Chapter 20 Section 3 Keeping Your Youthful Face

British philosopher Spencer said: "The tide of life rises with pleasure and falls with pain." "A smile relieves a thousand worries" and "happiness forgets worries". Laughter can dispel worries and negative emotions and make people happy. Laughter is always open, youth is always there.People who laugh a lot will have more youthful vitality than those who are depressed and sullen all day long, and at the same time, they are healthier.Gao Shiqi, a well-known Chinese science popularization writer, once spoke highly of the role of laughter. He pointed out: "Laughter is a folk remedy for curing diseases and a messenger of health."

Legend has it that Hua Tuo, a genius doctor, passed by a village one day and saw a pair of little sisters whose eyes were red and swollen like peaches.Hua Tuo inquired and learned that the sisters were crying day and night because of the loss of their parents. Hua Tuo told them: "As long as you scratch your feet 49 times a day, you will recover in half a month. But be careful, if you catch too much It doesn’t work, I can’t catch less.” The younger sister would grab it whenever she had time, and it would itch as soon as her fingers touched the soles of her feet, and she couldn’t help laughing. Sure enough, within half a month, the eye pain was cured. Get rid of the disease".But my sister didn't believe it, and didn't follow Hua Tuo's doctor's order to catch her. Her eyes were still red and swollen.

Laughter can make people happy, and it is also good for the heart; on the contrary, being depressed is bad for your health and even increases the risk of early death.Dr. Michael Miller of the University of Maryland said that the cardiovascular benefits of laughter are similar to those of exercise, because laughter can promote blood flow.Another study by the University of North Carolina showed that being depressed or lacking a smile is often associated with unhealthy habits such as smoking and drug use, and can also increase the risk of death by 44%. During the investigation, Miller selected 20 comedy films that make people laugh, and asked 20 non-smoking, healthy volunteers with an average age of 33 to watch these films.As the volunteers watched the film, the researchers detected changes in their blood vessels.The study showed that 14 of 20 volunteers had decreased arterial blood flow in their arms when they watched a tragic film; conversely, blood flow increased in 19 of 20 volunteers when they watched a comedy film.The researchers concluded that blood flow increased by an average of 22 percent when people were laughing, and decreased by 35 percent when people were stressed.

From this, Dr. Miller came to the conclusion that laughing is similar to doing aerobic exercise, but laughing can keep us away from adverse effects such as injuries and muscle tension caused by exercise.However, he also said that laughter cannot replace physical exercise, and the two should be carried out regularly at the same time.He said: "We recommend that people do physical exercise three times a week, 30 minutes each time; in addition, laughing for 15 minutes a day, it will be good for people to maintain vitality and health." Now, people all over the world gradually realize the important role of optimism and humor in life and career, so they all make efforts to create conditions in every possible way so that everyone can live happily.In recent years, there has been a manga craze almost all over the world.Especially in Japan, manga has become so popular that a so-called manga culture has been formed, making manga as indispensable as air.Now the best-selling newspapers in Japan are manga newspapers.

According to statistics, manga magazines can sell 1.68 billion copies a year, and each Japanese person buys 15 copies a year on average.It is believed that the craze for Japanese manga was first formed because of the high tension in Japanese society. People were very tired and fled to the world of manga in order to relax.Now, some cartoonists in Japan even compile some difficult books such as economics, history and other works into comics.People feel the smile in the relaxed reading, and understand the content of the book in the smile, which is really entertaining and educational. Laughter is a beneficial fitness exercise. Laughter is good for digestion, circulation and metabolism. The important thing is that laughter helps to treat reality with optimism.If there is no laughter in life, people will get sick and make the disease worse. Humor can stimulate the active activities of the endocrine system and effectively relieve the pain.

Olga Garvey, living in Idaho, found herself able to stop worrying under the most tragic circumstances.I firmly believe that you and I can do the same, if we apply some very old principles discussed in this book.Here is the story, as written by Olga Garvey: "Eight and a half years ago, the doctor announced that I would die soon, and would die slowly and painfully. The most famous doctor in the country, the Mayo Brothers, also confirmed this diagnosis. I was desperate, and death was about to rush to me. I am still very Young, I don't want to die, in desperation, I called my doctor and told him about my despair. He stopped me impatiently and said, 'What's going on, Olga? Don't you have any fighting spirit? ?If you keep crying like this, you're going to die without a doubt. Yes, you've got the worst. Face it, don't worry, and do something'. At that moment, I sent I swore I was so determined that I dug my fingernails deep into the flesh and a chill ran down my back 'I won't worry any more, I won't cry any more, if there's anything I need I've always thought, That is I must win! I must continue to live'.

"In the absence of radium irradiation, I could only use X-rays for 10 and a half minutes a day for 30 consecutive days. But they took X-rays for 14 and a half minutes a day for me for 49 days. Although I The bones of my thin body protruded like rocks on the side of a desolate mountain, and although my feet were as heavy as lead, I never worried or once cried. I smiled, yes, my Really forced myself to smile. "I'm not so foolish as to think that just smiling can cure cancer. But I do believe that a happy state of mind can help fight off physical disease. In short, I have experienced a miracle cure for cancer. Over the past few years, I have I've never been as healthy as I am now, thanks to this challenging and combative line 'face the reality, don't worry about it, and do something about it'."

Optimism, happiness, joy, humor and laughter can all make the cerebral cortex in a moderately excited state.This is one of the best emotions and the best state of mind.In this best emotional and psychological state, the cerebral cortex produces the best response to the stimuli inside and outside the body, and sends out the best instructions, so that the various parts of the body can be optimally adjusted, and the vitality and resistance can be maximized. The best performance, which is most beneficial to the body and mind, and can overcome the invasion of various diseases; at the same time, it can make the best use of people's talents, intelligence, physical strength and creativity, so it is most conducive to career success and the best results. Good achievement.

Therefore, we believe that an optimistic mood is the best prescription for health and longevity, and the best way to achieve career success.Healthy laughter is the best way to eliminate fatigue, and it is also a very pleasant way to vent bad emotions. Shakespeare once said: "If you don't laugh in a day, then you have lived a day in vain." It is medically proven that in the process of humor and joy, hormonal changes will be caused, which is positively related to longevity.Now some health care experts also suggest that doctors should not hesitate to prescribe "laughing" for patients, point out the appropriate laughing frequency for them, and teach patients how to laugh, which is beneficial to health and longevity.