1. If you want to be calm, you must be "clean" first. Pure, that is, pure and clean, in other words, is to be upright. A philosopher once said, "If you want to get a peaceful heart, let it be blank." If there are too many distracting thoughts and desires in your heart, you will easily be confused by the five colors and tastes in the world, and you will be uneasy. Many people are hard to calm down and get angry, which are inextricably linked. As the nameless Zen saying goes: "Life is like being in a thorn forest. If you don't move your heart, you won't move, and if you don't move, you won't hurt." If the heart moves, people will move, then they will hurt their bodies and bones, so they will experience all kinds of pain in the world. " Therefore, if people want to have peace of mind, they should look down on gains and losses, reduce their desires, be content with everything, not do whatever they want, keep a normal heart, and live a light life, then their bodies will be healthy.
2. If you want to be calm, you should slow down your life, that is, slow down the pace of life and slow down your behavior. Psychological research has found that whether people can meditate is closely related to the pace of life. If the pace of life is fast, people's heart rate will accelerate and their hearts will be difficult to calm down. On the contrary, if the pace of life slows down, the heart rate will tend to be normal, and the heart will not be quiet. Due to the decline of physiological functions, the ability of thinking reaction and the flexibility of limbs of the elderly have declined, so it is necessary for the elderly to live slowly. At the same time, when people are old, they have more time to themselves. They no longer need to grab time and seek speed. They can relax themselves well, arrange their time more comfortably, make their lives comfortable and comfortable, and naturally get a stable and peaceful effect.
3. If you want to be calm, you need to control your emotions. We all have this experience in our daily life. When we are emotionally stable, our hearts will be calm. And when we are in emotional ups and downs, we are uneasy. Therefore, the change of people's mood is closely related to whether the heart can be peaceful. The most disturbing and confusing things are those excessive emotions, such as great joy, great sorrow and great anger. In this state, people often say "my heart is pounding" and "my heart is about to jump out". It can be seen that excessive emotions have a great influence on the heart. Modern medical research has found that being excited for 1 minutes is equivalent to running 3 meters. At this time, body secretions contain strong toxicity and pose a great threat to the heart. Therefore, the elderly should try to avoid those factors that can cause great emotional changes, leave the environment that causes emotional fluctuations as soon as possible, and be good at maintaining balance and adjusting emotions in time during stimulation, so as to stabilize their emotions and make their feelings calm and peaceful.
4. If you want to be calm, you can also cultivate some hobbies that can promote people to be calm. Calligraphy, painting, reading, listening to music, Tai Chi and Qigong are all excellent resting activities. Writing and painting can make people concentrate, immerse themselves in the realm of "concentration and quiet thinking" and make the "heart" tend to be peaceful and quiet, which may be the secret of a painter's longevity; Reading books can make the mind slow down in running. The ancients said, "A book writer can express himself and disperse. Expressing the qi in the chest is also depressing in the heart. Therefore, every calligrapher can live without disease. " Listening to those soft and soothing music is not only the enjoyment of beauty, but also a good relaxation method, which makes people calm; Playing Tai Chi and practicing Qigong are also the only ways to stop your mind. I forget the "resting mind method" for both things and me. Old people can choose one or two of them according to their own situation, and stick to it all the year round, which will make you calm and healthy.
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