Regular exercise and scientific laughter can make people feel happy.
Exercise can make people feel happy, which is more effective than taking any good medicine and can cheer themselves up. Studies have proved that emotions and emotions are the result of objective stimuli affecting cerebral cortex activities. The external manifestations and internal changes of the body in emotional activities are related to the functions of the nervous system at all levels, and are the result of the coordinated activities of the cerebral cortex and subcortical center. Through physical exercise, such as jogging, brisk walking, swimming, playing badminton, volleyball, basketball, football, cycling, mountain climbing, etc. , can strengthen the heartbeat, promote the blood circulation and metabolism of the digestive system, make the brain get enough oxygen and nutrition, restore the excitement of the cerebral cortex and suppress calm down, so as to achieve the purpose of improving bad emotions. Of course, any exercise needs long-term persistence to be effective. At least three times a week? 5 days, at least 30 minutes at a time.
Exercise can also affect people's personality characteristics, especially for emotional stability. Participating in sports activities can make people highly focused and is an effective way to control mental stress and psychological obstacles. They help to eliminate excessive tension, channel pent-up energy, ease or alleviate bad emotions and maintain mental health.
Some scholars believe that sports are not only leisure or exercise, but also have the value of psychotherapy. It is like a purifying agent, which allows participants to vent and sublimate their pent-up emotions and energy through socially recognized channels and heal their injured hearts.
There is no doubt that exercise has many benefits to mental health. If we combine exercise with smiling, it will have a double effect. In our life, we will find that those athletes who are smiling will always achieve excellent results in the sports field.
Smiling generally does not belong to exercise, but because it can improve the mood of depressed people, psychologists at the University of Munich have designed a set of "facial gymnastics" with ingenuity. Actually, this kind of facial gymnastics is very simple. As long as you "force" yourself to practice smiling in front of the mirror at an appropriate time every day, it will benefit for a long time, because it can make depressed people feel happy.
Researchers have found that different facial expressions "move" different muscle groups in different forms, which will increase or decrease the blood temperature and skin temperature flowing to the brain (high temperature will make people feel uncomfortable, and vice versa), and will make some subtle changes in heartbeat and breathing, thus affecting the brain center that controls emotions. This is the theoretical basis for people to initially reveal that laughter can regulate mental state. Laughter is a special form of "exercise". Exercise is good for both body and mind when you are depressed and in a bad mood.
Besides facial gymnastics, smiling can be combined with other sports. For example, when walking, take your time and smile. The two forms of exercise blend with each other and complement each other.
When we walk, our brains produce endorphins just like when we laugh. This substance can give athletes a unique pleasure. Once an athlete stops exercising, he will feel lost and depressed as the secretion of this "happy" hormone drops sharply. This is what people often say about sports addiction. Therefore, in terms of adjusting psychology and improving mood, smiling and exercise really reach the same goal, and smiling and other exercises are also interrelated. Dr Herbert from the Medical College of the University of Southern California has done an experiment: 30 middle-aged and elderly people suffering from tension insomnia were divided into three groups. Group A took 400mg； of carbamate sedative powder; Group B did not take medicine, but took part in physical exercise happily. Group C didn't take medicine and was forced to take part in some sports that they didn't like. The results show that group B has the best exercise effect and group C has the worst effect, so it is better to take sedatives. This shows that mental health in physical exercise will have a great influence on the exercise effect and medical effect.
How can we implement this sports smile method? Pay attention to have a clear exercise purpose and a strong desire to exercise. Before exercise, you should have a feeling of longing for exercise, have the consciousness of actively participating in exercise, and avoid the passive state of "going against your will".
In exercise, we should concentrate our attention, get rid of other thoughts, and concentrate our thoughts on how to breathe and how to master the correct sports techniques.
Attention should be paid to making physical exercise easy. You can listen to music before exercise, or you can find kind relatives and friends to participate in exercise together to create a cheerful atmosphere.
Pay attention to choosing sports activities that interest you, especially taking part in some "light sports" projects, such as fishing, outing, mountain climbing, boating, chess, gateball, ballroom dancing, roller skating, etc., and try to combine sports and entertainment as much as possible to maintain a happy mood.
Need to master some psychological adjustment methods. For example, before running, we take a photo in front of the mirror, straighten our hair and collar, look at our faces, or stretch our arms and touch our bulging muscles. Seeing that you look good and your muscles are full, you immediately laugh and cheer up. This is a positive psychological self-regulation.