There are many kinds and methods of health preservation, which are nothing more than material health preservation and spiritual health preservation. Attaching importance to spiritual cultivation is an important feature that distinguishes Taoism from other schools. Spirit can be said to be the highest realm of Taoist cultivation. Taoism attaches great importance to the exploration of the human body itself, especially the study of people's mental state, in order to achieve the goal of being immortal and living with heaven and earth. In practice, we advocate introspection training methods such as spiritual self-tempering, moral self-improvement and mental self-balance.

When it comes to health, people first think of diet and exercise, such as taking medicine and running. In fact, mental health is more important Nowadays, most people's nutrition can be basically guaranteed, but it is not easy to really live a relaxed, happy and interesting life, let alone live a long life. Modern scientific experiments have proved that long-term negative emotions will accelerate the pace of physiological aging, which is also an important cause of many diseases. Taoism discovered this law long ago, so it put spiritual health preservation at a very high level to understand and practice. The main contents of his cultivation are as follows.

1, cultivate health

Taoism has put forward such viewpoints as "heaven is not credible, earth is not credible, man is not credible, heart is not credible, and only Tao is credible" and "my life is in me, not in heaven". To cultivate the nature by faith, that is, to strengthen the belief of Taoism and consciously cultivate Taoism by publicizing the role of Taoism, so as to achieve the ideal of sharing the same life with heaven and earth. Why can Taoism keep in good health?

Taoism's "Tao" refers not to some truths and philosophies in social life that people often say, but to the avenue that the universe follows. In other words, this is the law of nature. Taoism can cultivate one's self-cultivation, prolong life and rule the country. Taoism, on the other hand, combines the two and advocates ruling the world through self-cultivation. Therefore, the immortal realm pursued by Taoism is the ideal of achieving social harmony and everyone has a share, as Lao Tzu said, "It is selfless, so it can be private." The immortal of Taoism is actually the ideal personality that you and I have long recognized.

2. Keep healthy by virtue

In the Taoist concept, health preservation includes not only health preservation, but also moral cultivation. This is a remarkable feature of Taoist health preservation. I ching said: a good family is more than just a celebration. Health care and moral cultivation are inseparable. Moral cultivation is not only helpful to health care, but also an important aspect of health care itself. In the pre-Qin Taoist culture, "virtue" is a basic concept, which is related to "virtue". Without morality, how can you get it? Virtue can turn into gas. In fact, Lao Tzu regards the cultivation of "Xuande" as the key to "getting angry". How is this "qi" developed? That is "matching righteousness with Tao", that is, cultivating upright morality in the heart, thus connecting with heaven and earth and stimulating the function of internal qi. Through the observation of natural phenomena, Taiping Jing recognizes that the "virtue" of heaven and earth is embodied as "gasified qi". It combines the southeast and northwest with spring, summer, autumn and winter, divides the operation of the natural universe into two periods and two spatial positions, and uses "punishment virtue" to illustrate its functional characteristics. As far as time is concerned, spring and summer are the virtues, and autumn and winter are the punishments; As far as space is concerned, the southeast belongs to Germany and the northwest belongs to punishment. Morality dominates life and punishment dominates killing.