A man is arranged in such a way that he almost daily worries about his relatives and worries about important things for him, because modern life constantly throws him stressful situations. All this has a negative effect on the central as well as the autonomic nervous system. Moreover, such an impact does not pass without a trace. Negative emotions lead to the development of physical and mental pathologies. After all, we know that "all diseases are from nerves."
How to maintain your health? Who should pay attention to strengthening the nervous system in the first place? Let's try to figure this out.
The nervous system and its strength
Which people are most affected by stress? Of course, those who have a weak type of nervous system. Moreover, according to experts, with each new generation the number of such people is constantly increasing.
This or that margin of safety, which distinguishes the nervous system, is given to every person from birth. This indicator indicates the performance and endurance of all nerve cells in our body. If the NS has sufficient strength, then it is able to withstand any, sometimes even the most powerful excitations. Inhibition of cells in this case does not occur. Thus, the difference between people with a strong and weak nervous system is that the first of them are able to withstand superstrong irritants. And if the NA is weak? Then its owners can not boast of patience. They are not able to withstand the effects of strong irritants. It is difficult for them to keep the information received by them. That is why people with weak nerves share it with everyone, sometimes even with the first comers. Indeed, in such situations, the National Assembly begins to slow down or completely ceases to work.
Nevertheless, a weak nervous system has its own advantages. For example, it has an increased sensitivity and is able to easily distinguish between super-weak signals.
Signs of weak NS in adults
What is the difference between a man whom nature could not endow with a strong nervous system? First of all, he is indifferent in most issues. Such a reaction suggests that the individual perceives any blows of fate, without expressing his protest. A weak type of nervous system makes a person lazy. Moreover, this can be observed not only in relation to its psychological, but also physical characteristics. This is confirmed by people living in poverty and not making any attempts to rectify the situation and change their position in society.
Another sign of a weak nervous system is indecision. A person who is characterized by hypersensitivity is ready to obey everyone. Sometimes such people are mastered to such an extent that they turn into living robots.
Considering the characteristics of a weak nervous system, it is worth noting the constant doubts of its owners. Such a person often makes excuses, thereby trying to disguise his failures. And he doubts not only himself. Distrust of people with a weak nervous system is also caused by someone who is trying to help him in a particular business. This is sometimes expressed in envy of the one who is more successful and better in this life.
What else relates to the characterization of a weak nervous system? By excitement expressed in anxiety, such people stand out from everyone else. Such manifestations clearly indicate a significantly reduced rate of nervous strength. Constant anxiety often leads a person to mental disorders and even breakdowns. After all, such people live constantly afraid. Fears take their vitality from them and prematurely age. It should be understood that certain concerns, and sometimes even great difficulties, are possible for each person. However, people with a strong nervous system meet them on their life paths quite calmly, trying to find a way out of this situation. Excessive anxiety will not solve the problem. It only takes away health and brings old age closer.
It is possible to identify a person with a weak nervous system by the over-caution shown by him. In order to realize their own plans and ideas, such people always need the right moment, which they constantly wait. This sometimes turns into a habit. As a result, supercautious people become pessimists, as they constantly think about a possible failure, because of which their life’s business could collapse. All this results in indigestion, nervousness, inactive blood circulation and many other diseases and negative factors.
Signs of weak NS at an early age
What is characteristic of impressionable children? From an early age, they are extremely sensitive and susceptible. At the same time, the child’s weak nervous system allows him to easily notice even the most minor changes that occur in the mood of the people around him. In addition, such children hear even the faintest sounds, rustles, and see minor shades. Such a child may even notice that is inaccessible to many from his environment. This, for example, a slight shadow of annoyance or a spark of joy on the face of the interlocutor, as well as minor changes in the person’s gait, in his suit, made by him imperceptible to many movements.
With a weak nervous system, a child has a very emotional process of reading books and watching movies. The plot captures these children so much that often tears can be seen in their eyes. And even after reading and watching, despite the fact that the events that made us anxious are already in the past, memories of them cause inexplicable pain in the soul of a child with a weak nervous system.
Such children have increased nervousness and sensitivity in those cases when they find themselves in an unusual and unfamiliar environment and must do or decide something on their own. And even if it will be some trifle, but the tension of the child can be seen even in his face.
Children with a weak nervous system stand out among everyone else in physical work and in educational activities. The teacher is much easier to work with such students. He easily accustoms them to the careful performance of everyday affairs, unlike children with a strong type of nervous system, especially choleric and sanguine. Impressive students work better when creating uniform conditions. It is easy for such children to get used to the daily regimen. The fact is that monotonous activity does not cause much excitement, which in a child with a weak nervous system is a kind of protection against over-expenditure of strength and rapid fatigue. All this should be taken into account by teachers and parents of impressionable children, not loading them, among other things, with intense and prolonged mental or physical work. After all, such tasks will be too tiring for a small person.
It should also be borne in mind that children with a weak nervous system get tired very quickly when creating new conditions. That is, their education in the first and fifth grade becomes especially difficult. Best of all, they will be able to work at home, where no one can disturb them, or sitting at a separate table in a quiet library. In the case of creating a tense and noisy environment, students with a weak nervous system do a poor job. After all, easy tasks for them immediately become difficult. When passing exams, as well as during other exciting events, such children are usually listless or passive, loud or irritable. They look sick or exhausted.
Impressive students, unlike their peers with a strong nervous system, are often constrained in cases requiring action from them according to the current situation. If the teacher asks such children an unexpected question, then it is difficult for them to answer immediately. As a rule, at such moments the student has a confused look and a tense face, not knowing where to put himself.
