Life Stages Wellness: Living Healthily to 100

Author: Ning Weimin
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: The 21st century is the "Century of Health," the "Age of Wellness," and the "Information Age." How to maintain health? What level of wellness can be achieved? The "Turn of the Century Reflection" at the end of the 20th century established the concept of holistic health, which holds that the new century will realize the ideal state of human existence pursued for millennia—health, longevity, wisdom, joy, beauty, and virtue. For wellness, there is a desire for new, higher aspirations, and a call for new concepts and wellness methods, which is what green wellness is all about. What is the critical period of life? You might still be relatively unfamiliar with it. Yes, it has always existed in humans but has never been recognized or discovered. As Einstein said, "Whether you can recognize what is before you depends on the theory you use; theory determines what you can see." Understanding the critical period of life is also thanks to a scientific master, a Nobel laureate—a renowned Austrian ethologist, Konrad Lorenz. If you were to write the words "life" as a continuous pattern of a road, many bends, slopes, and twists would appear along the way—truly, "life has no smooth path."