That lives 1 day. Why is living in the moment a bad recommendation? We each have responsibilities

Live one day

In the spring of 1871, a young man came across a phrase in a book, only 21 words, which had a tremendous impact on his entire subsequent life.

A medical student at a Montreal hospital was preoccupied with his upcoming final exams, as well as what lies ahead for him, how to live. The 21 words he read in 1871 helped him become the famous doctor of his generation.

He founded the world famous Medical Institute. John Hopkins. He became a professor and head of the chair at Oxford, established by the English king, that is, he was awarded the greatest honor that a person practicing medicine in England can deserve. When he died, a book was published, consisting of two thick volumes, with stories about his life. His name is Sir William Osler.

Here are the 21 words he encountered in the spring of 1871, 21 words from Thomas Carmel: "Our main business is not to look at what lies in a misty haze in the distance, but to do what lies directly at hand."

Forty-two years later, on a warm spring evening, Sir W. Osler was talking to Yale students. And then he told them that people are mistaken when they think that he, a professor at four universities and an author of books, has a "brain of a special quality." He said that close friends know that he has the most ordinary abilities.

What is the secret of his success?

It is due to the fact that he tries to live within the framework of one day. What did Sir Osler mean? A few months before his speech, he crossed the Atlantic on a large ocean liner, on which the captain, standing on the bridge, could close the liner with watertight partitions at the touch of a button.

“Each of you,” said Sir Osler, “has a higher organization than this liner, and is designed for a longer voyage. I want to convince you to learn to live within one day in order to ensure greater safety of navigation. Climb onto the bridge, press the button and listen to the iron doors slam the dead yesterdays. Press another button and slam the iron curtain on the future - the yet unborn tomorrows.

Then you are safe - safe today.

Shut up the past! Let the past bury you. Fence off tomorrows, which have made the road to death easier for many. The burden of tomorrow's worries, combined with yesterday's and with the one that needs to be carried today, crushes even the strongest. Close the future as tightly as the past.

The future is today. No tomorrow. The day of salvation is today. Depression and anxiety follow a person worrying about the future. Rearrange the “stern and bow”, develop the habit of living within the framework of one day.

Did Sir Osler say that we should not try to prepare for tomorrow? Not at all. In his address, he says that the best way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate all the intellect, all the enthusiasm on doing the best today, his affairs.

During the war, our military leaders made plans for the future, but they could not afford to worry. "I provided the most the best people with the best military equipment at our disposal,” said Admiral Ernest J. King, commander of the United States Navy, “and gave them the most reasonable task. That's all I can do."

“If the ship sinks,” continued Admiral King, “I won’t be able to raise it. If it gets sunk, I won't be able to prevent it. I'd rather use my time to solve tomorrow's problems than regret what happened yesterday. Besides, if I let myself worry about such things, I won’t last long.”

In wartime and in peacetime, the difference between right and wrong way of thinking is this: the right way of thinking is based on the analysis of causes and effects, it leads to logical constructive planning; the wrong way of thinking often leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

During World War II, a young man in military uniform - somewhere in Europe - learned a useful lesson. His name was Ted Bengermino. This man brought himself to mental trauma in combat conditions.

“In April 1945,” writes Ted Bengermino, “I was so worried that I was struck by an ailment that doctors call ‘mucosal colitis. This disease caused me unbearable pain. If the war had not ended at that time, I am sure that I would have completely undermined my health.

I was completely exhausted. I served as a non-commissioned officer in the funeral squad of the 94th Infantry Division. My job was to help fill out the records of all those killed in action, missing and hospitalized. I also had to dig up the bodies of soldiers, both allies and enemies, who were killed and hastily buried in shallow graves in the midst of the battle. It was also my duty to collect the personal belongings of the dead and see to it that they were sent to their parents or next of kin, for whom they would be very dear. I was constantly haunted by the fear that we could make serious mistakes. I was worried about how I could handle it all. I was depressed by the thought of whether I would live to be able to hold my only child in my arms - my son was sixteen months old, but I had never seen him. I was so frustrated and exhausted that I lost thirty-four pounds in weight. I was on the verge of insanity. I looked at my hands. They looked like skeleton hands. I was horrified at the thought that I was destined to return home disabled. I was driven to utter despair and wept like a child. I was so shocked that every time I was alone, tears streamed down my cheeks. After the Battle of the Bulge, there was a period when I cried so often that I almost lost all hope of becoming a normal person again.

