Chapter 33 Chapter 8 Five Elements Personality and Health: Adult Articles

Nowadays people like to talk about "health preservation", but the health preservation they talk about is actually "health preservation".However, the results are often counterproductive. What is health preservation?Health preservation is to improve the quality of the whole life, not just to live in good health.True health preservation requires a good temperament, a good destiny, and a good body, which complement each other and are indispensable.Looking back at the "health regimen" we have come into contact with, it is nothing more than letting people eat, drink, and add some "substances necessary for the human body"; or let people do some exercise to strengthen themselves Muscles and bones; or practice some exercises... In fact, these are only for the body. Under the condition of normal mental state, these "health regimens" are effective, but once there is a problem with the mentality and bad temper, It doesn't work.No matter what diet and medicine you take, the body cannot absorb it; no matter how you practice qigong or qi, the body cannot accept it.In fact, modern people do not lack nutrition or exercise. What they lack most is mental health.Therefore, health preservation starts from nourishing the heart, which is extremely important for modern people.

How to raise your heart?We said before that the original state of the heart is peace, tranquility and joy, but we make the heart restless, depressed and troubled in our daily life. To reverse this restless, depressed and troubled state of mind is to nourish the mind . "Thousand Characters" said: "Covering this body and hair, there are four elements and five constants. How dare you damage them if you compliment them?" The four elements are the earth, water, fire, and wind mentioned by Buddhism, and all parts of the human body can be classified into These four categories, therefore, the ancients often used the "four majors" to refer to the human body.The five constants are the five virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith. The "four majors" and the "five constants" are one.We cherish our body, we are pursuing health, and we are also doing our filial piety, because "the body and skin are received by parents", every part of the body is given by parents, and it is unfilial to not cherish the body.The reason why people want to cultivate the five constant virtues is, in the final analysis, because these five virtues are beneficial to our body in the final analysis.To cultivate morality and mind is to cultivate the body; and to cultivate the body, one must cultivate the mind and virtue.

The original state of the heart is goodness, so cultivating the heart is to cultivate goodness.Self-cultivation in traditional Chinese culture is actually to achieve double health of body and mind through the cultivation and cultivation of the soul.When the body and mind are not sick, we should pay attention to "nourishing", nourishing the body, mind, and character;Self-cultivation means to repair the body.Usually, I often repair it by myself, so as not to be pressed on the operating table in the future, and let the doctor use a scalpel to repair it. What do you rely on to cultivate your body and mind?Relying on benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith, the ancients taught us these virtues for our own good, but some people think that this is preaching, which is not good for us, so it is better to directly use some "health" things to benefit.In fact, maintaining health just for the sake of maintaining the body often has no effect, and it is limited to the body.Only when we put the focus on nourishing our mind and nature, and let the sunshine of our virtue illuminate our whole body, our troubles and distracting thoughts will be gone, our temper will be better, and the fundamental health of our body will be guaranteed. It is the real way of keeping in good health.

The heart can be divided into deficiency and excess, the excess is purged, and the deficiency is replenished.In the case of excess energy, psychological balance can be achieved through catharsis.Many modern TV programs, entertainment activities and sports competitions are aimed at venting one's heart. A friend told me that he was very tired at work every day, and wanted to relax by watching TV when he came home at night, but the fatigue still could not be relieved, and he even felt more tired before going to bed. I asked, "What TV show do you watch?" He said: "They are all very light-hearted entertainment and sports programs, which don't need to use your brain; I dare not watch TV dramas, for fear that the plot will be too complicated and cause mental fatigue." He also said that this is a very strange phenomenon.

In fact, this is not surprising.People are different, and not all of us have fun in the same way.So, how to tell the difference between people?This depends on the physical condition.Physical conditions can be roughly divided into two types: virtual and real.Excessive evil energy is called "truth", and insufficient righteous energy is called "virtual".Therefore, when fatigue occurs, we must first distinguish whether it is caused by "real" or "virtual". "Internal Classics" says that "relieve it when it is real, and nourish it when it is deficient", which means that there are two ways to eliminate fatigue: "reducing" and "reinforcing".In a very healthy body, after working for a day, if there are a lot of unpleasant or disturbing things in your heart, and you feel panicked, or unable to stop, that is evidence and needs to be purged; if your body is weak, after working for a day, If you feel exhausted by being disturbed by work, that is a deficiency syndrome, and you need to make up for it.

