Healthy life is the balance between dynamic and static

    It's been cold the past couple days as the season "severe cold" arrived yesterday. I truly felt the meaning of being "frozen", even my breath. As I suggested early that winter is a season for "storing", so we can then have good amount of energy to "born" well in the spring. Human beings are creatures with wisdom but just like many animals and plants, they are still part of the universe. The universe has a great energy pattern and that is to born in the spring, to grow in the summer, to withdrawal in the fall and to store in the winter. And this is the basic principle for health preservation. It's simple, you follow it, you live a healthy life because the universal energy is helping you. In contrast if you go against it you are going to have some hard time.

    

    Recently with these ideas in mind I had been paying more attention to people who are active. Either I will hear how do they plan to work out and exercise or, as I drove by couple fitness centers, I actually saw people working out hard and walking out of the gym to their cars in shorts or Capris. It's clear to me that after I have been learning about health preservation I want to try my best to follow the universal rule and share the knowledge with people. Therefore here I want to say again, that a good rest in winter time is way better that a good work out.

    

    The media and information have been acting as great driving force that makes many believe that a healthy life comes from exercise.  The statement is true under the condition that a person is exercising at the right time, right place and in the right way. And the universe knows that so it gives you seasons. You have at least 182.5 days out of the 365 to exercise. And the other 182.5 days are what makes your body capable to exercise. So for those who are trying to work out hard and sweat hard in this season right now, my opinion is that you are doing more damage to your body than helping it, because I'm sure if you are trying hard to work out even in this season then you won't stay at home for sure when the weather gets even better. True, that being active in good weather is you following the rule of the universe, but when do you thinking you are "recharging" yourself? 

    I understand that everyone is different, many people were born with lots energy and very active. In that case if they have already developed the habit of exercise all year round then stay that way is just fine for them. But most of us were born and grow with a normal health condition, some of us even got sick and weak for whatever reason. If you happen to be the "normal" people then you should follow the rules of universe.

   We all know how terrible we feel if we did not sleep the night before. So think about it, can you go work out at 2 am and work out again at 2 pm? If you say "no" then think again, can you work out in the winter and still work out in the summer?

    The ancient wisdom had taught us that an ideal state is always a balanced state. When things go extreme they will backfire at themselves. Same thing with health, a healthy people cannot stay either dynamic or static perpetually. Like the famous saying: when storm comes, hard trees will break but the soft grass survives. So sometime it's a better idea to be the "soft grass" than being the "hard tree".