Finally I ended up in the hospital. A military doctor gave me advice that completely changed my life. After a thorough examination, he came to the conclusion that the basis of my illnesses was a mental disorder. “Ted,” he said, “I want you to look at your life like an hourglass. You know that thousands of grains of sand are at the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and regularly through the narrow lintel in the middle. If you or I cause more than one grain of sand to pass through this hole at a given time, the clock will be ruined. You, me and all other people are like this hourglass. When we get up in the morning, there are hundreds of things to do that day. And if we do not do these things one at a time in a certain period of time (like one grain of sand passes through a narrow hole), but strive to do everything at once, we will undermine our physical or mental strength.

I have been putting this philosophy into practice since that unforgettable day when a military doctor gave me the advice: "One grain of sand - per unit of time ... One thing - in a certain period of time." This advice saved me physically and mentally during the war; he also helped me now in peacetime. I work as a clerk for the Commercial Loan Company in Baltimore. In my work, I faced the same problems that arose before me during the war - I had to do a lot of things at once, but I had too little time at my disposal to cope with them. Our shares have fallen in price. We had to introduce new forms into our activities. At that time, new joint-stock companies, which opened and closed, changed addresses, etc. Instead of getting annoyed and nervous, I remembered what the doctor told me: “One grain of sand - per unit of time, one thing - in a certain period of time.” By repeating these words to myself over and over again, I performed my duties in the most rational way. While doing my job, I no longer experienced the confusion and confusion that almost crippled me in combat conditions.

One of the most horrific comments about our lifestyle is that almost half of the beds in our hospitals are occupied by patients suffering from nervous and mental disorders, patients who have been crushed by the overwhelming burden of accumulated yesterdays and daunting tomorrows. After all, the vast majority of these people could enjoy life in peace and be happy and benefit others if they followed the advice of Jesus Christ: "Do not worry about tomorrow," or the advice of William Osler: "Live in the "compartment" of today."

You and I are currently standing at the intersection of two eternities: the boundless past, which lasted forever, and the future, which is striving forward until the last moment of chronology. In all likelihood, we cannot simultaneously live in one and the other eternity - no, not even one fraction of a second. In trying to achieve this, we can undermine our physical health and mental strength. So let's be content to live in the only time we can possibly live, from the present moment to bedtime. “Everyone is capable of carrying his burden, no matter how heavy, until the night comes,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. - Any of us is able to do our job, even the most difficult one, in one day. Any of us can live with tenderness in the soul, with patience, with love for others, virtuously until sunset. And that is the true meaning of life.”

In fact, life requires only this from us. However, Mrs. E.C. Shields was driven to despair and even on the verge of suicide - before she learned to live from dawn to dusk. “In 1937 I lost my husband,” said Mrs. Shields, telling me her life story. - I was deeply saddened. I had almost no means of subsistence. I wrote a letter to my former employer Mr. Leon Roach, owner of Roach-Fowler in Kansas City, and was rehired. In the past, I made my living by selling books to rural and urban schools. Two years before, I sold my car when my husband got sick. However, I managed to scrape together enough money to buy a used car on a down payment, and I started selling books again.

I thought that by being back on the road, I would be able to overcome my depression. But to drive a car and eat alone turned out to be beyond my strength. In some places I could not earn enough. I found it difficult to pay even the car premiums, although they were small.

In the spring of 1938, I was working near Versailles, Missouri. Schools were poor, roads were bad. I was so lonely and disappointed in life that at one time I even thought about suicide. It seemed to me that it was impossible to succeed. Life has lost its meaning for me. I was afraid of everything. I was terrified that I would not be able to pay the car and room fees, that I would have nothing to eat. I was afraid of getting sick because I didn't have the money to pay the doctor. The only thing that kept me from committing suicide was the thought that my sister would be deeply distressed and that I didn't have enough money to pay for the funeral expenses.

But one day I read an article that helped me overcome my despair and gave me the courage to keep going. I will be forever grateful to the author of the article for one phrase that inspired me to struggle with difficulties. Here is the phrase: "For wise man opens every day new life“. I typed this phrase and pasted it to the windshield of my car. Thus, while driving, I saw these words every minute. It turned out that it is not so difficult to care about how to live just one day. I learned to forget about the old days and not to worry about tomorrow. Every morning I said to myself: “Today, a new life opens up before me.”

