健康健康幸福快樂的秘訣是什麼呢？
愛你所愛(DO WHAT YOU LOVE)。
Many researchers who work on the mind-body connection think what really matters is having a sense of purpose in life. Having an idea of why we are here and what is important increases our sense of control over events, rendering them less stressful…Simply doing what you love, whether it’s gardening or voluntary work, might have a similar effect on health.
身心關係的研究者都認為，最重要的是要了解自己生命的意義。知道活在當下的目的是什麼、什麼對我們是真正重要的，那麼就可以增加我們對事物的控制感，然後可以用最輕鬆的、壓力最小的方式去達成。
只要努力去追尋自己喜愛的事物，不管是園藝或擔任志工，對身心的健康都有類似正面的效果。
Another way you can boost your health is to give yourself (rather than your pills) a pep talk. Think positive and tell yourself everything’s going to be fine. Again, it sounds too good to be true, but realism can be bad for your health. Optimists recover better from medical procedures such as coronary bypass surgery, have healthier immune systems and live longer.
正向思考。
Put simply, people who have rich social lives and warm, open relationships don’t get as sick and they live longer. This is partly because people who are lonely often don’t look after themselves well, but there are direct physiological mechanisms too – related to, but not identical to, the effects of stress.
去交朋友。(一個人走得快，一群人走得遠。我們都不希望自己「走得」太快，不是嗎？)
Trials looking at the effects of mindfulness meditation suggest that it reduces physical symptoms such as pain, anxiety, depression and fatigue. There is also some evidence that meditation boosts the immune response in vaccine recipients and people with cancer, soothes skin conditions and even slows the progression of HIV.
Meditation might even slow the ageing process. Telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, get shorter every time a cell divides and so play a role in ageing. In one study, three months of meditation increased levels of an enzyme that builds up telomeres….
冥想。
冥想可以有效降低疼痛、憂鬱、疲憊。
冥想可以增加免疫力。
冥想可以延長壽命。
Most clinical trials involving hypnosis are small, but they suggest that hypnosis may help pain management, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, obesity, asthma and skin conditions such as psoriasis and warts. Hypnotising yourself seems to work just as well. In fact, Whorwell thinks self-hypnosis is the most important part.
自我催眠。
Even if the link between religion and better health is genuine, there is no need to invoke divine intervention to explain it. Some researchers think the positive emotions associated with spirituality promote beneficial physiological responses. Others attribute it to the placebo effect – trusting that some deity or other will heal you may be just as effective as belief in a drug or doctor. Like a sugar pill, God doesn’t need to be real to make you better.
擁有信仰。
根據研究，有信仰的人更健康。有人認為那是因為信仰帶來正向思考；有人認為那是安慰劑效果，我們更健康，是因為自己相信會更健康。但不管怎樣，信仰對健康幸福快樂的人生會有助益就是了。
結論：
身心要健康，要過得幸福快樂，只要愛你所愛，就可以了。
自己覺得重要的才重要，別人如果重要那是因為他們的存在使我們自己覺得重要，所以是我們所愛的一部分。
所以，健康幸福快樂的秘訣，就是愛你所愛(Do what you love)。
*：New Scientist, How to be human, 2019, New Scientist
2024/11/16 愛你所愛(Do what you love) Damakey
