After people enter middle-aged and old age, their mood will also change. Old people who are healthy, have a certain cultural knowledge, have a comfortable economic life, and have obtained their favorite opportunities for study, work or research will have positive emotions. However, some old people who think that they are aging with the decline of physical function, especially those who have lost their purpose of survival, are uninterested, stubborn and depressed, and have fear and negative pessimism in the face of death. Coupled with the corresponding reduction in economic income, they will be lonely and unable to give full play to their self-awareness talents. Children are married and live alone or in different places, or cannot live with their children and grandchildren because of crowded housing. If the relationship between the old couple is not good. Or because of children, mother-in-law, or widowed, childless, deeper feelings. It is generally believed that before and after retirement, the mood of the elderly is a turning point, and the mood is at its lowest point around the age of 65, because long-term work and life habits and roles in society have changed, and it will take several years to experience the entanglement of negative emotions such as irritability, withdrawn, irritability and doubt. After the age of 70, I am used to the life of the elderly, my interest will gradually increase, and my mood will naturally get better.

How do middle-aged and elderly people keep positive and optimistic?

1. The elderly have rich working experience and should continue to serve the society if possible. If they have job opportunities or can work in the streets, they should make reasonable arrangements and participate enthusiastically.

2. Strengthen artistic accomplishment and cultivate a wide range of hobbies, and learn some painting, calligraphy, music, poetry, etc. As appropriate, especially listening to music. There is a neurasthenia patient in Italy, and long-term treatment is ineffective. Once, the doctor gave him three light music records and told him to play them twice a day at home for a week. A week later, the patient thanked the doctor for curing his illness.

In addition, planting vegetables, flowers, fish, fishing, raising birds and playing chess can not only enhance the interest of life, but also cure diseases. For example, Sweden has set up a unique fishing clinic in the coastal areas of Bosnia, which is specially open to neurasthenia and various mental patients. According to the organizer, fishing is a sport that combines "relaxing the heartstrings" and "concentrating", which are both opposite and complementary, and are of great benefit to people's nervous system health. Health scientists in Britain, France, the United States and other countries are going to follow suit and set up fishing clinics by the lake and seaside.

Tourism is also beneficial to the physical and mental health of the elderly, because the beauty of nature can stimulate people's hearts. It would be more ideal if we could travel with young people or engage in some recreational activities. For example, in Shanghai and other places, activities have been held to "forget to make friends". Old people can exchange ideas with young people through letters, dialogues, symposiums and get-togethers, so as to enrich their lives and maintain emotional balance.

4. Participate in research. Learning can not only broaden your horizons. And it can delay the aging of the brain.

5. Adhere to fitness activities and strictly abide by the work and rest system. After retirement, some people have completely disrupted the law of life, thinking that sitting still means enjoying a happy life. Moderate diet, normal daily life and rhythmic physical activity have great influence on the mood of the elderly.

Keeping a good mood and being optimistic about life are indispensable qualities in life.

Laughter, ten years old, sorrow, hoary head. Laughter has a certain medical function, is a good emotional response, and is a good gymnastics. It can dilate the lungs and promote breathing. Laughter can also relieve mental and nervous tension, relax muscles and so on. Watching comedies at ordinary times can not only relieve tension syndrome, but also cure many physical discomforts, such as headache, itchy skin and stomachache. Old people should have a sense of humor. People who are witty and humorous are much more emotionally stable than those who are not interested in watching anything.

Whether you can laugh or not is the standard to measure whether a person can adapt to the surrounding environment. Everyone should look for happiness around him. Mount Emei has such a couplet. I hope it will inspire you after reading it:

"Open your mouth and laugh, laugh at the past and laugh at everything; A big belly can accommodate you and the world. "

There are eighteen changes in the heart

The manifestations of mental aging are ever-changing. Some geriatric psychologists have summarized the following obvious characteristics:

(1) sense, perception, vision, hearing is not as good as before, taste is dull, and things that used to be delicious are now tasteless.

② Memory loss. I always can't remember the names of acquaintances. I read them before reading them, but I forget them after reading them. I often can't remember what I left behind.

(3) the imagination declines. There are fewer and fewer fantasies and lack of curiosity about new things.

