Your life span « Natural holistic anti aging products and thought from Yojokun, an ecologist view of 18th century Japan

26Jun/11Off

The medical care is of benevolent act and that applies to anti aging as well

The persons who have the talent, skill and affectionate mind should intend to be the physician. Nobody should consider being physician as the hereditary property. It is said that the medical care is the benevolent act. The physician should act upon the affectionate mind and make helping people as the personal objective.

It is out of question to act upon selfish reasoning. Anti aging measure won't work if you stick too much on yourself. It is of difficult profession to be the physician for it has the role of helping many lives that is given by heaven and the knowledge that has been acquired by the person is related to the life and death of the people.

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This consideration suggests that there are lots of physicians who ask unreasonable amount of money for his medication in Ekken's era.　And of course, there was no established measure for anti aging. At Ekken's era, it had passed close to 200 years since the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate. And the worship of money was common. The energy as well as the guts to propel the society has been took over by merchants. Most of the samurai were at the bare livelihood. And the old were respected for their knowledge and experiences. That suggested you are expected to find your way of anti aging all by yourself. You are lucky to have Ekken's suggestion from the past. His vision is of pure holistic.

The samurai's salary had been fixed to the price of the rice. Problem was that samurai had never tried to watch the rice market to find the best timing to sell but, they had sold their rice at the same time throughout Japan. That means that the timing was at the lowest market price.

Typical "Ronin", samurai who had been dismissed from the lord

Now, I know there are some who are respectable but there are bads as well. That the human nature, right?

But everybody realizes that none can bring their wealth to their tomb in any meaningful way for themselves at the time of their death. Don't you think? Would money buy you any kind of anti aging measure? Some cosmetice surgery, yes, but none that keeps you young at heart or action.

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28Nov/10Off

Keep movin’ with your body

A medieval medical book says that a daily little exercise is one of the preservation method of your health and anti aging as well. Further its states that the human mind must stay in calm all the time. On the other hand, it is best to keep utilizing your body. If you keep sitting all day, it is easier to catch disease of all kind and it won't work for anti aging purpose. Your keep sitting or laying in bed all day long is more harmful than keep standing or walking longer duration.

The more you think about anti aging measure, the more utilize your body, this is what Ekken has been trying to say for the preservation of your youth.

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If you are over sixty years old, every once in a while, you do feel like laying in bed all day long, do you not? Ekken is saying that it won't do any good as the anti aging measure. For the past few years, it was rather uncomfortable sitting relaxed in the chair. I mean that my back is heavily on the back of a chair and legs are extended fully forward and resting on the edge of a little ottoman set on the other side of my desk.

As I passed 65, I feel comfortable with the same setting.

Last Saturday, we were chatting, the ages were 62, 65, 74 and me 67. Everybody is intellectual and rather active in daily life with anti aging measure in mind. One of us made a comment and we all agreed with it. That is, as we pass 55, we get the feeling of losing own physical strength every 5 years. And the problem is that we will be losing mental and intellectual power soon at much faster speed as we pass 70. Is there any anti aging measure for the mind power? I am not sure. It seems to be quite dependent upon personal characteristics.

This group does therapy for older people. Most of our clients are over 80 years. One of us has a client over 4 years. The client is a woman at her age of 78 when started the therapy. We all examined her condition every week. It's like rehearsing the aging process of myself. But it does not seem possible to take any mental anti aging measure at all. Yes, this client has been sharp when started. But she had lost her memory of youth as she hit 80 and one year later she got inter-cerebral hemorrhage, although light, then she cannot recall a few hours previous. What would that be living without any memory? You have nothing to recall including your family and joy of life when you were young. . . . . . . .

28Jun/10Off

You will Live out your natural life span by taking good care of yourself

It is the know fact that if you were young and full of energy and born with strong body, you will be dead earlier for not taking good care of yourself. This is not the misfortune but you yourself is the party responsible. We won't say it that this person has lived out the natural life span.

The healthy people usually won't pay attention to their health for being healthy since their birth and often leave this world earlier than the people who were born rather weak.

It is an irony that the people who were born weak, eating less, getting sick often and seemed to have less energy does live longer. Its reason is that they abstain from desire to protect own health. Those things seem to suggest that one's life span does not depend on the strength of one's body, but it depends upon if you would control your desire.

An ancient poet of China, Bo Juyi Po said, "Happiness and misfortune is of your discretion and indiscretion" and I agree with this notation.

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How can you be so thoughtful. Don't you think? Being young and energetic means you have full of fortune. And you have to realize that everyone of us can't be a king. King needs the guard, cook, sweeper and lots of other people to take care of him. What the world could be if there were kings of all kinds and no mere normal person around? Then there's no meaning you being the king, right? Well, I'm afraid that I may not be able to sleep for this problem tonight. . . .