Usually, this is common sense. Drink water when you are thirsty, eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, do it at sunrise and rest at sunset.
Usually, this is common sense. Knowing that birth and death, gathering and parting, and ending are all normal in the world, and nothing in the world remains the same.
Often, it is a habit. What you should do every day is as important as eating. Unless you don't eat for a day, you don't have to attend classes regularly.
Often, it's location. There is a man between heaven and earth. If he keeps it, he will get his reward, his name and his life.
It is often because of down-to-earth diligence and persistence, and it is a profound understanding in the heart. It is empty at any time and does not cling to all phases.
Obey-that is, obey the law.
The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic begins with a clear meaning. Su Wen said: "The method is based on Yin and Yang, and with the number of tricks, proper diet and regular daily life, you can be in harmony with God. If you live to be 100 years old, you can come to the end of your life." This passage tells us three elements of health preservation: first, obey the laws of nature; Second, moderate diet; Third, the law of life. Adapt to the changes of the four seasons, adjust diet, daily life and mood according to the climate characteristics of different seasons, and make the human body live in harmony with nature, so as to live a long and healthy life.
Daily life is regular. This "regular" means regular, but it doesn't mean when you get up and go to bed every day. For example, when to get up in winter and when to get up in spring are all regular. This law is the alternation of day and night of nature and the change of four seasons, which means that your daily life should be in harmony with heaven, earth and nature. If you follow this rule, congratulations, your luck has come. We often say good luck. Where did this luck come from? Who brought it to you? It is the rhythm and law in the process of the transformation between heaven and earth, which you naturally get by conforming to the qi of heaven and earth. You will be lucky to follow it, but you will be unlucky if you carry it on your back. But now many of us turn the day and night upside down, work at sunrise and rest at sunset. As the saying goes: "Today's people, otherwise, take wine as the pulp, run amok, lead a drunken life and dream of death, want to exhaust their essence, dissipate their truth, don't know how to hold their fullness, conquer their gods from time to time, worry about their hearts, disobey their lives, and be unrestrained, so they will fail by half." Taking a lifestyle that goes against the way of nature as a daily habit is not far from illness and disaster.
Obedience-is to conform to nature.
The so-called nature, as I understand it, is the day and night in the universe, the growth and collection of all things, the alternation of cold and summer in four seasons, and endless mountains and rivers. It is not affected by anyone's will, and it will go back and forth forever and never end. It is a natural expression and a natural phenomenon without any carving.
With nature, there is everything that human beings stand for. Nature is the material environment for human existence. Since we live in this nature, we are bound to be influenced by nature, including heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, and the five stars. Only by keeping in touch with nature, getting close to nature, returning to nature and integrating with nature can we get the gift of nature. As Su Wen in Huangdi Neijing said: "Cultivate heaven and earth, master yin and yang, breathe essence and maintain spiritual independence. If the muscles are the same, you can live a long life, which is endless. This is the way of life. "
Nowadays, most people live in high-rise buildings, and with the pressure of fast-paced life, work and study, they have no time to look up at the sky during the day and have no leisure to overlook the stars and the moon at night, let alone work in the fields. Their brains are bound by tangible rules and regulations, and they have no leisure to accommodate their imagination of natural time and space. Imagine that a person who has never lived in the vast world of nature, who has not followed the natural sex life, is not a natural person with infinite imagination, strong vitality and creativity, and conforms to the standards of heaven and earth.
Therefore, return to the innocence of nature, return to the origin of nature, don't impose too much, don't underestimate yourself, conform to nature, be a natural person, do natural things, and achieve the natural way of heaven and earth.
Keep it regular-that is, keep it flat.
Su Wen in Huangdi Neijing: "Autumn and March, this is Rongping". That is, natural scenes are precipitated and converged because everything is mature. In the words of our common people, when everything in nature grows to a certain extent and reaches maturity, it is necessary to harvest it in time, let the particles return to the warehouse and tighten the pockets. If it is not harvested in time and allowed to grow freely, it will reduce production and affect the harvest. If the wheat is not harvested in time in the mature season, it will be fried all over the ground. If apples and pomegranates are not picked in time when they are ripe, they will ripen or crack and explode.
