Encyclopedia of Family Medicine

Chapter 12 Environmental Hygiene and Self-Care (6)
Calligraphy, Painting and Health
Most of those who practice calligraphy and painting are indifferent to fame and fortune, unwilling to compete for fame in the court, and strive to benefit the market, with an open mind.Practicing painting often goes to famous mountains and rivers, depicts natural scenery, and often integrates body and mind into nature, and the soul is cultivated by nature.What's more important is that calligraphy and painting need to be calm, concentrate and get rid of other distracting thoughts, which has many similarities with practicing Qigong.Both calligraphy and painting pay attention to posture, the body is upright, the elbows are raised and the wrists are suspended, and the whole body is concentrated on the upper limbs.This posture is similar to the physical training in Qigong.The difference is that calligraphy and painting integrate physical and mental exercise into artistic and recreational activities. At the same time, they can obtain joy and artistic enjoyment after creation from their own hard work, thereby promoting physical and mental health. Therefore, calligraphers, painters, etc. What a long life.Why don't people follow suit today?

Fishing is a rewarding outdoor activity
Fishing is an outdoor recreational activity that is beneficial to physical and mental health.

Where fishing is possible, such as rivers, rivers, lakes, seas, ditches, ponds, and canals, are mostly located away from residential areas. Walking or driving to fish, on the way back and forth, is both an outdoor activity and a good way to exercise.

Fishing can cultivate interest. When fishing, you are often surrounded by green mountains, surrounded by green trees, and surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers. The air is fresh, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the environment is pleasant. Cheerful; nervousness, troubles in work and life are gone.It is beneficial to the purification of the mind and the metabolism of the body.

When fishing, hold a fishing rod in your hand, watch the movement of the buoy with your eyes, and calmly wait for the fish to take the bait.When the buoy moves up and down in the water, the heart is secretly happy, the brain is excited, the mind and body are happy, and the emotions are excited.The buoy moves repeatedly, which proves that the fish has taken the bait. When the time is ripe, the pole is raised immediately, the fish is lifted to the water surface, and the fish is pulled by the fishing rod, jumping and rolling on the water surface.Fishermen's mood of harvest is joyful, excited, and very comfortable.Even reaching the realm of selflessness.

Fishing can also sharpen one's character. Anglers must have patience and perseverance. As the saying goes, "Don't be afraid of strong winds, sit on the fishing platform", which means that anglers must eliminate all kinds of disturbances, focus on the buoy wholeheartedly, and wait for the fish to take the bait. Being impatient is also a kind of tempering, and it also means that people must have the ability to resist all kinds of twists and turns and ups and downs in life, and they must have the persistence, stability and patience of anglers, and maintain a balanced mentality in order to be healthy physically and mentally.

Fishing is gentle and calm. It is the most suitable leisure and entertainment activity for middle-aged and elderly people to cultivate their health and prolong their life. However, patients with high blood pressure and coronary heart disease should pay attention to it. Excessive excitement and fatigue are harmful to health.

Music can prolong life

Music is a special kind of information, an art that causes various emotions and emotional experiences through the human auditory organs with the help of sound wave vibration.Appreciating music is beneficial to the physical and mental health of the human body.The sound wave of music is a kind of high-quality energy, which is converted into biological energy after acting on the human body, and activates the potential of the human body.After the unique melody and rhythm of music are introduced into the human body, it can adjust the biological rhythm of the human body and the harmonious and synchronous resonance of tissue cells, thereby regulating the excitement and inhibition of the nervous system and improving people's emotional, mental and physiological states.Therefore, when you are studying and working, listening to a piece of relaxed and cheerful music will make you feel good and relieve your fatigue.The melodious music, the melodious and carefree melody, and the refreshing music will quickly bring you into the music, making your blood boil, emotional, and forget your worries.Music can wipe away the boredom and sadness in your heart, and you can also use music therapy to treat anxiety, depression, neurasthenia, high blood pressure and various chronic pains.Appreciating music is a high-level understanding and perfect artistic enjoyment.Appreciating music is also a kind of active rest, which can not only enrich and enrich life, but also add interest to life; it can not only enjoy the artistic enjoyment of beauty, but also cultivate sentiment, make people cheerful and open-minded, happy in body and mind, and achieve the purpose of prolonging life.

