Quotation from my text
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html (which is a not-yet-ready translation of my Finnish language text
http://opisuomalaisuus.blogspot.fi/2014/03/terveet-elamantavat.html ).
"Healthy natural ages old ways of living (40 advices, some 120 yet untranslated)
Healthy natural ages old ways of living on all areas of life
Healthy mind and spirit
I try to translate from my long Finnish language text. If the style
sounds strange, that is a translatiob problem. Please catch the main
ideas and never mind the style.
1. Healthy natural ways of living are not a rigid rule or alike for
everyone. Instead they are a group of things that are good to have in
life and from which there usually is lots of good things coming if you
catch the idea in them.
Feeling bad, dark thoughts, depressed, being ill, agitation, lack of
energy, etc often are results of a lack of healthy ways of living. But
how much you should do each thing in the healthy natural ages old ways
of living, in that you need to try some amount and listen to what brings
pleasantness and energy.
The healthy ways of living are a loose group of things and may depend on the climate.
2. The basic things in healthy way sof living are healthy food (eat many
kinds of things like feels good) in which there is (according to the
food circle advice taught in school) vegetablöes, fruits and fish year
around. And pleasant varying sports, spending time outdoors and admiring
the nature and a touch with the weather and going out just in daylight
time.
3. In thinking it is healthy to be practical, use common sense with a
landscape like picture of the whole, using one's full understanding,
talking about views, independency, learning new things, copying from the
wise ones for example from the gurus in the subject or from wise women.
4. In human relationships it is healthy to avoid being stuck to small
circles, to avoid being too centered in human relationships, to avoid
living on others' expence or too much on their help, healthy to love the
nature, being active and following the rule "Live and let others live!"
and independency and responsibility that it brings.
Human relationships should be seen as parts of the society and not as
some "my thing", in other words moral and landscape like view and the
rule "Live and let others live!".
Times change and people get wiser and so Hitler's level of unwise social
tactics does not convince others than small children. An adult
understands the selfish grounds for moral and can talk others to rhe
moral side too.
5. Ideals are needed in life, from one's own dreams to all kinds of wise
things with which to get the world to a good state. Ideals can cure the
spirit when things seem to fall to a cynical state. Talking about how
valuable ideals are and praying can help to make ideals a common tune in
the society.
6. There is a Finnish saying: "The morning is wiser than the evening."
In the evening are the things that one does like from a rigid form and
one fails often or does cumbersomely. In the evening it is not good to
start anything that demands a wise view of things and insight. In the
morning one has the fracturelessness of one who has just woken up, and
one needs to take care to not to disturb that fracturelessness because
it is a wiser view to life and it's skills. What was in the evening
broken to stuck work like pieces, is one unified fractureless piece in
the morning when one with sleepily clumsy movements sits to breakfast
table and leaves for work or school. The morning view is wise, it
reaches more essential and more profound things than day, and much more
than evening - more far reaching too, in the morning it is good to make
plans in clumsy slow ways. In the morning one shoudl not copy anything
that is evening type.
Like this one gets wiser when one is quite active in the morning in
breakfast table and in the bus, so that one's sleepy fracturelessness is
not left separate from life like it does if one wakes up lazying long
to the morning.
This morning clumsiness's wisdom does not mean stiffness but instead a
landscape like view that uses intuition about wise ways together with
clumsy fracturelessness.
7. People need many kinds of thinsg to do and somethings something for
the sake of variation and new stimuli, changing vrom old circles to new
ones, at least once a week to some new place for a walk or to some
happening ro to meet new people.
8. A music hobby brings a pleasant mood and teaches wisdom of life.
http://happinesstipsblog.blogspot.fi/2013/11/some-observations-about-who-is-happy.html
9. Following feelings while respecting the rule "Live and let others
live!" Feelings need a picture of the whole and healthy mind and spirit.
Following feelings does not mean trying to reach too high social
position, or the copying or others too diligently or reaching for
negative feelings. Instead it means doing things according to positive
likings.
10. Doing practical things brings healthy spirit and is an important
part of healthy ways of living. It is a part of natural life according
to our ages old nature, much like good quality in poems shows or John
Steinbeck's books.
