Life is but a thought: Nan Huaijin's 15 Life Wisdom Lessons

Chapter 38
Smile, less than ten years

People often say: "Smile, ten years less." That is to say, a person's face is always full of smiles, and he can show his good mood.When a person is in a good mood, he will be full of energy and look radiant.Such a person not only has a young mind, but also gives others the impression that he is much younger than his actual age.

People often say: "Smile, ten years less." That is to say, a person's face is always full of smiles, and he can show his good mood.When a person is in a good mood, he will be full of energy and look radiant.Such a person not only has a young mind, but also gives others the impression that he is much younger than his actual age.

Laughter has many benefits, such as good health, beauty, and the establishment of good interpersonal relationships... Now, it has another function: it can make people live longer!According to the British "Daily Telegraph" report, when a person smiles, the wider the mouth is, the more wrinkles gather around the eyes, and the longer the person lives.To prove this, a research team at Wayne University in Michigan began to do experiments.

They found photos of 184 deceased baseball players and divided them into three categories based on how much they smiled: deadpan, toothy, and wide-laughing.

Subsequently, after collecting data such as height, weight, age and marital status of all contestants, the researchers gradually discovered clues between the degree of smiling and life expectancy.

The results of the study show that: Among the 184 deceased baseball players, the average life expectancy of the expressionless type is 72.9 years, the average life expectancy of the toothy smile type is 75 years, and the average life expectancy of the laughing type reaches 79.9 years old.

What's more, the researchers found that forcing a smile didn't help, and that only those who showed happiness from the inside out had a chance of increasing their lifespan.

Mr. Nan Huaijin once said: "Tian Yue is optimistic and can be a hundred years old." If you are still confused about how to maintain your health or have no choice when faced with a lot of tonics, then you might as well smile from the bottom of your heart!Laughter is the best tonic.

The famous longevity writer Bing Xin once said: "The way to keep healthy is not to talk about nutrition and take tonic, but to write with a smile." Hu Fulan, a researcher of longevity, also said: "Among all the factors that excite the body and spirit Laughter is the healthiest, it is good for digestion, circulation and metabolism, thus activating the vitality of all organs." It can be seen how powerful laughter is.

Laughing has the knowledge of laughing, and there is also the art of laughing.When we are proud of the spring breeze, if we can smile lightly, this is a state; when we suffer a loss, we can smile happily, which is a kind of open-mindedness; It is a kind of self-cultivation to be able to smile slightly when being misunderstood by others; it is a kind of wisdom to be able to laugh at yourself when encountering embarrassing things and embarrassing situations; it is a kind of wisdom to be able to smile lightly when falling in love A kind of free and easy; when you are scorned, you can smile calmly, which is a kind of self-confidence; when you are helpless, you can smile openly, which is a kind of atmosphere.

Baxin is a very happy person, every day his face is full of smiles.When someone asked him how he was doing, he always replied: "I feel very happy."

If anyone is in a bad mood, Bassin will tell the other person how to make himself happy.He said: "Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I say to myself, Bassin, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. So I choose the former. Whenever there is a bad mood When things happen, even if I am a victim, I can choose to learn from it. In fact, life is a choice, and you have to learn how to choose how to deal with various situations. At the end of the day, you have to choose how to deal with life.”

One day, the bank was robbed and the unfortunate Basin was hit.Fortunately, the rescue was timely. After surgery and several weeks of careful treatment, Baxin was discharged from the hospital.

Six months later, a friend came to see him and asked how he was feeling.Bassin replied, "I'm so happy, would you like to see my scars?"

The friend looked at the scar and asked, "When you were seriously injured, what did you think about?"

Basin said: "When I was lying on the ground, I said to myself that there were two options: one was to die or one was to live. I chose to live. The medical staff were fine and they told me that I would be fine. Then they wheeled me into the emergency room, and I could even tell they thought I was going to die. But I wasn't there, I was going to live. So, I needed to do something."

"What action did you take?" the friend wondered.

"A nurse asked loudly what I was allergic to, and I immediately answered 'yes'. Then, all the doctors and nurses stopped what they were doing, and I took a deep breath and summoned up the courage to say: 'Bullets! ’ Amidst the laughter, I said, ‘Please treat me as a living person, not as a dead person.’ Then, I lived.”

