1. Live in the Present

Eat the meal in front of you, drink the water in front of you, do the things at hand, and interact with the people around you.

Don’t dwell on time: let the past pass, don’t worry about the future that hasn’t arrived. Do what you need to do in the moment, don’t overthink, and keep a calm mindset.

Remember: no disasters or misfortunes are blessings; being neither sad nor happy is the best time in life.

2. Reasonable Diet, Temperance, and Good Sleep

Have three meals a day regularly.

Breakfast: 7:00—9:00 AM

This is the time when the Stomach Meridian is most active, making it the best period for digesting and absorbing breakfast. Eat a nutritious morning meal to ensure your body’s nutritional supply.

Lunch: 11:00 AM—1:00 PM

During this time, the Heart Meridian is vigorous. Proper eating can replenish energy, but avoid overeating to prevent affecting the circulation of qi and blood.

Dinner: 5:00—7:00 PM

The Kidney Meridian is active at this hour. Dinner should be eaten early rather than late to avoid impacting sleep and metabolism.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) holds that "moderate diet and regular daily routine are the foundation of health preservation." Eating three meals regularly and in appropriate amounts conforms to the law of qi and blood circulation in the human body, ensuring a healthy spleen and stomach as well as sufficient qi and blood.

Eating on time with 70% fullness each meal can help avoid many diseases if persisted in.

Temperance

In TCM theory, "the kidney is the congenital foundation" that governs the storage of essence, and "essence" is the fundamental substance for human life activities.

Temperance can nourish the kidney and conserve essence, delay aging, enhance immunity to reduce illness, and regulate endocrine to balance hormones.

TCM believes that "kidney essence" is like the "life bank" of the human body; excessive overdraw will lead to health loss.

Good Sleep

Go to bed before 11:00 PM every night and avoid electronic devices half an hour before bedtime to prevent affecting sleep quality. Sleep for 7 hours—sleep is a great tonic, so everyone must attach importance to it.

3. Insensitivity + Shielding Ability: The Secret to Health

Don’t peek at how others live or guess what others think. Instead, think what you want and live the life you desire.

Devote time and energy to yourself, hold onto your original aspiration amid various temptations and others’ opinions, and move forward steadily.

If you fear others’ judgments, they will control you. Only when you don’t seek affirmation from others can you be yourself.

Cultivate the mindset: no one cares about me, I don’t need to be perfect, and any problem can be solved.

Learning to view yourself from an outsider’s perspective is the top mental method and the highest realm of health preservation.

4. Emotional Stability

TCM states: excessive joy harms the heart, anger harms the liver, overthinking harms the spleen, sorrow harms the lungs, and fear harms the kidneys. Therefore, maintaining emotional stability is crucial for health preservation—unstable emotions make any tonic ineffective.

Stay mentally stable, allow anything to happen, focus on yourself, and respect all ways of living.

Never complain. Instead of thinking "why did this happen to me," ask "what did this teach me?" Looking at the world from a different angle, you will find everything is the best arrangement.

5. Nourish the Mind

The secret to nourishing the mind is to pay attention to your own heart and observe yourself at all times. When you observe yourself, your mind calms down; a calm mind enhances your aura and energy.

Learn to let go, see things from a broader perspective, and avoid entanglement to live better.

6. Step by Step

If you exert all your strength and spend all your time and energy at the beginning of something, you will get increasingly tired over time, losing passion and motivation.

As the Tao Te Ching says: "A violent wind does not last a whole morning; a sudden downpour does not last a whole day. If heaven and earth cannot sustain such intensity, how can humans?" Therefore, no matter what you do, take it slow—step by step is the way to go, and it is also beneficial to physical health and emotional stability.

7. Sunbathe

Sunbathing is a luxury for office workers, but don’t miss it if you have time on weekends. Sunbathe your back but not your head, so be sure to wear a hat. Sunbathe for half an hour in the morning and evening respectively.

If you really don’t have time, take a walk outdoors after dinner and look up at the sky—it’s also good.

Of course, sunbathing is a daily routine for rural friends, but it must be done scientifically to be healthier.

8. Continuous Progress, Avoid Mental Internal Friction

Don’t care too much about trivial things around you or others’ development, and don’t burden yourself. However, don’t forget to make progress—progress leads to more wealth, and the most important thing in life is to make yourself more valuable.

Mental internal friction is the most harmful. When encountering bad people or things, solve them immediately if possible; if not, leave. Never confront them—confrontation intensifies internal friction, and you will be the one hurt in the end.

Think about my friend—was all that internal friction necessary?

9. Control the Desire to Express

TCM believes: speaking less nourishes qi, seeing less nourishes spirit, and desiring less nourishes essence.

Try to speak less so that the energy in your body can circulate better. Smooth energy flow reduces diseases naturally.

10. Minimalism (Cutting Ties, Abandoning, Separating)

Cut off relationships that should be ended, throw away things that should be discarded. Less entanglement brings mental relaxation; fewer things make the environment brighter, and a brighter environment naturally improves your mood.

TCM health preservation is not a complex theory but wisdom integrated into daily life—everyone can do it with a little attention. When you do it, your spirit will improve, and better spirit leads to fewer diseases.