Dance while exercising your body and mind
Dancing is an entertainment project that integrates art, entertainment and sports, so that people's body and mind can be exercised at the same time.For example, middle-aged and elderly disco and ballroom dancing have become a healthy social and recreational activity that people love.Ballroom dancing is divided into two categories: one is modern dance, including waltz, tango, foxtrot, quick step, Viennese waltz; the other is Latin dance, including rumba, cha-cha, samba, jive, bullfight, etc. .

Each dance has distinct characteristics and styles, and most of them can exercise the muscles of the whole body. Moreover, with cheerful music accompaniment and colorful and charming lights, people are often immersed in joy and happiness, and their brains are fully relaxed. , The tension in work, study and life, all kinds of troubles and worries are gone.With the beautiful melody and the rhythm of the music, the dancers concentrate on the coordination of music and dance steps, unconsciously accept the whole body movement, and accelerate the metabolism in the body, so as to achieve the effect of exercising the body, intoxicating the soul and enjoying life. Great for physical and mental health.

But dance should also be moderate, not indulging in dance music, dancing wildly, so that the body will consume too much energy, which is not conducive to health.At the same time, you should also choose a dance that suits you according to your age and physical condition. For example, for middle-aged and elderly people, disco and slow dance steps are suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, while young people can choose lively and cheerful dances with faster rotation speed.

flowers are pleasing to the eye
Brilliant and graceful flowers are pleasing to the eye, emotionally moving, and can give people aesthetic enjoyment and spiritual comfort. This is not only because of the beautiful charm and fragrance of flowers, but also because of the sympathy between flowers and people.People get the most vivid intentions from flowers, and the associations triggered by flowers are also the richest.

Since ancient times, flowers have won people's love for their colorful colors, refreshing fragrance, charming posture and gorgeous demeanor.Bright and eye-catching flowers can arouse people's sense of intimacy and yearning for beauty.It is a human instinct to be delighted with beauty, and seeing the development and growth of flowers will naturally produce a feeling of joy.Therefore, growing and viewing flowers is a very interesting and leisurely entertainment, and it is also a natural way to maintain one's health. Through growing and viewing flowers, people's physical and mental health can be improved and aging can be delayed.

"Cherish flowers and get up early, love the moon and sleep late", growing flowers and enjoying flowers can achieve a good adjustment of people's psychology, physiology, spirit and physique.Watching a seed sow, and then a new shoot grow, grow day by day, flourish, flourish, bloom flowers, communicate with each other, and joy arises spontaneously.In this way, the depression and melancholy deep in the heart can be relieved, the thinking can be well relaxed, and the soul can be purified.Appropriate cultivation of flowers brings nature into the home, garden, balcony, and living room, and enjoys beauty in the beautification environment.Moreover, the aroma of flowers can also purify the air.This is because the aroma of flowers contains a kind of aromatic oil that can kill bacteria, such as crabapple, villous, cactus, etc. all have this effect.At the same time, the flowers release aromatic gas, which can produce a refreshing pleasure after being transmitted to the human brain through the olfactory nerve, making people feel comfortable and contented.Thereby can eliminate and prevent neurasthenia and various chronic diseases.

Growing flowers can also increase natural science and cultural knowledge, comprehend the principles of health care, increase family fun, integrate the feelings of young and old, and especially eliminate the loneliness of the elderly.It can also be used to meet friends, dredge relatives and friends, enhance friendship, and build a harmonious relationship with neighbors.The roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits of many flowers are not only available for diet, but also health care medicines, which can be directly taken.Therefore, growing and appreciating flowers can enhance physical fitness, inspire spirit, enrich life, and naturally make people healthy and long.

