Introduction of mental health regimen
The method of mental health preservation refers to mental health preservation or mental conditioning dominated by indifference and nothingness, which originated from the study of Laozi and Zhuangzi.
Later, it was mainly developed in Buddhism and Taoism, which is inseparable from the ideas of practice and quietism advocated by the two schools, and this is also an important prerequisite for [[Qigong]] practice. Confucian qigong advocates selfless and fearless integrity as the basis. Is this what Mencius said? I'm good at raising my lofty spirit? There is little learning in later generations.
If you are optimistic, you will feel comfortable and prosperous; If you are depressed, you will be depressed; If you are in a bad mood, you will be exhausted. Therefore, abstinence can make the heart calm, the blood vessels smooth and the spirit stable. Although there is panic and fear, it cannot be harmful. The way to adjust the mentality is to meditate, or to rely on the heart, or to entertain yourself with string songs, or to explore the secluded mountains, to be tolerant and calm, to be less idle, and to be free and fearless.
Two ways to keep mental health
1. Consciously maintain health
What is it called in traditional medicine? Mind? , mainly refers to the human spirit, consciousness and thinking activities. Mental health preservation is a way to get rid of greed and maintain a peaceful mind through self-regulation of the inner world, so as to achieve health and longevity. It includes the following points:
(1) selfish
It means self-restraint and eliminating one's selfishness and greed. Laozi and Zhuangzi were famous thinkers in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and they were the founders of mental health preservation. What did they put forward clearly? Simple and simple, selfish? The idea is that people should be simple, not selfish and have too many desires. It's hard to be selfless and without desires in life, but selfish desires should not be too high. Only through self-restraint, can we control our desires, get rid of those insatiable greed, and reduce our mental stress and pain. The most important thing in life is to maintain physical and mental health, learn to self-regulate, self-discipline, and self-clear the selfish desires in your inner world. Only those who have less selfish desires and no greed can be indifferent to fame and fortune, open-minded and cheerful, and help to maintain peace of mind and a good psychological state. Being indifferent to nothingness and not competing with the world will naturally be introverted, yin and yang are peaceful, qi and blood are vigorous, evil is unbearable, and all diseases are not born.
(2) Happiness lies in contentment.
It means completely satisfied with your living and working environment. Lao Tzu said:? Happiness is greater than trouble, wealth is greater than contentment. ? Worry-free contentment is the self-experience and feeling in the inner world and the result of self-regulation in the emotional world. In the journey of life, everyone has his own position, so he should be completely satisfied with his position. ? Happiness lies in contentment? It is through the adjustment of my inner world that this satisfaction reaches the highest value. Fish need not envy birds flying in the air, and birds need not envy fish swimming in the water. They should cherish their position and what they have. If you think about it carefully, you will find that some things you have, others can't get, and some things others have, you can't get. If you always think about what others can't get, you will feel satisfied, happy and happy, and naturally it will be quiet; If you always think about what others have but you can't get, you will feel disappointed, depressed and unhappy, and your heart will feel uneasy. If a person can be carefree and satisfied, he will have a good mood and feel that the road of life is full of sunshine and joy. Such a person will naturally live a long and healthy life.
Besides,? Satisfy the status quo and be proactive? It is also one of the creeds that mental health maintenance methods should follow, that is, while satisfying their current living and working conditions, they should also be proactive in order to achieve greater results.
(3) Open-minded
It means cheerful, open-minded and generous. According to the survey of the elderly over 90 years old in China, the main reason for longevity is not material, but spiritual. The reason why long-lived elderly people can live a long life is related to their mental state of being open-minded, cheerful, contented, well-fed, not contending with others, and being happy with everything.
An important way to open your mind is? Out of the small world and into nature? . In other words, don't always shut yourself in the world of wheezing at home, go out actively, enjoy the gifts given by nature and feel the interest of nature. Butterflies flying in flowers, insects in grass, birds singing on branches, fish in water and small animals in Shan Ye can all make people feel the joy of life, refined elegance, and help them to be open-minded and cheerful. Imagine, a person who looks up at the sea of clouds in Huangshan Mountain, overlooks the blue sea and waves, takes pines and cypresses as companions and wild cranes as friends, and may still be worried about the gains and losses of three melons and two dates in daily life?
(4)? How good is it?
