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- Movements affect the mood
- If you are right now, it's easier to go through the day
- Why a pencil can make happy
- Emotions and movements are linked in the brain
- Gestures improve the memory
- Activate positive emotions
- Exercises for the good mood
- Stretching Back Stresses the ego
- 2. Erection gives confidence
- 3. Keep your chin high
- 4. A pencil brings luck
- 5. Create air for good thoughts
- 6. Inner relaxation gives charisma
Movements affect the mood
Scientific studies show how much we can influence our state of mind with movements, facial expressions and gestures. The name of this phenomenon is Embodiment ("embodiment"). Behind this is a rather recent research field in psychology, which investigates the interactions of body and psyche. Simplified, one can explain Embodiment as follows: Who is sad, lets hang the shoulders. But it also makes you sad to hang your shoulders. According to Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Tschacher of the University of Bern could also be said: The body is not only a mirror of the soul, but the soul is also mirror of the body.
If you are right now, it's easier to go through the day
How often we take a posture in everyday life that worsens our mood, we are often not aware. For example, imagine a morning bus or train: some people are talking, some dozing, but most are typing on their cell phones. And this is the surest way to lose good mood in the morning, researchers at the University of Amsterdam warn. For those who write a message with their mobile phone typically sits with their backs bent, their heads bowed, their eyes slightly narrowed and their eyebrows contracted. An attitude and facial expressions that stand for grief, discouragement and anger - and thus pave the way for exactly these feelings. Likely episode at the end of the bus or train ride: You get annoyed faster - for example, from the rain, rather than be happy that you have packed the umbrella.
"In this case, body processes cause the psychic experience, " says psychologist Dr. med. Maja Storch from the University of Zurich, who has been working for many years on the practical effects of the embodiment and together with Benita Cantieni, Prof. Dr. med. Gerald Hüther and Prof. dr. Wolfgang Tschacher wrote the book "Embodiment".
Why a pencil can make happy
Conversely, certain postures can also translate into a positive mood spiral. So the world looks happier when you smile - even if this smile is fake and only arises by holding a pin with your teeth. However, you can not turn off all negative feelings immediately by pinching a pin between your teeth. "That would be too simplistic thought", clarifies Dr. med. Stork.
Whether positive or negative - emotions that have a valid reason are not so easy to overrun. To stay with the mobile phone example: who is just happy in love and exchanges tender SMS, the bent head does not bring so quickly from cloud nine down. But finding an unnecessarily bad mood is not that difficult.
Emotions and movements are linked in the brain
Because in the brain are the corresponding postures and facial expressions, for example, for the emotion "serene serenity", already anchored, so brain researchers. Huether. If you want to feel cheerful and relaxed, so you can z. For example, stand relaxed, sit back, walk with swinging arms.
Try out what suits you - it's about activating the brain patterns that make you feel "serene and serene". The better you succeed, the faster and more profound your mood can change in the desired direction.
Gestures improve memory
Movements can also help our brains. So we not only gesticulate while talking, in order to make ourselves more intelligible to the other person, but also to be able to think better. This proves the fact that even blind-born people do that. Also, memory seems to help gestures on the jump, as researchers from the University of Chicago found out: who gesticulates, relieves his working memory, learns easier.
Activate positive emotions
The Swiss Benita Cantieni ( www.cantienica.com ) knows that there really is something like body happiness . She has developed exercises that elevate the body and help to understand - and use - the bond between body and psyche. The most effective exercises we have put together for you. Choose the ones that best suit your everyday life and do them as often as possible.
Exercises for the good mood
1. Stretching your back strengthens the ego
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
Place with slightly outwardly directed toes in a door frame or back in front of a pillar. Grasp door frame or pillar with both hands to the rear. Pull the abdominal wall in the direction of the spine, straighten the pelvis. Carefully lower upper body forward until arms are stretched. Hold for 40 seconds, 5 times.
THAT'S THE BRING
Stretches the spine, activating well 200 back muscles. This gives the feeling of being at home in the body. Power self-conscious.
2. Erection gives confidence
Especially women often go through life with a rather uncertain inner attitude. This is also shown physically: The weight is shifted to one leg, the hip is crooked, the shoulders are slightly raised. High time to sit up!
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
Feet hip width apart, toes slightly outward. The knees are not pushed through, the kneecaps are pointing straight ahead. Activate the pelvic floor by tensing the abdomen, gently pulling the abdominal wall towards the spine. Raise the pelvis by guiding it slightly to the navel.
THAT'S THE BRING
The abdominal and back muscles are networked together. The contraction of the lower pelvic opening activates the hip muscles. They stand up, look and feel bigger. They trust in their abilities, are more confident about their everyday life.
3. Keep your chin high
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
Sit upright. The shoulders are relaxed. Now stretch the "crown point", the highest point of the vertex, to the ceiling - as if an invisible band would pull you to the sky. On the other hand, align the pubic bone and tailbone with the earth. The chin forms a 90 degree angle with the neck. Do not close your mouth completely, put the tongue root on the palate. Now imagine that you inhale on the right side of the chin and on the temple on the upper left again. Then breathe in on the left side of the chin and on the right side. Repeat the exercise 3 times.
THAT'S THE BRING
The skull muscles are networked. It creates a pleasant feeling, as if the head was floating. This promotes inner balance.
4. A pencil brings luck
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
With your front teeth bite lightly on a pin. Automatically, the lips make a smile. Stay in position for about a minute without cramping. Keep your chin and neck relaxed and upright.
THAT'S THE BRING
This simple exercise activates the laughing muscle "zygomaticus major muscle". He sends the all-is-good message to the brain via nerve tracts. The result: the mood actually rises.
5. Create air for good thoughts
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
Blow two balloons about medium in size. Take one in each hand. Now bend your arms so that your elbows are pointing down and your hands are pointing upwards. Guide the balloon in your right hand with a smooth motion to your right shoulder. Then move the balloon in the left hand in the same way to the left shoulder. Always in change, each arm 10 times.
THAT'S THE BRING
The exercise opens the ribcage, stretching the chest and collarbone. This creates more space for deep, liberated breathing. This creates new space for good emotions and thoughts.
6. Inner relaxation gives charisma
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
Lay your head (not the neck!) On an inflated balloon. Imagine, an invisible gentle force pulling simultaneously on your cranial roof and on your pubic bone and coccyx, stretching the whole body. In your mind, breathe in at the tip of the chin and out again at the jaw joints. 3 times. Then inhale at the "amorbogen" (point between the lip of the heart and the tip of the nose), at the temples. 3 times. Finally exhale 3 times over the bridge of the nose (the "third eye") and exhale at the temples.
THAT'S THE BRING
The neck is gently stretched, the facial muscles relax. That makes for a great charisma.
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