This is a sentence in Huangdi Neijing, that is, God should be quiet and not impetuous. The idea of quietness began with Laozi and Zhuangzi. Laozi and Zhuangzi lived in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which witnessed rapid social changes. They observed the changes in nature, society and personnel at that time and put forward the idea of "quietism". This thought reflected the positive thoughts of aristocratic lords in politics and medical care at that time. Laozi pointed out in the Tao Te Ching: "Those who are quiet are impatient." It means that in the contradiction between dynamic and static, static is the main aspect of contradiction, and static is the master of restlessness. Starting from this thought, he strongly advocated "to be empty and quiet", that is, to try to eliminate distractions and make the mind empty and not miscellaneous; Always keep quiet, let the air calm and not impetuous. Zhuangzi inherited Laozi's thought of quietness, and expounded the truth that God wants quietness by taking water as an example, saying that "water is still bright, but the spirit of the environment" and that quietness and inaction can achieve the realm of longevity. Huangdi Neijing, after Laozi and Zhuangzi, put forward the idea of calming the heart and preventing diseases for the first time from the medical point of view. For example, in his "Su Wen", he said: "If there is no peace, the true qi will follow; The spirit, the disease is always safe. " The "tranquility and nothingness" here mainly means that in the aspect of tranquility, the mind is peaceful, the qi is filled inside, and the evil spirits are inviolable. During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu An attached great importance to quietness. He said in "Huai Nan Zi Yuan Tao Xun": "Life is quiet and natural." It is also pointed out that there is a close relationship between calmness and arrogance. For example, he said in "Spiritual Training": "People who are energetic and ambitious, quiet and energetic will be strong, and those who are impatient and tired will get old." Cao Tingdong, a great health care practitioner in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Old Man's Constant Words and Yanju": "Quiet is the first thing to take pictures." The book carefully analyzes the meditation thoughts of predecessors, and from the reality, gives new content to "quietness". He opposed the absolute "quietness" of Taoism and thought: "The heart will be useless, like dying embers, which is the way to preserve one's health." He argues that God should be relatively static, that God does not need to be immobile, that God is static, and that it is meaningful to move and not move. As can be seen from the above discussion, famous experts and thinkers in ancient times strongly advocated "quietness", that is, quietness was used to recuperate from illness. Static, generally refers to the indifferent and quiet state, because there are no distractions in the air, which can store the true qi and achieve the purpose of peace of mind. In recent years, many scholars at home and abroad have attached great importance to the study of the relationship between psychological calm and health. Physiological research has confirmed that after people enter a state of silence, the brain at the center of life activities returns to the brain wave state of childhood, that is, the biochemical indicators of human aging have been "reversed". According to the measurement, the brain waves of high-level Qigong masters are obviously different from ordinary people. Social investigation found that after experiencing major mental setbacks and ideological blows, the incidence of various diseases increased significantly without good psychological adjustment. Because "God" has the function of taking care of everything, God is often in a state of being restless. As Chen Jiru's "Skin Talk on Health Care" said: "What people write, do and want today, God uses the altar to reach. "God went to move, how can it be quiet? Chen Shicheng also said in "Health Guide Breathing": "Heart is like an ape, meaning is like a horse, and it is hard to be safe. "Therefore, it is not easy to really calm down. Only by realizing the meaning of quietness from the ideological height can we overcome all kinds of interference and achieve "quietness to hide God". How?

One is to close your eyes.

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. 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. In particular, it is necessary to avoid "seeing dark black and listening to her" ("On Health") and reduce the bad stimulation of the outside world to the air. 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."

Suppressing eyes and nourishing ears, for air, suppressing eyes is particularly important. "Old Heng Yan Yanju" said: "The heart is the home of God; Eyes are God's eyes. Because of my eyes, my heart is awkward. " It explains why when the eyes are tired and the mind is calm, we must first restrain our eyes. Of course, the eyes can't help but look and the ears can't help but listen. The key is not to blindly look and listen to satisfy selfish desires and make the air restless.

The second is to concentrate on thinking.

"Medical Banknotes Series" says: "Nourishing the heart leads to coagulation, coagulation leads to gas accumulation, and gas accumulation leads to perfection. If you are busy and inattentive, it is easy to get old. " Of course, this method of concentration and meditation is not ignorance, no desire, no ambition, nor is it an idle emptiness that artificially suppresses one's thoughts too much without spiritual sustenance, so it is absolutely different from idle thoughts that eat all day and have no purpose. From the perspective of health preservation, spirit is precious while disorder is evil, thought is precious and evil is scattered. Concentrated thinking is a good way to keep your mind quiet. On the contrary, as Sun Simiao said in "A thousand dollars must be fixed, and the Taoist forest must be cultivated": "Thinking too much is dangerous, thinking too much is scattered, thinking too much is fainting, and doing too much is tiring." Lv Dongbin, a Taoist priest, advocated the method of "nourishing qi in quietness and nourishing the heart in quietness", which is not unreasonable.

The third is to practice more static kung fu.

Static kungfu is a kind of Qigong, which includes two aspects: mental training and spiritual training, which is equivalent to the ancient methods of sitting, breathing, breathing and convincing. Among them, nourishing the heart (also known as adjusting the mind) is to adjust one's mental state in order to achieve the effect of promoting calm. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing said: "Breathe the essence and keep the spirit independently." The air here is introverted, which is the result of static work. "Four Essentials of Health Care" also said: "People study health care, meditate every day, and pay attention to adjusting their breath every day. But when you want to meditate and pranayama, you think that if you don't make your heart move, you meditate and pranayama. This is just a trick. How can you do that? " It can be seen that static kung fu is an exercise method with calming mental qi as the main destination, and calming the mind is the premise and foundation of qigong exercise. Therefore, practicing static kung fu often has a static effect.

