Chapter 34 health law

When I was in middle school, I studied very hard. My grandparents felt distressed when they saw it, and they always said to me: "You should not study too hard, and you must prevent excessive use of your brain. If you use your brain too much, you will become a nerd." They also cited many For example, there is a young man nearby who is a literary youth who loves reading and wrote a lot of things. Later, because of repeated failures in submissions, he went crazy and was locked up at home; He didn't pass the college entrance exam, and became a nerd. He ran out of the house and went to the street to beg for food, still holding a book in his hand.But I didn’t know where I heard a saying at that time, which was called “The sharper the knife, the faster the brain is used.” Isn’t this exactly contradictory to the saying “Excessive use of the brain”?So I started to ponder this question.

To solve this problem, the brain and the heart have to be separated.Simply put, the brain is for thinking and storing information, while the heart is for controlling emotions.Some people have good grades in mathematics, and they can solve difficult problems. This means that they have a good brain. Why?Because apart from innate factors, he does a lot of questions, and his mind is often turned on mathematics, and it will become better after a long time.Although my mind is not sensitive enough in mathematics, my memory is not bad. As long as it is an article I like, I can recite it after reading it three or four times.why?Because I often recite articles, the more I recite, the better my memory will be.Emperor Kangxi had a better memory. When he went hunting with a foreign missionary, he saw a bird and asked the missionary how to call the bird in French, and the missionary told him.Three years later, when they saw this bird again, Kangxi even casually said the name of the bird in French, and the missionary was amazed.Why does Kangxi have such a good memory?According to historical records, Kangxi studied very hard. For classics, he had to read 120 times first, and then recite them 120 times. Such high-intensity training trained Kangxi's genius brain.I never heard of him using his brain too much!

What about those who read mad or nerds?Because they are tempted while doing high-intensity mental work, that is, their emotions and temper are moved.That literary youth had a passionate dream of literature, but the manuscripts he submitted were all like sinking into the sea. When his dreams were shattered, he was disappointed as much as he had hoped. His heart could not bear such a blow. up?This is a typical heart disease caused by the yin fire personality.And the nerd who went out to beg with a book was also caused by a blow to his heart, not because of excessive use of his brain at all. For students, learning is just using the brain, not the heart.In other words, you should learn what you need to learn and memorize what you need to memorize, and that’s enough, without psychological pressure or jealousy.It is very easy for students to be simple-minded. The problem lies with the parents.Many parents cannot inspire their children how to use their brains, how to enjoy the fun of using their brains calmly and peacefully; The family began to teach children: "Why don't you have a little pressure?" "Why don't you even have a little jealousy?" It seems that "stress" and "jealousy" are the driving force for learning and progress.In fact, it was his own pressure and jealousy at work, and he had nowhere to vent.If the parents are tempted, the child will be tempted too.Stress and jealousy can promote learning to a certain extent, but at the same time, they also put a great burden on the child's mind.From then on, he can no longer concentrate on his studies. He has to focus a lot on feeling pressure and being jealous of others: he will worry about his future when he sees the fierce competition in society; With success, he will be jealous.This emotion intensifies, and finally creates a deformity.

I have often encountered such freaks.I remember that when we were in college, we were really carefree. We just enjoyed studying, enjoying friendship and love every day. We never thought about where to work, what kind of work, and how much our monthly salary would be.But today’s college students are different. The freshmen, sophomores, or graduate students I have met recently all expressed concern about their future work.My younger brothers and younger sisters like to ask: "Brother, how did you learn it back then, and how did you plan for your future work? Why do I feel that what I am learning now will not be useful for me to find a job in the future?" Such stupid questions, At that time, absolutely no one asked.My answer is: "You can learn what you should study now, why worry about things so far away?" These children are used to living under pressure. Facing a diverse society, the pressure in my heart has become disorienting, so I feel the pressure, but I don't know where the pressure is coming from, which actually delays the serious study.In this way, many children were very good in high school, but they became mediocre after being admitted to key universities. What a pity!