11. Doing things healthily amount yourself, that you are not dependent
on others, independency of individuals, self-sufficiency and
understanding one's self.
12. In the climate of Finland pleasantness and happiness demands a much
more sporty way of doing, way of living, rythm and way of moving than in
for example Central Europe.
13. The atmoshphere of tree branches, especially of pine when sun
shines, is a good model of healthy ways of doing and living: senses
open, sporty, feeling, active and friendlily social.
14. Don't be stiff and easily agitated. Be instead lively and ralexed.
15. Thinking is a helper for the feelings, like common sense helps one
to achieve one's own felt goals, but in additon one's picture of the
world brings along things that are usually considered good like summer
holiday, avoiding catastrophes, democracy etc.
16. Being food centered is not a good thing. It takes your energy away
and makes you agitated as long as you think of food or eating. It is the
same thing as while eating: eating demands concentration which is away
from the rest of your life. Forcelessness is a consequence of blood
going to the stomach when you eat and just after a meal, and so it is
away from giving enrgy to other action. So after a meal you need to take
slowly for some time, after one plate maybe half an hour, dependiung on
the size of the meal, and only after that continue your other things to
do, especially sporty things and physical work. But if you do not think
of food, other things to do bring energy and good feeling, but that
presuppoises drowning on what you do without any thoughts about food
related things. Drowning to interesting things to do brings a good mood
after five minutes or a quarter of an hour, sometimes earlier, and it
work as energy like sunshine, nature, refreshing plkeasant sports,
variation, food, etc That is why you should eat when you need to, so
that hunger goes away, the kind of food you feel a temptation for, and
leave the food thoughts after you have eaten and start doing other nice
things.
17. There aren't just four seasons, instead the seasons changes all the
time. A good lenght of thinking about the present season is the lenght
of two weeks, for example the beginning and end half of a month, with
it's weather, light, possibilities for free time hobbies, vacationor the
nearness of vacation, the amount of summer still left, of vacation, of
time before some notable time. In addition the weather changes all the
time, typically in sequences of a few days with similar weather and
single days of different weather. What should I do during these two or
three nearest days to enjoy this season to the fullest and to get energy
for future challenges? What is a good way to be active on this weather?
It is nice sometimes wander in the rain too and to enjoy the weather,
and often one wants to grasp every sunny moment to spend time outdoors
and in the nature.
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
18. Motion should be sporty and varying, pleasant, bringing boldness and a good feeling.
"Here is a piece of advice that I have made about increasing the sports talents of all in a way that makes one happier:
"Do not make plans about how to move but decide each second and each
fraction of a second anew what right now feels like the best idea about
where to move, how to move, in which style, in which attitude, in which
mood, with how much eager interest and quickness resulting from that or
relaxed awareness or emotionally motivated force,... So you change all
the time, your plans change and you learn to pick each fraction of a
second just the things that you like best right then to be your
goalsetting right then in practice in your movements. So you feel happy
and fulfilled. Be wary of boredom and habits."
After maybe a dozen different types of tries bringing experience of
this, this piece of advice about moving generalizes to wisodm of life on
other areas of life and helps you to continually reach your best or
almost. So you don't get stuck at the starting conditions you happen to
have but reach your dreams in your daily life."
Try according to this advice first at least a half a minute or some
minutes when you feel that you want to get motion, and later more, so
you get a superb healthy kind of hobby and grow in many skills getting
more fascination to your life.
19. According to my experience of life it is good to take some room for
yourself: when you need to, instead of being squeezed undert the demands
of others, sit or stand your feet somewhat apart steadily defend your
life, and sometimes also aggressively defend yourself without squeezing
others. (Just sometimes only, to avoid being squeezed, honestly and not
as a habitual role.) Often unneeded agitation is born of being squeezed
and so room for oneself brings healthy emotionality to be a part of your
daily life.
20. About a healthy attitude toward food:
*Usually those who eat today like felt good yesterday and not like feels
good today, get fatter without any real reason (or maybe some are left
too thin). According to my experience the next day in what comes to the
need of food is somewhat like a half an hour after a meal: if you ate a
lot yesterday, you don't need as much food as usual today if you don't
have some extra burden like work, and if you ate only a little
yesterday, you need more food than usually today.
