Before the Principle of Health, Everyone is Equal

• To achieve a happy life, the most important thing is your health — oh so clichéd, I know — but it is the natural way to maintain your youth and vitality. You can chase after money, fame, power, or whatever else you want — but without health, you have nothing.
  
  
• Before health, everyone is equal. The rich cannot buy health, the powerful cannot command health, the famous cannot demand health, the religious cannot pray to obtain health. In reality, those who break the principle of health are prone to suffer from illnesses, and it has long been inevitable.
  
  

Prevention is always better than cure.

• Therefore, it is necessary to not only acquire health knowledge, but to also apply the knowledge, persistently. Including wellness knowledge, hygiene knowledge, medical knowledge, dietetic knowledge, health preservation knowledge, and so on. Those who lack the proper knowledge, simply won’t know how to prevent diseases properly. As a consequence, many sufferers die of ignorance, rather than diseases.

Physiological Health

• Aging is defined as, the ticking of your physiological clock, at the rate your physical functionalities declines. As the physiological clock ticks, the mechanism of your immunity and regeneration is gradually restrained, which leads to sicknesses, aging, and frailty. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt healthcare habits that can slow down the rate of the clock.
  
  

Always maintain 30% of hunger and coldness.

• A simple principle of health preservation in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Meaning, to stay well and sound, don’t eat to feel glutted, just until you no longer feel hungry; don’t dress to feel warm, just until you no longer feel cold. This allows your physical functionalities to constantly sustain its fighting spirit, which aids prolonging the mechanism of your immunity and regeneration. “If you don’t use it, you lose it.”
  
  
• Healthy people look sharp and charming, consistent exercise is one of the most effective ways to achieve it. Your exercise should be well-varied, including aerobic, weightlifting, balance, flexibility, and internal organs. Exercise can pump oxygen into your bloodstream, enhance your cardiopulmonary function, sharpen your nerves, proliferate your cells, and slow down brain deterioration. Go pick up an exercise routine, stick with it constantly and persistently. It’s worth it.
  
  
• Supplements of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants may be taken moderately. Seniors especially, for offsetting their deficiencies in natural nutrients absorption, as well as youth rejuvenation and life prolonging.
  
  
• Sufficient sleep, nap, and rest can help repairing your body, mending your mind, cleansing the brain, and prevent aging.

Emotional Health

• It is is necessary to understand and admit that, in most people’s lives, the moments of glory and achievement only take up the minority of your lifetime — the majority of your lifetime is ordinary, boring, repetitious, and tedious. Hour after hour we spend time commuting, working, labouring, running errands, doing chores, and so on. Don’t let your vision be fazed and narrowed by all of those posts and stories on social media, where everybody only shares the glorious moments in their lives — all just a tiny part out of the whole big picture.
  
  
• Experiencing failure is inevitable — we often have to face failure, setbacks, bad luck, and frustrations. When dealing with them, maintain psychological balance, stay as calm and rational as possible, and avoid extreme and excessive reactions. No matter what happens, life must go on. At the end, you will look back at these so-called “problems” and would just smile consciously, like when you said goodbye to your puppy lover.
  
  
• Not only spend your time maintaining exercise routines, but also cultivating a stable state of mind. A simple method is try to contact and communicate with your loved ones more often. Mental purity lies in the maintenance of a stable nervous system. Live a meaningful life with adequate sleep and moderate desires. Stay relaxed, work on being as independent as possible, and avoid unnecessary worries and conflicts.
  
  
• Keep working on self-sufficiency. The less you have to ask and rely on others, the more likely you can reach emotional wellness. Be likeable and approachable, always be ready to give help to others (within your budget). You have to be able to take care of yourself first, before you can take care of others. The reason why you find happiness in helping others is simple — as knowing that you have a surplus in yourself, which has the ability to better someone else’s life, is a blessing.
  
  
• Mentally healthy people are broad-minded, easy-going, and kind-hearted. They wish others well, and try to guide others to be better. Those who are mentally unstable cannot govern their emotions, and are prone to act with extreme reactions. In fact, emotional stability, to some extent, can be controlled by yourself.
  
  
• Fear of cancer is common in industrialized countries, and the fear ended up being one of the main causes of actual diagnosis of cancer.
  
  
• Fear of poverty is typical in utilitarian societies, and the fear was overtaken by greed which lead to actual bankruptcy.
  
  
• Therefore, it is necessary to learn how to strengthen the capacity of your living endurance, tolerance, and resilience; in order to overcome your encounter with emotional stress.
  
  
• Extreme emotional stress can suddenly terminate someone’s life. Wrath, fear, hatred, sadness, mourning, exhilaration, etc — could cause disordered heartbeat, excessive endocrine, severe damage to the cardiovascular circulation, brain damage, and heart failure.
  
  
• Try getting used to soothe your nerves and anger, with more self-review, and less ego. Social matters and human relations, can often make you feel unfortunate — coerces, abuses, unfair treatments, unmet expectations, inability to fight back, disappointments — all of which enrages you, because most people are too eager to put their abilities on display, over-estimate themselves, have too much self-esteem, and rarely self-evaluate objectively. Calm down, be rational, and introspect. Once in a while, it is necessary to put yourself back in your own place.
  
  

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

• Unload depression, self-abandonment, and autistic symptoms. Take care of yourself first, before you’re qualified to take care anybody else. Don’t judge your own success based on the world’s standardized and materialistic qualities, focus on upgrading the qualities that would really fulfill your life. Treat yourself like how you would treat a loved one.
  
  
• Subjective and personal feelings often is not the truth. You can always find something to keep yourself up, get over the disappointments, and avoid all kinds of chronic physical disease caused by depression.
  
  
• Get used to letting your mind relax and relieve tension. Unwinding your body and mind helps shutting off all kinds of negative stimuli that cause stress and anxiety, so that your body and mind could have a turn to rest and recover. Meditation, soothing music and dancing, Tai Chi, Yoga, are some physical and social activities that can help you relax.

Spiritual Health

• What harms your life the most, is not physical diseases, but spiritual distress, commonly known as “mental illness”.
  
  
• It is necessary to equip the positive concepts of life. Treating others with sincerity, integrity, and honesty will help keeping the mind spiritually sound. Otherwise, you’re prone to mental illness.
  
  
• Your inner nature and character is the most important source of spirituality. You must understand and acknowledge that, life comes with suffering and disappointment, as a package. Be brave, face your responsibilities, always be prepared to accept challenges, don’t run away. Your ability to endure distress and hardship, is measured by the strictness of your self-discipline and self-control spirit.
  
  
• Most people nowadays regard self-interest and egotism as their goal of life — creating enemies, confrontations, trouble, and resentments — all of which leads to an inferior ability to endure distress and hardship, as there is not a single real friend to fight alongside during adversity — resulting various mental illnesses.
  
  
• Therefore, strong distress and hardship endurance should be built on public-interest and altruism. Take good care of yourself, and make others feel the need of your ability to look after them. The saints who are commonly known in the past and present, are simply people who constantly do good deeds and guide others to be good. When your ability is recognized and proven to be helpful and beneficial to others, your heart is fulfilled, and will stay away from mentally illnesses.
  
  

When life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.