I managed to overcome the fear of loneliness and the fear of need. I am happy and generally doing well, and now I am full of enthusiasm and love for life.

Now I know that I will never experience fear, no matter what awaits me in life. I got rid of the fear of the future. Now I know that I have to think only about today, and that “for a wise person, every day a new life opens up.”

Who do you think wrote the verses below?

Between hopes, worries, between fears and worries

Think about every day you, that it shines on you last;

Joy will bring down that hour, which you will not look forward to.

These words seem modern, don't they? However, they were written thirty years before our era by the Roman poet Horace.

One of the most tragic features of human nature, as far as I know, is our tendency to delay the realization of our aspirations for the future. We all dream of some kind of magical garden full of roses, which is visible somewhere beyond the horizon - instead of enjoying those roses that grow under our window today.

Why are we such fools - such terrifying fools?

“How strangely we spend that little period of time called our life,” wrote Stephen Leacock. - The child says: "When I become a young man." But what does this mean? The young man says: "When I become an adult." And finally, as an adult, he says: “When I get married.” Finally, he marries, but that doesn't change much. He starts to think, “When can I retire?” And then when it reaches retirement age, he looks back at his life path; as if a cold wind blows in his face, and the cruel truth is revealed to him about how much he has missed in life, how everything has irretrievably gone. We realize too late that the meaning of life lies in life itself, in the rhythm of every day and hour.

The late Edward S. Evans of Detroit almost killed himself with perpetual anxiety before realizing that "the meaning of life lies in life itself, in the rhythm of every day and hour." Coming from a poor family, Edwards Evans began to earn his living by selling newspapers; he then worked as a clerk in a grocery store. Subsequently, he got a job as an assistant librarian. He had to support seven people. Although his salary was small, he was afraid to quit his job. Eight years passed before he found the courage to start over. He started a business with fifty-five borrowed dollars invested and earned twenty thousand dollars a year. Then a killing blow fell upon him. He took a bill for a large amount from his friend, and the friend suddenly went bankrupt. Another blow soon followed: the bank that held all of Evans' money went bankrupt. Not only did he lose every cent of his fortune, but he also owed sixteen thousand dollars. His nerves could not bear this shock. “I couldn’t sleep or eat,” he told me. - I fell ill with an incomprehensible disease. Anxiety, and only anxiety, has caused this disease. One day I was walking down the street and I fainted. I couldn't move anymore. I was bedridden and my body was covered with boils. Boils were not only outside, but also inside. Even lying in bed, I experienced inhuman pain. Every day I became weaker. Finally, the doctor said that I had two weeks to live. I was amazed, I made a will, and then went back to bed waiting for the end. There was no point in fighting or worrying. I calmed down, relaxed and fell asleep. For weeks I slept no more than two hours at a stretch, but now that my earthly troubles were ending, I fell into the sleep of a child. Gradually the fatigue subsided. I got an appetite. I started gaining weight.

After a few weeks I could walk on crutches. Six weeks later I started working. In the past, I made twenty thousand dollars a year, and now I was content with a job that brought me only thirty dollars a week. I started selling brake pads, which were used to fasten the wheels of cars during their transportation. Finally, I made sense of my life experience. The main thing for me is to get rid of anxiety, not to regret what happened in the past, and not to be afraid of the future. I devoted all my time, strength and energy to mastering a new profession.

Edward S. Evans began to move rapidly along career ladder. A few years later he became the president of the company. His company, Evans Product, has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange for many years. When Edward S. Evans died in 1945, he was considered one of the most progressive businessmen in the United States. If you ever fly over Greenland, you may land at Evans Field - the airport named after him.

The gist of this story is this: Edward S. Evans would never have achieved such impressive success in life if he had not realized the absurdity of anxiety in the "compartment" of today.

Five hundred years before our era, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change." He also said, "You cannot step into the same river twice." The river changes every second, the same happens with the person who has entered it. Life is a continuous change. The only certainty is today. Why spoil the beauty of today by trying to solve the problems of a future full of endless change and uncertainty, a future that no one seems to be able to foresee.

