We carry lots of emotional feelings like happiness, sadness, anxiety, excitement and many more. When we are happy we laugh, when we are sad we cry. We have been socialized by listening that laughing is a sign of happiness and crying is a symbol of weakness especially for men, only weak people cry.
But have you ever been taught that crying can improve your mental as well as physical health, shocked! Yes this is true that crying improves your health.
May be first you don’t believe but after reading these reasons listed below you will believe that crying is good for health!
Crying as a self soothing behavior:
Research study held in Croatia, says that crying is a self soothing behavior. Self soothing behavior means to sooth,calm and relax you when you are upset and also reduces negative emotions. Study shows that it helps in bringing back homeostasis by providing a relief and improves your mood.
Crying improves your mood:
Our old literature saw crying as Catharsis, which means the process of expressing strong feeling, as crying is often a stress buster and helps in improving our mood and removes negative experience or emotions. Another study found that people who cried after a negative emotional experience felt much better post crying than those who did not. So it can be said that crying helps in improving ones mood.
Crying cleanses your eye:
Tears contain lysozyme, which functions as an antiviral and antibacterial agent that nourishes and protect your eyes. Tears produced by crying, helps to wash out the eye. The glucose present in tear helps to nourish the eye and inside of the eyelid.
Crying as a stress reliever:
Crying helps in removing stress. Research shows that crying can prevent damage to the heart as they are stress buster.
So from now stop thinking that crying is a symbol of weakness, but this is natural behavior which is good for health as well as makes you distress.
