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Why do emotions affect people's health?
Maintaining a positive and optimistic mood will make people live longer and enhance their physical resistance. Recently, scientists have confirmed the correlation between emotion and health from another angle. They pointed out that if you are depressed and depressed all the year round, your cholesterol will rise and your pain will be amplified. Please pay attention to scientists' discovery that if you are grateful for what you have now, whether it is a caring partner, some achievements or the fact that you are still alive, this gratitude can enhance your immune function, lower your blood pressure and accelerate your whole body recovery. Many people have this experience: when they are sad and depressed, they will have symptoms such as headache, stomachache, insomnia and high blood pressure. Recently, researchers at Ohio State University found that chronic depression all the year round can increase blood sugar and fatty acids, and increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. In addition, stress will also increase the level of human cholesterol, which is more likely to induce cardiovascular diseases. Why do emotions have such a great influence on people's health? Is this statement scientific? Experts have uncovered the mystery of emotions for us from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. Improper venting of seven emotions can cause disease. In medicine, many physiological diseases, from colds to cancer, are suspected to be related to psychological stress. Rowling from the American Institute of Heart Mathematical Physics? Dr mclarty found that things like love, gratitude and satisfaction can promote oxytocin secretion. Oxytocin is called "trust hormone" and is a hormone naturally secreted by the hypothalamus of the brain. It can regulate the activities of the autonomic nervous system and other areas of the brain responsible for emotions and social behavior. It can also relax the nervous system, thus releasing stress. Medical research has also proved that when people are depressed, pessimistic and indifferent, serotonin and dopamine in the body will be low, and serotonin can regulate people's perception of pain, which is why 45% of depressed patients often have various kinds of pain and discomfort. In this regard, Cheng Kai, president of Beijing Dacheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explained: "Everyone has secular desires. Under normal circumstances, it is a normal mental and physiological phenomenon, and all kinds of emotional activities have the functions of expressing feelings and coordinating physiological activities. However, clinical experiments have proved that when negative emotions such as anger, sadness, anxiety and fear are suppressed in the heart and cannot be fully vented, they will be harmful to health and even cause diseases. This is the so-called seven emotions. " Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the basic relationship between the seven emotions and the five zang-organs is that the lung dominates sorrow, and excessive sorrow will hurt the lung; The heart is happy, and if it is too happy, it will be sad. For example, during the Chinese New Year holidays, people often have heart attacks because they are too happy; The liver governs anger, and excessive anger hurts the liver. Everyone has this experience. When they are very angry, they also feel dull pain in their left and right ribs, which is a sign that anger hurts their liver. Spleen dominates thinking, and excessive thinking hurts spleen. Cheng Kai said: "Some people who are stressed in life and work often have fatigue symptoms: weakness of limbs and muscle aches. Even if you do exercise, this will happen. What happened? From the perspective of Chinese medicine, this is a phenomenon of spleen deficiency. If you think too much, you will lose your temper. " In addition, the kidney governs shock, and excessive shock will affect the physiological function of the kidney. A good mood can resist disease. Studies have shown that there is a power in the human body that can promote health, and that is a good mood. If you are good at adjusting your mood and always keep a good mood, you can plan ahead and get rid of the disease as soon as possible. Researchers at Ohio State University found that falling in love can raise people's nerve growth factor levels within one year. This hormone-like substance can stimulate the growth of new brain cells, help restore the nervous system and enhance memory. Laughter can relieve psychological stress, protect the inner wall of blood vessels and reduce the chance of heart attack. In addition, emotional crying will be accompanied by depression, secretion of more hormones and neurotransmitters, and removal of suppressed chemical components in the body. Cheng Kai said: "People who fall in love, laugh and feel grateful are in a happy mood, and have a feeling of happiness, that is, happiness, so happiness is related to the heart. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine,' the heart governs the blood and hides the gods', and the heart of the gods is the master of human life activities. Only under the unified command of the heart can the five internal organs carry out unified and coordinated life activities. I am cheerful, full of energy, active in thinking, normal in internal organs, and of course healthy. At the same time, the emotion of crying itself is negative, but when people cry and vent their sadness, people's sadness will be reduced, and the negative impact on the body's visceral function will be reduced, which is also beneficial to human health. " Health lies in physical and mental harmony. In the mid-1980s, the World Health Organization redefined health: "Health is a state of physical, mental and social adaptation, not just the absence of disease or weakness." Luo Fei, a doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "People's psychology and physiology are as indispensable as computer software and hardware. The essence of health lies in harmony. " Good mood is the software of health. It has been pointed out that life, at least human life, has an important feature-as long as something can be perceived, it has the potential to adjust. Therefore, if you want to adjust your emotions, the most fundamental thing is to understand your own emotions. Usually form the habit of carefully observing one's own psychological process, and find it in time and guide it appropriately at the beginning of emotions, in order to receive the effect of "four or two dialing a thousand pounds". In order to achieve physical and mental harmony, physiologically speaking, we should pay attention to reasonable diet and exercise in daily life, psychologically speaking, we should cultivate sentiment, broaden our minds, avoid being in a tense emotional state for a long time, and ensure comprehensive psychological and physical health. Cheng Kai said: "To achieve physical and mental harmony, we can try to avoid' anger' in advance and rationally overcome emotional impulses. Because' anger' is the chief culprit of emotional illness, which is extremely harmful to human health. Anger not only hurts the liver, but also hurts the heart, stomach and brain, and it can also lead to various other diseases. In addition, we should be good at adjusting our emotions, maintain a stable attitude towards external stimuli, and avoid severe emotional stimuli. 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