Psychology: briefly introduce your understanding of emotional regulation and maintaining emotional health?

Emotion is the subjective experience of people's attitude towards objective things, and it is people's preference for objective things. In psychology, happiness, anger, fear and sadness are regarded as the most basic expressions of emotions, because these four emotions have strong purpose, low complexity, high intensity and high tension, which are closely related to human health and diseases.

(1) Joy

Joy is the emotional experience when the tension is relieved after the hope is realized. According to hope-comfort and joy, the degree of realization of sense of humor ranges from satisfaction, pleasure, joy to ecstasy, and there are many different levels of state.

Laughter is a happy facial expression. Because it can increase cardiac output, promote blood circulation, make complexion rosy, strengthen breathing and make people's mental outlook look brand-new. China's saying that "smile is ten years old" makes sense. Excessive joy can cause disease, laugh and lead to unexpected ecstasy of cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, you shouldn't laugh too much. Those elderly patients with hypertension, heart disease and cerebral arteriosclerosis should especially control themselves, otherwise they will "enjoy it".

(2) Anger

Anger is because you can't achieve your goals and wishes, especially when you encounter obstacles repeatedly, gradually accumulate tension and eventually produce anger. If a person is often in an angry mood, he should change some physiological indexes of the body and continue to cause psychosomatic diseases. Therefore, controlling anger is not only necessary for patients, but also necessary for everyone who is healthy.

(3) Sorrow is an emotional experience caused by the loss of what you hope, pursue or have, which gradually increases from regret and disappointment to sadness, sadness, grief and mourning. The external release of tension caused by sadness is crying. It is generally believed that crying well can release the backlog of pain, but holding back tears does not meet the requirements of mental health.

(4) Fear

It is an emotional experience of trying to get rid of and escape from a certain situation. Fear is caused by the lack of ability to deal with or get rid of terrible situations. Strangeness, strangeness, abnormality and disharmony can also cause fear. Sudden terror with great intensity and unprepared will cause mental disorder and even death. So in order to prevent excessive sudden impact.

On the basis of the above four basic emotions, there can be countless complex forms, which are generated by 10 thousand emotions and can also be given various social contents.

Psychology divides emotions into mood, passion and pressure according to the intensity and duration of emotional experience. Emotion is a kind of emotional state with less intensity and longer duration. Happiness, anger, sadness and fear can all be expressed in the form of emotions. This letter is spread, and it is a period of time when these feelings are infected and colored. Mood has a great influence on people's life, study and work. A happy mood can improve people's enthusiasm, health and work efficiency. Depressed emotions reduce people's enthusiasm, work efficiency and even affect their health.

Passion is an explosive emotional state with great intensity, short duration and obvious external performance. The country's enthusiasm for the people will undergo drastic changes, including changes in breathing rate, heart rate and sweat gland secretion. At the same time, people's rational analysis ability will also decline, self-control ability will weaken, and impulsive behavior may occur. Serious physiological changes may also lead to impaired human health.

Stress refers to the state of tension caused by unexpected tension. This is usually the power of passion, not a good duration, which varies from person to person. If a person is often in a state of stress, or the state of stress lasts too long, it is not good for people's physical and mental health.

Emotion is closely related to people's physical and mental health. Everyone needs to adjust their emotions, so that happiness and positive emotions are more than depression and negative emotions. The intensity and time of emotional experience are appropriate, which is conducive to physical and mental health. Emotion and control of emotions and negative emotions, such as training and effective removal, everyone can try to eliminate those life events that lead to bad emotions and can make changes according to their own specific conditions; Or try to accept the fact that personal strength can't change. At the same time, various skills are used to adjust emotions, so as to maintain good emotions and achieve physical and mental health.