What caught my eye was the title of the book "Growing Against Age", and when I actually read it, I found that what surprised me more was the content, which believes that changing your psychology can change your body.
If we consciously make our mental age younger, will our bodies really become younger?
In this regard, the experimenters did a group of experiments, they divided the elderly into two groups, one group lived according to the normal state, and the other group adjusted their psychological age to the state they were 20 years ago. A week later, the researchers found that the elderly's memory, hearing, grip strength and other physical conditions had improved.
01. An uncertain life is more worth living
Life requires uncertainty. Uncertainty means that we have the freedom to choose, and the life we can choose independently is more worth living.
Many times, we think that certainty can bring us happiness and security. However, have you ever thought that certainty can obliterate our awareness, and in a sense, certainty can reduce our sense of control?
If we are born, someone tells us that this is the only way you can live your life. Presumably, we will lose the motivation to live. You think, our lives are arranged, and we will live like puppets, according to the design.
Even if this kind of life is comfortable, but this kind of life is too unfun. Although we all want to have a quiet life, however, we prefer an uncertain future in our hearts, don't we?
In a sense, uncertainty is our hope to live.
At the beginning of the new year, we often place new hopes on the new year, and this hope gives us the motivation to move forward.
Uncertainty does not refer to the turmoil of life, but an innovation that breaks the rules.
No matter when, no matter what, you must not set limits on your life, and do not set yourself what kind of life you can only live.
We are now facing a lot of uncertainty, and we are often exhausted by this uncertainty, feeling that life is like this, and no matter how hard we try, it is in vain.
In fact, don't these uncertainties give me a lot of opportunities to work miracles, and why should I give up, is it because I am not young, or because I am not confident enough. Maybe it's because I'm mentally too old, maybe it's because something is beyond my own settings.
In fact, uncertainty is the truth of the world, and only when it is accepted and understood, will there be a new consciousness.
02. The more positive the mentality, the younger the body
Seeing a story, it touched me a lot.
In a hospital, patients with serious conditions live on the third floor, and patients who have recovered and are about to be discharged on the first floor.
There was a patient who lived on the third floor and never said a word, and others thought he couldn't speak. By chance, he moved from the third floor to the first floor, and a miracle happened, not only did his physical indicators improve, but he also socialized well with others. After the third floor was renovated, he moved back to the third floor, and sadly he died soon after.
Mentality, again a tragedy caused by mentality.
How can we make our mindset positive?
We can engage in positive self-suggestion.
We all have the experience that when we consider the positive side of things, it seems that a motivation rises from the bottom of our hearts and fills us with positive energy.
On the contrary, when we see the negative side of things, it seems that we are ten years old and can't even get out of bed.
I really didn't expect that our bodies would cooperate with our psychology like this.
In life, the reason why many people's bodies are deteriorating has a lot to do with their hearts. For example, many people feel that they have been sentenced to death after suffering from cancer, and they die soon after, and we don't know if he was killed by mentality or caused by the spread of cancer cells. But studies have found that cancer cells don't spread as fast as they leave. It can be seen that mentality does play an important role.
We can also divide big goals into smaller ones.
It's very hard to take a big step, but it's very easy to move a little bit forward, we can't take a big step, but at least we can move a small step forward. The sense of accomplishment that progress brings us can motivate us not to move forward.
In addition, to become positive and optimistic, we can also spend more time with young people, wear more young clothes, some minor problems in the body do not have to be taken to heart, write more consciously, do not label ourselves as aging, the body is not only healthy and unhealthy, and so on.
03. With a young mentality, time can also be turned back
The ancients are cloudy, and the dead are like Sifu. The most precious resource in the world is time, and we all want to keep ourselves young.
Can it be achieved at all?
In life, we see that although some people are old, the whole person is very young.
If we consciously make our mental age younger, will our bodies really become younger?
In this regard, the experimenters did a group of experiments, they divided the elderly into two groups, one group lived according to the normal state, and the other group adjusted their psychological age to the state they were 20 years ago. A week later, the researchers found that the elderly's memory, hearing, grip strength and other physical conditions had improved.
In a sense, age is just a number, and it is inappropriate to judge someone by physical age.
For example, a 45-year-old person in his life may look old and in a very poor mental state; And a 55-year-old may look younger and more energetic than some 45-year-olds.
It can be seen that it is very unscientific to judge age only by relying on actual age.
In life, people with a young mental age are more youthful, in layman's terms, that is, they feel young psychologically, and their bodies are often younger.
To keep our minds young, we can try to do things that seem impossible on our own.
In his later years, Feng Zikai insisted on climbing Mount Hua on his own. There was a very steep section on the way, and many people advised Feng Zikai to give up or hire someone to carry it, but he refused, he thought of a way of his own, and every few steps up, he had to stand and rest. In the end, he succeeded.
There is no doubt that Feng Zikai's age is indeed not suitable to challenge Huashan, however, he ignores the existence of age and climbs to the top step by step in his own way.
Aging, not aging, but psychological withering. To keep the body young, first adjust our psychology.
04. Write at the end
If you feel that you are aging, then your mentality needs to be adjusted, because the aging of the body is largely caused by our bad mentality.
No matter what, at all times, you must maintain that "youthful and vigorous" state.
With a good mentality, the body will be good; When the mind is young, the body will be young.
Time can be turned back, may your youth stay forever.