being angry, that is, self depression, bad mood and endangering your own health, which is the so-called & ldquo; Great Qi hurts the body & rdquo;. For example, in traditional Chinese medicine, the human body has the theory of qi stagnation and Qi stasis. Anger is easy to dull the original unblocked seven meridians and eight collaterals, slow the speed of blood flow back to the heart, and generate lesions in a certain part, thus laying a time bomb for the occurrence of diseases. Let’s take a look.
What harm will frequent anger do to the body?
1. Brain injury. Extreme anger can make the brain think beyond routine activities, often make reckless or extreme actions, and abnormal behavior forms bad stimulation to the brain center. Qi and blood rush up, which will also lead to cerebral hemorrhage.
2. It hurts. When angry, because the mood can not be calm, it is difficult to sleep, resulting in trance and listlessness.
3. Skin injury. People’s mental state determines a person’s aging. When people are angry, a large amount of blood flows to the face. At this time, there is less oxygen and more toxins in the blood. The toxin will stimulate hair follicles and cause color spots and skin inflammation.
4. Lung injury& ldquo; Qi explodes the lungs & rdquo;, This is because when people are emotionally impulsive, their breathing will become rapid, their alveoli will keep expanding, and there is no time to shrink. They feel that they can’t breathe, and their lungs are painful, so anger will really hurt their lungs.
5. Injury to spleen and stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine says that the spleen governs the movement. When people are angry, the sympathetic nerve becomes excited, the blood flow in the stomach decreases, the blood supply is insufficient, and the gastrointestinal peristalsis is difficult, resulting in poor appetite, gastric ulcer and other phenomena, affecting the digestive system.
6 , liver injury. As the saying goes, anger hurts the liver. Research shows that when angry, the liver is a circle larger than usual. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver governs catharsis and likes to be smooth and open-minded, while anger will lead to poor liver qi, disharmony between liver and gallbladder, pain in both ribs and liver area, causing damage to the liver.
7. Endocrine disorders. Anger can lead to endocrine disorders, irregular menstruation, irregular cycle, reduced menstrual volume, dark red blood, and even amenorrhea or early menopause.
8. Mental illness. When people are angry, their normal thinking is affected. If they are in this state for a long time, they will cause some mental diseases, such as depression.
9. Gas causes cancer. Bad personality and emotion is one of the risk factors in the process of cancer initiation and development. Its possible mechanism is that depression greatly weakens people’s immune function, leading to visceral dysfunction, endocrine imbalance and immune function disorder, resulting in Qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm coagulation and toxin accumulation in the disorder of Qi and blood circulation, which will eventually lead to deficiency of healthy qi, and evil toxins will make trouble and take advantage of the weakness, Form cancer or tumor. In fact, anger causes cancer. Galen, a famous doctor in ancient Rome, came to the conclusion that & lsquo; Depression is prone to cancer & rsquo;; In the “Ge Zhi Yu Lun” written by Zhu Danxi, a famous medical scientist in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is also mentioned that women are incompatible with their parents-in-law and aunt-in-law. They are depressed and prone to & lsquo; Milk rock & rsquo;, That’s what we call breast cancer today.
How to control emotions
1. Set clear boundaries
when someone violates your bottom line, especially not for the first time or the second time, your best choice is to verbally inform the other party and clearly express your position, And ask the other party not to do it again.
2. Find out the real reason for your anger
today, you lost your temper. It seems that your PM ate lunch for two hours and missed the deadline agreed with the customer, but is it possible that there are other reasons for your anger? Before you feel angry and lose your temper, find out the real situation that makes you angry and remember when you started to feel angry?
remember, when you are dealing with all this, you must be honest with yourself, because sometimes anger is caused by other deeper reasons, and only takes the opportunity to break out through superficial reasons. You must clarify the real reasons, be right to things and not to people, and don’t bring your personal emotions to business.
3. Give yourself a space
if you feel that you are about to explode, you must immediately make a plan to extinguish the anger of the volcano before it erupts. If you are in a meeting and the discussion is in full swing, you can tell everyone that you are not feeling well and have to go to the bathroom. In this way, you can stay away from the scene for a while and return to the meeting in a better state after adjustment.
4. Timely express your feelings
when you have time to think and deal with problems, it is very important to tell each other how you feel. And when you express your feelings, don’t forget to tell the other party where your bottom line is, so as not to be violated again. For example: & ldquo; Sorry, you keep interrupting me during the meeting. It’s very disrespectful and makes me feel ignored. Please don’t do that again& rdquo;
5. Give yourself a reward
. When you are angry, it is not easy to maintain a neutral point of view and control your emotions. You should celebrate! If you can control your emotions perfectly and learn to be responsible for it, buy yourself some ice cream or other delicious things! Your brain will thank you and return to a better state.