What happens to our body when we cry,what is the purpose of it?

Answer 1

It is clear that every human action has both mental and physical attributes. When you are happy you laugh, which is a physical action. When you are sad you cry. When you are embarrassed you may blush. When you are frightened your state of mind results in physical reactions. Your blood pressure rises.

Conversely the physical condition of the body affects the mind. When your body lacks nourishment and you are hungry, you could be irritable, angry or depressed. When you are exposed to extreme cold or severe cold it will also result in certain mental conditions.

We have come to accept to what extent negative mental states can affect bodily functions. A physical reaction such as a heart attack can be brought about as a result of a severe shock. In the same way certain physical conditions can be alleviated or even cured by adopting a certain attitude of mind.

The process of Biofeedback involves connecting a person to a machine, which can indicate changes in internal functions by recordings on the machine. These recordings are directly affected by conscious effort of the mind. In this way a person can learn, for example, to control his blood pressure by observing the reaction of the machine to thought processes.

You can quite easily demonstrate your own power to control your physical reactions

without having to resort to elaborate biofeedback machines. It can be done by the use of your imagination rather than will power. In many instances the imagination is far stronger than willpower.

Sit back in a comfortable chair with your eyes closed. Clear your mind of all thoughts. Make your mind completely blank. For example, think of a blackboard on which nothing has been written. After you have been sitting in this position for a minute or so, place the fingers of your right hand on your left-hand pulse and note your pulse rate.

Rest for a few moments, with your mind still completely devoid of all emotion, then allow your imagination to take you back to an exciting sports event you have either attended personally recently or watched on TV. It must be something in which you felt personally involved emotionally.

Recapture in your imagination every exciting incident in the sports event. While you are doing this repeat the process of measuring your pulse rate once again. You will find there is an appreciable difference as compared with the pulse rate taken when you were in a completely neutral mental state.

This will provide you with a graphic illustration of the fact that you have within you the ability, not only to control your mental state by the power of your imagination, but also your physical state.

Here is another experiment that will give you an indication of your imaginative power and also confirm that the power of imagination is more powerful than will power.

Try, by an extreme effort of will, to make yourself cry. Try and make tears come to eyes. Unless you use an onion you will find this extremely difficult to do. But it can be easily accomplished by using your imagination.

Use your powers of imagination to produce a graphic image in your mind of a very sad, tragic or emotional incident that touched your life recently that moved you very deeply at the time.

It could have been a dreadful accident you happened to witness; or the funeral of a very dear friend or relation; or the loss of someone dear to you; or even a movie that touched you in a special way.

Focus your mind on the particular incident that affected you emotionally.

If your imaginative is sufficiently strong and the images you visualize are vivid and graphic, it is highly likely that tears will begin to well up in your eyes, especially if you are alone and can cry unashamedly.

Perhaps you sometimes wonder how actors and actresses are able to produce tears almost at will when required to do so in a scene. It is because they have been trained to use their powers of imagination to an extraordinary degree. They have developed the art of identifying themselves so completely with the characters they portray, they live the part they portray. Through training they have learnt the art of role-playing.

Role-playing is a skill that can be acquired through training. Even though you may have no desire to become an actor and no aspirations to go on stage, you will find that it is a skill you will find very useful indeed in creating helpful images in your mind.

Answer 2

I think it's actually healthy for our bodies. Crying releases pent up emotions that would otherwise get stored in our bodies. Stored emotions eventually cause illnesses and pain over time. A friend of mine is a physical therapist and she told me this.

Answer 3

Tears flow from tear glands into your eyes through tiny tear ducts. The tear glands are located under your upper lids, and when stimulated, produce tears to form a thin film over your eyeballs. Every time you blink the film spreads over your eyes to keep them moist and free of dust and other irritants. Whether you are awake or asleep, happy or sad, this salty fluid is always flowing from the tear glands.

Besides protecting your eyes, the tear glands produce more fluid when your eyes are irritated. These extra tears are called reflex or irritant tears. And, when something makes you happy or sad, your tear glands will produce emotional tears. Used tears then drain down into two tiny openings on the brim of your upper and lower eyelids at the inner edge of your eyes, which lead to the nasolacrimal tear ducts next to the bridge of your nose. From there, they are channeled into your nasal cavity where they are swallowed or blown out with other nasal fluids. If there are too many tears, they will overflow your lower lid and run down your cheeks

Answer 4

I think it is good to cry as it releases pent up emotions inside your head.

Answer 5

My Grandmother explained it perfectly to me when I was a child. Crying is a physical reaction to sudden change..........that's why one can cry when someone dies, or if someone is born, among other things of course.

Answer 6

I've heard it releases a chemical that's a toxin to our bodies. . .