Heartbroken Or Sad? Here Are Four Reasons You Should Let The Tears Flow

There are a lot of healthy reasons to cry. Whether you’re happy, sad or heartbroken, shedding tears can bring a lot of positive energy that you need from time to time. Be it at weddings, funerals, watching a romantic movie or feeling nostalgic about a past memory, shedding tears help to relieve the stress and emotions you have within. The importance of crying is made even more prominent with some hotels and guest rooms having dedicated crying rooms for people who feel the need to cry!

According to Dr Jodi De Luca, a clinical psychologist based in the USA, letting loose and shedding tears can be comforting for the person that cries and even so for the people around them too. If you ever find yourself in a position where you feel like crying and you find yourself holding back the tears, here are four reasons you should let it flow.

It Improves Your Mood

According to one of the world’s leading crying researcher, psychologist Dr Ad Vingerhoets, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, about 50 percent of people that cry report having an improved mood and feeling better after letting the tears flow. Shedding tears was found to trigger the release of endorphins from the brain which generally work to boost our moods.

You May Make More Money

Having your boss or someone you report to see you cry is something a lot of people shy away from because it is mostly counterproductive, which is not so in most cases. According to Dr Judith Orloff, M.D., an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles, you’re likely to get higher pay at work if you shed a tear or two while negotiating with your boss. She went on to say “When they grant you what you want, they feel they are executing their power in a beneficial way, and that makes them feel good about themselves.”

It Helps People Offer You Support

Early on in human existence, it was thought that men and women used crying to inform companions that they were in trouble and needed help. This seeming ‘caveman’ act still holds true even today as recent studies have found that people were likely to show pity for people in tears. A study published in the journal of Clinical medicine found that people were more likely to show empathy for a photograph of someone in tears than for one in which the tears were removed digitally.

It Reduces Your Stress Levels

Chances are if you’re the type that cries, you’d have felt a level of relief after doing so. The feeling is as a result of a stimulation of the part of your nervous system responsible for helping your body relax and recover from stress. By crying too, the body releases the ‘feel-good’ hormone Oxytocin which helps to reduce anxiety while promoting bonding with whoever is close to you at that point in time.

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