The Missing Puzzle of Life: LIVING HARMONIOUSLY WITH SOLAR TIME

By Grace Clevenger

BaoJian Wellness: Ancient Chinese Health Wisdom for Modern LifeDiscover the Bridge between Ancient Secrets and a Modern Lifestyle

What if the path to optimal health didn't cost you a fortune?

For thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine has held the key to natural

• Language: English
• Publisher: SayThat Publishing
• Release date: Oct 10, 2025
• ISBN: 9798993172316

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INTRODUCTION

A life without health is like a river without water. – Maxime Lagacé

At a time when people are spending more and more of their hard-earned dollars to achieve, maintain, or regain their health, wouldn’t it be wonderful to find a path to good health that was (hard as it is to imagine) FREE?

Is such an approach even possible? The answer is yes!

And before you roll your eyes or hide your wallet, please know that this path to good health doesn’t rely on some obscure plant or herb that can be found only in the most remote parts of the planet, and it isn’t the secret knowledge of some lost civilization. It also isn’t about to be banned by Big Pharma if you don’t act now.

The truth is that this approach has been proven successful for thousands of years, and the knowledge is available to anyone willing to learn.

The practice is known as BaoJian Wellness, and it is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM, as it is frequently termed. It is also known in Chinese as Yang Sheng( 养⽣), which means health maintenance. Yang Sheng, or health maintenance, is the practice of TCM concepts in our daily lives. It uses various methods to maintain body health, enhance physical fitness, anti-aging, and prevent diseases, thereby prolonging life.

Please understand that this approach isn’t about acupuncture (although that practice offers considerable benefits) or reliance on Chinese herbs or special potions. By taking key elements of TCM and adjusting them to a Western experience, BaoJian Wellness offers a pathway to a self-healing, restoration, and prevention system. Through BaoJian Wellness, you will learn, in advance, how to alert yourself to unhealthy imbalances and to make you aware of impending sickness or disease. It also can help you prevent those events. In the process, it will put you in control of your own health.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) boasts a long and rich history, making it one of the oldest forms of medicine in the world. Its continued use for thousands of years stands as a testament to its enduring value as a cornerstone of healthcare. Based on the fundamental essences of TCM practices, BaoJian Wellness will illustrate and reveal an ancient secret — the directive that the human body was originally given to follow from the moment it was created. Through BaoJian Wellness Health Maintenance, you will learn how each organ system links recognizable mental and emotional (psychological and physiological) patterns and responses. You also will learn about the body’s energy systems and how your meridians direct and utilize this energy to impact your health daily. You also will learn about the importance of the solar clock and how it aligns with your daily routine with regard to your health, as well as the seasonal shift and how your body responds to the changing of the seasons.

BaoJian Wellness introduces ancient TCM health maintenance concepts to Western people, focusing on three key areas:

Holistic

Balance

Harmony

Holistic approach

Western medicine focuses on particular body components and the treatment of illness instead of disease prevention. TCM takes a different approach. In TCM, the body is an organic and balanced whole in which all component parts are interconnected. These parts depend upon and restrict each other physiologically, and they influence each other pathologically. An organ’s function is not only about itself but also about the relationship between organs.

Physiological functions of the body are based on harmonious relationships between organs and the body’s energy flow. In addition, there is a focus on how energetically the body functions. These elements are all intertwined, and each must be considered to achieve good health and avoid disease.

TCM also believes in the flow of energy throughout the body, and the Chinese medicine philosophy is that disease begins with the disruption of energy flow. This disruption occurs even before symptoms appear, possibly in the form of anger, sleep interruption, exhaustion, chronic pain, or perhaps low libido, etc.

Achieve Internal Balance

TCM holds that there are both opposite and unitary relationships between the organs and the tissues as well as between the human and the natural environment. These things maintain a relative dynamic balance through a process in which contradiction alternately appears and disappears. When this dynamic balance is broken for whatever reason and can’t immediately be restored through self-regulation, certain diseases will occur.

— Shen-nong Shi

In TCM, detection and observation of these dynamics frequently involve the balance of yin and yang (properties), the balance of Qi energy and blood manifestation, the balance of water inside the body, as well as the balance between how much you eat and take into the body, and how much is digested, absorbed, and eliminated from the body. In TCM, physical illness is viewed as the final symptomatic manifestation of long-standing energy imbalance and obstruction of the pattern and flow of the human energy system. The key is to identify the

imbalance and address it in a positive way. By understanding how the body reacts to imbalance and disrupted energy flow, it is possible to identify where and how you are out of balance and then take steps to help you regain equilibrium. When you can restore balance before it generates an illness, you have achieved the purpose of preventive healthcare.

Live in Harmony

TCM believes, The body communicates with the external environment constantly, factors such as weather, geographic location, working and family environments can all affect our health. External changes cause the body to respond physiologically or pathologically, which reflects the united relationship between human and the outside world. We should live in harmony with nature, other people, and the immediate environment. When changes occur in our external environment, and the body fails to adapt to the changes, diseases are likely to occur.

