It is of great significance for the elderly to pay attention to psychological adjustment and maintain an optimistic and cheerful mental state. Psychologists believe that there are many factors that can make the elderly live a long and healthy life, and open-minded and cheerful is one of them. Marx said: "A good mood can relieve the fatigue and pain of the body more than ten good medicines".
Medical research has proved that many senile diseases are related to the stimulation of bad mental factors, which affect the biochemical metabolism of the body and reduce the immune function. Paying attention to regulating psychological balance is helpful to the production of various enzymes and hormones in the elderly, which is conducive to regulating the function of brain cells and improving blood circulation.
When some old people are sick, they are afraid of illness and produce all kinds of negative emotions, which are more harmful to health. Modern medicine believes that bad emotions such as fear and depression will inhibit the central nervous system, and the functions of some organs and glands of the body will be unbalanced, causing metabolic disorders, and diseases will easily take advantage of it. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, "all diseases begin with qi". Bad mood makes people's mental machine abnormal, liver loses qi, lung loses function, and all diseases are caused by qi stagnation, so bad mood will not only lead to diseases, but also aggravate diseases.
An American psychologist said, "Worry is an emotional spasm. Once the spirit is firmly entangled in something, it will not give it up easily; " Bad mood is a stubborn force, which is often difficult to get rid of. Trying to get rid of bad emotions in many ways is a direct causal method, and' psychological victory' is the power of will. "For people who can't extricate themselves from depression, psychologists suggest that you don't think too much alone. Find a kind and reasonable person and talk to him, which can alleviate the pain. In addition, if you want to learn to temporarily relieve your troubles and encounter unpleasant things, you can use the method of "replacing trees with flowers", choose what you are most interested in, and do it patiently and skillfully, gradually replacing that psychological "spasm" and changing your bad mood, which is called "empathy and ventilation" therapy in TCM psychology.
The study of modern gerontology and the discussion of the body and mind of the elderly with long life have affirmed that long-term "moderate relaxation" with broad mind, cheerful personality, calmness and optimism is an important factor for longevity. And being in a bad mood is the source of chronic diseases. Pavlov, a famous biologist, once said: "Cheerfulness can make you feel every beat of life, and every impression of life comes from feelings." Carelessness means that physical and mental happiness can make your body develop and be strong. " Therefore, the elderly should strive to maintain psychological balance and stability.
Old people should also cultivate the idea of "contentment" in their lives. Being satisfied with happiness and happiness will promote their health and longevity.