The ancient Romans had a word for it. In fact, two words: Carpe diem "Take advantage of today." Or: Seize the moment. Yes, seize the moment and try to find satisfaction in it.

John Ruskin set up a simple stone on his desk, engraved with one word: "Today." Although there is no stone on my desk, a piece of paper will be pasted to my mirror with the verses that Sir William Osler always kept on his desk. These verses were written by the famous Indian playwright Kalidasa:

Greeting the dawn

Look at this day!

After all, it contains life, the very essence of life.

In his short span

All the truths and essences of our existence lie:

The bliss of growth

The splendor of action

The greatness of achievement.

'Cause yesterday was just a dream

And tomorrow is just a blurry vision.

If today is well lived,

That yesterday seems to us a happy dream,

And every tomorrow is a vision of hope.

I urge you to live today!

This is the greeting to the dawn.

So, if you want to eliminate anxiety from your life, do what Sir Osler did: wall yourself off from the past and the future. Live the things of today.

Try asking yourself and writing down the answers to the following questions:

1. Do I often worry about the future, do I dream of a magical garden of roses somewhere far away, beyond the horizon?

2. Am I poisoning the present at times with things that happened in the past, long gone, to which there is no return?

3. Do I get up in the morning with the intent to "seize the day", to make the most of those 24 hours?

4. Is it possible to feel better by living the affairs of one day?

5. When will I start following this rule? Starting next week? Tomorrow? - 1Today? - 0

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Hi all. My name is Nastya, I still live in Kyiv and do what I do.
A year ago, I wrote a post "" and now I will almost repeat it.
Apparently, I was not a good and even an evil girl, because the universe gave a kick in the ass and
I am at home with a broken leg. I think about my behaviour. Three more weeks to think.
So, I will show you a day about me and my broken leg on February 27, 2015 in 55 photos.

The morning began with the fact that I was well done and overslept. I really wanted to write "and I ran", but
It's been a week now that I've been moving around in a very strange way. And I crawled. Time 07:07.
Of course, I didn't take it off. Who cares about morning hours?

Another thing is the constant cup of morning coffee. She's much more interesting.
There will be many photos of this angle, since me and my leg are a little limited.
While the drink is cooling, I crawl around the apartment like a jellyfish. First a bath, but I won't show it.
Then, check if Tarapunka is dressing.

Tarapunka's plans did not include a trip to the garden. But I was adamant. Almost like a rock.
Moreover, the day promised to be rich in adventure.
By the way, about the rock:

This is me enjoying life. With self-portraits, I did not work out, so there will be no more of them.
But there will be a lot of hours that I have long wanted to paint.

Meanwhile, in the city, as if someone spilled milk

Fog over the Yangtze.
The cats need food.
Cats make very sad faces when they demand food. I'm thinking about doing
a series of photo-emotions and I go (although the word "go" is not very suitable) to feed them.

and a child at the same time. The husband takes him to the garden. But there is no such joyful event in the photo.
And a photo of a joyful husband, too, no.

After eating, the child has time to dress quickly and go with the parent to the garden.
Since he dresses with fireworks, my leg and I did not really have time to shoot it.
Only an intermediate process.

I am sitting, which is logical, at home, but I will work remotely that day. Before the work day starts
I put on music.

Time 8:10, suddenly someone did not see.
To walk from the kitchen to the room, on average, I spend 25 seconds. And since I was told to walk very little,
I try to do as much as possible in one area. I have a bath on the way, so it's worth loading up the laundry.
But having taken 15 photos of the display and none with straight lines and not a littered horizon, I decided
that there is nothing interesting in the washing machine.

Therefore, fotochki earrings. Earrings are always more interesting than a display with a washing mode.

As a good housewife and responsible girl, I put dried things in the closet.
But, the cabinet will not fit into the lens, and I do not need a matchbox in order to reach the handle.
But the rest is similar.

This is what I have prepared for myself. Pay attention to the shaggy. If you beat him, he makes different screams.
There is no better toy for people with repressed aggression.

At this time, I was already connected to work. I work perfectly - lying down. Even remorse tortured me.
A leg in a tire so that no one thinks that the evil Nastya is playing the fool.