In short, to let the child's heart and mind move, he must not only bear the pressure of learning, but also bear the psychological pressure and troubles, which undoubtedly adds another burden to him.If things go on like this, there will inevitably be an emotion of being tired of studying, I am afraid that not only will not be able to study well, but the body will also be ruined.Parents must be careful about this! I once went to the hospital to see a classmate who didn't suffer from any serious illness, but just had a minor operation because of appendicitis.He said optimistically and humorously: "You are here for class, remember to keep exercising after you go back!" Chatting on the way back, a very thin classmate among the people in the same company said: "Exercising can make you lose weight." Illness? I don’t think so. I practice long-distance running every day, and am I still so thin? Those athletes, don’t they practice enough? Many of them die earlier and faster than ordinary people.”

There is a saying in the West: "If you want to be smart, run! If you want to be strong, run! If you want to be healthy, run!" But this is a famous saying in ancient Greece. Being smart, strong, and healthy is different now. People nowadays have more troubles. Running alone is probably not enough to keep fit, nor is it enough to rely on any other form of exercise. A colleague once asked me: "Walk a hundred steps after a meal, and live to ninety-nine. Does this make sense?" I said, "It makes sense." He was happy, and said, "That's great! We have It’s more than a hundred steps to go back to work after eating in a restaurant outside!” I immediately realized that there was something wrong with his words, hiding a misunderstanding about health and exercise, so I said, “Yes, that’s useless Yes. You have to walk a hundred steps to live to ninety-nine, no more steps, no less steps!" The colleague was very puzzled.I said, "Why do you have to walk a hundred steps after a meal? Not only because light activities can promote digestion, but also because you need to meditate through walking. When the mind calms down, the energy of the whole body falls into the spleen and stomach to digest things. This is the key. How can you meditate while walking? The best way is to count, earnestly, counting a number at each step, counting from one to one hundred. This is effective. Otherwise, you rush from Walking back to work from the restaurant is physical labor, consumption, not health preservation.” The colleague asked again: “Then what should I do if I still haven’t arrived at work after walking a hundred steps? I can’t just stop and keep going.” I laughed He said: "After walking a hundred steps, your homework is done, and then you can walk as you want, it doesn't matter." He was dubious, and really did it.Unexpectedly, before he finished a hundred steps, he said: "I feel my stomach move, and the food is falling! My stomach will soon be full." But he usually doesn't feel this way.This is the benefit of calming down.Every thought of ours consumes a lot of energy. If we still cannot restrain these messy thoughts after we have just finished eating, our digestive system will inevitably receive less energy, and we will not be able to digest food well. up.Conversely, if our thoughts are calm, then energy will be concentrated in the digestive system, our thoughts will also be concentrated there, we can feel the peristalsis of the stomach, the digestion of food, and unconsciously give birth to a little joy, the digestion of food Get up quickly and thoroughly.

The same goes for running.First of all, we must meditate and not think about anything. In this way, our thoughts will be concentrated on the muscles in motion, replenishing energy to the moving parts in time, and strengthening the functions of these parts.Such exercises are the most effective.If you are still thinking about what happened at work yesterday and how to arrange today when you are running, and thinking that it is wrong for someone to do that, next time I should teach him a lesson. You have to be careful... This is just increasing your consumption in vain. Your mind and body are also tired, so it's better not to run.

Not long ago, a friend with too much negative fire personality was in a very happy mood after self-adjustment and recovery. One evening, he sent a text message and said: "It just rained heavily here, and the air after the rain is very fresh. Walking on the small road in the community park, I can think about many things freely, and I feel very good." I replied to her: "Just take a walk, just enjoy the fresh air and don't think about things." Who knew she was very excited and said: "I finally know how to enjoy life! Be at ease, let go of your worries, and enjoy life." That's so true!I believe she got a really happy after-rain walk.

Therefore, fitness exercises should be synchronized with meditation to be effective.There is a test standard for this effect: after exercising, we can observe our own state. If we feel that our minds are clear and sharp, and our muscles and bones are stretched and strong, then it means that we have few distracting thoughts during exercising and we are concentrating on exercising; If we feel dizzy and slightly tired after exercising, it means that we have too many distracting thoughts during exercising, which exceeds the body's load.The latter kind of people even have to take a "returning cage sleep" after morning exercise, because they are really tired, so why bother?

After a busy day, there are more than tens of thousands of thoughts in the mind. The various impacts and damages they cause on the human body are immeasurable. Therefore, at night, we need to sleep and let the mind calm down. Enter a state of no unconsciousness.In this state, the whole body gets a real rest, the damage caused by numerous thoughts and exercises will be repaired, and the toxins produced will be discharged. Sleep has degrees of depth, that is, deep sleep and light sleep.When we first fall asleep, we are in light sleep, dreaming easily, and being awakened easily, which means that our hearts have not completely calmed down, and there are still many active parts in our body; after entering deep sleep, we will not dream and are not easily awakened Moreover, the body temperature will drop, the heartbeat will slow down, and the breathing will become deep and slow.The tissue repair and body detoxification of the human body are carried out at this time.

