The Spring Festival, for many people, may be the longest holiday in 1 year. However, many people will complain that the New Year is more tiring than going to work. Because, frequent gatherings, not enough rest, and eating too much, hearing a lot of words that do not want to hear, the body is tired, the heart is tired. You may not imagine that health is a whole, but also a skill, only by learning to take the initiative to rest, in order to bring the necessary protection for health.
Being busy for a long time and feeling stressful can bring serious harm to your health. Last month, a paper was published in the Lancet series Of European Regional Health. Studies have shown that the average workday of more than 55 hours per week increases the risk of infection and cardiovascular death before age 65 by 45% and 52%, respectively. As work hours increase, the risk of infections, sleep disturbances, rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, circulatory and respiratory diseases, injuries and falls increases significantly. Therefore, scholars believe that overdrawing the body to pursue success will only make people more and more distant from success and happiness.
In psychology, there is a term, fight and flight response, which refers to the stress response of the vast majority of animals when they encounter danger. After the danger, the body will produce a corresponding rest and digestion reaction. The fight and flight responses instantly activate the body's sympathetic nervous system, increasing the secretion of adrenaline. Rest and digestion reactivate the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing the body to store energy and retain energy. If you are in a state of tension and stress for a long time, the elasticity of rest and digestion reactions will become weaker and weaker, and the attention to negative information will continue to increase, so that the body will be in a state of exhaustion in the physiological and psychological system for a long time, and the risk of a variety of diseases will rise, and eventually overwhelmed and forced to lie in a hospital bed.
When it comes to rest, most people have a misunderstanding that rest is sleep, sleep is rest, and the scientific community divides rest into 3 types, active rest, passive rest, and social rest. Active rest involves physical exercise, for example, participating in various exercises. Passive rest refers to sedentary leisure activities, such as watching TV or reading magazines. Social breaks are activities with friends, such as parties, meals, singing, etc.
Adequate rest is an ability to ensure health. To get enough rest, you should combine the different types of rest appropriately to minimize passive rest. It is necessary to recognize the importance of rest for health and happiness, and at the same time, it should be understood that fatigue will reduce work efficiency, and only by resting enough can we have better energy and obtain a double harvest of health and work performance.
An effective way to ensure the effectiveness of rest is to work hard to cultivate a deep hobby, and having a deep hobby will not only immerse people in it, but also be completely relaxed. Studies by Japanese scholars have shown that having 1 deep hobby can reduce a person's risk of cardiovascular disease by 10% and the risk of developing a stroke by 13%. If there are multiple deep hobbies, the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke will be reduced by 20%. If you can choose 1 deep hobby that is not related to your daily work, you can better transfer the stress of work, for example, if the programmer falls in love with fishing, or the delivery guy is obsessed with yoga.
In order to guarantee adequate rest, 3 pieces of advice are offered to you. The first is to clearly demarcate the boundaries between work and rest, and try not to contact work-related matters during the time period of planned rest, for example, do not bring unfinished work tasks to the home, and strip the rest from work from space and time. Second, set aside a focused break every day, during which it is best to turn off your phone and leave your computer screen. Third, actively create a common break with family or friends. Finally, I would like to remind you that adequate rest can add reliable protection to health, and staying up late often will not only cause immune dysfunction and biological clock disorders, but also bring sleep and metabolic disorders, and increase the risk of sudden death. I wish you all the best of luck in the new year.
Whoever loves, pass on health to whom.