My Tips to Healthy Life (4)

When talking on mind purification, quite regularly people is thinking on religious stuffs. Well, my opinion is it depends on how would you think about it. The method I am going to share here, although it is originated from Buddhism, but I would think it will be very useful to others as well, at least, in the whole practices we are going through afterwards, could not find single element from Buddhism.
From the previous posts I shared, all are discussed in how to mantain the physical, hwever, it is very improtant as well in how's perceptions towards yourself, in fact, we can't neglect with our self existing, no matter which religion and ideology you are belonging to .
The method that I am going to introduce is "Vipasanna", is a type of meditation to practice on how to hold down yourself and controlling your concentration.

Here are the sequence you will have to follow:-

1. Make sure that before you practicing the "Vipasanna", you are in "Tidied" conditions. The intention here the practitioner has to be relax. So, "Tidied" is one of the keyword, you could have a shower first, then with a casual wear. "Casual" is also another keyword. "Tidied" and "Casual" could let you to adapt more easily.

2. FInd a "Cleaned" place and is "Well Ventilated". Once again, venue is very important and "Cleaned" and "Well Ventilated" are the keywords selecting your location.

3. Find a small pillow and mattress.

4. Seat under the small pillow on the mattress. Make sure that you are in up-right position, you can fold up your both legs together. There has no strict rules how to fold. It depends on the practitioner's will, as is comfortable then is well enough. You may leave your boths hands just on your legs, no fixed position on this as well.

5. Once you are ready, It is recommended you should close up the eyes to avoid from any distractions.

6. You can now starting to counting your breathe, "In and Out" as one time. Do not force yourself to "breathe"! Breathe naturally. Take breathe "In and Out" 8 times as a cycle. Once reached a full cycle, please keep repeating the cycles as well. There are no restrictions on how many cycles you should go for. It is depending on how your willingness it is.

7. Sometimes you will find there are some outcomes in your praticing. The common one are such as your body part is painful or itching and your mind is being pushed to somewhere else. Please just let it be and try not force to restrain.

Notes: There 6 stages to reach the fine concentration. And "8 Times Counting Breathing In & Out" is the first stage. The followings are the stages by sequence:-
- Observe the breathing point, in & out.
- Knowing you are only in breathing.
- Observe the breathing length.
- Observe your breathing speed.
- Observe the breathing is empty and none-self.

The next topic we are going to discuss, "Others on Healthy Life".

My Tips to Healthy Life (3)

For the health maintenance wise, here are my receipe towards to it:-

1. Take supplements - this is very important as if vitamins and minerals we absorb everyday might be either insufficient or imbalance. For my case, I am taking the fibres, compactual vitamins and minerals and some herbals e.g. plant roots and tea.
2. Massage - ya...indeed. For me I would say that massage is part of the health maintenance. It delicates your cramp muscles and relieves stress, especially for us practicing the modern life. My suggestion is at least relieve yourself once a month.
3. Aculpuncture - well...aculpuncutre? It sounds weird, right? But, no jokes and I meant it. I am now participating the aculpuncture section one month once. In that section, the sensei uses 2 'nodes' and pinches on your body's 'terminals'. The 'nodes' applied 'electricity' on 'terminals'. The purpose is very clear, the 'electricity' is passing through your nerves and it prevents from obstructions. After aculpuncture, you are required to enter a small room (yeah, very small), with the heat regulated, you will feel you are like in the sauna. But according to sensei, it is a way to detoxify yourself. The entire process from aculpuncture to sauna detoxification is almost 45 minutes. You will feel very tired but relief.

Well, another thing that I would like to try for is to see Chinese traditional midication. Opp...not because of illness or deseases, in fact, they do offer the health maintenance as well. According to my friend, the sensei will observe your health condition by possing your hand and listen to the heart beat, by looking on your face, eyes, tongues and asking some questions. This probes your health status.

OK...next post we are going to talk about the mind purification.

My Tips to Healthy Life (2)

In second part, I would want to talk about how is my present practices in foods taking.
All along the while, I hold a princile with a phrase, "Neutritious foods in the morning, Good foods in the lunch and very simple in dinner."

The followings are my meals contents throughout the whole day:-

1. Breakfast
The breakfast is the most important one among others. Try to take the natural foods as at it is. My present breakfast contents in norm cases,
- Oats mixed with chochalate powder, the uantity is approximately 1/2 to 2/3 of a bowl.
- A glass of fresh milk (or sometimes is orange juice).
- Four slices of rough wheats contained breads, you may apply with the jams, like myslef for instant, kayang.
- Prunes (3 to 6 pieces).

2. Lunch
I am not restricted to the meal contents unless with the below conditions:-
- No prawns and craps (I am allergy...).
- Try to avoid from fast food (I am sorry...KFC and Mc-D).
- Less rice.
- Less grill.
- Others...balance your inputs.

3. Dinner
In dinner time, it depends how much I have taken at lunch. For me, how much you took is a habit. However, I practice in the way, at night take simple and much little as possible. A strong reason supporting on my view is, we are not much consuming energy at night rather than the day time, so what for we should take heavy at night?

4. To be remembered...
The below tips are also my
- Take water as much as you can see your urine turns to clear, mean that is OK.
- Say "NO" to carborinated can drinks as much as possible.
- Coffee...For my case, I am OK with coffee but it should be a cup in the morning (occasionally) but banned in the afternoon.
- Fruits...you can take the fruits in the morning, lunch or even dinner, afterall it is OK. For me, I prefer green apples, bananas (not the small one), mangoes and watermelons.


Next Upcoming...We are looking into the health maintenance

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My tips on healthy life:-

1. Practice yourself to have great stamina and maintain fit body shape with daily routine exercise as follows:-

a. Strecthing up with approximately 10 minutes.

b. Continually repeating with 3 sessions...

b1. Pumping - Each session 30 times of up & down at least. This is build up your muscles among the whilts, back and chest.

b2. Squatting - Each session 10 times of up & down. This is build up your legs' muscles.

b3. Heavy Weight - Using rings to build up your muscles. Each session 15 times of left & right hands, front & back posing. Under this, with the assistance of rings, twisting your waist 50 times at least as well, help burning the stubborn fats accumulated within the abdomen.

b4. Jumping - Each session 100 times at least. To imprve your heart beating performance.

c. Seat up - Laying down yourself on a flat land, preferbly on a piece of mattress. Perform the seat-up at least 50 times at first. Finished then continue by bending yourself forward, lift-bending your both legs to burn abdomen's fats (approximately 50 times). The last process is laying down again, this time make sure you body is in flat position, then lifting up your legs in gradual speed in up right position, 10 times recommended.

d. Using the weights as instructed in b3.

Upcoming Next: Second part...how to take the foods