(4) speech ability declines. The speech became slow and repetitive.

(5) The ability of thinking declines. It is not easy to concentrate, and it is also difficult to learn new knowledge.

⑥ Emotional instability. More emotional and emotional assimilation, often crying. Meet with difficulties. I am not as calm and comfortable as before, and I often have inexplicable anxiety.

All landowners will decline, lack of perseverance. I like to do things with old experience and lack a strong spirit of exploration for anything.

⑧ The reaction ability decreased. The movements are not as flexible and sensitive to things as before.

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Attending to produce aging and death.

Compared with young people, they are more susceptible to diseases, psychological and social factors, and become impatient, irritable, depressed, melancholy, anxious, withdrawn, withdrawn and even inhuman.

Easy to be anxious. Many people have gradually stabilized their emotions after menopause, but their anxiety is often difficult to disappear.

Emotions are prone to obvious changes. On the one hand, it tends to be indifferent to general stimuli, and it is not easy to show emotions or emotions, or the reaction intensity is reduced; On the other hand, when encountering a major stimulus, the emotional response is particularly strong. Hard to suppress.

Sensitive and suspicious. I often feel sad when I hear something wrong or wrong as an injury to myself.

It's easy to feel lonely. Personality changes from extroversion to introversion, lives in seclusion and is too lazy to communicate.

Easy to feel inferior. The main reason is that I feel old and useless, and inferiority complex will follow.

Habitual psychology is stubborn. It is not easy for the elderly to change the habits formed over the years.

Personality and psychological characteristics are obvious. Older people are more likely than young people and middle-aged people to stubbornly stick to their own views and disapprove of others' views and opinions.

"negative 10 years old" health method

Scientific experiments show that optimism can prolong life, while depression is harmful to health. The elderly should strive to be optimistic, cheerful and psychologically balanced. The method of "subtracting 10 years old" is beneficial to the health of the elderly. The method of "subtracting 10 years old" is to keep your hobbies, interests, pursuits and the whole psychological environment at the level of 10 years ago. From the psychological point of view, one can keep one's psychological environment at the level of 10 years ago, so good psychological quality will definitely play a good feedback role on physical quality. Research shows that the function of human immune system depends directly on the brain, and the "young" mental and psychological environment will inevitably promote the "young" function of immune system, thus consolidating and improving the functions of human organs in all directions. It can be seen that actively creating a "young" spiritual environment is of great benefit to improving health and delaying aging.

Emotion, Emotion and Health

Emotion and emotion is an important aspect of people's psychological life, which is accompanied by cognitive process, and its root is need and motivation. Satisfied needs will produce positive emotions and emotions, and vice versa. Both negative emotions and positive emotions can cause psychological tension, but not any psychological tension can cause illness. For example, people's high sense of responsibility for work and study is a tense psychological state. It is not only harmless to the body, but also enhances the body's disease resistance. Another example is an old man in Tokyo, Japan, 1965. After his wife died, he and his daughter lived alone. However, when the old man was not at home, the rogue gang lured his daughter away from home, and her whereabouts were unknown. The disaster left the old man penniless and never recovered. Only kind neighbors arranged three meals a day for the elderly. /kloc-in the winter of 0/972, neighbors saw him sitting alone in a cold room with his feet wrapped in rags. In his heart, there is a strong hatred for abandoning his daughter. Anger and hatred supported him and kept him alive tenaciously. The above situation is not uncommon. For a certain goal and belief, the body has been in a state of tension and the body is still very healthy. Once the task is completed, the problem is solved, and the body and mind are relaxed, you will get sick.

Negative emotions are human psychological activities to adapt to the environment, and are not necessarily pathogenic factors. For example, anger is always accompanied by the increase of adrenaline, adrenocortical hormone and antidiuretic hormone secretion, which leads to the increase of heart rate, blood pressure, shortness of breath, slow gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase of metabolic rate. All these reactions are aimed at mobilizing the potential strength of the whole body to cope with the encounter. Without this emotional reaction, people can't adapt to the ever-changing environment, and they can't achieve psychological and physical balance. So "furious" is not necessarily worth advocating. When people are sad, they will feel better after crying. Because people can suppress sounds, tears, expressions, movements, etc. But they can't control physiological activities, such as blood vessels and sweat glands. On the surface, negative emotions are controlled, but in fact, negative emotions will be transferred to the human body, which is called "the time bomb in the body". Therefore, it would be disastrous to forcibly close the floodgates of feelings and prevent them from venting.