I won't show it again. In general, I try in every possible way to look for pleasant moments in a patella fracture,
but...
While there are no new letters, I go to collect food for my mother at work. I take pictures along the way.

My mother is a needlewoman. When she has free time, she makes beauty.
On my way back, I visit again. And I find a cat in a bag, a cat in a bag.

In the room where my sofa study is located, fish are painted on the walls. I'll just show you.
This is what my son and I drew. Once.

Then I got tired of lying and I moved the office to the kitchen. And watered the plant.

About work or good or not at all. It's good that I have it.
But I'm not good at talking about it.

I write down tasks in detail because I have lived to the point where memory cannot be 100% trusted.
I have access to all working resources, except for 1C. Those. and to her was, but one fine Wednesday he disappeared.
The girls at work helped me a lot. I work on TV. Not a journalist.

For the sake of conspiracy, I blur letters and correspondence. Time is 10:18.
Nightmare, only 10:18! I will shorten the story.
Since I'm in the kitchen, I make tea with apples. Two cups of tea. Both for themselves. Both are half a litre.
Firstly, because of laziness, so as not to do it several times, and secondly, to save electricity.
But more, because of laziness of course. I still find a use for the rest of the apple.

While the tea is being brewed, I check on my cranberry tincture.
I shake it, admire the color and put it back.

Me and my leg sat in the kitchen. Leg decided that she was tired of sitting on a stool and decided to go to the sofa.
Completely agreed with her. I get a lot of calls at work. Because I release the polecat from captivity.

Only a person with a broken lens or a fidgeting animal can understand how hellishly hard it is to focus a frame properly. I tried five times. Then five more. Then another one, and in a strange way, this last one turned out.

10 minutes later the prisoner returned to the cage. and I turned on the lights on the easel.
The picture was donated by kind people. In October. I didn't have a chance to draw it.
Now it is.

Lunch, which takes place at the standard lunch time - I will not show. I don't like showing food at all.
After dinner I feed and sing to the cockroach spider bugs. Next will be a few photos with cockroaches and a spider.

I feed the rest of the apple to the Seine beetle, nameless cockroaches, and 18 worms.
Senya beetle is not very photogenic. Once he was one of a dozen fodder worms,
but they did not want to eat him, then he became Senya. Senya loves to drink and climb cockroaches. What gender I still have not figured out. But now I have time to do it.

Beetle Senya saddled his friend a hysterical cockroach. Probably should make him a girlfriend.
Although, cockroaches, too, had to be of different sexes. Did not work out.

I change the water for the spider. My spider is beautiful. I'm terribly afraid of him.
In general, I am afraid of everything that I can break or accidentally kill. I'm afraid of turtles too.

I make tea. again. But already different. Already berry.

Opposite view.

And slowly crawl into the room for canvas paints.
Because until they write to me, I can draw the picture promised to my grandmother.

time. At the same time I will show our dolls with my mother. Mom makes them more often. I made mine seven years ago.
mine, the one that is long.

he's not bald, he's got ostrich feather hair.
looked at Igor. Igor has grown several young leaves. it's good, I thought
that is about to dry up.

Prepared materials.

Immediately I decide to get an aroma lamp. In which, suddenly, there was varnish.

The instructions for the essential oil say that it improves mood and helps in the fight
with depression. I often believe what is written in the accompanying papers.

But, they really do make you feel better.
First I make a sketch (do not think, I have a laptop on the table and I monitor mail)

and then I start painting.

The time is about 17:00. The boys will be here in an hour.
It's a good thing I don't show a storyboard of the paint mixing process.

I get a call from work again, and I put off drawing to check the playlist.
But I won't show it. It's not very interesting. While I finish work, I let out for a walk
Turtle Tilda Matilda. She is extremely curious.

And I took an incredible amount of photos. And that's scary too. No sense of proportion.
I also suffer from mania. I paint cups with houses. Houses, like lighthouses, are my weakness.
Psychiatrists have an opinion on this and I respect it. The last time I painted a cup with whales.
I think progress.

Finished work at six. And finished the windows. And I didn't like the picture. but I will show it.

The boys arrive at 18:10. The son stays, the husband leaves on business. While the child is undressing, I wipe the water from the floor.
Because well done. Let me remind you that the leg has not yet grown together for this long time. And I suffer from self-pity.