My friends praised Baxin's mentality very much.

Laughing can make a person feel better.If it weren't for his optimistic attitude, Bassin would not have recovered from that painful disaster so quickly.Bassin’s words are particularly true: “Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I say to myself, Bassin, you have two choices today, you can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood, so I choose the former. "In life, we also encounter various problems, can't eat, can't sleep, but some things can't be solved well.Therefore, we should use Baxin's words to encourage and motivate ourselves.

As Dr. W. Frain, a psychiatrist at Stanford University in the United States, said: "If there is no laughter in life, people will get sick and make the disease worse, and humor can stimulate the positive activities of the endocrine system and effectively relieve the disease. Sickness." Laugh out loud, have fun!If you always put a smile on your face, good luck will always be with you.

Raise your essence, spirit, and spirit
Lin Peiqin, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, once said: "The treasures of the body are only the essence, energy, and spirit. Spirit is born from energy, and energy is born from essence." Essence, energy, and spirit have been regarded as "three treasures of the human body" since ancient times.It can be seen that keeping in good health means nourishing the essence, qi, and spirit. Only by nourishing the essence, qi, and spirit can we make ourselves healthy and live a long life without taking medicine.

Mr. Nan Huaijin said in "Xiaoyan Huangdi's Internal Classic and Life Science": "'Originally there are medicines and medicines for old people', and there are medicines and medicines for old and sick people. , God.” In life, we often hear people say: “You are so energetic!” But what exactly are essence, energy, and spirit?
Essence refers to the most essential subtle substances that constitute the human body and maintain life activities.For example, essence, blood, body fluid, liquid, and the reproductive essence stored in the kidney; Qi refers to the most basic and highly vital subtle substances that constitute the human body and maintain the life activities of the human body.The generation of qi depends on the innate essence, which is stored in the kidneys; the clear qi in nature is absorbed in the lungs; the essence of water and grain depends on the spleen and stomach; the spirit refers to the generalization of the life process of the human body and the overall life phenomenon, and its material basis is the essence. .In addition, God also includes air, spirit and emotion.The relationship among Jing, Qi, and Shen is: Jing can transform Qi, and Jing is the source of Qi generation and transformation; Qi can generate Jing, and Qi can stimulate the transformation of Jing; Jing can transform spirit, and Jing is the material basis of God; Qi can generate spirit. , is the foundation of the spirit; the spirit is the master of qi, and the loss of the spirit will cause the qi to be disordered.

Lin Peiqin, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, once said: "The treasure of the whole body is the essence, energy, and spirit. Spirit is born from Qi, and Qi is born from essence."

So, how to maintain Jing, Qi and Shen?The ancients once summed up the key points of "replenishing the essence with few desires, nourishing the energy with few words, and nourishing the spirit with few thoughts" for our reference.

Fewer desires to nourish essence.Asceticism means asking people not to indulge in sexual desires.Of course, the "essence" in "fewer desires to nourish the essence" does not only refer to the semen of men, but generally refers to the "essence" of the human body, which is often called "vital energy" in old Chinese medicine. "Essence" is the material basis of the human body and the foundation of life.

The ancients believed that indulgence not only loses too much semen, but also causes endocrine disorders in the body and damages the essence of the five internal organs. The spleen essence is not firm, and the teeth are floating and falling."If the true essence is dissipated, then the body is prone to problems, even life-and-death diseases.Therefore, few desires are an important criterion in the way of nourishing essence.

Reticence to keep angry.Reticence means asking people not to chatter and yell constantly, in order to keep their "vigor" sufficient. The qi in "Speaking Less to Cultivate Qi" is the most basic substance that constitutes the human body, and it has the characteristics of being incessantly moving, maintaining and promoting the life activities of the human body.The ancients believed that what is filled with the blood vessels, bones, and nine orifices of the human body is called Qi.To put it simply, if a person is always chattering or yelling, it is easy to consume his own strength and lung energy, affecting the normal function of the respiratory organs, resulting in insufficient vitality in the body, thus weakening the physiological functions of various organs of the body.In this way, some diseases will take advantage of the emptiness, leading to a myriad of diseases.