Chess and cards are the most enjoyable
1.Go

Go originated in my country and is the jewel in my country's traditional culture and art.Go is not just a game and entertainment, it is the art of mathematics, the science of fun, and the embodiment of wisdom.Its principles are broad and profound, and its changes are endless.It can cultivate people's sentiments, increase people's wisdom, exercise people's perseverance, and cultivate people's enterprising spirit.

2.chess

Chinese Chess has a long history and is a highly confrontational recreational activity suitable for all ages.Chess is mainly about chariots, horses, cannons, ministers, soldiers, and soldiers. It is a joint battle of multiple arms, striving to reduce the opponent's offensive and defensive forces, and finally capture the opponent's general.To this end, various tactics were developed, strategizing, vying to attack first, exchanging sons for sons, maneuvering sons to gain power, abandoning sons to attack and kill, blitzing and moving, overturning rivers and seas.Often a game of chess is inextricably linked.It is exactly: when chess meets opponents, there is no superiority, when generals meet good talents, the strong will win, when the second army meets the strong, the brave will win, and if the two braves meet, the wise will win.Therefore, in the opening, middle game, and endgame of Chinese Oak Chess, the resourceful man wins everywhere.People set up a chess game and kill a few games during holidays or after work. It is like drinking sweet springs. It is so wonderful that it is a kind of artistic enjoyment beyond the world.

3.Card
Playing cards is also a high-level recreational activity.The more commonly used ones are: playing cards and mahjong cards. There are various game methods, such as playing cards, you can play bridge, fight for the top, forty points, attack the old K, pass cards and so on.It can be played by four people, three people, two people, or even one person.There are also many ways to play mahjong tiles.

In short, chess and cards can exercise people's thinking ability while entertaining, improve people's memory and calculation power, especially for middle-aged and elderly people to prevent memory decline, senile dementia, self-cultivation, and maintenance of physical and mental health.

Spiritual enjoyment when traveling
Tourism is a comprehensive recreational activity integrating knowledge, fun and sports.Tourism can not only adjust the mood, but also exercise the body, and it is also an activity that is beneficial to physical and mental health.

Tourism can increase knowledge and understand the cultural connotation, historical origin, geographical situation, religious characteristics, customs, architectural techniques, garden scenery, and landscape characteristics of tourist destinations.

Tourism can make people plunge into the embrace of nature and enjoy the natural scenery.The green fields, rugged mountain trails; the country farmhouses, shaded by bamboos and trees; the Daoist monastery, the big Buddha and Arhats; The colorful flowers and plants, the splendid scenery of lakes and mountains are all exciting, high-spirited, refreshing, and get great spiritual enjoyment.

At the same time, in the process of traveling, whether driving, or hiking, or wading through mountains and rivers, or climbing cliffs, or going deep into caves, or playing in the sea, or playing in mountain streams, unknowingly exercise the muscles of the whole body, move the muscles and bones, Exercise your physical strength and enhance your physique.

However, there are a few things to keep in mind when traveling:

(1) Do what you can
Traveling in mountains and rivers is easy to consume physical strength, especially the elderly and infirm, those suffering from high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, must do what they can according to their physical condition, so as to avoid excessive fatigue, induce diseases and affect health.

(2) Tourism should be combined with hobbies
When traveling, some people like natural scenery, famous mountains and great rivers; some people like human landscape, inscriptions on steles;In short, you have to combine it with your own hobbies to be in a good mood and happy physically and mentally, otherwise, it will be boring and unhealthy.

(3) Pay attention to safety

"Infinite scenery is on the dangerous peak", many scenic spots and historical sites are mostly difficult and dangerous roads, and only after untold hardships can one feast their eyes on them.Especially the elderly, often have inflexible hands and feet and slow reactions, so you must pay attention to safety when climbing mountains and wading.

(4) People with chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes, etc., do not forget to bring spare medicines.

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