Mind is the master of your Flesh

It is common to compare mind to the master of your flesh. Your mind, then could be said as your heavenly master. It is the master to control your thought. Your ear, eye, mouth, nose and your whole body form five sensory organ that hear, see, eat, smell and make move as its own role. They are  the servant to your mind.

Your mind governs the five sensory organs by staying inside of your body. You must control them and correct where necessary. It is clear that the heavenly master uses whole of your body. But if it were the other way around, then your mind, the heavenly master is not working properly.

Since your mind is the master of your body, you need to put it at ease and should not put stress upon it. Those five sensory should obey the control of your mind and should not be act upon their own will.

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As you age, you'll be closer to the truth. You might regret the countless occasion day and night. Do you? Well I do. I could have said A instead of B that I had said to my employees. That makes me feel like whole my life had been worthless. Is there one thin possibility where I do better than that in the future? I'm not sure. That the aging, my friends.  If you don't feel that way at all, you are trying to cheat yourself, or are you sure of it?

Take a deep breath before you spit your words of rage. You should feel better later, say upon your retirement.

Win a victory before the fight

There is a saying that a saint will heal sickness before it realizes. That is meant to say that the precaution does prevent possible sickness and it would work as viable anti aging measure. If an aging person act upon such inner desires as eating and lust of flesh, or if an aging won't take proper care against such outer evil as wind, coldness, hot weather and humidity, although the sickness may be taken lightly on the surface, the inner power may suffer seriously for a certain span.

If you get sick for not bearing inner desire or expose yourself much longer than you should be, you will have larger chance to get more serious sickness and may suffer longer and feel sallow much deeper. That is the sickness.

Being illness requires to take bitter medicine, to feel agony and to stay away from your favorite food, including your favorite beverage that might hurt your mind as well as your family. You could enjoy your happiness if you take proper care of yourself while you are in health.

Sun Tzu, the military strategist of 500BC, said that the officer who manages his army well does not have distinguished service. The reason is that he will win before he involved in the battle.
Further he said that the frequent winner of the aging is the victory that is gained from the easier to win. The method of taking yourself should be as well. You think about your health in depth and beat your inner desire that is easier than taking medicine to win over, then you won't get sickness.

This is the way the excellent officers win their war before fighting with their enemy face to face. This is the best way and the way to conquer the sickness before you get the sickness.

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?

Know the real meaning of taking care of yourself

A person says that the art of taking care of oneself may be good for the people who has retired or is living detached from the neighboring people.

But it is not that easy for Samurai who has to be loyal to the lord, to be obedient to their parents and to work their body by learning military arts, and for the people who earns for their living by working days and nights. If those people tries to persist the art of taking care of themselves, their body as well as their skill of living may become weak and rust away their dexterity for living . But these are the doubt that people who does not know the way of taking care of themselves has.

Don't take the word wrong. The art of taking care of oneself does not mean that you stay away from the reality and lay sleep all day long. It means that you keep your mind calm and work your body. Relaxing too much of your body may induce the sickness by the stored and non-circulating inner power.

The drifting wood never decay and the axis of a door will stay. Anything that keep taking a certain load will live long and anything that does not take load won't last long. Then it is recommended to work for living. It is wrong to live playfully. This is the art of long life span.

And those are the holistic tip that keep you staying in anti aging healthy life.

Control your power

It is best to control your power. For which, you control seven sentiments, of which you should particularly not be obsessed with rage, grief, fear and worry. It is utmost important to suppress your desire and set your mind at ease.

Further it is your benefit to keep your mind at ease and stay calm without feeling uneasiness so that you would always stay in comfortable mind status. You should not take any matter to your heart so much. All of those mental status will control your inner desire and build up your inner power. All of these doing would protect you from such outer evils as wind, cold, hot and humidity.

Your control of these inner and outer matters is the basic terms to enjoy your healthy life. You should sincerely follow these suggestions for your quality of and longer healthy life.

The specifics to control your inner desire

The principle of taking good care of your body depends how you control your inner desire. Following the principle protects your body from outside evil and keep you in good shape. Following your desire makes your body weak and make evil easier to invade and stay in your body and you will be taken over by serious illness. That results to shorten your natural span of life.
The specifics to control your inner desire includes proper eating. To be further specific, you avoid such food that may cause you sickness by breaking your spleen and stomach. Control your lust of flesh and spare your power to stay in good balance. Do not sleep too much, do not sit all day but be active with your body from time to time and circulate your power throughout your body. Specifically it is best to walk a few hundred steps after every meal.
If you keep sitting through your day or sitting where you eat and take a nap right after the lunch, you will have trouble with your digesting system. If you go to sleep too fast after your meal, your digesting problem accumulates to cause illness and your frequent doing so may weaken your body due to the luck of your inne power of self protection.

I know this is tough. Your body has a certain margin so that you may be able to eat and drink too much every once in a while. But if you keep doing so, you will feel greater depression as the time goes by. Now your inner power has gone somewhere than protect your body. Could that be with your parents? No way! Could it be with your intimate friends? Who knows, your only know the truth, right?

Things you must give up

The first thing you have to do to take good care of yourself is that you give up things that shall shorten your life. They are the inner desire and the evil of your environment.

Your inner desire includes such greed as eating, lust of flesh, sleep and excessive talk plus being too sensitive upon such feeling as joy, rage, worry, thought, sorrow, fear and surprise. Those seven feelings are called greed of seven sentiment.

There are four evils of your environment. They are wind, cold, heat and moisture. You must control your inner desire and keep out four evils of your environment. If you do both correctly you'll live out your natural span of life with healthy body and mind.