Chapter 18 Chapter 4 Drive away worries and liberate your mind

A person who sits and works, if he is in good health, his fatigue is 100% affected by psychological factors, that is, emotional factors. Difficult work in itself rarely causes fatigue that cannot be eliminated by a good rest... Worry, nervousness, and emotional distress are the three major causes of fatigue. Here's a surprising and very important fact: Using your brain alone won't tire you out.This sentence sounds ridiculous, but scientific experiments have proved it. So what is it that tires you out?Psychotherapists believe that most of the fatigue we feel is caused by mental and emotional factors. The most famous British psychoanalyst, Hydefield, said in his "Psychology of Power": "Most of the fatigue we feel is caused by are the result of psychological influences. In fact, purely physical causes of fatigue are rare."

The well-known American psychoanalyst Dr. Blier said in more detail, he said: "A sitting worker, if he is in good health, 100% of his fatigue is affected by psychological factors, that is, emotional factors." What factors can cause fatigue?Boredom, resentment, a feeling of being unappreciated, and fuss, anxiety, worry, of course.These emotional factors make people prone to colds and reduce work performance.We get tired because our emotions strain the body. Why do these unnecessary tensions arise during mental work?He Xilin said: "Almost all people believe that the more difficult the work, the harder it is to do it, otherwise we can't do it well." So we frowned as soon as we concentrated, shrugged our shoulders, and let all the muscles "strength". ’, which actually doesn’t help our thinking at all.

When you encounter this kind of mental fatigue, you should relax, relax, and relax again. is it easyNo, it will take a lot of effort to change the habits of a lifetime, but it will be worth the effort.William James said in the article entitled "On Relaxing the Emotions": "Americans are excessively tense, fidgeting, and looking pained. This is a bad habit, a very bad habit." Tension is a habit. Relaxation is also a habit, while bad habits should be eliminated and good habits should be maintained. How can we relax?Do you start with the mind or the nerves first?No, it should start with the muscles, first you have to relax the eye muscles, and then you can use the same method to relax your face, neck and whole body.

However, the most important organ in your body is your eyes.If you can completely relax your eye muscles, you can forget about all your worries, says Dr. Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago.The reason the eyes are so important in relieving nervous tension is that they consume a quarter of the body's energy.That's why many people with good eyesight feel "eye tension" because they themselves make the eyes tense. Vicky Bem, a female writer who is famous for her novels, once said that when he was a child, he met an old man who taught her the most important lesson he had ever learned in his life.At that time, she fell, broke her knee and sprained her wrist.An old man who had been a clown in the circus helped her up, and as he dusted her off, the old man said to her, "You get bruised because you don't know how to relax. You You should pretend you're as limp as a pair of socks, like a worn pair of socks. Come, I'll show you how to do it."

The old man taught Vicky Beam and the other kids how to run, how to jump, how to do somersaults, and kept telling them, "Think of yourself as a pair of old socks, and you'll relax." You can relax anytime, anywhere, just don't make an effort to relax yourself.The so-called relaxation is to eliminate all tension and strength, and only think of comfort and relaxation.To start, think about how to relax your eye muscles and face muscles, and keep saying, "Relax... relax... relax, relax!" Feel yourself from the facial muscles to the center of your body. Physical strength, make yourself like a child, completely free from tension.

This is the method used by the famous soprano Carrie Guqi.Helen Gibson told me that he often saw Carrie Gucci sitting in a chair before a performance, relaxing all the muscles, and the jaw was loose as if dislocated.This approach is very good, it can make her not feel too nervous when she is on stage, and it can also prevent fatigue. Here are 5 tips to help you learn how to relax: (1) See a good book on the subject - "Destroying Nervous Tension" by Dr. David Harrow Fink.I also recommend that you take a look at "Why You Are Tired" by Daniel Hoslin. (2) Relax yourself at all times, making your body as limp as a pair of old socks.When I'm at work, I often keep a pair of old auburn socks on my desk to remind me how relaxed I should be.A cat will work too if you can't find an old pair of socks.Have you ever hugged a cat sleeping in the sun?When you pick it up, its head slumps like a wet newspaper. Indian yoga teaches you that if you want to relax, you should look at the cat more often.I have never seen a tired cat, or a cat with schizophrenia, rheumatism, or a stomach ulcer from worry.If you can relax yourself like a cat, you can probably avoid these problems.

(3) Take a comfortable posture while working.Remember, physical tension creates shoulder pain and mental fatigue. (4) Check yourself five times a day and ask yourself: "Am I working harder than I really am? Am I using muscles that have nothing to do with my work?" It helps you develop a good habit of relaxing.As Dr. David Harrow Funk puts it: "Those who know psychology best know that two-thirds of fatigue is habitual." (5) Check back every night and ask yourself: "How tired am I? If I feel tired, it's not because I'm working too hard, it's because I'm doing things the wrong way." The grades," Daniel Hexilin said, "are not how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am." He said, "If I feel particularly tired after a day, or if I feel When I am particularly poor in spirit, I know without a doubt that I have not done enough work in the day, either in quality or quantity. If every entrepreneur can learn this, the proportion of diseases that cause death due to nervous tension, It will drop immediately. And we won’t have people in our psychiatric nursing homes who have collapsed from fatigue and worry.”