Cats live in the hallway. On the wall. Beautiful. I can not do that.

while back and forth, while I talked with the child, so much time ticked by. I'll paint the clock anyway.

Tarapunka asks for a nut. And in our bourgeois latitudes, coconuts are just found.

The coconut is in the saucer on top of the book that I want to read. But today it doesn't work for me.
Doesn't light up at all.
About eight they called me from work, they said that now there will be a lot of it. And it really became a lot. Highly.
I had huge plans for the evening, I wanted to play tracker and make a cast of plaster shoes with the cub. But it didn't work out. That's why I set up an easel for him.

My husband came, and I'm working. Because the husband fed the child. But I didn't see it.
After eating, the son painted a little more.

and I'm working. At ten o'clock Tarapunka went to bed. I came to kiss him and turn on a bedtime story.
Usually we read ourselves, but not today. Fairy tale: Pippi Longstocking.

The husband followed his son to bed. And I went to the kitchen. Work. And drink tea.
And look at the book I want to read.

At 23 hours. And I'm working. At 23:30 I was finishing my last letter. At the same time, my mother came.
And in the end, this is extraordinary have an interesting day I looked something like this:

Hunger is the lack of nutrients in the body. Widely used as a method of getting rid of excess weight and recovery. To understand how long a person can live on water without food, you need to understand all the nuances of this condition.

Food is the most important and indispensable source of energy for any living being. For the normal functioning of vital systems, the body must get required amount nutrients.

Without proper nutrition, natural processes are disrupted - the immune defense weakens, the organs stop working in their usual rhythm. The gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, skeletal system, blood vessels, heart and brain suffer. In addition to physiological disorders, psychological disorders are observed - sleep worsens, apathy, irritability occur.

In the absence of nutrition, the body is gradually depleted, the reserves of adipose tissue dry out, bones are destroyed, anorexia develops. Without correcting the condition, a fatal outcome may occur.

How long can you go without food

Our organism is thought out and universal. In the absence of food, he is able to do without food for some time, to function offline.

1-4 days of fasting. The person feels some physical and psychological discomfort. Increased food arousal. There are pains in the intestines, profuse salivation.

End of the first week(5-8 days) without food. The feeling of the need for food is dulled. A whitish coating forms on the tongue, urine becomes cloudy, and the smell of acetone comes from the oral cavity. Fatigue, depression, weakness in the bones and muscles are felt.

9 -12 day without food. The peak of the restructuring of the body, which is called the acidotic crisis. The body learns to live without external sources of nourishment.

13 - 20 days fasting. Stage battery life body when the body tries to get by own resources. The color of the skin improves, the psychological state normalizes. Previously acquired symptoms disappear. Heart rate and blood pressure decrease. There is drowsiness.

21 - 30 day hunger. Energy saving mode. The minimum amount of power is wasted. Only the vital organs are fully functional. The body is already accustomed to the lack of nutrition, lives autonomously. The practitioner feels much better.

1 month and more. There is a second attack of acidotic crisis. Symptoms are less pronounced, easier to bear. This stage should be considered critical. Uncontrolled starvation in the future will lead to the shutdown of some systems, and ultimately to death.

According to experts, the duration of survival without food of people is different. age category and sex is different. First of all, teenagers will suffer, then men, then old people. Younger women are more likely to survive. The amount of time is indicated taking into account fluid intake. Without water, a person will not live more than 7 days, after which dehydration and death occur.

How to help the body go without food

To "help" your own body during fasting, you can take the following measures:

Give up an active lifestyle. Go on vacation, spend time in country house, dedicate time to reading books or keep bed rest. The less energy is wasted, the better for the whole organism.
In addition to water, drink a variety of infusions, decoctions, juices or tea. They will not break the fasting system, but at the same time enrich the body with vitamins. Rudolf Breuss' diet for the treatment of cancer is based on this principle.
Avoid stress. For any emotional shock human body reacts with a surge of adrenaline, which requires an expenditure of energy.
More time to be outdoors. A weakened immune system needs to be maintained, and walking on the street has a beneficial effect on strengthening it.
Spend time in companies. Strangers will help to distract from the thought of food. Having a good time will positively affect your emotional state.
Devote your thoughts not to food, but to the purpose for which it was abandoned. Such psychological training will help to concentrate attention, show willpower and cheer up when it is no longer possible to be without food.