The "flat" here means flat, plain, enough is enough, no more, no less just right. In Henan, we always like to say the word "zhong". The hidden meaning behind it and "ping" are actually the same meaning, which accords with the meaning of moderation, benevolence and peace that our ancients said.
Combining with our human body, how to judge a person's health depends on whether the yin and yang state of this person is balanced and coordinated. Physical diseases and discomforts must be caused by the imbalance of yin and yang, or the disorder of flat state. As long as the balance of the human body is restored and the balance point is found, the mystery of Yin and Yang and the harmony of Yin and Yang can be achieved. In this way, the lesion will naturally disappear.
Now, you can't let your own subjective assumptions and do it by your own temper and personality, but you should have a normal heart, do ordinary things, say ordinary words and reach an extraordinary realm.
Keeping in good health doesn't mean that you call it keeping in good health after running. As long as you have a peaceful attitude and an open-minded attitude of "neither supercilious nor supercilious, look at the flowers in bloom before the court, and have no intention to stay or stay, and look up to the sky", you are in health at any time and place.
Therefore, to be neat means to be flat. Leveling, in fact, is to use dynamic methods to make objects achieve the purpose of leveling. For example, walking a tightrope in acrobatics, holding a balance bar in your hand or extending your arm directly as a balance bar, is to keep your body balanced by adjusting the length of the bars on both sides of your body or adjusting the up-and-down range of your arm. And our treatment method is to correct the abnormal state of yin-yang bias of human body by using the yin-yang bias and action trend of drugs. The same is true for health care.
Be regular-be pure and have less desire.
The Yellow Emperor's Neijing Su Wen said: "To be idle and want less, to feel at ease without fear, to be diligent, to go with the wind, to follow one's own desires, and to get his place ... because lust can't satisfy his eyes, lust can't confuse his heart, and fools and wise men are reckless and not afraid of things, so they are in line with the Tao. Therefore, it is not because of his virtue that he can be a hundred years old without losing his movements. " The general idea is: relax your mind without desire, have a stable mood without anxiety, have no fatigue in physical work, and adjust your true qi accordingly, and people will get what they want. Therefore, any improper lust will not attract their attention, and any immoral and improper will not confuse their mentality. No matter stupid, smart, capable or weak, they will not be tempted and anxious because of changes in external things, so they are in line with the way of health preservation. The reason why they can not age over 100 years old is precisely because they understand and master the method of self-cultivation and are not disturbed and hurt by internal and external evils.
Mencius said, "nourishing the heart is not good at short desires." It is to teach people to cultivate their minds, and the first thing is to control their desires. If the elderly can "abstain from sex", they can resist temptation and control themselves in all aspects of life, so as to keep their body and mind relaxed, be innocent in their evenings and enjoy their prime of life.
People nowadays are in a hurry and are troubled by the complexity of the world. Everyone keeps up with the joneses and pursues fame and fortune. Sigh when you talk, "tired, really tired" is on your lips. It's better to look down on everything than to dwell on it! Alone, with no attachments, I feel refreshed, broad-minded, abstain from lust and greed, and be kind as water. Don't rejoice in things, don't grieve for yourself. Settle down, the simpler you live, the stronger your happiness will be.
An indifferent person is sober, and a sober person is wise. The extravagant heart is turbid, and the turbid heart is lustful.
Tolerance is great, but no desire is just. It is not that people are not allowed to have desires, but that they should restrain their own selfish desires. Restrain selfish desires, you can be pure and indifferent; If you control your own selfish desires, you will live forever.
As the saying goes, "people can afford to buy and put it down." Put it down in order to pick it up better. Learn to let go and learn to relax. Our daily health care is to learn to slow ourselves down in different ways, whether it is exercise or sitting still, and learn to reach the highest state of the ancients, that is, "taking saints as inaction, taking joy as pleasure, taking nothingness as desire, so life is endless, and heaven and earth are the end."
The highest realm of traditional Chinese medicine is health preservation, and the highest realm of health preservation is nourishing the heart. Guided by the Taoist classic Jing Jing, "man can be quiet for a long time, and heaven and earth return." Let the mind be quiet, the body be purified, the disease be cured, and life be long.
(Zhong Yi Tang Guo Yiguang Yan Hongbin Wen)