— Shen-nong Shi

The ancient Chinese discovered a secret: Each organ in our body possesses its own energy channel. Every two hours, the greatest amount of life force energy in the body is concentrated on one specific organ to support its activities and functions. During a 24-hour period, this life force energy completes a circular voyage throughout the whole body. If your daily routine aligns with the internal energy cycles of your organs, the body will be in harmony with the natural solar clock and the external world. Similarly, the organs in our body also correspond to the changes of the four seasons throughout the year.

The Goal

With BaoJian Wellness, finding harmony is a goal, and an achievable one at that. The information in this book will educate you on how to maintain good health, slow down your body’s decline, and/or avoid disease by aligning your daily activities with a 24-hour solar clock and enhancing your energy flow through the 12 meridians of your body.

Sound weird? Never fear; all will be explained, and you will discover that by following these timetables and applying these simple instructions, you will enjoy greater energy and better health through minor changes in your daily habits.

While this information is well-known in China, it is relatively unknown in the West, and even though our Western lifestyles are, in many ways, a world apart from the Chinese, the ways our bodies work haven’t changed.

It is true that we all will grow older; that’s unavoidable. But nobody wants to age with a disabling disease. With BaoJian Wellness, it is possible to maintain good health throughout your life, no matter how long you live.

It is the goal of BaoJian Wellness to impart this ancient knowledge in a modern way that will offer information, techniques, and instructions to help you take control of your health and prevent disease.

So, approach this book with an open mind. Once you’ve learned the concepts, applied the knowledge, and practiced the techniques, you will be amazed at the power of BaoJian Wellness.

CHAPTER 1: Bridging the Gap

The key to maintaining your health is within you.

Key Principles

The body’s health requires lifetime maintenance

Preventive self-health care is a MUST!

Our body contains a powerful self-restoration system

Preventive self-healthcare

The Modern Healthcare Puzzle is missing a piece

What is Health Maintenance?

Imagine going months without spending a single penny on your car’s maintenance. What will happen? Perhaps one day, while driving, your car stalls or stops working, costing you considerable money and inconvenience. You might then recall the small warnings you ignored earlier, indicating that your car wasn’t performing optimally. You know, when the Check Engine light came on. You might remember how you dismissed those little problems because your car would still get you where you wanted to go. But those little issues had a cause, and at the moment your vehicle sputtered and died, you definitely were going to regret not taking your car for maintenance earlier.

Now imagine treating your body the same as your car, going around for years without maintenance, always ignoring the warning signs, just like a Check Engine light.

How would your body react? Chances are, you would eventually fall sick with something much worse than a common cold or the knee pain you have ignored for days.

Our bodies need extensive and timely health maintenance. You should not think about your health as something you’ll deal with when you get old. You should take smart steps for better health while you are still healthy.

You don’t have to be sick to know what your body lacks. With a little effort and the right guidance, you can learn the wisdom and the knowledge that will help you lead a healthier lifestyle. With this knowledge, you can adopt various practices to keep you healthy, reduce the chances of illness, and ensure healthy aging. These preventive self-health care practices are sheltered under the umbrella of health maintenance. A key to getting a head start in good health maintenance is to begin well before that Check Engine light comes on.

Health maintenance is like keeping a ball on a gradual slope. As long as you push it, the ball will not roll down too fast.  The slope represents aging overtime and the position of the ball on the slope is your health condition level.

The Water Bucket of Age

Traditional Chinese Doctors use the water bucket concept to describe a person's aging process. To understand it further, let’s see how they describe health.

Health is the visual metaphor of a bucket that holds water.

The bucket’s wooden panels represent a person’s defense system. The water inside the bucket represents the individual’s internal health condition.

As we age, the condition of the wooden panels that comprise the bucket and the cleanliness of water starts changing.

The cleanliness of water describes a person’s internal condition. As we age, the water gets polluted. This means that as we grow older, our internal organs decline, worsening our internal health condition. The differences in the color of the water from age 20 to age 90 are apparent in the illustration.

Another apparent change in this illustration is the degeneration of the length of the wooden panels. The length of the wooden panels represents our defense system. As we age, our defense system and immunity start weakening, just like these panels seem to have eroded from age 20 to 90.

Now, there can be various conditions these buckets might be in.

The Bucket’s Conditions

This bucket might undergo certain circumstances that change its condition. Here are the three most common bucket conditions that most people might face in their lifetime:

Bucket #1: The first bucket depicts the condition of a 45-year-old man. The bucket seems in a suitable condition for his age. However, you will notice that there’s something wrong with the bucket. It’s the broken panel created by suffering from a heart attack. The water eventually drains out of that broken panel, causing an early death.

Bucket #2: The second bucket shows the condition of a 65-year-old man who is suffering from diabetes and three other illnesses. You can see that he has four eroded panels, and the water inside seems very dark. This status reveals that the older man is living with a disease. Despite the bucket’s poor condition and four eroded panels, it still holds water, but it is not in ideal condition.

Bucket #3: The third bucket is that of a 90-year-old man. It seems to have eroded panels and is