想法比方法更重要 |《健康之道》连载(24)--四柱八字,命理,八字命理,六爻占卜,命理百科-寅午文化

摘译自《健康之道》1984年3月25/27日

稍后，我们将透彻讨论关于自己、关于身体的扭曲观念，尤其是那些阻碍了自然活力及健康的观念。

在此之前，我不想深入讨论这些信念产生的原因，让我来讨论一下它们阻碍整体健康的几种方式。现在，做某种锻炼、去健身房或进行剧烈运动是社会的时尚。所以，似乎明摆着，普通民众一定对身体非常重视。不幸的是，大部分人都感觉身体不舒服，他们不信任身体的自发性、力量和整体的可靠性。他们被教导说，任何个人对自己的身体及其运作方式的了解，都不如医学知道得多。

人们被教导要相信X光片能照出他们身体里正在发生什么，并被告诫不要相信自己的感觉。比如，某些公益广告强调一个人可能被高血压严重威胁的“事实”，纵使他感觉身体非常健康。

由于各种非常不幸的信念混杂在一起，大众开始了高强度的锻炼计划。因为他们感觉与自己的身体脱离了，很多人怀疑体内在发生什么。一些宗教信仰认为身体是不洁的，是疾病和虚弱的继承者。人们常常过分积极地缎炼，以此来惩罚自己的身体，或强迫身体做出最好的反应，因为身体若不如此表现的话，他们就不会信任它。

在许多情况下，人们缎炼身体，只是因为他们害怕不锻炼的话会产生什么后果。比方说，他们可能为了避免心脏病而去跑步，然而他们的恐惧却恰恰可能促成所害怕的结果。

身体的健康是内在幸福的表达。健康不良也是一种表达，而且可以起到很多作用。不用说，有些人宁愿生病，也不愿改变他们的活动和环境。当然，他们也可以用生病来强迫自己做出这种改变。

我并无意暗示锻炼对健康有害。不过说实在的，你锻炼的理由比你所做的锻炼更重要，这一点也不假。那理由可以促进健康，也可以在实际上阻碍健康。

到目前为止，在这本书里，我们几乎尚未触及有关健康良好或健康不佳的诸多问题。在结束之前，我们希望给你们一个大得多的架构，在这个架构里去考虑你们自己的安康以及对任何个人都开放的许多选择。我们将讨论与长寿、健康、相当幸福的人生有关的方面，以及那些与早逝、重病及自杀有关的方面——尤其是涉及到那些年纪轻轻就自杀的人。

早些时候，我们谈到了自然万物对繁荣和幸福的那种不可思议的冲动。就好像大自然永远在试图超越自己，当然也在提高它存在的质量。个人也参与到一个不断提升生命质量的进程中，这种生命质量存在于个人经验的所有层面。实相是这样建构的，以使每一个寻求这种成就的个体并不会以牺牲他人为代价，而是以提高所有人生命质量的方式来实现。

每个人都凭借冲动努力发展他感知到的潜能——即使那些潜能一时还不明显。

以某种方式，借由存在于许多层面上的即时沟通，意识的每一个片段都能觉知到彼此。你们的思想自由地流转，全世界人的思想也在自由地流转，这是很重要的，就像你们个人的身体有良好的循环一样重要。你们对自己健康的想法，甚至比你们为促进健康而采取的措施更重要。

你对外国、盟友及敌人的想法，在你如何处理自己身体的防御中也起着至关重要的作用。害怕自己的国家会被敌人侵略的人，往往也会认为病毒或疾病是敌人，随时可能威胁到个人的生存。当然，这种态度不利于幸福感、健康感与活力感。虽然医疗技术确实有许多严重的缺陷，但也的确有许多人对医疗行业相信到如此地步，以至于如果没有它，他们几乎不可能健康地生存下去。

在本书的后面，我们还将讨论如何利用你自己对医疗行业的信念来加强，而非破坏你整体的健康感。

Later on we will discuss thoroughly distorted ideas about the self and the body in particular that stand in the way of natural exuberance and good health.

Without going more deeply into the reasons for such beliefs until later, let me discuss several of the ways in which they impede general well-being. Right now it is socially fashionable to take up some kind of exercise, gym work, or strenuous sport, so it seems obvious that the general populace must have a great regard for the physical body. Unfortunately, large segments of the population feel uncomfortable with their bodies, and do not trust the body's spontaneity, strength, or overall dependability. They have been taught that medical science knows more about bodies than any private individual knows about their own bodies and their ways and workings.

People have been taught to trust X-rays for a picture of what is happening within their bodies, and cautioned not to trust their own feelings. Some public-service announcements stress the "fact" that the individual can be gravely threatened by high blood pressure, for example, even though he or she feels in excellent physical health.

The populace has embarked upon this strong exercise program because of a mixture of very unfortunate beliefs. Since they feel divorced from their bodies, many people suspect what is going on inside. Some religious beliefs suggest that the body is impure, and the heir to disease and infirmity. Often people exercise over-zealously to punish their bodies, or to force the body to respond at its best, since they do not trust it to do otherwise.

In many instances people exercise quite simply because they are afraid of what will happen if they do not. They may run to avoid heart disease, for example, while their own fear can help to promote the very eventuality they fear.

The body's health is the expression of inner well-being. Poor health is an expression also, and it may serve many purposes. It goes without saying that some people become ill rather than change their activities and their environments. They may also become ill, of course, to force themselves to make such changes.

I do not mean to imply that exercise is detrimental to good health. It is true, however, that the reason that you exercise is actually more important than the exercises that you do perform. The reason can promote your good health or actually impede it.

Thus far in this book, we have barely begun to touch upon the multitudinous issues involved in good health or in its absence. Before we are finished we hope to give you a far greater framework in which to consider your own well-being and the many options that are open to any individual. We will discuss the aspects connected with a long, healthy, fairly happy lifetime, and those involved with early death, severe illnesses, and suicide — particularly with the suicides of fairly young persons.

Earlier we spoke about the incredible impulse on the part of all of nature toward exuberance and well-being. It is as if nature always tries to exceed itself, and certainly to increase the quality of its existence. The individual person is also involved in an ever-continuing process to increase the quality of life as it exists at all levels of personal experience. Reality is so constructed that each individual seeking such fulfillment does so not at the expense of others, but in such a way that the quality of life is increased for all.

Each person impulsively tries to grow into his or her sensed potentials — even when they are not immediately apparent.

In one way or another each segment of consciousness is aware of each other segment, through an instantaneous communication that exists on many levels. It is important that your ideas circulate freely, and that the ideas of the peoples of the world circulate freely, just as it is important that your individual body has good circulation. Your ideas about your own health are even more important than those steps you take to promote it.

Your ideas about foreign countries, allies and enemies, also have a vital role to play in how you handle your own bodily defenses. People who are afraid that their nation will be invaded by an enemy will often also consider viruses or diseases to be enemies, ever about to threaten their personal survival. Such attitudes will, of course, be detrimental to feelings of well-being, health, and exuberance. While it is true that medical technology has many serious defects, it is also true that many people believe in the medical profession to such a degree that it would be nearly impossible for them to survive in good health without it.

Later on in this book we will also discuss the ways in which you can use your own beliefs about the medical profession to reinforce your overall sense of health, rather than to undermine it.