Your mind and Self-direction
People who wish to take care of themselves is expected to have own self-direction. With own self-direction, people is able to justify the correct direction without the anger or the irritation, thereby make it easier to bear the desire. But if people lack their self-direction, then they act indiscreetly for not being able to control the anger and desire.
- Patience and taking care of yourself -
Whatever the matter would be, if you have pleasant sensation doing something, that sensation could cause the trouble later. It is like having alcohol as you wish to taste the pleasant sensation and feel good momentarily, but it would bring you serious illness later. If you have patience you'd feel good later. It could be tough to consume energy or eat just the right amount to keep you going, but it would make you possible to stay in health and enjoy longer life span. A Chines poet once said that there is the pleasure over the endeavor. What this phrase means is that you would have pleasure after controlling your desire a while.
Active blood stream is the base for your power distribution
The power is in heaven and it moves by itself so that the four seasons, namely the hot and the cold cycles smoothly and that the all things mature smoothly. If the cycle shifts to one side it won't form smooth circle and there will be the stagnant that would generate irregularities as such, hot winter or cold summer, wild wind, too much rain and etc.
Similar matter happens in human body. Having smooth blood stream ensures your smooth power distribution throughout your body and there won't be any illness. Having bad blood stream makes you ill. In case of the blood stagnant occurs in upper side of your body, there will be the head ache or spell bound by dizziness. If the stagnant occurs in middle of your body, you will be having the heart diseases, stomach ache, heavy stomach and etc. In case of your lower body, you will be having lower back pain, beriberi, abdominal pain, hemorrhoids and etc.
Those things suggest that we will be better to watch blood stream and make it active so that there won't be any stagnant spot in our body.
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You'd notice that there were no knowledge of vitamin at the time. But then do we know all about DNA? If we don't know our own well, there is available knowledge that fits to the age, or let's say the word that express the concept nicely at the age. And that does have the power, don't you think?
Some differences between to be wealthy and live longer
There are many people who pray for wealth and flatter others who might be of help to gain status and power. They would not work. It is rare to take care of oneself in hope of not getting any sickness and to live longer. Those wealth, status and income are outside of you and you won't be able to get them unless you were fortunate and take effort for them.
It is inside of you to live longer without any sickness. It can be realized if you try, and no fortunate involved. Why does people try to get that is hard to get and not to try to be in health that is easier? It is foolish. If you were fortunate enough to acquire great wealth, you won't be able to enjoy it with illness or with that shorter life span.
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It depends how you see your inner life. I had traveled a lot. Especially, I could say that I had traveled throughout America than most Americans do. Did I enjoy it? Not at all. It had been stressful and lonesome road. I had so many girl friends who were 20-30 years younger. Did I enjoy it? Well, it was nice to kill time. But . . .