IF MEN CONSIDER WOMEN who cry at work to be weak, unstable, disruptive, not worthy of promotion or unacceptable, they may be wrong.
Men should never underestimate the power and secrets behind crying. Crying is loaded with success and is an extraordinary healing structure bestowed to us by the Creator.
Crying is not sinful – it has valuable mental and physical benefits. Tears banish stress hormones such as cortisol as well as other toxins that accumulate when we feel stressed, says Judith Orloff, MD, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California in Los Angeles.
She further posits that tears protectively lubricate your eyes, remove irritants, reduce stress hormones, and contain antibodies that fight pathogenic microbes.
Additionally, after crying, our breathing and heart rate decrease and we enter into a calmer biological and emotional state.
Moreover, tears associated with crying are viewed as a form of communication.
In fact, the website Forbes.com has revealed that scientists are on to a curious phenomenon. In a new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, researchers discovered that when women cry, men’s testosterone levels drop significantly.
Multiple experiments showed that just the smell of a woman’s tears caused a dip in testosterone and reduced brain activity in areas associated with sexual arousal.
Personally, I cherish and utilize the ability to cry. Crying – however embarrassing, ill-timed or unattractive – always heals.
I have cried during most of the negative experiences in my life, including crying in the principal’s office after feeling stressed about a school situation. I have cried at most professional appointments and other places too numerous to mention.
Over the years while living through experiences I have discovered that no matter how happy I am, when I need to cry, I cry because crying brings clarity to situations I believe are unsolvable.
I was actually empowered after every crying episode.
Additionally, it is usual for people to command a crying person to stop crying. However, unless that crying persists, we must let people cry.
Unfortunately, boys who were taught not to cry may be trapped. They become men and hold on to that advice.
However, from my observation the younger generation of boys are changing things. I am ecstatic that it is becoming more fashionable for men to cry in public.
Men are bringing themselves into balance. Remember, there is nothing feminine about crying. If crying was just for women, why did the Creator give men the ability to cry?
It is time for us to reclaim the right to cry. Maybe men should cry more to relieve aggression and perhaps they would fight less.
Annette Maynard-Watson, a teacher and herbal educator, may be contacted via [email protected] or by telephone 250-6450.
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