Speaking of "keeping in good health", many people automatically equate it with "keeping in good health", which is incorrect, at least for the wise. As a matter of fact, Huangdi Neijing Lingshu itself has long told us: "Therefore, the wise man's way of keeping in good health must be suitable for four seasons of cold and summer, harmonious and rich, and both rigid and soft." If so, they will not be eccentric and will not live long. "
As we can see, keeping in good health needs to keep pace with the times, be happy and angry, be frugal and be yin and yang, which is a systematic project of keeping in good health, keeping in good health and keeping in good morals. Moreover, as Liang, a health care scientist in the Qing Dynasty, pointed out in his "Collection of Good Prescriptions": "Health care is mainly based on nourishing the heart. The heart is not sick, the heart is not sick, the heart is not sick, and people are not sick. " If we take good care of our hearts, our bodies will not get sick. Conversely, the heart is sick, so is God, and then people are sick.
The concept of "nourishing the heart" covers a wide range, including both physical and emotional aspects. Because the heart in the theory of Tibetan image in traditional Chinese medicine is different from the heart of flesh and blood and the heart of gods. Li Yong, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, said in An Introduction to Medical Zang-fu Organs: "There is a heart of flesh and blood, which looks like an unopened lotus and lives in the lungs and liver. There is a god's heart ... it dominates everything, and the spirit is not ignorant. "
A heart of flesh and blood is a heart that we can see and touch; The heart of the gods is roughly equivalent to the function of the brain today, and it can carry out spiritual activities such as thoughts, ideas, thinking and emotions. In other words, today we think that it is a mental thinking activity carried out by the brain, and Chinese medicine belongs to it. Therefore, when we cultivate our hearts, we should not only cultivate our flesh-and-blood hearts, but also cultivate our understanding hearts.
When we cultivate our hearts, we should cultivate not only our flesh and blood, but also our hearts.
In this sense, it is indeed "keeping in good health and nourishing the heart first". Because the heart is the master of our life activities, both physically and psychologically. Emotion is the master of the whole body. As the saying goes, "Sad spleen, angry liver, sad spirit". Bad mood is the cause of many diseases. If a person's seven emotions are unbalanced, the corresponding viscera will definitely be affected.
Especially in today's materialistic era, the poetry of agricultural civilization has basically disappeared, and people live in a hurry, making it more and more difficult to calm down. Therefore, although the concept of health preservation is becoming more and more popular, the incidence of cardiovascular diseases remains high regardless of men, women and children.
Therefore, we should not only keep a good beating heart, but also adjust our thoughts, emotions and psychology to the best state. What is the best state? Huangdi Neijing considers it as "bleak nothingness", which can be interpreted as bleak and quiet, optimistic and open-minded, and devoted to self-entertainment.
Because "the mind is happy", the physiological function of the heart is closely related to the "happiness" in the seven emotions, so we should keep happy every day. If you feel happy every day, you have a kind heart.
We should keep a happy mood every day.