When passing exams, such children show excessive excitement. This leads to loss of appetite, to the occurrence of insomnia or is fraught with nightmares. In such situations, any feasible business seems overwhelming, and an already solved problem that has the wrong answer. After passing the exams, sensitive children calm down and are perplexed about their past worries. But similar in the event of similar circumstances will certainly happen again.
Impressive children are sometimes offended by a trifle. They may even cry if, before their appearance, the conversation was completed or a joke (not above them) was transmitted that caused everyone to have fun.
The connection of the body and the psyche
Each change that occurs in the human body, certainly affects its health. That is why in medicine there is such a direction as psychosomatics, which establishes a connection between the mental processes taking place in the human body and its physiological state.
Any stress factor causes a protective reaction of the body, which is expressed in muscle tension. This allows a person to maintain health. After all, when the body is stressed, the soul relaxes. When such situations occur infrequently, they do not have any negative consequences for the body. However, when accidental psychological trauma degenerates into prolonged stresses, a person becomes ill. His pathology belongs to the psychosomatic type, which causes difficulties in making an accurate diagnosis. While doctors are looking for the origins of the disease, a person loses alertness and sleep, working capacity and energy. His ability to enjoy life disappears, and minor inconveniences gradually develop into significant problems.
Failures in the physiological processes of the body lead to pathologies of the mental sphere. A person has to live, experiencing chronic fatigue, irritation, anxiety and vague anxiety. For a short time, such a condition develops into a neurotic disorder, significantly worsening the quality of life.
What to do with a weak nervous system? How to maintain health and prevent the development of many diseases? A simple effect will help to achieve a significant effect, which will be described below.
Hardening
How to strengthen a weak nervous system? The most effective method that gives excellent results in this direction is winter swimming. It allows not only to put in order the nerves and improve health, but also to engage in the development of willpower.
With regular procedures, the body will gradually become accustomed to cold water. Such resistance is very beneficial for health, but to obtain a positive result, you will need to follow certain rules, namely:
- produce a gradual increase in the degree of cooling;
- perform procedures regularly.
Physical activity
All living things should move, and do this as actively as possible. This will allow the body to constantly expend the stress hormones accumulated in it.
With regular physical activity, a person's performance increases. His brain is saturated with oxygen, and the body increases its resistance to stress. In addition, physical activity is an excellent prevention of many diseases. The most useful in its implementation is the removal of mental and nervous tension.
The best option for such activities are walks in the fresh air. After all, they are simple physical exercises with hardening and psychological rest. Such walks rather quickly strengthen the nervous system. And if you walk around fresh air every day for at least 30 minutes, then a positive result will not take long. It will appear after a couple of weeks.
No less effect on the increase in the strength of the nervous system produces tourism. Of course, it will take more time to spend on it, but in this case it is possible to get a positive result in just a few days.
Sports will also help strengthen nerves. Especially effective is the occupation of such species as:
- aerobics;
- run;
- rock climbing;
- yoga;
- fitness;
- Pilates;
- martial arts.
The most important condition for this is the regularity and quality of the classes.
Bad habits
Restoring nerves, while receiving a positive result, is possible only when refusing alcohol, cigarettes or psychoactive substances. The absence of bad habits in humans is the main condition for the health of the body.
For example, many people believe that alcohol is practically harmless. However, even with the rare use of small amounts of alcoholic beverages, there is an increased excitation of the nervous system and malfunctions in its work. Regular drinking leads to the development of various diseases. These ailments also adversely affect the nervous system.
As for smoking, it reduces a person’s attentiveness, memory and even intelligence. A similar effect is due to the narrowing of the vessels of the brain, provoking oxygen starvation, as well as in connection with the ingestion of toxic substances that are present in cigarettes.
Even a cup of coffee negatively affects the nervous system. Initially, it increases the activity of NS, and then sharply reduces it. Gradually, the nervous system is depleted. The same thing happens with energy drinks.
Proper nutrition
There are a number of products that can strengthen the human psyche and nervous system. That is why to get the desired result you will need to include in the menu:
- Nuts, cottage cheese, soy, fish and chicken. They contain proteins that are responsible for the work of reflexes and the entire central nervous system.
- Fats. Their use can increase efficiency, strengthen emotional health and tone the central nervous system.
- Carbohydrates. Their main source is cereals, which provide energy to the brain and help strengthen nerves.
- Vitamins of group B (1,6 and 12), as well as A, C, D and E. Fish and nuts, vegetables and fruits, bran, eggs and oatmeal can saturate the body with them.
- Minerals (magnesium, iron, calcium, zinc). Their presence in the body contributes to the development of substances that contribute to the functioning and strengthening of the central nervous system. The largest amount of minerals contains chicory and chocolate, milk and cereals, nuts, vegetables and fish.
Daily regime
A healthy and deep sleep can give the nervous system more strength. During rest, the body is restored and cells are renewed.
But early waking, frequent awakenings, shallow sleep and lack of sleep shake the nerves. In the absence of normal rest, a person becomes apathetic and lethargic, he has difficulty concentrating and does not think well. Often, lack of sleep is manifested in communication in the form of outbreaks of aggression and irritation.
Nature
There is another ideal assistant that allows you to create a strong psyche and a healthy nervous system. This is nature that heals itself. A man will only need to leave the city, sit on the bank of the river and begin to admire the sun, which is reflected in the water. Communicating with nature makes a person spiritual and peaceful. It normalizes the nervous system and sometimes even cures physical ailments.