The entertainment and sports programs currently popular on TV are actually all about "diarrhea".They have their own functions, which allow people to quickly enter their scenes, enter their relaxed, excited, excited, or tense atmosphere, forget the troubles in reality, and dissolve the depression in their hearts.Moreover, in the situation set by the program, we can also vent our excess energy and return to calm.This calm is another form of fatigue that leads to good sleep. It is very different, however, with a person of weak constitution.The noise, tension, and excitement of entertainment and sports programs put a further strain on his body.All the seven emotions can cause illness, joy can cause sadness, fear can hurt the kidneys, and worry can hurt the spleen. In the weak and tired body, entering the situation set by entertainment and sports programs, although I didn’t feel tired at the time, it was only caused by yin deficiency. Excessive consumption of yang over time will not only not relieve the fatigue at that time, but may lead to internal injuries. The "deficiency tuberculosis" in traditional Chinese medicine (septicemia, uremia and other terrible diseases all belong to this category) is caused by caused by such internal injuries.

So, what method should be used to alleviate the fatigue of deficiency syndrome?First of all, we must nourish our hearts.The heart is the official of the monarch, and it controls the other viscera and all kinds of human emotions. As long as the heart is calm, the "seven emotions" such as joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock will not affect people. How much damage is caused, and the five internal organs can quickly recover to a healthy state in this environment. Therefore, people with weak constitution should not watch TV after fatigue, and do not blindly follow recreational activities such as playing cards, playing games, singing karaoke, dancing, etc. for the purpose of venting.In fact, if you just lie down or sit quietly for a while, you won’t feel tired anymore, it’s as simple as that.

Someone said: I can't sit still, I can't sit still, I like to be lively, what should I do? I said: People with such deficiency can't calm down, and if they are still deficient in yin, then their yang will be hyperactive.It's like when the lamp oil is about to dry up, the fire on the wick is not small, but big, but this kind of fire can't last long, so be careful! This matter is worth continuing to scrutinize.Mr. Qian Mu believes that many things in Chinese and Western cultures are opposite. Chinese culture seeks from within, while Western culture seeks from outside; Action-oriented culture, and so on.He also believes that since modern times, because we have learned from the West, many things have been reversed, causing great physical and mental damage and pain to the Chinese people, but he did not say why.It is easy to explain if we put Chinese and Western in the five elements.

China, why is it called China?It's not because the Chinese are blindly arrogant and think that they are the most respected in the middle, but because they are in the middle.According to the correspondence of the five elements, five colors, and five directions, the Chinese are of the yellow race, yellow belongs to the earth, and the earth dominates the center, while Westerners are of the white race, the west belongs to gold, and white also belongs to gold (others can be ignored first, such as , the south belongs to fire, and fire dominates red, but the south is not necessarily red people; the north belongs to water, and water dominates black, but there are no black people in the north. This is another question).

Although people everywhere can be divided into five types according to the five elements, in general, Westerners belong to metal, while Chinese belong to earth.Fire overcomes metal, and the heart governs fire, so Westerners have to vent their fire, otherwise they always feel that there is something in their heart that cannot be vented, which makes them uncomfortable.Western culture is a culture of passion, a culture of venting, and a culture of purging fire.Culture is for people to achieve balance. If you don't let this anger out, Westerners will be restrained and unbalanced.But can the fire of the Chinese people be relieved?cannot!Because fire gives birth to earth, earthy Chinese need fire to give birth to and warm them.Therefore, Chinese culture focuses on tranquility, nourishing the heart, and nourishing this fire well, so that Chinese talents can achieve balance.Therefore, we must be cautious about the Western culture of purging the heart and fire. (As shown below)