blocked. It's hard to think clearly because qi and blood are blocked. Therefore, in order to maintain the best mental state, it is necessary to make the qi and blood in the body unobstructed. Many mental workers are not aware of this truth, even when their blood vessels are blocked and their heads are swollen, they work overtime desperately, and as a result, they have racked their brains and can't come up with an answer.
If you have been working all day and a problem has not been solved until the evening, and your blood can't flow smoothly, then you should stop thinking, because at this time, the blood flow is blocked, and it is useless to think hard. If you give up this job temporarily, wait until the next morning, maybe the answer will suddenly appear. Because morning is the easiest time for qi and blood to flow freely, and it is also the most sober time.
Adequate sleep, proper exercise, correct * * * and timely meditation are all good ways to dredge qi and blood meridians. When the channels of qi and blood are open, the channels of thinking are naturally open.
(B) thinking preheating
Before engaging in strenuous exercise, you should do enough warm-up activities, otherwise you will get hurt during exercise. The same is true of thinking. If you go straight into complex thinking without preheating your brain in advance, many people will have fatigue and headache.
Why do athletes tend to be "simple-minded and well-developed"? This is because during strenuous exercise, qi and blood are mainly concentrated in miscellaneous limbs. After the exercise, it takes a long time to relax, so that qi and blood are evenly distributed throughout the body, and then gradually enter a state of thinking. Athletes spend most of their time in training, of course, there is no time for thinking nerves to get enough qi and blood nourishment. If you plan to exercise before high-intensity mental work, you must exercise moderately. After the exercise, you must relax and adjust your breathing in time, let your body calm down as soon as possible, and let your brain become active gradually, so that you can quickly enter the state of learning and thinking.
Even if you don't participate in sports activities, it is necessary to warm up your brain. The so-called warm-up of the brain means that it is easy first and then difficult, thinking in images first and then abstracting. You pick the simplest and most memorable things to think about, and then think about the difficult problems after the brain enters the excited state. You will find that the excited brain thinks very smoothly and the brain is not easy to be tense.
Modern people pay more and more attention to the cultivation of children's thinking, such as looking at pictures, situational dialogues and so on. However, adults themselves tend to ignore the brain's thinking preheating. They often get up humming and rush to the office to start thinking nervously.
If the brain enters complex abstract thinking without preheating, it is often prone to headaches, colds and decreased immunity.
Some people studied well when they were students, but once they took up their jobs, it was very difficult. This is because there are too many abstract thoughts in the student days, and there is a lack of warm-up preparations for thinking in images. The direct pressure on the brain exceeds the load it can bear. So his best thinking cycle will end much earlier than others.
Thinking preheating depends on the work content. The small warm-up period of thinking should be planned according to the daily workload; The big warm-up period is planned with a lifetime career. If you just want to finish a copy, it may only take ten minutes to make your mind hot; If you want to do a big project, your mind may warm up for more than a month. The best way is to warm up your mind as soon as you get up every morning. Spend enough time warming up before each project starts.
(C) the thinking help of language tools
Language, one of the earliest thinking tools of human beings, is still a necessary means for the continuation of civilized society. It can be said that without language tools, there would be no communication between people and no evolution of the human brain.
Writing is an advanced stage of language development. If there are no words, you can't remember much by your brain alone. There are still many primitive tribes in the world at present. They only have language but no writing, so their knowledge is very poor.
Written language has three functions: memory function, communication function and learning function. These three functions are of great help to the thinking of the human brain, but unfortunately they are not fully utilized by us.
Take advertising copy as an example. An inspiration comes to mind, which may be fleeting. If you don't write it down quickly with a pen, you may never remember it. In real life, people often have to remember from the beginning because they don't want to record. As a result, a lot of precious time was wasted.
A foreign language is also a language tool. Some people learn a foreign language not to master tools, but to get a diploma or find a good job. This kind of learning effect is very poor.
A China company listed on NASDAQ, giving employees some options. The company's share price rose from 15 USD to 44 USD, and then fell back to 15 USD. At $44, most people think that the stock price has peaked, so everyone wants to sell their options and even want to make a "short" transaction. However, because each employee uses foreign language tools in different ways, the operation results are different.