* The right way to think of food isn't by thoughts but instead
spontaneous but with common sense so that if you need a meal and long
for something sugary, you would eat the meal first and so avoid eating
too much sugar.
* Being food centered takes away your energy. It is important that from
thinking of food and from melting food in the stomach there is time and
motivation left for other kinds of things to do which in turn brings
endurancy and joy of life. That is why it is important that you do not
try to avoid eating when you are hungry and that you don't eat too
heavily if you don't need so much energy right now.
* A good time scale to think of your need to go to eat something is
maybe a half an hour + right now and a few hours needed energy for.
* Easiest are food questions for those who have a leisurely active way
of life and a couple of kilos overweight which means a little bit of
stomach but not at all more.
* I ate always right when I thought of food like putting fuel to the
tank of a car. I somewhat tasted that food was good but did not stay in
the table to feel the atmosphere of a meal. I was not left hingry but I
did not eat too heavily, and so I was left with a good mood for other
kinds of things to do. I was not overly fond of food but I listened
spontaneously my wishes and my need of food each moment.
21. The need of hard realism, making others fight, making them eat and
putting them on a diet should each one do to one's self only and not to
others, because they are questions of feelings and questions of
individual needs and do not apply to anybody else than you yourself.
Besides you notice from you yourself things clearer and more detailedly,
more sensitively than from things that happen to others. If your make
others objects of your own needs, you are brutally deaf to what would be
the right amount of each thing for them. In addition you fill a need
only if you fiull the need on the person who has that need and that
means on yourself. The need of tough realism is usually filled by your
own honesty and nothging else.
22. As a young adult I had a nice way of living that others copied from.
It was roughly like liberated movements and a nice sports hobby,
healthy ways of living and forest trips, "Live and let others live",
taking room for oneself in healthy ways according to that rule and
leaving room for others and Finnish kind of good will that is born from
it, that means independency, freedom and good will, global
responsibility, taking care of one's work and getting energy for it from
one's favourite hobbies that one enthusiastically practises, variation
and open-mindedness and moral.
23. By staying indoors, wearing too thick clothes and drinking lots of
hot you can also winter time lift your body temperature as hot as you
wish, but too warm body brings a foggy clumsy feeling and fever. You
feel much better if your body is somewhat cooler and you youurself much
more active ina sporty way - so that your body creates heat in a
natural way and your attention is in doing, looking etc, and not in heat
production and movements are brisky.
Lämmittelyohjeita yms
http://opisuomalaisuus.blogspot.fi/2015/01/viileaan-sopeutuminen.html
24. You cannot be happy while living half a life thinking that others will live your life for you, instead you need
to live a full life as a full person
to be happy. Women too need something sporty, active and straight
tasting like life in their lives, and men too need something feeling,
caring for others and respecting ideals in practise.
How much of each element of a healthy kind of life each individual
needs, needs to be chosen by the individual according to what feels good
and brings a good life when watched at life as a whole. One should
not exåect one's spouce to be specialized to your dreams and values,
instead you should yourself fill your dreams and not pour them upon your
spouce or kids.
25.
Look at a growing tree while thinking of life and the of the
world and trust in the emotional wisdom you at those occasions find
inside yourself. Look at a atree also when you think of social
relationships and trust in those solutions that appear easy and have a
sense of atmoshpheres, that you find when looking at a tree.
26.See this blogs's point "Live and let others live!"
http://yksinaisille.blogspot.fi/2012/03/build-perfect-relationship.html
27. One likes one kind of life and another of another kind of life, even
needs are different. The healthy natural ways of living aren't the same
to all but instead vary from person to person like "Do something that
you like.", which you can choose yourself (in a morally ok way).
28.
Care the world to a good state - often for example by being
responsible in the things that you affect. Many things are such that
when they are lacking there comes problems, and if there are too much of
them comes another kind of problems, but roughly the right amount
brings a good result. If something bothers you, it usually feels that
things were healthier if that too had been taken care of. So what is
healthy means many kinds of things some easy and some demand for examle a
better social picture of the world and a picture of the whole with
moral too. Usually healthy state means among other things that questions
of money are taken care of and moral roughly and healthy mind and
spirit.
http://happinesstipsblog.blogspot.fi/2013/11/some-observations-about-who-is-happy.html
29. In close relationships if you try to do everything together you
typically get frustrated or agitated at how different the other person
is, to the problems and unpleasant things those differencies bring.
