Shigemei Hinohara, a best-selling Japanese medical writer, derives his vitality from caring for others, from not giving in to illness easily, from not being discouraged by his busy schedule, and from taking pleasure in the events that happen every day. The origin of his life’s wisdom and harmony is found in his heart and habits.
Since 1975, Hinohara has been advocating the movement of “protecting one’s own health”. He studied what habits were good for him, and now that he knew they were good, he developed the ability to “act without hesitation.
The small bad habits of daily life, such as eating poor quality food, consuming too much salt, smoking, drinking too much alcohol, eating too much animal fat, consuming too few leafy greens, and not getting enough exercise ……, are some of the things that Hinohara suggests that if you can change your direction early, you will not catch the so-called “adult diseases” when you grow older or grow old.
In other words, many diseases are the result of bad habits over the years.
Hinohara’s only pride in his health is his good habits. These good habits, which have been cultivated and sustained over 90 years, remain his priceless treasures to this day. These treasures include the following fifteen habits.
Habit 1 Always keep love in your heart.
One of the fundamental reasons for Hinohara’s vitality was the presence of love in his heart. He has always believed that joy or pleasure expands even more if someone shares it. A more joyful life must include more love.
Habit 2 Hold the positive thought that “everything will be better”.
Hinohara also believes that those who are willing to overcome their shortcomings or weaknesses, and who are accustomed to the positive thought that “everything will be better,” will be able to show strong perseverance and willingness to persevere at any moment in their lives.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined habit as “habit is the action of repeating oneself over and over again”. Developing positive thoughts about everything is also a new habit that must be cultivated. By trying to reorganize our lives with such a soft way of thinking, we can surely feel that every day from tomorrow will be brighter and more luminous.
Habit 3 Challenge new things.
If you develop the habit of challenging new things at a young age, the chances of discovering your own talents will increase. Then you can see the magnificent scenery of flowers blooming countless times in your life.
Hinohara says, “If you want to stay young forever, try to keep a high level of interest in something. Also, try to challenge yourself to see it. As long as you hold such a mood, it does not matter whether you are old or not, so let the courage to move forward and give it energy.
Habit #4: Exercise your concentration.
Hinohara emphasizes that if a person has focus, he or she will look very energetic, but if he or she lacks focus, nothing will go smoothly. The worst thing you can do is to become demoralized and give up on yourself,” Hinohara said.
Developing concentration requires some degree of training. In other words, you must develop the habit of concentration in your daily life.
Hinohara’s approach to developing his ability to focus is to use his time effectively, no matter how short it is, and not to waste it.
Hinohara recommends that for people who have a less regular schedule, or who have retired from work, no matter how much time they have, they should set aside about three hours in a day to spend entirely on research or their own interests. Mao Senjiang, a construction worker in Tainan, only schedules two-thirds of his work schedule every day, and spends the other one-third of his time, about three hours, reading. In the house he designed, the study must play a rather main role, so that the whole family can read at a long desk in the study.
[Early morning to late afternoon of life]
Just as Lady Lindbergh, a writer, sociologist, and the first person in American history to receive a glider’s license, said on the eve of her 50th birthday, “As I approach middle age, I want to rethink my life thereafter.
So she stayed alone on the beach for a week, and the work she wrote at that time is said to be the precursor of the book “The Rite of the Sea”. While writing, she examined her life at that time and decided on the shape of her life afterwards. After turning fifty, she officially entered the afternoon of her life. ……. Doesn’t this phrase conjure up a beautiful, stable, and uneventful sunset on the beach?
Habit 5: Learn from your role models.
What is the best way to plan your life?
Hinohara suggests that if you really don’t know how to start, it’s a good idea to look for a role model you admire first.
The Heart of Volunteerism and Volunteerism
Hinohara also suggests that you can create a personality with a warm heart of volunteerism. On the one hand, one can make full use of volunteer activities to balance one’s life while living a flexible and enjoyable life. One does not wither with the accumulation of years, but rather becomes more mature. There is still much to learn in all areas in order to progress toward maturity, and Hinohara recommends working to develop the habit of reflection.
Habit 6 Feel the mood of others.
Hinohara often travels abroad and sees that foreigners have the habit of understanding the feelings of others. To feel the moods of others, one must first be able to calm oneself down and experience them carefully. Lin Binghui, the owner of the Food and Nutrition Mountain House, is a typical example of this. With his pursuit of a simple, elegant, touching living space that triggers the richness of the soul, he created the Food Nourishing Mountain House more than ten years ago.