Is to do more good things to help others and experience the happiness and satisfaction of life from them. The so-called good deeds, the ancients said? Accumulate virtue and do good? What's your name now? Help others? It means that people help people in need according to their abilities. Good deeds can be big or small. Large companies can donate millions of dollars for disaster relief or education. Small can show the way to the lost, but love is the same regardless of size. Whoever does good deeds will realize his own value and gain happiness and health by helping others do good deeds.
2. Emotional health
What do you call traditional medicine? Emotion? Refers to people's emotional response to external objective things, which can be summarized as seven emotions, namely, emotion, anxiety, sadness and fear. Emotional health preservation is mainly a method to achieve physical and mental health by self-regulating emotional response to objective environment or things, changing people's way of thinking and adjusting people's emotional state. Adjust people's emotional state from the following aspects:
(1) guard against arrogance and rashness
Is to pay attention to avoid their pride and impatience, and keep a calm mind. Proud people often overestimate their abilities, feel good about themselves, don't listen to other people's opinions, are overjoyed, and even reluctantly do something beyond their power. Impatient people tend to be eager for success regardless of objective reality and are prone to impetuousness. Because there is a big gap between the ideal world and the real life of arrogant people, conflicts between ideal and reality often occur in daily life, thus causing inner pain. Modern medicine believes that people with type A personality are stubborn, impatient, nervous, argumentative, impulsive, hasty, hostile and aggressive, so the prevalence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is significantly higher than that of people with type B personality. If a person knows his own strengths and weaknesses, can correctly understand and evaluate his own abilities, pay attention to overcoming arrogance, adapt to the natural environment and maintain a peaceful mind, which is very beneficial to health.
(2) Good emotional adjustment
It is to be good at resolving bad emotions and let your mood reach the best state. People's emotional response to objective things is one of the important signs of physical and mental health. In other words, it is a normal emotional reaction to be happy when encountering exciting things and sad when encountering depressed things. It should be noted that in daily life, the situation is so complicated that it is difficult for people to do everything well. Therefore, we should pay attention to learn to cultivate self-cultivation, relax our emotions, and strive to maintain a stable ideological, emotional and psychological state.
(3) a free life? Sanqi?
It means avoiding laziness, resentment and sulking in daily life. The first is to avoid idleness. Just don't get angry about trifles in daily life. The second is to avoid resentment. Just don't always get angry with someone or something. If a person is always competing with those who are better than himself in some ways, it is inevitable to get angry. The third is to avoid sulking. In other words, when you encounter unhappy things, you should speak out in time so as to solve or resolve them. Don't always keep them in your heart and compete with yourself. ? Sanqi? Sulking has the greatest impact on physical and mental health, especially for a long time, which will lead to diseases, especially heart disease and tumors. So we must pay attention to emotional cultivation and avoid being born? Sanqi? .
It should be emphasized that the key to mental health is to learn to pursue happiness. Everyone wants to be happy, but what is happiness is different for everyone. Someone said? Happiness is a feeling, an experience, a subjective impression of personal feelings? . Happiness has no unified standard, no unified model, and it is not determined by objective conditions, but depends on one's own subjectivity to feel and experience. Carnegie, a famous American entrepreneur and educator, said: the application of thought and thought itself can turn hell into heaven and heaven into hell. ? Therefore, we should learn to create happiness with our own thoughts and create a clear sky of our own.
Mental health preservation is like quitting smoking, which is the easiest and most difficult to do. It is the easiest thing to do, because mental health preservation can be completely dominated by a person's subjective consciousness without special external auxiliary conditions. The most difficult thing is that it is difficult for a person to grasp himself and correct his inherent wrong way of thinking, and it is even more difficult to rule out the negative interference of objective things on his subjective consciousness. Ancient sages often put self-cultivation in the first place, thinking that the top ten pleasures in life are to talk about benevolence and righteousness, learn calligraphy and calligraphy, sit still, have a good conversation with friends, get half drunk, water flowers and plant bamboo, listen to the piano and play cranes, burn incense and make tea, and go to the city to watch the mountains. This is the meaning of playing chess. The ancient method of nourishing the heart is still worth learning. Of course, in today's real life, people's work or study are tense and busy. It is difficult to have the leisure of ancient people visiting famous mountains and rivers, and there are few opportunities to watch fish and listen to birds in the forest. However, in daily life, we should pay attention to self-cultivation, adjust mood and calm mind, which is very beneficial to maintain physical and mental health.