In addition to your own mood for positive thinking, you need to feel the understanding and support of loved ones.

There are circumstances in which, according to medicine, it is contraindicated for a person not to eat. These include:

pregnancy and breastfeeding;
children and youth up to 18 years;
diagnosed wasting and anorexia;
elderly age;
diseases gastrointestinal tract, stomach ulcer;
heart, kidney or liver failure;
patients with diabetes;
previous stroke or heart attack;
previous operations;
pulmonary tuberculosis;
oncological processes in the body;
blood diseases;
gout;
mental illness;
thyrotoxicosis;
thrombophlebitis;
hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver;
pronounced low blood pressure;
acute infectious diseases (until full recovery).

Some contraindications are temporary restrictions. Before starting a diet, it is worthwhile to objectively assess the condition, if necessary, postpone the event to a later time.

To protect yourself from possible complications during the fasting period, it is recommended to visit a doctor. According to his appointment, complete diagnostic examination to get an answer about the state of the body.

Consequences of prolonged abstinence

Attempts to go without food for a long time (more than 35 days) can adversely affect the condition. There is a possibility of irreversible consequences, including dystrophy internal organs, changes in the biochemical composition of the blood, disruption of the brain and nervous system.

One of the most severe conditions resulting from hunger is anorexia. In this state, the practitioner refuses food, rapidly loses body weight and acquires a mental and emotional disorder. To survive in this situation, specialized help is needed. In most cases, this condition leads to a hungry coma, followed by death.

A person can survive without food, on water alone. If the period of hunger is short-term and lasts for several days, this will be beneficial. There will be a cleansing of toxins and toxins. With a protracted diet, there are real threats health and life.

Would you like to know the secret of the success of people who have achieved power, fame, position, wealth? Then this article is for you!

You can easily achieve everything if you stick to this technique. It will help you organize yourself, become the master of your own destiny, manage your own life and make the right decisions.

We know that everything in life is relative, there are only two known quantities, two sides of the same coin - you and the world around you. A chaotic stream of information and events falls upon us from the outside world. We often find ourselves in a situation where we don’t know what to grab onto, we don’t know where is the basis, that fulcrum, on which you can build your life and make decisions.

The secret of success lies in…

Our whole life is made up of days. Imagine that these are not different days, but only 1 day that we live over and over again. That is, every day we are given a chance to live the day anew. Let's choose the 1st day that we live today as a fulcrum.

The secret of success is that the way we live this day, we will live the rest of our lives.

Our whole endless life narrows down to just one day, which we can live an infinite number of times.

How do successful people live 1 day?

1. For there to be day, there must be night

Simply put, you need to get enough sleep and wake up early in the morning. For those who get up early, the day seems long, the person has time to do a lot. The optimal length of the day is 16 hours, sleep - 8 hours.

The best time to wake up is 5 am and go to bed at 9 pm. But you can set the time for yourself the most suitable time, the main thing is to get enough sleep to gain strength for a new day.

2. We all want to be free!

We all want to be free, not live like robots - according to a schedule. A contradiction appears. On the one hand, the daily routine drives us into rigid limits, on the other hand, we lose our foothold if we behave chaotically every minute.

Chaos will lead to the fact that our lives will be controlled by circumstances or other people, and not you and me. So let's find a compromise. Namely, we will divide our day into two parts: the first is mandatory events, the second is complete freedom. With the second part of the day, everything is clear, so we will not consider it anymore.

3. First part of the day: obligatory activities

What is its duration? It is different for everyone, everyone is free to choose how much time to leave for work, and how much for rest.

4. Each of us has a dream

Surely everyone has a dream to achieve something in life, to get what they want. To make it easier for the universe to fulfill your dream, choose one of the most desirable, we will postpone the rest for later.

Set aside a piece of time from the first part of the day to work on the realization of a dream. It is advisable to leave this piece of time at the very beginning, immediately after the morning procedures. After all, the fulfillment of desire is the most important thing for us.

Working on the realization of a dream is a separate topic, everyone chooses the most suitable techniques¹ and outlines steps to achieve the goal. It is important to understand one thing - if you do the same thing every day at the same time, a huge force develops that allows you to achieve your goal².

