As we age, several diseases related to the brain's impaired functions
will gradually appear, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Alzheimer's disease is easy to understand; brain cells lose the ability to record data, so the data is gone. However, the old data was well recorded, so it remains; that's why elderly people can recall old stories very well but forget what has happened already.
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As we age, several diseases related to the brain's impaired functions will gradually appear, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Alzheimer's disease is easy to understand; brain cells lose the ability to record data, so the data is gone. However, the old data was well recorded, so it remains; that's why elderly people can recall old stories very well but forget what has happened already.
Parkinson's disease is more complicated. The brain automatically sends signals to order the hand to move uncontrollably. You will have shaking hands, mental tension, and insomnia. And the harder you go to sleep, the worse your disease. When PSNS gets impaired, SNS is free to give orders.
Therefore, the value of PSNS is very high.
Action is thought to be important, but it turns out that control is. Those who work enthusiastically are dangerous if not under control.
But why does PSNS weaken when we get older? Because through your lives, you have
- Eaten and drunk various substances, some of which damage the brain gradually. Today's food and chemicals are even more dangerous.
- Enjoyed many pleasurable sensations, and chemicals secreted in the brain to create pleasure also contribute to the destruction of useful nervous regions.
- Worked and acted, physically and mentally, stressing the brain and contributing to the impairment of beneficial nervous regions.
- Had success or failure in moral cultivation. If it is failure, your bad thoughts will contribute to destroying PSNS.
- Done physical exercises, some of which accidentally damage the Yin force (life force/flow of energy), causing the hidden energy to go up to the brain to destroy PSNS.
In general, everyone has gone through the above five things.
The accumulation of unhealthy dietary substances such as meat, alcohol, drugs, tobacco smoke, salty food, sugary food, saturated fat, and hot flavors damages the brain. Therefore, we need to change our dietary habits. According to Oriental medicine, many medicinal properties support the brain, starting with the Yin force. If you want to strengthen your brain, start with the Yin force in the lower body part but not focus on the brain. This is an excellent discovery of Eastern Philosophy that modern medicine has not fully understood.
If you try to cure your shaking hands (hand tremors) by focusing on your hands, then you will fail. You must focus on the brain instead. However, the brain is not the very right place; it is the Yin force that when it gets better, the brain will recover. Modern medicine hasn't understood this thing well.
The enjoyment of pleasure is an unstoppable right of living beings, and even the Constitution of many countries protect the right to seek happiness. But you will find its consequences soon. The chemicals secreted in the brain for pleasure are also the ones that harm PSNS.
Sexual activities damage the Yin force. The writer Jinrong cleverly warned this when he wrote the martial art novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. The secret of practicing sword to the ultimate degree was to cut the practitioner's male organ so that he could no longer enjoy sexual pleasure. And the practitioner would become the best in sword fighting. Cutting the male organ is hard. Buddhism forces the monk to use their will to eliminate their sexual desire for sublime spiritual results later.
Work has two types: manual and mental. In fact, one often does both. When he does manual work for a living, the pressure to make money to support himself and his family stresses his brain, damaging his PSNS.
You have to deal with many things in your life, such as emotions, love, relationships, competition, and they cause many emotions to your brain, stressing your brain and damaging your PSNS.
Moral cultivation is related to the concepts of Good and Evil. Good thoughts help to protect PSNS, and evil thoughts harm it. However, a good mind or evil mind will be confirmed by action. Bad thoughts are somewhat evil. Bad deeds are truly evil.
Physical exercise is a large topic, critical in protecting the brain from high blood pressure. You have to choose a method that can improve your Yin force. This method must be able to put your mind, thoughts, and energy at the lowest point of the abdomen. The Yin force will be strengthened, and the brain will be healthy.
Please do the Advanced Life Force exercise, very effective in strengthening the Yin force.
When the Yin force is strengthened, PSNS is protected and thus, able to prevent ANS from commanding the heart to contract absurdly hard and as a result, we don't have high blood pressure.
Also, in daily activities or in meditation, you must always remember Buddha's word: feel the whole body; there's no point of the body without your feeling. You should always sense the lowest part of your abdomen.
Your high blood pressure or Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, hand tremors, insomnia, lethargy, or all of them will go away.
Written by:
Janna
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