People have different needs and so they tune the amount of each element
and the level of skill to different amount needing something hugely and
something not at all, and so either one feels lousy if they do things
too closely together. But if they do some part of things done together
but each one with one's own style, rythm and energy, along one's own
motivation, and the rest of things individually on one's own, then both
feel well and human relationships work.
30. A forced rythm isn't good since it leaves away in a hurry wisdom of
life and using multiple perspectives, ways of doing and motivation
factors, which narrows possible benefits to the officially reached for.
On the other hand if one has lots of time and nothing to do, it
proiduces a forceless way of doing, one kind of loses touch with the
side of the world which is full of action. That is why it would be good
to have things to do both in a hurry and in one's own rythm, so as to
have both usefulness and taste of life, and time to enjoy and do in wise
ways. Also free time is nicer if one does not use it all lazying.
31. Usually it cleans the atmosphere if one at least in some way is
capable of defending oenself, for example sporty, sturdy and with quick
enough reactions to slam the door closed before criminals. Also social
skills and a good mood help in self-defence. Martial arts aren't
fighting but they are sports: it is good for one's ability to defend
oneself if one has at least sometimes thought of what to do if someone
hits or kicks you: step away from it's way a step or two of course,
depending on the leght and direction of the kick, so it is a question of
sports and not of fighting.
If one does not have any self-defence ability, one easily starts to
demand from others respecting tough rationality, even if the lack if´s
great just on oneself and not on others, and keeps as unofficial
forefigures evil people as if they understood the world, even though
evil people are typically short sighted in their social eye and their
tendency to fight is a consequence of them being continually in trouble
and not of it being really needed in the world. What is needed, is
self-defence ability, and a good mood. Social tangles get solved by
loving the nature and a habit of looking at landscapes which prevents
collisions.
For the same reason a country needs it's military service: to safeguard defence ability and to prevent being a victim.
32. Healthy ways of living should not be a rigid rule forced upon, which
makes healthy ways of living difficult and not at all nice to follow.
Instead they should be a some kind of guide to better life. Instead of
keeping them as a rigid rule, one should have as an advice that live
like brings a good life to you and is morally ok, good in the world.
33. The advice "If you are hungry, eat so that you no longer are
hungry." is more important than recommendations about how much energy to
have in your food. On the other hand it is good to remember that one
should not make it a habit what once was a spontaneous reaction, but
instead eat according to how much and what kind of moment you at each
occasiuon need. One should also do so much all kinds of nice things with
healthy spirit that one does not eat because of longing for positive
content to life or nice things to do.
IMPORTANT
34. If you
do like feels good for you and correct somewhat toward
healthy spirit and healthy ways of living according to what feels a nice
feeling with a healthy psirit,that often is easier and more
naturally motivated tahn to try rigidly toward the healthy ways of
living. You can take the next step as more skilled and understanding
better the usefulness and ideas in healthy natural ways of living.
Be spontaneous and moral.
35. About getting things done and getting rid of too much laziness
When I have somethingthat I want to do, I should not think about it when
I am about to start doing it, not think in general theory perspective
but instead via
it's personal meaningfullness ti me: what is it's
place in my actions and in my emotional motivations. So for example my
ukulele isn't in connection with my paradise theory an instrument of the
paradise islands but a nice little instrument with a nice beautiful
sound with which I would like t learn to play. And motion isn't needed
as a part of healthy natural ways of living but
my own spontaneous wish and a thing that makes my days better.
36. From Runeberg's day yesterday 5. February came t my mind that from
Runeberg's poems one gets a view on how to live wisely the February:
outdoors sportily in freezing temperatures enjoying the wintery beauty
and toch of life in nature and people's buzz, come then indoors to get
warm, invite friends and aquiantages for a visit, discuss also highly
inspiring civiliced things and collect and admire the jewels of
different areas of life and of wisdom of life to lighten up the time one
is forced to be indoors and for the warmth of feelings and the space
for life and for the better functioning of human relationships.
