Do the "Seven Lesses" and stay healthy

Less desire

The key to keeping healthy is to keep your mind healthy, and the key to keeping your mind healthy is to keep your spirit healthy. People cannot live without material and spiritual needs and pursuits. However, this pursuit must be based on reality and must not be divorced from subjective and objective conditions, or even unrealistic, which will ultimately lead to pain due to disappointment and illness due to worry, affecting one's health. Therefore, people who know how to maintain their health will reduce their personal desires and downplay fame and fortune.

Less anger

Anger is the strongest of the seven emotions. “If anger is not controlled, Qi will not be solid.” Anger causes poor Qi flow, resulting in Qi reversal and Qi stagnation, which can cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, all the centenarians who are good at health preservation are afraid of anger. The main way to avoid anger is: self-control. People who are easily angered should restrain themselves when encountering unpleasant things. Or you can consciously shift your goal, balance and stabilize your mood, control your emotions with reason, or change the environment to calm down.

Less Color

That is, to reduce desires in order to conserve essence. To nourish essence is to protect the physiological functions of organs. If you indulge in lust, it will not only cause sexual dysfunction and make you exhausted, but also cause endocrine disorders in the body and lead to the occurrence of various diseases.

Few words

Speaking less does not mean not speaking at all, but it means not chattering too much, not shouting, and not getting angry and quarreling too often. If you talk loudly frequently and continuously, you will lack energy, which will affect the function of your respiratory organs and be detrimental to your health.

Eat less

Don't overeat. If you eat too much at every meal, the blood will be concentrated in the stomach and intestines for a long time, and other organs will suffer from ischemia and be in a state of inhibition, which will cause drowsiness. It may even induce gallbladder disease, diabetes, obesity, lead to premature aging and shorten life.

Sleep less

The elderly like to lie down, but they need to be moderate. If you stay in bed for a long time, it will damage your Yang Qi. When the Yang Qi is not flowing smoothly, the digestive power of the stomach and intestines will be weakened, and the body's activities will decline, making you prone to illness. Typhoid fever in winter and heatstroke in summer are both caused by "lying in bed for a long time and damaging the qi".

Sit less

"Sitting for a long time hurts the flesh." Some elderly people are addicted to TV and mahjong, and drive cars when they go out. Sitting for a long time will cause blood vessel stagnation and poor blood circulation, leading to atrophy and swelling of the lower limbs, vascular spasm, cyanosis, and difficulty walking. This is medically known as lower extremity venous thrombosis. Therefore, the elderly should try to move their limbs as much as possible, walk more, and participate in appropriate cultural and sports activities to avoid aging of their legs before they get old.