My HEALTHY LIFE
Ha ha ha , I know it is utterly misleading. 00 Because I don’t have a notion of Healthy Life.
I am just living as I am. —– and just happen to be healthy ( apparently 🙂 )
If I have to analyze any peculiar practice which might be related to my health is ——
I’m keeping my hands, nose and throat as clean as possible —– or just wash them very often.
To keep the hands clean was especially essential to handle photographic films.
But to keep the nose clean was taught by a teacher in my junior school. Which was to take water in
the hands and suck it in the nose, then blow it out three times ! —– All the pupils in the class were
horrified, saying it’s too dirty though I convinced at once —– it’s a good idea and very rational, why not. 🙂
So that, when ever I came back to my place, like take off shoes, to wash hand, nose and gurgle are
the automatic routine. Though, it might be related to a sublimated Japanese Shinto Custom — keep clean.
And there is no such thinking which relate this practice to health matter exists.— Just doing it.
It is not possible to have objective comparative test of IF-NOT. We got only one life and I couldn’t
replicate my same life, but only having NOT washed hands, and see what would happen.
Simple fact is I rarely get ill, nor catching Cold, Flu. Still, I don’t know whether washing hands are anything
to do with my health. —– very funny you may think though, I rarely use soap ! —– same as, I don’t
use washing-up liquid. I have one in the bath-room and another in the kitchen though they last—-may be
six months or more ? My view of the soap is —– mankind is using soap not more than one or two hundred
years. Removing our own natural oil, then applying pig-oil with artificial fragrance, is not a good
idea and the waste of the money. —– If I were ever smelly soapless person, still it’s not a problem at all,
since I wouldn’t come closer to others less than an arm’s length 😀
So is a shampoo, I just shower the hair removing a salt in the sweat and use a shampoo less than once in
a month. The shampoo is notoriously bad to the head, the reason why I still have full head of hair, in more
than three feet long pony-tale might be because of not using shampoo. (So, one bottle of it last years 😀 )
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I eat anything though, the amount has been reduced in comparison to when I was young.
( I still have the same body weight 60 Kg / 9.5 stone,since when I was 15 years old ! —– When I was
physically very active, such as climbing the mountain , eat twice amount was no wonder though, sitting on
front of key-board blogging or making electronic circuit needs to eat less —– and I never eat chips)
For my cooking, generally I use one carrot, one onion, a grab of green or green pepper etc and 150g~ 200g
of protein, meat, chicken, fish or egg etc everything from fresh ingredients, except fish-tin (tinned fish has
no artificial preservatives) and smoked fish or bacon (to make bacon soup ) tofu or fried tofu are the rare
processed food. And cooking them in many different way (by the way, I don’t buy cooking oil —– oil comes
from ingredients such as chicken naturally) and eat them with rice, pasta, noodle etc.
So, I’m eating more or less the same food every day with my own cooking —– in past 25 years ?
Buying fresh ingredients is the cheapest, but I buy a lots of not cheap fruits as well.
And cooking from the fresh ingredient may take a bit longer cooking time still, my electricity bill
for a quarter is only £40~£50 (I don’t have gas —- I knew it become expensive ) 1/3 of other people.
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This is literally, humble life —– or some said almost a life in poverty 😀
And I don’t take any drag, never do gamble, stopped to drink alcohol , never eat junk-food nor buy
fizzy drink but drink 1.5 ~ 2 litter of the tea —– hence there may not be any cause to get ill.
( Arh, no chocolate ! 😀 )
In addition, I gave-up woman 25 years ago. So, no psychological up and down. —– Peace ! ! !
On top of this life style, I used to have very vigorous exercise (which looks like dancing 😀 )
once in every week, and these days I’m still doing it, may be once twice a month.
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It is hard to define a reason why I live without getting ill — was it thanks to my food life, exercise regime?
But, one thing I can definitely sure is, not to ever think or worrying about it.
If there is no crime, there is no criminal law or such concept at all. Once if somebody start to think about it
then the notion of such activity teaches the possibility or another menu to the mind. Shall I try ?
In a same way, a notion of illness trigger the imaginal symptoms and it become noticeable.
(Noticing ? Feeling ? —– isn’t it just in the Mind ? )
Even an intellectual medical information, once it caught your attention, it remains in your mind. And as
often you think it, it become your long-term memory and the memory / mind deepen and goes into your
subconscious —– as subconscious is in the old cortex in the brain, with its close proximity, it start to give
an influence to hippocampus / limbic system of the brain, where the physiological control of the body
is taking place —–> hence stress and imbalance of the hormones —–> real illness !
Mind makes people becoming ill. —– It is a vicious circle and the domino-effects.
Here the Paradox of the Buddhism again, as long as the one is bothering with the notion of Health
or Illness, no healthy life ever come. Here require the teaching of Mishin again.
So, better start Healthy Life when you are healthy and having full of vigor, and make it routine.
To keep the same healthy routine is far easier than to change a bad habit or regime.
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