Being closer to nature can make one’s heart softer and sharper. In the United States, there are so-called horticultural therapists who plant flowers and plants to relieve tension in the brain waves and help restore concentration and fatigue.
Habit 7 Cherish all the people, things, and objects that you have the chance to meet.
Hinohara would also like to say to everyone that if you set up a good quality antenna and receiver, you will have a better chance of meeting good things.
Habit 8: Eat a little less than eight portions.
The way to maintain health in Hinohara is to have control over your weight. Some rely on diet control to maintain the proper weight, while others rely on regular exercise.
When he is busy, he often takes out milk and cookies at mealtime.
We all know that we only need to eat until we are eight percent full. Stopping before you eat too much or too much is less of a burden on your internal organs and has positive health benefits,” Hinohara says he is now over ninety years old and about “six points” is enough.
Fifty percent of deaths are caused by bad habits.
Habit 9 Don’t be too neurotic about your diet.
Every morning, Hinohara drinks a glass of vegetable juice with olive oil. This homemade drink can stabilize cholesterol values and easily replenish strength and energy during a busy morning. This is a habit he has continued for more than thirty years.
There are often parties or dinners, and the cuisine for such occasions is full of excessive fats and oils, and the danger of over-calorie intake is everywhere. When this happens, Hinohara always starts with salad. However, he suggests that occasionally when there is a banquet, there is no need to be overly sensitive to food, eat a little more, and then eat a little less a few days later, so that the extra one or two kilograms of weight can be lowered.
Habit 10 Walk when you can.
Also coexisting with the chaos of eating life is often the problem of insufficient exercise. However, for modern people who live a busy life every day, it is difficult to find extra time for exercise. That’s why Hinohara himself walks when he can, so he goes up and down in the hospital, runs around, and takes the stairs instead of the elevator; when he takes the MRT, he also tries to take the stairs instead of the escalator.
Habit 11 Enjoy exercise time with more people.
Find a good friend to go exercise together, is also a good habit that must be cultivated happy life.
If you can’t find people to go exercise with in real time, you will naturally meet some fellow athletes if you go exercise regularly every day.
Habit 12 positive thinking.
Health or not, depending on whether you are energetic enough, and energetic enough, it all depends on the mood.
What is the best way to make your mind more peaceful and enriched?
Hinohara suggests that even if you are faced with an exhausting job, you should not sigh and think that you are unlucky, but instead, you should cheer up and imagine the feeling of accomplishment when you finish.
And, while encouraging yourself with positive thinking, do it pragmatically and aggressively to challenge the challenge.
Habit 13: Regulate stress.
Heavy stress must be relieved and adjusted quickly.
One way to relieve stress is to not let worries accumulate one by one.
A patient once told Hinohara that he was tired of a stressful working life and wanted to retire to a warm place where he could live as he pleased.
However, after moving to the planned area and living a completely stress-free life, he lost the meaning of existence in the midst of doing nothing every day. In the end, his body collapsed and his mental condition became extremely unstable.
If you live in a sterile, stress-free environment, you will eventually become physically and mentally ill.
Habit 14: Turn around and ask yourself (the responsibility is always mine).
Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Green Bird” is a famous play. The story is about “a man who has traveled thousands of miles in search of a bird that represents happiness, only to find that it is not at the end of the earth, but at home. What the bird wants to say is that the so-called happiness exists in everyone’s heart.
Mastering your own bird
To build a bright and optimistic lifestyle, to set a vision for your life, and to keep control of your own bird at all times, you must always ask yourself.
Habit 15 Don’t blindly and irrationally adapt to habits.
Whether by keeping a diary, writing a yearbook, or after prayer or internal observation, in case you find that you have taken the wrong path up to today, just change to the right direction.
Hinohara has always emphasized that habits can make a person. However, it does not mean that people should be blindly and irrationally fixated on one thing. Sometimes, after painting a beautiful vision, you realize that your habits up to now are not compatible with such a vision. At such times, it is good to flexibly change the way you think and create another habit that fits.
Life is a process of constantly reviewing past habits.
As Shigeaki Hinohara says in his book, “The flight posture of birds cannot be changed, the way animals crawl and run cannot be adjusted, but humans can change their way of life. We can change what we do day after day, a thousand times, and form new habits.
The choice of a new habit or not depends on the human will. Humans have the freedom to choose, and through willpower and perseverance, they can shape themselves into a new person.
For you, the morning of life may be over, but the afternoon of life is still long, how are you going to walk?
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