Have you ever thought that your own death? What would you feel? If I tell you often think about death may make you more healthy spirit, you will not be surprised?
Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy had asked the meaning of his life, there is no one meaning even thoughts of death can not be eliminated or destroyed? On the surface, all the people and things, as long as we feel precious, that we treasure, will disappear at any time. Like professor Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College once said, he said, Reflection death may give us extremely heavy psychological pressure, because you know yourself with food and animals of little importance, in his words, "and lizards Like potatoes. "
How the feeling of death, to know that this is almost impossible. So the question is, as human beings we are faced with this dilemma: we animate desire, but we all know that we will inevitably die, and we do not feel even the death of what had experience in such a predicament, people under severe psychological pressure. For death, the most likely place is the fear of death is unknown.
However, death also has another side.
Professor of psychology at the University of Texas, James Pennebaker conducted several studies on deaths in the study people were asked to write a text description innermost feelings - often repressive character - study from weeks ranging from a few months to. He found record their inner thoughts can enhance people's mental health, and even their health. He said that although we all feel writing is difficult, but in the end almost all experimental subjects feel both sense and very worth it.
Many studies in economics and psychology have found a rare thing for your (including time) phenomenon. Description of death, especially the repeated description of death, highlighting the theme of my life is career, and people tend to think that life is more a matter of course, but also avoid talking about death.
Clinical psychologist Irvin Yalom issue is existential contradiction, his article also explored the deep thought of death has a positive effect on mental health. He believes that people can accept and face death, and their life is "real" life, their behavior and goals and values more consistent with their own hearts.
Thoughts of death will make people forgive others. Interestingly the study subjects also appeared in patients with mild depression performance (below the clinical level), studies have shown that people with mild depression Thoughts of death can benefit most, more profound reflection on life.
German philosopher Martin Heidegger's writings also mentioned Thoughts of death can be converted to human thinking, so that people appreciate all that exists, and not to worry about how all this exists, they are also what these abstruse problem.
via livescience (Compiled: Wang via livescience)
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