Emotion is to vent. But know how to vent. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty in China, used poetry to vent his anger. Li Bai was angry at the situation that the traitors in the imperial court were proud and the talents were down and out at that time. His anger was a kind of anger that feared God. He wrote in his poem: "Oh, how can I solemnly bow and scrape to those people with high status and important positions, because they will never be seen with a sincere face!" "

But some people fly into a rage when they get angry. In fact, losing your temper can not only solve the problem, but also hurt your health. Psychologists believe that people who get angry easily will only get angry more and more easily, and excessive anger, whether it is venting or not, will increase the risk of illness. Angry people suffer from heart disease and death rate five times higher than those who are not so angry. In addition, the tragic death and sudden shock of relatives will lead to anxiety, headache and high blood pressure, which will lead to depression, severe neurosis, mental illness and physical illness, and even life-threatening.

Therefore, negative emotions are not harmful to health. Because everything is limited, if the negative emotional reaction is too strong and exceeds the function of self-regulation, it will also make people sick.

Negative emotions can cause diseases, while positive emotions can prevent and treat diseases, and 565,438+0% patients can be cured through self-function regulation.

Turn negative emotions into positive emotions.

Psychologists divide emotions into two categories: one is pleasant emotions, or positive emotions, including hope, happiness, courage and harmony, and the other is unpleasant emotions, or negative emotions, including anger, anxiety, depression and dissatisfaction. Psychologists believe that negative factors often over-stimulate human organs, muscles or endocrine glands, which can easily induce many diseases. Positive factors stimulate the human body moderately, which is beneficial to the health of the body.

So, how can we turn negative emotions into positive emotions?

1. Love life and have clear goals. There is a famous saying in the book How Steel was Tempered: "A man's life should be spent like this: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret wasting his time, nor will he be ashamed of being mediocre ..." If a man has lofty ideals and lofty goals, he will feel the value of life, and he will consciously ask himself to exercise well and be ready to fight and contribute to the cause of the party at any time. Generally speaking, the elderly have left the front line, but the spirit of fighting for the four modernizations of the motherland seems to be still at the front line. When you think there is still something to do, you will be positive.

2. Be selfless and be a paving stone. Comrade Tao Zhu once said: "If you forget the past, your heart will be selfless and broad." Old people should have the spirit of self-sacrifice, as Comrade Wu Yunduo said: "Even if they become dirt, as long as they are paved on the road to truth and let their partners make great strides, it is also the greatest happiness."

We should respect the facts and adapt our thoughts to the objective environment. So you won't feel that you are always doing nothing, doing nothing. Understand a truth, everything should be done step by step, without anxiety, anger and anxiety. At the same time, we should be good at self-control and skillfully get rid of bad emotions. Russian writer Turgenev once advised people: "Before speaking, turn your tongue in your mouth for ten times." In this way, you can control your emotions and avoid unnecessary tantrums or obsessions. For some old people, it is also a good way to change their bad mood by memorizing some proverbs. For example, if you are in a rage, think about Darwin's sentence: "If you lose your temper, you will take a step backwards on the ladder of human progress." Maybe it would be better. "Anger is to punish yourself with other people's mistakes. Anger begins with stupidity and ends with regret. " Don't you think this proverb is also very reasonable? What should I do when I am depressed? Think of Pushkin's "If life deceives you, don't be depressed or indignant. When things are not going well, bear it for a while, believe it, and happy days will come. " Maybe it will help you get rid of depression.

There seem to be too many examples, so choose according to your actual situation. As long as you can find a way to get rid of bad stimuli, you can turn negative emotions into positive ones.

In short, for middle-aged and old friends, keeping a happy and positive mood is an important guarantee to keep young, healthy and long-lived!

—— Quoted from Master of Disease Prevention by Yanbian People's Publishing House.