Crying your heart out can unburden your soul
CRYING may not be all that bad afterall. In fact, it’s healthy for both physical and psychological reasons. Today, our lives are mostly so stressful simply because we don’t ‘let it out’. We have lost the habit of crying honestly and innocently. We probably have learnt to find other outlets like watching television, spending time on Facebook or simply partying and boozing. These are not the healthiest ways to deal with a setback or a disappointment. If you are feeling low, it’s important to admit. The best way to admit it to yourself is to cry your heart out.
Here are a few real advantages of crying:
For the big release
Has anyone ever told you that crying can be an excellent healing tool? It is actually considered therapeutic. A low part of your life badly needs a release. A release that would wash away the anxiety or disappointment or dissatisfaction. And it is very vital for your health that this comes out before it gets converted into something physical like a high blood pressure or mental stress. Suppressing emotions or replacing them with something else is never advisable nor is healthy. Crying helps in releasing the emotions freely. One really feels the need to unburden one’s thoughts. And there’s no better way to do that but cry. Crying clears your mind, and relaxes you.
You feel better
Biologically speaking, while you cry, you happen to lower your manganese level. The manganese is responsible for causing irritability, fatigue, emotional imbalance, nervousness, and such things. And so crying is almost important to be able to get rid of all these factors which can be crucial in making you feel better or worse. Since crying washes out the above feelings, you feel better and more charged to face the world.
Stress buster
Crying is really a stress buster. In a given bad day, instead of rationalizing what happened the whole day and who was responsible, if you just take a moment and let the feelings out through tears, you can practically save yourself a lot of stress. Chemicals like leucine enkephalin and prolactin get built up due to stress and it would increase if you suppress your feelings of anxiety. You can keep diseases like blood pressure, heart problems and peptic ulcers at bay if you just cry.
Good for eyes
Tears we all know are good for eyes. Tears actually clear your eyes, they act like a lubricant.
Tears kill bacteria
It may sound funny and very unemotional as we write this but that is quite a fact. Tears actually help killing bacteria and other viruses that may damage your eyes. As a result, your eyes don’t pick up germs from dirtier places. Tears contain lysozyme, which is a fluid that kills most of your bacteria.
If you had been keeping a burden on your heart for long, it’s time to release it. Cry today.
Meri Fitness 