Smiling is a health preserving skill. Smiling is a good health preserving skill. When you smile, your breathing deepens, the amount of oxygen increases, and the pipes in your body will be opened and unblocked accordingly. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "seven emotions" are closely related to the five internal organs of the human body. In addition to the heart controlling joy, the lung controlling sadness, the liver controlling anger and the spleen controlling thinking. Excessive sadness and worry will hurt the lungs, excessive anger will hurt the liver, and excessive thinking will hurt the spleen. These "junk emotions" stagnate in the heart, which will lead to an increase in blood toxins and physical illness.
In many places, long-lived old people regard laughter as "the best tonic without spending money".
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, as long as people laugh, they will involuntarily take some deep breaths, and at the same time, facial expression muscles and chest and abdomen muscles will shake; If you "laugh", the muscles of the limbs will also move together, which invisibly moves the diaphragm, chest, abdomen, heart, lungs and even liver, accelerates the blood flow in the human body and promotes the metabolism of the whole body.
Therefore, it can be said that joking is a particularly healthy exercise. "Smile, ten years old" is not a myth, but a longevity method that has been personally verified by long-lived old people. If you go to Rugao, the hometown of longevity, you will find groups of elderly men and women, both in De 'an Lane in the depths of the city and in the country roads in the countryside, full of vigor and vitality. As they walked and talked, their faces were filled with heartfelt joy.
Smile is the best tonic. Smiling is a healthy living condition and a positive method of keeping in good health: smiling can maintain physical and mental pleasure, regulate yin and yang, and is conducive to the smooth flow of qi and blood; Smiling can guide a balanced state, maintain a calm and healthy state of mind, and inhibit the excessive exuberance of "secular desires", so as to keep the internal physiology and psychology of the human body in a balanced state, thus promoting the health and longevity of the human body.
In a sense, laughing heartily is a "life-prolonging medicine" for the elderly who live a long life, also known as "the most nutritious vitamin". The reason why long-lived elderly people can live long is that "as long as you laugh often, you can live long."