Longevity is the dream of many people. Why can someone live a long and happy life and enter a hundred-year-old palace carelessly? There are many reasons, but more importantly, they often maintain an unshakable "childlike heart"!
German psychologist research found that
childishness can improve physical and mental health
The latest research published in the journal Applied Psychology: Health and Happiness by a psychologist from Martin Luther University in Germany re-emphasizes the daily boredom In life, people with childlike innocence are very good at creating and changing , and can always find ways to turn daily situations into interesting experiences. According to the
researcher, this is the first intervention study on adult childlikeness. Even short-term (one week) self-training to cultivate childlikeness can have a positive impact on happiness in life and reduce depression symptoms.
reduces negative emotions and is good for physical and mental health.
American positive psychologist Barbara Frederickson believes that adult childishness can promote the experience of positive emotions.
Wang Bing, Ph.D. in Mental Hygiene, Peking University, said that people with childlike fun are willing to challenge, full of confidence, and will have a greater sense of control over everything. Positive and positive emotional stimulation can help relieve negative emotions and benefit physical and mental health.
Childish people often have
with the following species characteristics:
In people’s impression, as they grow older and have richer knowledge, they will inevitably bid farewell to the childishness and playfulness of childhood and become mature and stable. In fact, "children's interest" looks at the heart, not age. People with childlike fun tend to have the following five characteristics:
01
like to play
games and good interactive atmosphere
is the so-called "game life", learn to enjoy life! For example, play games to relieve tension and do unexpected things to improve intimacy.
Childlike Innocence is the emotional preservation agent for the happy marriage between Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. Yang Jiang once recalled: "When we were in Oxford, he took a nap and I made a post, but a man was very sleepy while writing, so he fell asleep. He woke up and saw that I was asleep, so he was full of ink and wanted to paint me a painted face. "Z1z
02
is purely
emotional expression is more direct
has a strong empathy ability and is very easily moved, crying when you want to cry, and laugh when you want to laugh. Adults degenerate too much in their ability to express emotions, and the result of long-term depression is emotional disorder.
03
is whimsical
prefers improvisation rather than planning
For example, hates the rules, likes to use novel methods to complete tasks, and prefers challenging and novel people or things.
04
looks the same
inside and outside the height of the same
children should be the most consistent. But too many adults are just the opposite, and what they think is obviously different from what they say. Such contradictions and conflicts also increase the sense of pressure.
05
is simple to be a person
knows how to decompress
childlike innocence and bring happiness to oneself, but also simple. If the heart is simple, the world will not be complicated. Especially when dealing with stress, those "simple" people are very good at decompressing themselves, and doing things with a relaxed attitude, the effect will be very good; and those who work hard will usually feel stressed and get old quickly. .
, especially the three types of adults
, should be more childish!
Middle-aged and elderly people
Elderly people often say, "They are all this old..." In fact, forgetting age is the secret to staying young and vigorous.
A survey in the United States found that long-lived elderly people often feel much younger than their actual age. The average "feeling age" of people over 100 years old is only 83 years old, and 65-year-old people often feel that they are only 55 years old.
Parents with children
Parents accompany their children to grow up happily, so they can’t always get along with their children in an adult way of thinking. They should be more childlike, learn to share the happiness of children, and create with them.Create an imaginative world of children.
People with bad emotions
attitude determines action, and action can also bring about changes in attitude. The reason why people feel that life is the same is because they live a different life in the same way every day.
suggests that people who are prone to bad moods at
may try to make some "interesting" changes, use actions to drive their attention, and slowly alleviate bad emotions. Dare to try to make life ever-changing, I believe there will be different experiences and gains!
teaches you four tricks
to be an "old naughty boy"!
"Old naughty boy" is often the pistachio of everyone and a very important treasure in the family. It’s not difficult to have childlike fun. Everyone only needs a short-term training to experience a childlike life.
Increase the randomness of life
For example, you can decide the division of housework by rolling dice; try to do the same thing in different ways, such as finding the "100 paths" to go home; change the daily affairs into a more relaxed and pleasant way , Such as playing some favorite music while cooking.
capture the changes around you
keep your curiosity and keep in touch with the outside world. For example, keep listening to the news and understand the world; observe what new things are on the road every day.
Reminiscent of childhood
childhood carefree, hide and seek, fly a kite, catch grasshoppers, or go out to play, etc., in retrospect, people can’t help but raise their mouths.
suggests that
might as well go back to the place where you lived, lived, and played in your childhood, revisiting the old place, revisiting old dreams, playing small games when you were young, and looking at previous photos, which can make your childlike innocence sprout again.
Make more child friends
Play with your children and feel the children's thinking and entertainment. Especially middle-aged and elderly people can get along with their children and grandchildren and keep a young mind.
In some countries, the old-age care model of “the old and the young are raised together” is popular. The kindergarten and the nursing home are set up together. The children and the elderly participate in various activities together, such as singing, dancing, painting, eating, telling stories or visiting the nursing home, which promotes the elderly Confidence in life helps a lot.
Source: Health Times, World Wide Web
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