My early experience as an engineer made me accustomed to looking at the human body from the perspective of a human body designer. The more body knowledge I learned, the more I marveled at the perfection of human body design. However, when studying the emotional response of the human body in TCM, I found that this part of the design is quite different from the physiological perfect design, or even completely opposite, as if it were an imperfect part left by God on purpose.
"Anger hurts the liver" is a well-known common sense in China, and liver injury will make you more uncomfortable and angry, which is also a common sense that most people in China know. However, such physiological changes will make the body enter a vicious circle, the liver is getting worse and worse, and the temper is getting worse and worse. Look at many old people around, their temper is always getting worse and worse with age, and finally there are liver-related diseases.
The design of this emotional response is completely opposite to the design of physiology. With a wound on the body, the body will automatically repair the wound. However, it is unusual for the body to deliberately sprinkle salt on emotional wounds.
In addition to "anger hurting the liver" can cause liver problems, "thinking hurting the spleen" is also one of the reasons for many depression. Similarly, thinking hurts the spleen and makes people think more easily. People with depression always keep drilling into dead ends. "Sad lungs", people with weak lung qi deficiency are always particularly prone to tears, just like Lin Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions, who eventually died of tuberculosis. In addition, there are "mixed feelings" and "fear of hurting the kidney", which are not as common as anger. Most people are not familiar with these reactions, and these emotional reactions have similar vicious circle nature.
The perfect emotional design should make anger hurt the liver. When the liver is injured, the temper will be better, and it is not so easy to lose your temper, so the liver will have a chance to repair itself. "Thinking hurts the spleen." When the spleen is injured, it is no longer so easy to walk into a dead end. "Sad lung", lung injury, people should be happier. If we can design this way, there will be many fewer patients in this world. In other words, adding functions similar to physiological self-healing ability to emotions will make the human body more perfect.
I believe that a powerful god can design a perfect body structure and should also be able to make the same perfect design emotionally. But why design emotions into such a destructive structure? Let most people inevitably fall into this trap and fall into endless pain. This destructive design of emotions will not only make emotions fall into an irreversible situation, but also bring the results of many diseases, making perfect physiological design wasted.
When studying the design of human body, I have always held a basic concept-"The design of human body must be perfect". Faced with the destructive design of human emotions, I guess it has a close relationship with the meaning of life. This design is not the designer's fault, it should be designed on purpose. This design reveals the main purpose and significance of human existence in this world.
When a person falls into a vicious circle of emotions, if allowed to develop freely, his mood will get worse and worse, and the problems of the corresponding organs will become more and more serious, eventually becoming an incurable disease. But when some people fall into a vicious circle of emotions, they will wake up in time, correct their habits, and have a chance to jump out of the vicious circle. It's a bit like "passing the customs" in video games. Some people can pass, others can't.
It turns out that this destructive design is a test to test whether everyone can often review their behavior. Some people complain when they are sick, and their mood is getting worse and worse. Naturally, I fell into the trap of a vicious circle and couldn't extricate myself. Some people think that the disease is caused by themselves, and there must be something wrong with their behavior. Self-reflection, adjustment, changing one's personality and temper, removing the cause of disease, naturally have the opportunity to escape from the tragic fate.
China people pay attention to "self-cultivation", and health preservation must start from here. Without a good attitude, there will be no good health, and what kind of personality will lead to what kind of illness. From this perspective, illness is a very important tool in self-cultivation. Only when I was sick did I know that my personality still had such a big defect.
Chronic diseases are very similar to what Buddhists call karma, and they are all caused by themselves. Even if the Buddha is willing, there is no way to help you change your karma. Only by changing yourself can the karma change and the bad karma disappear. No doctor can really help patients get rid of chronic diseases. All chronic diseases have to be changed by patients themselves before they can recover.