An employee with poor foreign language skills invited his wife who was proficient in foreign languages to see the contents of foreign websites, and then he placed an order for trading. Not only did he sell his stock at a high position, but he also made a profit by shorting backhand. An employee thinks that his foreign language level is good, and he trades in person, but he doesn't understand the provisions of "short options" and dares not trade. He just makes a fortune in his own stock. Another employee with a good foreign language level was too busy to activate his account and didn't let someone he trusted operate it for him. He simply left the options idle until he wanted to make a profit, so he had to take the time to register and certify first, which delayed the best time to throw them out. In this way, the employee with the worst foreign language level in the company made the most timely and full use of foreign language tools and became the employee who made the most profit in this transaction.
In a word, mastering a foreign language means mastering another opportunity. If you don't master a foreign language, but you can get help from people who master it, then your opportunity will not be lost.
(D) the self-destruction complex of impatient people
There is an invisible thinking channel in the brain, which is very narrow and can't hold too many things at a time. Some people are eager for success and like to do things wholeheartedly. Such people are prone to problems.
When you go out to do business, you often encounter traffic jams. If we don't get off and walk, we may have no choice but to wait patiently. But some people are anxious as soon as they encounter this situation, either sighing or swearing. The thinking channel in his brain, like a traffic jam, has lost its normal thinking operation, so he didn't realize that such a hurry was useless. In fact, traffic jams can be completely ignored. Since we are going out to do business, we should be prepared for traffic jams. In case of traffic jam, it's no use worrying about ourselves. Besides, worry can only make our brains secrete more toxic hormones such as norepinephrine. If we are always in such a hurry, we will get old easily. So we can calm down in the face of traffic jams, but what comes to mind immediately is how to adjust today's work plan.
I often do this when I ride in a car with my friends. They were so anxious there, but when they saw that I seemed to have nothing to do, they didn't understand. They kept asking me, why aren't you in a hurry? I said: my thinking channel is very smooth. If I'm in a hurry, I'm sure I'll be blocked like the road ahead. Once the thinking channel is blocked, qi and blood will definitely be forced to descend, and the brain will not get enough qi and blood supply, so it will definitely be impossible to make a clear judgment. So, it's no use worrying.
In fact, the channel of thinking is really easily influenced by the information received by the eyes. As we said before, if you look up information online, but the page can't be opened for a long time, then your brain's thinking channel is likely to be suppressed and short-circuited, so your blood is blocked, your brain's nutrition supply is insufficient, and your thinking efficiency will immediately decline.
Impatient people get angry easily and quarrel with others for a trivial matter. In fact, this is a self-destructive way. Some people quarrel with others every time they go out. The reason is that you are too demanding of others, and you always have to impose your own fixed pattern on others. How do others accept it? Besides, even if you are right, you can't ask others to understand you at the first time. The human brain has a process of reflection. If you express it too fast, it is likely to be misunderstood. In fact, most quarrels are because you misunderstand others' meaning, because you are in a hurry and you interrupt others before they finish. Can you promise not to misunderstand others?
In modern families, couples often quarrel and even fight. People wonder: why did the original vows of eternal love fail to stand the test? This shows that people are not good at keeping in good health, and it also shows that there is a lack of mutual understanding within the family.
In the past, when looking for a partner, people paid great attention to whether the temperament and personality of both men and women were the same. Nowadays, people only pay attention to whether feelings or so-called "values" are consistent, and seldom pay attention to whether temperament is consistent. Only after marriage did I find that the two sides were so incompatible.
Generally speaking, two impatient people are definitely not suitable for being husband and wife, or they will quarrel every day. An impatient person can't find a slow-witted person as a partner, otherwise the impatient person will get angry. The best match is that an impatient person should find a reasonable and gentle person who can understand and bear the anger from the other side and find ways to comfort and guide the other side. For those who have a bad temper, don't find a bad-tempered person as a partner. A person with a moderate temper is the best choice. Such people will not only blame people with slow temper, but also guide them to improve their thinking speed effectively.
Remind you: keep thinking about health. This folk prescription comes from the internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.