Think less to rest your mind.Quiet means to ask people not to think too often or to dream.To put it simply, it is not to affect yourself with trivial troubles, it is easy to make the brain tired, thus affecting the normal physiological function of the cerebral cortex.The human brain is equivalent to the command organ of a person's body. If the brain is overworked and cannot get the necessary rest, the command will make mistakes.For example, if the central nervous system is overtired by frequent use of the brain, people will feel dizzy, memory loss, and inability to concentrate.Over time, it will affect your health, and gradually appear insomnia, neurasthenia, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, gastrointestinal nerve dysfunction, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and even serious cancer.

Of course, how can a person live without thinking?What we are talking about here is to have a degree, it is not advisable to think wildly, and it is not advisable to think hard about trivial things.Only in this way can we achieve "no fatigue, no fatigue", and reduce the burden of thinking as much as possible, so as to prevent "spiritual worry and concentration".

In short, "three widows" is an important way to maintain good health and energy, the secret of health preservation, and a good recipe for prolonging life.As long as you maintain your health according to the "three widows", you will feel the changes in your body and mood over time.

keep in good health
People who are restless can sit quietly, examine themselves patiently, and guide themselves to find the most beautiful world, so as to enter the mysterious realm of meditation.

Mr. Nan Huaijin wrote in "Meditation and Immortality": "From the standpoint of meditation, it is not an exaggeration to say that all religious consciousness, magical concepts, and the hope of immortality are all included in the category of meditation. .”

Both Taoism and Buddhism advocate meditation and practice.In the eyes of some people, "sitting in meditation" always carries the psychological implication of "immortality".However, no one has ever seen an immortal person.

Mr. Nan Huaijin believes that people have misunderstood the meaning of "immortality".Immortality in the true sense does not mean that people live forever, but an extension of longevity.To put it simply, if a person understands some knowledge and methods about health preservation, and uses them reasonably when he is alive, he can make himself physically and mentally healthy.Even on the day of birth, old age, sickness and death, one should be calm and have no regrets. This is the meaning of happiness of "immortality".

Meditating and cultivating the Tao is one of the ways to make oneself "immortality".In "Small Window", Chen Jiru once described the artistic conception of meditation: "Sitting alone in the Zen room, calm and undisturbed, cooking a pot of tea, burning a stick of incense, and looking at the picture of Bodhidharma facing the wall. The curtain is hanging for a while, and the mind is calm and refreshed. The breath is soft and calm, and the mist is like a state of chaos. Those who want to bow to Bodhidharma ride with him on the chasm and see Magu."

In this regard, the scholar Li Angang once said: "In the chaotic social life, the ancients felt a little uneasy, so they closed their eyes to rest their minds. When they are nourished, their hearts are calm, and the hustle and bustle of the outside world also disappears. Then, They discovered the beautiful things in their hearts and enjoyed them. Until later, the methods of yoga and meditation came into being." Therefore, those who are not calm can take the way of meditation and examine patiently To guide oneself to find the most beautiful world, so as to enter the mysterious realm of meditation.

One day, a dealer of cultural relics was wandering along the street. When he passed an old street, he immediately saw the value of the purple clay pot next to the old blacksmith.The pot is simple and elegant, purple and black like ink, in the style of Dai Zhengong, a famous pot maker in the Qing Dynasty.The cultural relic dealer walked over and picked up the pot.I saw that there was a seal in the spout, and it really belonged to Dai Zhengong. The cultural relics dealer was very pleasantly surprised.You know, Dai Zhengong has the reputation of "making mud into gold" in the world.Today, there are only three works of his preserved in the world: one in the "Forbidden City Museum" in Taiwan, China, one in the New York State Museum in the United States, and one in the hands of an overseas Chinese in Thailand, which was auctioned in London in 1993 Bought on the market for $16 at auction.

The cultural relic dealer held the pot and wanted to buy it for 10 yuan, so he asked the old blacksmith if he would like it.The old blacksmith was startled at first, and then flatly refused.This kettle was left by his grandfather. Three generations of their grandparents drank the water from this kettle when they forged iron, so for them, this kettle still has the condensation of blood and sweat.

Although the old blacksmith didn't sell the pot, he couldn't sleep anymore after knowing the value of the pot.This pot has been used for nearly 60 years, and I always thought it was an ordinary pot, but I didn't expect it to be so valuable.Suddenly someone wanted to buy it for 10 yuan, and he couldn't get it right for a while.

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