3. The relationship between emotions and health
People's emotional changes are closely related to their physical changes. Emotional life is the most important and most important part of a person's mental activities that has the greatest impact on health. The effect of emotion on health refers to the effect that emotion has on a person's physical health to enhance or damage. Physiology tells us that any emotional activity is always accompanied by physiological and biochemical changes, and these changes have different effects on the human body. Generally speaking, when people are happy, they have peaceful breathing, vasodilation, and accelerated gastrointestinal motility. These physiological reactions all contribute to the reconciliation and maintenance of the body, which is beneficial to human health. It can be said that a healthy mood is the source of health. However, when a person has bad emotions such as sadness and anger, physiological functions such as the nervous system, cardiovascular system, and digestive system will all be abnormal, leading to imbalance of the body and causing the occurrence and development of diseases. A 30-year follow-up survey on the relationship between emotion and health found that people who have been in anxiety, sadness and other bad emotions for a long time have a higher proportion of tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer, etc. than emotionally stable people. Out three times. Professor He Yumin pointed out in the book "Managing Your Health": "The ideal life state of a person can live to 120 years old, even up to 150 years old. Within this life span, the next is endless life loss factors. Smoking reduces life expectancy, staying up all night reduces life expectancy, emotional depression reduces life..." Among the N life loss factors, emotional depression ranks first, which shows that bad emotions are harmful to health. People in our country have long said that "anger hurts the liver, joy and sadness, sorrow and panic that hurts life." The ancient medical classic " Internal Classic " also clearly pointed out that "furious anger hurts the liver, violent joy and sadness, sorrow and sorrow to the lungs, panic and terror to the kidneys".
joy. Generally speaking, it is a positive emotion. As the saying goes, "people are happy when they are happy." "If you are in a happy mood, you will always be healthy. If you are in a cheerful mood, you will be bright in front of you." But if "happy" is too much, it will cause damage to health and even lead to tragedies in human life. Fan Jin is a typical example of mental disorders caused by great joy. In real life, it’s not uncommon to have misfortunes caused by big joys.For example, some elderly people at the mahjong table are too excited because of winning money, causing blood vessels to rupture, cerebral hemorrhage and falling to the ground. According to medical investigations, there is a significant increase in the number of recurrences of heart disease during holidays than usual. Experts point out that during family gatherings, many people are over-excited and agitated, which leads to increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, and increased myocardial oxygen consumption. For the elderly, excessive excitement can easily lead to mental disorders, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and even sudden death.
Great joy can lead to "extreme happiness and sorrow", and excessive sadness can also damage health. Chinese ancient books record that Wu Zixu visited Shaoguan, saying that he was in a dilemma and was at a loss as to what to do. Because of extreme sorrow, the historical fact that his hair and beard were all white at night is a testimony. "Sorrow and sadness for the lungs", Lin Daiyu sorrowfulness tuberculosis refers to the damage that sad emotions have on the lungs. In reality, there are similar examples. My old neighbor is an elderly couple. They have lived together for more than forty years and lived a very happy life. But unexpected events occurred. The old man passed away suddenly, and Aunt Li could not accept it. This fact suddenly became completely different. She stayed at home, guarded the empty house all day, staring at the photos of her wife in a daze. She said that as long as her eyes were closed, the figure of her wife would dangle in front of her eyes. go. It has been two years, and Aunt Li has not yet come out of her grief and pain. Due to a long period of grief and accumulation, Aunt Li finally changed to depression . When a loved one dies, everyone will be in grief and cry. This is an appropriate emotional expression and a way of adjustment that can release and alleviate accumulated grief. But if you cry endlessly, the more you cry, the sadder you will become. Prolonged crying will hurt your lungs and your body. Medical experts tell us that excessive sadness is the culprit that leads to anxiety, depression, and then on the road of no return. They remind everyone: more melancholy, less optimistic, everything is too tangled, and it is the "guide" of cancer; less Melancholy, more optimistic, and think about everything, are effective measures to prevent cancer.
angry, angry,Everyone has had it before. In fact, there is nothing wrong with occasional tantrums. It can be said that it is also a kind of catharsis, a kind of emotional release, in a sense, it is beneficial to physical health. But if it's furious and persistent, it's a bad mood. This kind of negative anger will not only cause people’s consciousness to lose effective control of behavior, lose calm thinking about the consequences of behavior, often have unwise behaviors, and even commit stupid things that make a mistake and hate forever, but also Will damage your health. In ancient China, " Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic " has a clear warning of "angry hurts the liver". Anger not only hurts the liver, but also causes great damage to the heart, brain and blood vessels. Modern medicine believes that anger is closely related to the occurrence of stroke. Some people have investigated the causes of more than a thousand stroke patients and found that 75% of them are caused by psychological factors, and anger-induced stroke is the highest.
Recently, I heard two stories from my friends. The first story: A leading cadre who is about to retire often loses his temper to the staff around him. One day, his driver made a mistake and reprimanded him. His anger grew stronger and he slammed the table, his blood rushed up, causing a cerebral hemorrhage, his body skewed, and he fell to the ground. Because he was rescued in time, his life was saved. , But people lose consciousness and become vegetative. The second story: In the park, several retired elderly people played chess together. When one of the "cars" was eaten by the opponent's "cannon", the person watching the chess next to him said "Smelly Chess" and was eaten "Chess". After hearing this, the old man was very angry, and immediately retorted. The two blushed because of whether they should lose the "car" or not. Fortunately, everyone persuaded them to stop fighting. However, at this moment, the old man who had lost his "car" felt severe chest pain, his face was pale, and his head was sweating profusely. He suddenly fell to the ground due to high blood pressure and was unconscious. Two stories tell us: Old people should not be angry.
"Terror hurts the kidney", "panic hurts the root of life", it can be seen that panic emotions are harmful to health. People who have seen or experienced terrible and horrible scenes tend to be frightened and tremble all over.Some people also have nightmares in sleep, and when they wake up, they don't think about eating or drinking, and the more they think about it, the more scared they become. Therefore, the elderly don't like to watch those thrilling, Wuhan University movies, because they are afraid that those scary plots will affect their inherently poor health. According to records, an old man suffering from high blood pressure was in a good mood after getting up in the morning. When she heard that a friend suddenly fell to the ground while watching TV last night and died suddenly, her mood immediately fell down and she was always talking about this friend. I still think of myself from time to time. Since then, I have been in a state of depression, falling into extreme panic, and my blood pressure is also difficult to control.
Chinese medicine believes that when people are in fear, the physical and mental energy will enter a "frozen" state, so that the vitality of life is weakened, and the mind can function normally. If a person's heart is extremely panic, it will cause the heart to beat fiercely, the face will turn pale, and the urine will become incontinent, and some will lead to coma or even death.
To sum up, any kind of emotion, as long as the expression is excessive, is a bad emotion. Bad emotions disrupt the normal physiological functions of the human body, lead to imbalances in the body's balance, and cause the occurrence and development of diseases. For this reason, the elderly must manage their emotions and maintain a good mood, which is the fundamental guarantee for health and longevity. (To be continued)
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