"Keep your spirit inside and stay away from illness."

The original text of this sentence can be found in Ancient Naivety, which is also an important principle of nourishing the heart. The so-called "mental defense" mainly refers to people's ability to exercise, control and adjust their conscious thinking activities and psychological state, so as to keep it in harmony with the body and the environment without disorder. "Inside" means outside, and "keeping" means sticking to and keeping. "Nourishing the spirit" emphasizes the internal environment-the important role of mental stability in human health, that is, "being safe from illness", that is, keeping the spirit inside. How can people get sick? So, how to "keep the spirit inside"?

First, be "always on guard against God".

When talking about how people get old, Huangdi Neijing clearly pointed out: "From time to time, we should obey the gods, speed up their hearts, and disobey their orders. Without restraint, we will fail at half a hundred." "Half-hundred years old" here refers to aging before getting old, and the key reason for aging lies in "always protecting God". The meaning of the emperor, control, control. Sometimes you are kind and sometimes you obey God, which shows that you are not good at controlling your spirit. In order to covet temporary happiness, it is harmful to physical and mental health and promotes premature aging.

Spiritual dissipation, which can not be maintained internally, leads to aging, because "spirit is also blood", which means that qi and blood are the material basis of God. Excessive spiritual dissipation will make qi and blood lose, which will lead to aging. Facts have proved that a person who often cries and laughs too much will not live long. People with moral cultivation must always control their own spirit and deal with all kinds of things calmly and objectively. For any major changes and complex problems encountered in daily life, we should maintain a stable psychological state and a philosophical attitude towards life, and conform to the laws of things to solve problems. As pointed out in Shou's Theory of Nourishing the Mind: "There are some things that you haven't met before, and you can't worry too much when you meet them. If you can't stay, let it come." We should let nature take its course, let nature take its course, with anger and fear, joy and worry, and do things well. This is also a way to nourish the heart. " This is the best explanation for the specific application of "mental internal defense", and its central meaning is to ask people to take a peaceful attitude towards the external environment. Ann, adapt to the stimulation of various things outside; Harmony, the response to external things should be natural, and don't worry about all kinds of trivial things. This is especially important for the elderly, so it is better to be "inseparable".

The second is "competing with each other."

This is also an important health motto in Huangdi Neijing, which means that people have different social status, but don't admire each other and be satisfied with their own standards. Competition refers to social status. High refers to nobles and rulers; Next, for the broad masses and the people. But in real life, it is very difficult to really compete with each other. Since ancient times, many people have killed each other and even lost their heads for the sake of high officials and rich salaries. What about health care? Some people are not only jealous of people who are taller than themselves, but even feel uncomfortable when others are taller than themselves in talent, morality, reputation, achievement and appearance. This kind of person can often produce a kind of "nameless fire", which makes him depressed and irritable. Modern research shows that when jealousy burns, a series of changes will occur in the body, such as the increase of sympathetic nerve excitability, the increase of blood pressure and the decrease of serotonin activity level, which will cause immune dysfunction, brain dysfunction and decreased disease resistance. In the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, there are many examples of tragedies caused by jealousy. Zhou Yu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms was brilliant, depressed because he was jealous of Zhuge Liang, who was more resourceful than him, and finally vomited blood and died. During the Warring States Period, Pang Juan's jealousy swelled viciously, and he did something to poison his classmate Sun Bin. Wang Lun in Water Margin is also very jealous. When Lin Chong, Chao Gai and others just went to Liangshan, he knew that these heroes were better at fighting than himself and refused to take them in. Lin chong couldn't help it any longer. He denounced Wang Lun in public and said, "Is this water margin yours? You jealous thief! You don't have much talent, and you can't be a cottage owner! "

There are no "great talents", only "jealous talents", which can be said to be the common feature of all jealous people and a self-centered morbid psychology. Generally speaking, the strong don't envy the weak, but not all the strong. Jealousy often occurs between two people of similar level. For example, Party A and Party B have a good relationship and similar working ability. Suddenly one day, Party A's performance surpassed Party B's, so it was valued by the leaders and admired by everyone. If Party B can't treat it correctly, it will lead to jealousy. This, in turn, reflects the strong exclusiveness of jealousy, which always occurs between two people with close relationship and equal status. For a person who has nothing to do with himself, even if he is better than himself, he will not be jealous, especially in the competitive society of modern society. The fundamental way to eliminate jealousy is to establish a correct world outlook, strengthen ideological cultivation, turn envious feelings into chasing actions, and exercise benign control over feelings. It's better to "compete with each other" and "be content." The third is to be less selfish.

To be less selfish is to reduce selfish distractions; No desire is to reduce the greed for fame and wealth and material things, which is what Laozi pointed out in Tao Te Ching: "Simple and simple, selfish, no desire and no demand". Huangdi Neijing also advocates "indifference and nothingness". "Idle ambition and little desire". "Little Snow in the Red Furnace" emphasizes: "If you can keep your heart clean, you will never get sick if you do it for a long time." Facts have proved that only selfishness and no desire can keep the spirit inside. It's hard to imagine that a person who is too selfish and lustful can calm down? "Tai Shang Lao Jun's regimen" said: "Those who are good at regimen must first get rid of six evils, and then they can live a hundred years. What is this? First, fame and fortune are thin, second, it is forbidden, third, wealth and goods are cheap, fourth, poor taste, fifth, hypocrisy, and sixth, jealousy. " If the six evils are not eliminated and everything is right, can God keep it? "