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
37. Motion should not be your own body exercise at home or the like
because such easily becomes trying to achieve good looks or acting a
convincing style, which brings a bad feeling because it is an
artificiality that comes too near to one's self, one's identity. Instead
one should move naturally in a group in sight of people, move in
natural personal ways.
Moving should have an emotional motivation that is a momentary
temptation which immediately leads to movement accordingly, and on teh
next second a new temptation motivating and guiding movement, so not a
thought. "I will quickly run there!" and starting to movement is one
example of an emotionally motivated movement.
Motion should be fun and that's why different people fit to different
sports according to their personality and picking from the district's
possibilities for psorts hobby, but not for good looks or reputation
like dance - if dance then for fun and not as pretending. Pretending
brings worst feeling if it demands detailedly how you should be. So
better dance freely jenkka or chacha tahn pretend forms and style.
38. There aren't much content to life left if one only sits reading and
drinks tea, because with lots of tea in yoru stomach you don't feel well
when moving and being active. Drinking tea also makes you cooler, since
you get a habit of staying unmoving at one place in cool, wehn your
whole body with the tea in stomach cools, so you get cooler than without
tea since otherwise you would have moved, fetched a blanket around you,
gone outdoors etc.
If you copy skills from others you do not learn to build them yourself.
Instead of copying almost acting from very much wiser with wisdom of
life, you should drown to the basic level of doing. One can get ideas
from forefigures but one should not hang on them even mentally or in
questions of skill.
Engineer like has dropped away other kinds of observations and is so
more stupid than person with common sense, and isn't with wisdom of
life. One who studies too much concentrates also only on taught things
and does not learn personal skills via experience of life in it's
richness. One who does only one thing in school like way is left poor in
spirit, without a wider understanding and richness of life that comes
via experience of life, to which ground new skills, inventions, content
to life, wisdom of life, energy, variation and the enrgy brought by
variation. Official achievement are just something by some scjool like
way of measuring, not the highlights of life. The highlights are
different for each, different things and different sides even in things
that sound the same. Also skills are build on a different loading that
can have something taht sounds the same, like free time but spend in
different weays, getting inspiration of different things.
IMPORTANT
39. One who has the skill of healthy ways of living thinks propably that
nothing so that it brings a bad feeling and one gets somewhat ill or
even ill compared to how one would otherwise be. Of everything a
suitable amount in a natural way according to feelings or with wisdom so
that one feels good and is healthy and takes care that life has also
lot of other things bringing content to life and energy.
40. If you have experience of life after school years, you should not
mocve rememebering school times but instead based on your adult skills,
according to feelings and not according to some rigid rule. Rigid rules
and school likedness raen'ät good for school kids either, instead one
should drown in to the action of moving listening to body sensations
being motivated with feelings.
41. If you haven't had much motion for a long time, your physical
fitness is weak. Then compare feelings and sensations brought by small
amounts of motion to the more tough experiences of your younger years,
for example a small amount of motion to 5km walk, so you can understand
better how you recover from strenous exercise, how quick and what kind
of amount of type of motion would be good in the near future. So if you
for example after being interested in exercising and having got some
motion, if you then lose your interest for a week, it is just that
motion made you tired and you recover for a week and then again you want
on a sunny weather for a walk or some other nice kind of motion. Across
time step by step physical fitness increases like in younger years.
"Don't burden yourself too heavily. Move in ways that feel good and are
according to your emotional motivation. Never do anything that makes you
feel at all nasty or brings any pain. If you are in a danger of such,
let go at once and try again later in mcuh better ways. (When you have
stopped moving, don't stay at one place but after a moment at least move
slightly your hands and your feet, so as to not to feel contradictory
in sporty mood being stuck at one place.)"
From my long text about the seasons
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
"My views on spring aren't so psecial that energy and pleasant mind compared to the season would be only of that, instead
practising sports matters a lot.
And it isn't so much a certain amount of motion as enjoying practising
sports and the endurancy it brings even if there weren't so much sports
necessarily. So not sports for good looks but instead some form of
sports that one happens to like and good looks, if you need them, come
at other times from the good mood that sports bring, energy, nicer
looks, lighter feeling activities etc. If your physical fitness is weak,
you can increase it with nice type of sports or like I told of the
spring tiuredness in connection with light, just some kind of motion
that way but freely."
