Psychological research shows that moderate stress can make employees in a reasonable state of stress and have a positive effect on employees' behavior. However, if excessive occupational stress is not solved reasonably, it will make it difficult for employees to exert their normal working ability and lead to sub-health and diseases. For example, physiological symptoms include: often feeling tired, loss of appetite, poor sleep quality, easy to get sick and so on. Psychological symptoms include: nervousness, boredom, anxiety, irritability, pessimism, depression, despair and so on.
For many workers, the simplest and most obvious psychological impact of overwork stress is job dissatisfaction and decreased job satisfaction. When the personal work is complicated, the work style is too monotonous, the performance feedback mechanism and mechanism are not perfect, and there is a lack of control over the work, which is often accompanied by role ambiguity and role conflict, pressure and dissatisfaction will follow, and people will lose interest in the work. In addition to the decline in job satisfaction, there will be other psychological symptoms, such as tension, anxiety, irritability, depression and so on. Betty's story is a typical example.
Betty has always been a happy real estate salesman. She likes her job very much. She is also willing to help others. She likes talking to customers. She devoted most of her energy to her work. Her efforts also brought her huge profits, and soon she had everything in her life.
However, after living like this for two years, she began to feel tired, her enthusiasm decreased and she began to suffer from insomnia. The daily work became more and more difficult to cope with, and she began to feel annoyed that she had so many demands on her customers and consumed so much energy and time. She began to have headaches and backaches, and woke up every morning feeling as if she didn't sleep a wink.
Betty used to be a calm and relaxed person, but now she is surprised at the fragility of her nerves. She often loses her temper with her family for no reason and is absent-minded about her customers. Although she really wants to get rid of the pressure of work and say "to hell with everything", she is still dealing with her increasing workload more and more desperately. After working so hard for several months, Betty collapsed and she was admitted to the hospital because of physical and mental exhaustion.
This is Betty as an ordinary office worker. As an office worker, how to face the pressure brought by modern society?
There is no better tonic for heart stress than laughter. Endorphins secreted when laughing not only make people feel happy, but also have the effect of reducing the secretion of stress hormone-oxidative cortisone in the body. Laughter is a good medicine to relieve stress in the heart, and it can also play a role in preventing stress.
Just as volcanic eruption is a way to vent geothermal energy, our laughter is also a choice of heat dissipation in the body. Aristotle, an ancient philosopher, said, "When we laugh, all parts of our bodies relax ... we spit out hot air."
Laughter is a thermonuclear reaction in the human body, an instantaneous eruption of a volcano of passion, and an instinctive reaction of self-expelling heat. Otherwise, it is harmful to store too much heat for a long time. Only by discharging can we achieve the dynamic balance of human body. What is the way to choose emissions? The human body has "seven orifices", including the orifices of mouth, eyes, ears, nose and defecation. If the mouth is a "valve", then "smile" is the master key to open the valve to exhaust hot air.
Psychologist Ken? Powell once analyzed the influence of stress on human body in his monograph. He pointed out: as long as you laugh, your body will relax instantly, because it can inhibit cortisol and adrenaline and relieve the damage caused by stress. In addition, when people laugh, the lower jaw moves downward, and the downward movement of this organ is the key to relaxation.
Laughter is an instinctive behavior of human beings. You are unlikely to say "I can't laugh", but you may not like to laugh. You know, anyone who can't laugh is accumulating anxiety in life. If it is not released in time, it will inevitably cause greater tension and pressure.
For people who don't like to laugh, you can completely relieve stress by expecting laughter.
A research team at the University of California said that even if a happy and interesting thing is expected to happen soon, it can increase the content of endorphins and other hormones that make people feel happy and relaxed, while reducing the content of hormones that make people feel depressed.
The researchers tested 65,438+06 men, all of whom thought a videotape was very interesting, and eight of them were told three days in advance that they would watch it. The researchers found that these eight people immediately had physiological changes. After watching the video, the contents of hydrocortisone and adrenal hormone in their bodies decreased by 39% and 70% respectively. The content of relaxing hormone endorphin increased by 27% and auxin increased by 87%. Researchers say that auxin is beneficial to the human immune system, which shows that anticipating happy events can also relieve stress and enhance the immune system's resistance.
For female friends, relieving stress by laughing will also bring better information. An experiment in a fertility clinic in Israel shows that reducing stress through laughter can greatly improve the pregnancy rate of women. S experiment is aimed at women who receive artificial insemination. After the embryos were implanted in the uterus, the researchers asked a professional clown to perform 10 for them every day. 15 minutes, make them laugh. As a result, their pregnancy success rate increased from 19.3% to 35.
Although it is impossible to explain the reasons, the above research shows that psychotherapy may replace expensive and complicated traditional therapy in the treatment of infertility, bringing hope to many women.
If we can't find the "raw material" to make laughter in our life for the time being, we can do this: when we feel pressure, we can make laughter suggesting happiness to relieve the pressure.
The biggest motivation of self-suggestion comes from the laughing movement, that is, when the heart is attacked by some kind of pressure, find a quiet place and shout "I am happy, I am happy" to expel the factors that cause the pressure.