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 Health Preservation of the Spirit and Consciousness Tai-chi Way |
Firstly, making people energetic and enabling people to burden the chores in daily life and heavy workload with ease, without the feeling of stress and over-fatigue.
Secondly, making people have an optimistic outlook on the world, positive attitude toward life and take delight in assuming responsibility and making people tend not to be impatient and fault-finding.
Thirdly, making people sleep sound and relax well and use brain actively and attach importance to the schedule of daily life.
Fourthly, making people respond quickly to emergencies and adapt rapidly to various principles in the outside world.
Fifthly, making people maintain a standard proper weight and a balanced figure
and a standing posture of coordinated head, shoulders and arms.
Sixthly, Enabling people to resist general diseases such as cold, flu, etc.
Seventhly, making people have bright and sharp eyes and acute responses.
Eighthly, making people have intact, firm and clean teeth devoid of decay, pain or bleeding phenomena.
Ninthly, making people have lustrous hair and little dandruff.
Tenthly, making people have well-developed muscles and elastic skins.
Four Essential Elements of Life in Tai-chi Psychology :
1 Kindheartedness is a nutrient to psychological health preservation, so people are supposed to have a kindhearted soul, being kind and ready to help others.
2 Tolerance is a safety valve to psychological health preservation, so people are supposed to be tolerant, being able to tolerate anything under the heaven.
3 Optimism is a panacea to psychological health preservation, so people are supposed to be optimistic, striving to be contented with what they have and delighted from what they do to help others and taking pleasure from their lot, family and career.
4 Indifference to fame and fortune is an immunizing agent to psychological health preservation, so people are supposed to lead an ascetic life, taking the wisdom of Binxin, a famous writer, ¡°people are naturally noble when they have nothing to seek¡± as the motto of life.
Spirit and Consciousness Tai-chi Preserves Health by Following the Course of the Four Seasons
It nurses the ¡°revival¡± spirit in spring, the ¡°growth¡± spirit in summer, the ¡°harvest¡± spirit in autumn and the ¡°storage¡± spirit in winter. That's to say, it follows the principle that everything in the world revives in spring, grows in summer, ripens in autumn and hibernates in winter. It advocates adapting to the changes and features of nature, which is warm in spring, hot in summer, cool in autumn and cold in winter, in daily life, including eating, drinking, doing sports, etc, in order to realize the purpose of nourishing the heart in spring, protecting the heart in summer, nourishing the lung in autumn and strengthening the kidney in winter.
Ten Most Nutritious Foods for Health Preservation according to Tai-chi Way £º
1 Carrot: it contains rich nutrient, always dubbed ¡°mini-ginseng¡±.
2 Chicken: it is the best source of protein.
3 Flatfish: it contains abundant unsaturated fatty acid.
4 Milk: it contains plenty of calcium and phosphor which are indispensable to the human body and mutually complementary.
5 Mushroom: it contains rich kalium, microelement and vitamin B
6 Orange: it contains rich vitamin C, calcium, phosphor and vitamin A.
7 Banana: It contains rich kalium which is very important to the human body.
8 Wheaten food: it is an extremely good source of carbohydrates for the human body.
9 Irish potato: it contains magnesium, Fe, phosphor, kalium besides carbohydrates.
10 Wheat bran: it contains rich vitamin B.
¡°Five Effects¡± of Spirit and Consciousness Tai-chi on Health Preservation £º
1 To give people normal intelligence (making people studious and actively use their brain)
2 To give people stable emotions (making people good at controlling their emotions)
3 To give people good adaptability (making people improve themselves and adapt to the society)
4 To give people a harmonious interpersonal relationship (a good interpersonal relationship is a must)
5 To give people a sound personality (it determines people' s prospect and fate)
Ten Unhealthy Behaviors according to Spirit and Consciousness Tai-chi Way £º
1 Firstly, eat and drink to excess.
2 Secondly, smoke and drink without control.
3 Thirdly, act frivolously and lead an irregular life.
4 Fourthly, rejoice or grieve without restraint.
5 Fifthly, neglect breakfast and overeat in supper.
6 Sixthly, be lazy in work and idle in thinking.
7 Seventhly, sleep inadequately and tire excessively.
8 Eighthly, be over-greedy and addicted to gambling.
9 Ninthly, have sex after drinking and indulge in sex.
10 Tenthly, let disease develop beforehand and refuse treatment afterward.
Instructions for Eating Fruits £º
Nature: cold; representative fruits: coconut, watermelon, persimmon, pear, banana, cantaloupe and muskmelon; functions: relieve internal heat and reduce inflammation, decrease the metabolic rate and internal heat.
Nature: cool; representative fruits: strawberry, mango and loquat; functions: reduce the metabolic rate and internal heat of human body; the fruits of cold or cool nature suit the following persons £º those with hot-natured bodies or symptoms.
Nature: temporate; representative fruits: cherry, orange, guava, longan, peach and litchi; functions £º relieve internal cold and supplement deficiency of vital energy, eliminate cold symptoms, increase the metabolic rate and calorie of the human body.
Nature: hot; representative fruits: durian; functions: raise the metabolic rate of human body and increase calorie; the fruits of temporate and hot nature suit the following persons £º those with cold-natured bodyies or symptoms.
Patients of stomach disease are not supposed to eat the haw, chestnut, lemon, banana, etc; people with dry stool can eat the banana, peach and pear frequently; those with diarrhea can choose to eat apples; those with cold-natured stomach and insufficient vital energy can often eat such temporate-or-hot-natured fruits as litchi, longan, apricot, cherry, etc; those who have fever symptoms can choose such cold-or-cool-natured fruits as watermelon, pear, banana, persimmon, melon, etc. The relatively moderate-natured fruits include the cherry, Chinese date, pineapple, apple and orange. The nut and dried fruit shall also be eaten properly based on the actual conditions of the human body, which will be beneficial. For example, peanut contains rich nutrient which are easy to be taken in by the human body; eating peanut frequently will be conducive to reducing the rate of cancer and heart disease incidents. Chestnut can strengthen waist and enhance the yang energy, nourish stomach and spleen, nourish kidney and stanch bleeding, strengthen tendon and activate the blood circulation, etc. Walnut is reputed for its function of nursing and moistening skins and blackening hair. The walnut nucleus contains unsaturated fatty acid, which can reduce cholesterol and thus prevent arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, etc. Apart from these, the beneficial dried fruits also include the black sesame, sunflower seed, big Chinese date, horse bean, pine nut, gingko, etc. ¡¡ ¡¡ ¡¡ ¡¡ ¡¡ ¡¡
