"You are not happy, go out to bask in the sun ..."

"Drink more hot water ..."

"Why don't you see a joke? I will be happy if I smile more ... "

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God, I really want to hear my friends comfort me like this. ...

After reading Sean Bayloc's Embodied Cognition, I found that these seemingly absurd methods are really effective.

"Embodied cognition" means that our psychological activities are closely related to our bodies.

This means that we can influence our emotions through our bodies.

We have also experienced some things, such as taking a deep breath to adjust our state when we are nervous.

Hold your head high, and you will somehow gain a sense of self-confidence.

When creative inspiration is exhausted, standing up and walking around can capture inspiration better than thinking hard at your desk.

The study also found that changes in facial expressions, body posture and body temperature do affect our mood.

0 1? facial expression

On the facial expression, scientists have found that people who use Botox plastic surgery to remove wrinkles have obvious emotional improvement.

The reason is that Botox prevents us from frowning and giving feedback to confirm that we are unhappy, so the brain may interpret it as nothing unhappy, so the mood will be much better.

This discovery is really interesting. Botox can effectively inhibit depressive symptoms.

02 body posture

For example, the body posture of walking posture, walking with head up, and the wind blowing will send a signal of "I am fine" to the brain.

Studies have found that often stretching body posture can really gain excitement and confidence.

03 body temperature

Let's talk about body temperature. We often have this experience. When the body feels "cold", the mind is likely to feel "lonely and empty".

And after drinking a cup of hot coffee and wearing a comfortable dress, when I feel warm, I feel loved.

We often hear that "children with strong hands-on ability are smart", which proves to be reasonable.

0 1 mathematical ability

A long time ago, there was a saying that children who listened to Mozart's piano music more often would be smarter during prenatal education.

Is it true?/You don't say. In fact, cleverness is related to the fingers playing the piano.

It is found that playing musical instruments requires the coordination of finger movements, which can enhance mathematical ability.

02 word comprehension ability

We find that foreigners have rich body language.

A facial expression, a body movement, these silent expressions can make communication more effective.

For example, a sentence: "I gave him a pencil", accompanied by the action of reaching out; One sentence: "He lent me a book", accompanied by the action of withdrawing his hand, really reduced the understanding time and enhanced the understanding ability of words.

03 Creativity

When you encounter a bottleneck at work, stand up and walk, and sometimes you can think of a solution.

Experiments have proved that this is true, so innovative companies like Google and Apple will specially prepare sports areas for their employees.

We experienced this kind of thing when we were young and couldn't take care of ourselves.

When parents feed every bite of food, they will open their mouths to signal, accompanied by a long sound.

Children will unconsciously open their mouths to imitate after seeing it, which is actually a "mirror reflection" that they will synchronize with seeing others yawn.

Scientists also found that to understand others, it is best to have a similar physical experience before.

For example, when watching a football match, people with sports experience have different brain reactions from ordinary fans.

People with sports experience are not so much watching the game with their eyes as repeating it in their minds.

Therefore, the body has such a powerful influence on mental activities, should we make the body move immediately?

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