Let health accompany your growth.

Human nature tells us that everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. Especially the elderly, have worked hard all their lives and finally reached old age. From now on, you don't have to look at other people's glances, and you don't have to be cautious everywhere. When people are over 70, Confucius said, "Do whatever you want and don't overstep the rules" is enough. Therefore, old age should be the happiest golden age in life, but in fact it is not. Because there are many old people, often because of family, environment, economy, society, or full of complaints, or anger, or depression, or loneliness and inferiority, and so on, and finally let themselves gradually immerse themselves in negative pessimism, thus making the good wish of health and longevity discounted.

When it comes to health, many people think that not getting sick is health. In fact, this is a cognitive misunderstanding. People's health should include psychological factors of physical health and mental health. Who once defined human health in its charter as follows: "health is not only the absence of disease or weakness, but also the general term for physical and mental health and good social adaptation." This definition extends the concept of health to the biological, psychological and social factors that affect human health, and advocates actively eliminating various factors that affect health and creating a healthy and happy living environment for everyone. Therefore, the standard of health should pay equal attention to physical health and mental health, the former is the foundation and the latter is the condition, and the two are interrelated, infiltrated and influenced each other. Only when you have both can you be considered a perfect healthy person.

Modern psychologists believe that a person with cheerful, optimistic, cheerful and open-minded emotions can greatly improve people's psychological environment. Huangdi Neijing also pointed out: "There is no use outside, and there is no worry inside. Take pleasure as the service, take self-satisfaction as the merit, keep your body open and your spirit in harmony. "

However, if a person's heart is always full of negative and pessimistic emotions, it will cause severe biochemical reactions inside the human body and seriously damage the physiological functions of body organs. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing tells us that anger hurts the liver, likes to hurt the spleen, grieves the lungs and fears to hurt the kidneys.

Facts have proved that people's psychological strength is enormous. Therefore, it is very important to strengthen personal character and psychological cultivation. By cultivating good personality, we can adjust our emotions well in a troubled and complicated society to adapt to the ever-changing social environment. Try to reduce and eliminate frequent feelings of oppression and impulsiveness, pay attention to life, love life, be optimistic and open-minded, have good interpersonal relationships, and always keep the balance between the external social environment and the internal physical and mental environment. If you have such a mental state, the disease will naturally stay away. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that essence, qi and spirit are the three treasures of human beings and are the foundation of human health and longevity. This is especially true for the elderly!

There is no standard model and answer for longevity, but the secret of longevity lies in being "broad-minded, open-minded and open-minded" when dealing with people. I have done it, eliminating desire, being calm in body and mind, inner peace and happiness are among them. Therefore, the elderly, as long as they don't overstep the rules, can do whatever they want, such as singing and dancing, traveling and gathering, reading and writing, drinking tea and tasting wine, and even painting and calligraphy. In this way, health will grow with yourself.

This paper is based on part of the book "Embrace the Sunshine, Train for Spring", a special group training textbook compiled during my work. For the reference of elderly friends only. 》