" The increasing amount of light brings more stimuli, more room for being
active, likewise increasing warmth and the ground which is revealed
from under the snow is full of all kinds of things to look and to
exparience, but somewhat less before the real beginning of the summer.
Looking
too demands forces (for attentiuon, posture, liveliness, living
according to feelings and for being eager, I mean the muscles connected
to these), likewise wandering outdoors and being active after the quiet
winter months largely indoors demands forces, and so many in the spring
time feel a some kind of spring fatigue.
Instead of shifting at
one single try to spring mode,if lightness makes you tired and it is
still cold outdoors, you can sometimes at sunny moments look for a few
seconds at sunny spots, at the liveliness of light and then spend a few
moments contemplating that nice feelings, instead of trying to be so
full of energy aruptly. When you are tired, you easily doze, but in
small pieces with a good motivation the spring is noce and brings
forces, and after a week or two you are energetic the whole day and
enjoy the spring.
You can also wander outdoors in short pieces:
take a few steps along a winding path and take a look at what has been
revealed from under the snow, at the seasons of the nature and at the
tough living environment of the wild nature, at it's multitude and at
the environment in which insects and young birds will soon live. At some
other time you can wonder a few such pieces and after a few days spend a
longer time outdoors if the weather is sunny.
In the winter time
in February one more like remembers life and reads about wisdom of
life, spends time indoors doing things well suited to oneself, and so
the coming of the spring opens a new richness when there are many
possibilities, things to do, and a richness of those, it's
meaningfulness after quiet winter life more and more and with increasing
possibilities for doing things the weather lifts the life to such
heights that were just a dream in the winter time. Nature, warmth,
motion, activitets and social environment's activities outdoors in the
garden and the near environment bring life pleasant content and ready
people for enjoying the warmer weathers and look at the greenery of
summer time."
"Here a piece of advice that brings happiness, fits all and increases
sports talents:"Do not make plans about how to move but decide each
second and each
fraction of a second anew what right now feels like the best idea about
where to move, how to move, in which style, in which attitude, in which
mood, with how much eager interest and quickness resulting from that or
relaxed awareness or emotionally motivated force,... So you change all
the time, your plans change and you learn to pick each fraction of a
second just the things that you like best right then to be your
goalsetting right then in practice in your movements. So you feel happy
and fulfilled. Be wary of boredom and habits."
http://happinesstipsblog.blogspot.fi
After maybe a dozennonformal tries have brought experience, this advice
widens to other areas of life and helps you to achieve continually your
best, or almost. So you aren't stuck at your starting level determined
by environment, but instead reach your dream level in your everyday
life."
"Meditation
Sometimes when you have a moment or two extra time and you spend it
wandering and looking around, those moments feel like a richer time,
rich with experience, multiple sensations and feelings. That is like
meditation i.e. a way to happiness and skill. Those richer moments have
something to do with it being just a few moments and not some long
lasting labour. Something to do with it being like a twinding path from
one experience to another, then to next ones and so on. A way to happier
life if you can find it. "
(Source:
http://happinesstipsblog.blogspot.fi/2015/05/meditation.html )
IMPORTANT
42.
Healthy ways of living aren't a pile of obscure advices but
things
that you can learn to notice yourself. At least if you have good common
sense, are oriented toward practical life and value life according to
feelings and far-sightedness, you can from your own experience of life
observe how much is good to do each kind of thing and how it affect your
sensations and energy in the lng run, for example in a week or two. You can take into account different sides of things too.
In the capital district of Finland people seem interested in healthy natural ways of living and healthy choises.
43.
The basic level of fracturelessness is to have eaten enough,
to rest enough and to avoid forced rythm and to avoid artificialities.
In addition you need positive variation, love of the nature and a touch
with the weather, room for feelings, nice variable motioon and physical
fitness, doing things according to one's best understanding, good moral,
healthy spirit in social relationships and in the workings of the
society, respecting one's own social space, meaningful things to do,
challenges and free ways if doing things, free time, etc"
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