Your priority of healthy life
Your utmost priority to lead healthy life is to keep your inner power strong. You keep your mind flexible, keeping your inner power focused, controlling you rage and desire, having less anxiety and worry, trying to avoid trouble as much as possible. Those are the secret of keeping your inner power strong. Although it is needless to say, you should not take sleeping for granted. If you sleep longer than necessary, your inner power will be locked up inside of you body and it may bear malice toward yourself,
If you go to bed before digesting your dinner, it results to lose your appetite and your source of power at the same time. It is the best to stop drinking alcohol at the half way to your limit and enjoys the feeling of its effect. You should not eat heartily but try to stay at 80% of your fill. The matter is to set yourself the limit on both of the alcohol and your meal and try to stay within that limit.
You should not let out your inner power by giving way to your desire while being young. The more you let out, the weaker your inner power will be and as the consequences your life become shorter.
If you act upon your desire, you will not be able to find any effective means to fulfill the lost nutrition. It won't be able to fulfill what you have lost by neither taking medicine nor having breakfast/dinner. Further you need to protect yourself from outer environment such as flue, coldness, heat and humidity and stay focused on your correct way of living. It is best to have light exercise like jogging, occasionally stroking your hip and belly, keeping your arm and feet active and keeping your blood stream smooth and make such effort to digesting what you have ate.
It is not recommended to sit at the same posture long. This is another secret of your healthy life. The core consideration of living healthy is to keep your mind and you body out from extreme of any kind. It is rather the tips of wigs as taking medicine, staying calm and keeps yourself from extremes when you get sickness. The core consideration is to keep your body as well as your mind healthy in every day’s life
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Mr. Ekken further states the origin of your life as;
The origin of human power arises from the power of all nature. This is the very fundamental of the human being. Without the power of nature, we should not have been on this globe. We are in existence with the help of such outside power as foods, clothing and houses. The nature arises foods, clothing and houses as well. All of those matters, including your existence are the favor of the all nature and your parents.
You should not live on taking granted for such helps. The very thought of your inner power should enhance it and complete your given life while living in healthy anti-aging life.
On the other hand, if you live on matters of your outside, your inner power would lose its energy and consequently you would give out to the diseases. You would die of disease as your get serious and as you consume of all of your inner power. You would experience the serious aging power on tis way.
Here is an example of the plants. Too much water and fertilizer would arise them death. It could be concluded that the human being should stop living on their outer help. As you start living on them, you would start losing your inner power faster.
Yes, Mr. Ekken was not the believer of God. It is of rare example for a person living in 17th century. But then he was exceptional person to start writing this book "Yojokun" at his age of 70. "Yojokun", by the way, means "How to take care of yourself", the first ever "how-to" publication in Japan.
You define your life span
The heaven does not define your life span but you yourself do. It is true that you are given your life from the heaven but it lasts longer if you take good care of it, and it ends earlier if you do not.
It all depends upon your intention either having longer life or shorter life span. If you were born healthier and stronger than other people, living with your desire would shorten your life.
If you were born weak, living following guidance of this book would lengthen your life. The whole thing depends upon your intention, and then the life span cannot be defined by the heaven.
If you were born to die earlier, longing for the longer life and follow the guidance, it is possible to realize your wish. Here is an example. Let us suppose the fire on thick branches. If you bury the ignited branches in the ash of your fireplace, the fire will be there for long. If you put it on the ground where the strong wind blows, it will be dead quite soon. If you keep oranges on the counter top, they will shrivel soon. But if you keep them in the dark storage space, they may stay fresh till next spring.
The Yojokun tells you that your will, mindset, thought is the utmost importance to live. There are so many people who commit suicide. They wished death. They have not wished to see tomorrow. How would their spouses feel? How would their parents feel? All of the sentiment turns inwards. What if you look out to the world a bit? There is always the new and excitements happening, it is sad and wasteful.
up on 2009/11/30
