Chapter 22 fire character story

A female university teacher consulted me, saying that she has been lacking in energy, always feeling tired, unable to sleep well, and physically weak. She went to the hospital to find out what is wrong with her, and she insisted on taking traditional Chinese medicine every day, but there was no improvement.She said: "I am in this state day and night. I feel drowsy when I wake up during the day, but I can't fall asleep again when it's time to go to bed. At night, I have dreams one after another, and sometimes I can't fall asleep at all." I asked, "How do you work in this mental state?"

"It's nothing to do with work, anyway, I have two classes a week." I suddenly realized that she was sick from time to time.A university can be the place where people are most productive or where they are most comfortable, depending on the person, whether they are diligent or not. Coveting ease has serious consequences: first, the body becomes weak from lack of exercise, and the mind becomes dull due to lack of activity.Because the human brain and limbs belong to yang, and if they belong to yang, they need to be moved so that "the hinges of the household will not be mothed, and the flowing water will not rot" (we will talk about this in detail later). limbs.

So I said to the female teacher, "Look at you, you haven't worked so hard, you are still so thin and weak. As for academics, what have you done?" She said: "I didn't do anything, I just taught the class step by step. I felt like my mind was frozen. I used to have a lot of inspiration and ideas when I was in school, but now I don't have any." "You go to class twice a week, do nothing else, it's too comfortable, so you can't raise your spirits, and you can't concentrate, so there are a lot of distracting thoughts, distracting thoughts disturb the mind, people will naturally feel drowsy during the day and more at night." It was a dream. When you wake up in the morning, you feel wronged, always thinking that you didn’t sleep well, and you need to sleep for a while to refresh yourself, but you can never lift your spirits up. Right?”

"You're so right! Why is that?" she asked.The nature of an intellectual is exposed: ordinary people only ask "what should I do", while intellectuals will ask "why". I said: "The "Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine" says that 'long-term lying hurts Qi', which has complex connotations. The human body conforms to the rhythm of heaven and earth, sleeps at night to nourish yin, wakes up early to nourish yang, and usually sleeps late or sleeps during the day (day nap) , the yang energy will not rise, and the body functions will become inert, so you will be sleepy and weak; because you sleep for a long time during the day, you will definitely not be able to fall asleep at night, or the quality of sleep at night will be reduced, tossing and turning, and in the morning you will feel that you did not sleep well at night, and you still have to sleep. Supplement during the day. This forms a vicious cycle. You don’t have energy during the day, you get hurt during the daytime, and you can’t sleep well at night. If things go on like this, how can you not hurt your mood? By the way, have you developed a habit of going to bed late and getting up late? Habit?"

"Yes, yes!" she said, "Sometimes I think, anyway, I won't be able to fall asleep when I go to bed in the morning, so it's better to surf the Internet, watch TV or something, get more sleep in the morning, and save a breakfast." It is a set of wrong concepts and practices!The result can only be self-inflicted.My advice to her is to go to bed early and get up early, go to bed at 10 o'clock every night and get up at 7 o'clock in the morning without any hesitation.The other is to try to do more things during the day. Only when you are tired during the day can you sleep soundly at night.It's that simple!

She showed me the prescription of the medicine she was taking, which was the addition and subtraction of Wendan Decoction, and the prescription was still very good.I let her continue to take the medicine, and at the same time pay attention to self-regulation. She went away happily.A month later, she called me and said that she could go to bed early and get up early now, and she joined a traditional culture morning reading club at the school.Because she is a teacher, she was given the title of "Leader" as soon as she entered, and she was responsible for leading everyone to read in the morning together. She felt very happy in this way.Later, she said to me: "It is recorded that Zaiyu slept in the daytime, and Confucius scolded him almost viciously: 'You can't carve rotten wood, and you can't smash a wall of dung.' Some people were puzzled and said, isn't it just sleeping during the day? Is it that serious? In fact, Confucius was criticizing Jae Yu for his greed for ease. I finally understand!"