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oct. 18, 2017
HappyYangsheng 快乐养生
"养生," pronounced as [yangsheng], is a verb as well as a noun in the Chinese language. Literally meaning 'nurturing life,' the word represents a unique ancient Chinese construct introduced by Lao Zi in his great book Tao Te Ching. Inclusive as it is, the term is used to refer to all the knowledge related to, and all the practices aimed at longevity through the cultivation of one's physical and spiritual wellbeing. When it first called attention more than two thousand years ago, yangsheng was primarily a focus, a major concern for every Daoist follower or practitioner. However, as more and more people began to pay heed to their wellbeing, it has become increasingly popular among Chinese, especially adults. Given its rich store of recipes, therapies, methods, techniques and know-hows accumulated over the past twenty-five centuries or so, it is not surprising that yangsheng can offer something really good and helpful to every human being. Indeed, in an advanced information age and an improved living condition, who would not want to learn to live a healthier, happier, and even longer life today?
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This site is created as a interactive social platform to share experience, knowledge, and whatever has to do with yangsheng, or the Way towards wellbeing and longevity.
Our catch phrase:: a sound body, a sound mind-spirit, and a sound lifestyle.
To live a healthy, happy and long life, it is undoubtedly not only helpful but also necessary for everyone to cultivate and explore such abundant soundness,
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oct. 19, 2017
Given its central concern with the Way towards wellness, happiness and longevity, yangsheng is one, if not the, most important aspect of human life, but it has long been ignored in our educational system and by all levels of government. Inspired by this simple fact, I have created this site to share whatever is related to yangsheng, hoping to promote awareness of the need for it among all people in a socially interactive way.
I have been haunted by this fact for a long time: like financing - the issue of how to make and manage money, yangsheng, which focuses upon the Way to attain wellness, happiness and longevity, is never part of formal education although these two are probably the most important aspects of human reality. If we pay enough attention to yangsheng, if yangsheng is introduced as a selective or even a compulsory course in school, if everyone becomes a well-educated yangsheng practioner, our government will undoubtedly save tremendous amounts of money, our society will have drastically less trouble, and our life will be greatly enriched at an individual level.
To promote yangsheng as a meaningful human cause, I have created this site with my extremely limited resources. As long as my health condition and computer skills allow, i would love to share my own thought, knowledge and experience about yangsheng, hoping at least to offer some helpful know-hows, recipes or therapies to readers/viewer of non-chinese background.
yangsheng recipe for today:: Those with back pain could walk backwards on a regular basis, for 10 minutes for the first week, 20 minutes for the second, and half an hour for the rest of time, but be extremely careful.
This is an ancient Chinese traditional medical treatment, a physical therapy, which is highly effective. Personally, I used to have a disc problem causing me to suffer from a bad chronical back pain. After many years of invalid treatments, I began to do this simple exercise in 2015, which has put an permanent end to my pain.
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oct. 20, 2017
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES FOR YANGSHENG
1/ It is essential to develop a positive mentality. Sometimes referred to as positive attitude, optimistic mindset or (sound) mindfulness, a positive mentality enables us to live a rich and healthy emotional, intellectual and spiritual life. You may be introvert or extrovert, poor or rich, young or old, but you can always make conscious effort to become positive-minded.
2/ It is important to live in harmony with nature. In practice, this means to follow the way of nature or imitate nature (道法自然), as Lao Zi taught us in his Tao Te Ching. For example, acupuncture, physical exercise and organic/food therapies are more natural than surgery industrial/chemical compounds when it comes to deal with health problems.
3/ It is more desirable function in a balanced manner than otherwise. Such balance can and should be maintained at different levels and in various aspects of life, as between work and play, between activity and stasis, between yin and yang, between control and indulgence. Any overly emphasis on one would break the natural equilibrium with the other.
4/ It is always better to prevent than cure. This principle seemed to become increasingly popular in the world only in recent decades, but has been emphasized and practised especially by Daoist practitioners and traditional Chinese doctors for more than two thousand years.
Needless to say, one can write a pamphlet or even a thick book on each of these principles, but theories are always less interesting, so we post them here briefly just for casual discussion or future elaboration.
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12 Easiest and Most Convenient Ways to Prevent Cancer
1/ Open windows at least half an hour daily (especially to prevent lung cancer);
2/ Wipe your back with a dry towel for 10 minutes or until you feel warm on a regular basis;
3/ Eat raw garlic (cut and exposed to air for more than 10 min) and green onion as often as possible (esp. to prevent stomach cancer)
4/ Drink soy milk (esp. to prevent breast cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer and prostate cancer), but such cancer patients and those suffering from peptic ulcer, gastritis and gout should avoid it;
5/ Walk for at least half an hour daily (esp. to prevent colorectal cancer and pancreatic cancer);
6/ Drink 6 cups of water (roughly 240g each) daily (esp. to reduce the risk of bladder cancer for men, and colon cancer for women by 45%);
7/ Sunbathing for 15 min daily (esp. to prevent breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer and gastric cancer), but too long would increase the risk of skin cancer;
8/. Drink 4 cups of green tea daily (to reduce the risk of cancer by 40%);
9/ Chew your food at least 30 times before swallow (esp. to prevent gastrointestinal cancer);
10/ Sleep 7 hours every night (esp. to prevent breast cancer);
11/ Reduce sugar intake (esp. to prevent pancreatic cancer); and
12/ Eat red meat with a cup of red wine (esp. to prevent colon cancer)
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oct. 21, 2017
A POSITIVE MENTALITY ESSENTIAL TO YANGSHENG
It is common knowledge that whoever wants to live a healthier, happier and longer life must perforce have a positive mentality.
What characterizes 'a positive mentality' then? To me, it is composed of group of sincere attitudes, which mainly include the attitudes towards what we are facing at the moment, who and what we ourselves have been up to now, and what we expect in the future.
Apparently, if you can at least most of the time see and treat with a positive attitude what is happening to you in the moment, you are an attained yangsheng practitioner and will certainly live a more enjoyable life.
Some people may have been 'born' with a positive mentality; others can certainly learn and develop it in a self-conscious way. No matter what, a positive mentality has nothing to do with who you are, what you do, where you live or how rich/poor you have been.
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5 Ways to Examine One's Own Health Condition
According to yangsheng experts, one does not have to go to a doctor for a physical check-up every year. Actually there are five criteria to tell if you are a 'normal' or basically healthy person::
1. Eat well - you have a good appetite and no few food taboos;
2. Sleep well - you can fall asleep relatively in an easy manner and have few nightmares;
3. Discharge well - you have no trouble pissing, shitting, sweating;
4. Move well - you can walk, jump, run as you would like;
5. Sense well - you can see, hear, smell, taste, feel like everybody else does.
As long as you eat, sleep, discharge, move and sense normally or reasonably well, you are just fine, and should be happy about your physical well being.