5. Each of us has responsibilities.

We live in a society. And, therefore, we have to go to work, do something around the house, take care of ourselves, take care of clothes, cook food and so on. We will place all these duties in the rest of the first part of the day, allotted for mandatory events.

6. Plan the day

So, we have a certain plan for the day, which is equivalent to a plan for our whole life:

morning procedures;
work on the realization of a dream;
mandatory activities;
complete freedom of action.

All you have to do is set the start and end times for each interval. You can also describe in more detail the list of events for some items. And that's it! Our life is in our pocket. Now you control life, not circumstances or other people.

7. The secret to success is overcoming difficulties

In practice, a problem may arise: “How to force yourself to do what he thought of himself every day?” A serious motivation will help to solve such a problem, strong enough to keep from the temptations that will lead away.

The best stimulus in this case may be an outside observer. You can choose a loved one as an outside observer. You can choose yourself, but this will require a lot of willpower and the ability to self-suggestion³.

I congratulate everyone on the feast of St. John of Kronstadt - his birthday, the day of baptism and the day of the angel, as well as on the first glorification by the Russian Church Abroad.

I found in the book of St. John of Kronstadt "My Life in Christ" a wonderful spiritual discourse on how to spend the day before the Face of God, which can be called the ordination of a Christian. Let's try to spend this day of memory of St. John of Kronstadt according to his advice

So, CHARTER OF THE DAY OF A CHRISTIAN

1. In everything and at all times, please God and think about saving your soul from sins and the devil and assimilating it to God.
Got up from bed, cross yourself and say: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” and again: “Lord, grant us this day without sin to be preserved for us and teach me to do Your will” [from the Great Doxology];

2. You meet the day, think about the non-evening, eternal, brighter - more than this sunny day - the day of the Kingdom of Heaven, on which everyone who has pleased God or repented to God from the bottom of their hearts in this temporary belly will rejoice;

3. You wash at home or in a bath, say: sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I will be cleansed; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow [Ps. 50, 9];

4. Putting on underwear, think about purity of heart and ask the Lord for a pure heart: create a pure heart in me, O God [Ps. 50, 12];

5. You sewed a new one and put it on, think about the renewal of the spirit and say: the spirit is right, Lord, renew in my womb [ibid.];

6. You lay aside old clothes with neglect, think about laying aside with great disdain the old man, sinful, passionate, carnal;

7. When you eat the bread of sweetness, think of the true bread that gives eternal life souls - about the Body and Blood of Christ and hunger for this bread, i.e. wish to partake of him more often;

8. If you drink water, or tea, or sweet honey, or any other drink, think about the true drink that quenches souls burning with passions, about the Most Pure and Life-Giving Blood of the Savior;

9. Where are you going, think about the rightness of spiritual walking before the face of God and say: direct my steps according to your word, and let no iniquity possess me [Ps. 118, 133];

10. Do you do anything, try to do this work with the thought of God the Creator, who did everything with infinite wisdom, His goodness, His omnipotence and created you in His image and likeness;

11. Whether it is money, or any treasure you receive or have, think that our inexhaustible treasure, from which all the treasures of the soul and body, the ever-flowing source of all good, is God, thank Him wholeheartedly and do not close your treasures with you, but you will not close the entrance into your heart to the priceless and living Treasure - God, but give from your state to your demanding, needy, impoverished brothers, who are left in this life for that, so that you can prove your love, gratitude to God on them and receive a reward from God for that in eternity;

12. Do you see the white silver glitter, i.e. silver, do not be seduced by it, but think that your soul should be white and shine with the virtues of Christ;

13. Whether you see a golden brilliance, or gold, do not be seduced by it, but remember that your soul must be like gold, cleansed by fire, and that the Lord wants to enlighten you yourself, like the sun, in the eternal, bright kingdom of His Father, which you will see the unsettable Sun of Truth - God in three Persons, the Most Holy Lady Theotokos and all the heavenly Forces and holy people, filled with unspeakable light and shining with luminosity.

14. You rest during the day, think about eternal rest, prepared for those who labored here in the struggle against sin, against the spirits of evil in heaven, against human iniquity or human ignorance and rudeness;

15. If you go to bed at night, think about the sleep of death, which sooner or later will certainly come for all of us, and about that dark, eternal, terrible night in which all unrepentant sinners will be cast down.

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