Therefore, sleep is not only to relieve physical fatigue, but more importantly, to relieve mental fatigue, repair all damage caused by mental activities to the body, and clean up the toxins produced by mental activities in the body.It closes the mind completely so that we can close the door and clean, and when we wake up the next morning, we will be refreshed and refreshed again.Just as we go out early in the morning and find that the streets are clean and new, this is the result of the hard work of the cleaners at night. Why sleep must be carried out at night, because night is yin and is the closed storage period of the human body. At this time, our mental activity is reduced, and it is easier to calm down, so it is easy to enter deep sleep.This is not the case during the day, which belongs to yang, and the cells of the whole body of the human body are active, and the mental activity is also in a relatively excited state. Therefore, it is difficult for ordinary people to enter deep sleep during the day, and even if they are tired, they are easy to wake up during the day.This leads to a more serious question. Many of my friends are engaged in relatively free mental work, such as scholars, writers, and freelancers. They don't have to work from nine to five, and they can control their time relatively freely.Nine out of ten of them are "night owls", that is, they go to bed late and get up late, and they don't go to bed until three or four in the evening. Some even have to fight all night, sleeping during the day and getting up in the afternoon.If you want to ask why, they will all say: "The mind is quiet at night, and the efficiency of reading and writing is high." In fact, I also have this kind of experience. Why wasn't I like this before?But in this way, there is nothing to do during the daytime: get up at noon, eat lunch as breakfast, feel very scattered in the afternoon, and have no energy for reading and writing, so I have to go out to participate in some social activities, meet people and so on. , in order to calm down to do their own things, and have been going to bed very late.Later, I realized that the reason for my mind to calm down at night is to sleep; in other time periods, the quality of sleep is not as high as this time.It is precisely because our hearts are too impetuous and our thoughts are too busy, so we feel that we can't calm down while reading and studying during the day, and we have to rob the time to sleep at night.If this continues, the long-term lack of high-quality sleep will be extremely detrimental to the body. "Early to bed and early to rise, you can live a long life." There are indeed too many ways to keep in good health contained in this simple sentence. The essence of meditation is to try to be free of distracting thoughts, but it is very difficult to do this.Many people who are new to meditation say: "I usually don't have any distracting thoughts, why do I have distracting thoughts one after another during meditation?" In fact, we usually have a lot of distracting thoughts, even several times more than when we meditate, but we have not been able to reflect on ourselves , so I didn't notice it.When sitting in meditation, the mind calms down, so every distracting thought will attract enough attention.It's like the air is full of dust, which we can't see, but in a beam of light coming in from outside, we can see countless dust flying.Once you find that another thought has arisen in your mind, you must immediately focus on it, don't let this thought continue, and don't let this thought change into other thoughts.Therefore, sitting still is actually training us to extinguish all kinds of thoughts.Even if you can't achieve the total tranquility of all thoughts, as long as you extinguish distracting thoughts with your heart, there will be fewer distracting thoughts in the future.This is very good for our body and mind. Some people may ask: Don't you have any thoughts when you are in a daze?Does being in a daze have the same effect as sitting still?the answer is negative.In fact, when we are in a daze, there are many, many thoughts, the mind is controlled by the thoughts, and we don’t care about other things, so our whole body is dazed and motionless. This is daze.When you bring a dazed person back to his senses and ask: "What are you thinking about?" he will usually say: "I didn't think about anything." In fact, he has thought a lot, but it's not worth mentioning or he doesn't know where to start That's all, even he forgot what he was thinking, those thoughts passed by like a revolving lantern, and he couldn't remember it himself. Being in a daze hurts, it means a person is so distracted that it stops the person from all other activities.The prostitutes in Tolstoy's novels have nothing to do all day long, and sometimes they can be in a daze for an hour or two. If it is said that being in a daze is to indulge one's thoughts in silence and let distracting thoughts run wild, then sitting still is to restrain thoughts in silence and curb distracting thoughts. This is the opposite activity, and it is by no means the same thing.