Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Human Emotions and the Mystery of Tears



What are emotions, why a body reacts the way our emotions comes. How many of us know about tears. Human body is full of ambiguity and tears are one of those subjects to which even neurologist are not clear.

Tears are one of the most unpredictable events happens when a person is in Strong emotions, such as sorrow or elation. But have you ever thought why it only comes when a person is in strong emotional mind-set.

Scientifically Tears are the liquid product of a process of crying to clean and lubricate the eyes. But do we all agree to this, do you also think that tears are only meant to clean and lubricate our eyes. Then why tears only come when we are involved in some emotional act.

I have heard about the different types of tears like reflex tears, tears form irritations etc etc, but the most unusual and natural type is tears comes out of our emotions.

Human behaviors in emotions are full of uncertainties, why we laugh, why we cry, why we do playful things, no body knows about this. The only thing which we know is all being controlled by mind and human brain is the most complex structure known, even neurologist some times get confused with its structure and behavior.



It is scientifically proved that tears brought about by emotions have a different chemical make up than those for lubrication? It clearly means that the tears which came out of our emotions doest not meant to clean or lubricate our eyes, their cause must be different.

Have you ever thought of the reasons why tears comes out when we are in strong emotions, i have the answer for you. As i said our emotional tears have different chemical make up they contain more of protein based hormones and one of them is leucine enkephalin a natural painkiller. It means that when we are in strong emotional acts tears helps us to release tension and emotional dams in our mind; it helps to keep us healthy and mentally fit.

One thing is sure that we all are naturally equipped to tackle any situation in our life. However as time passes we became more dependable on external things, but god has made every species self dependant and can manage to survive in any circumstances. There are many things which are yet to be discovered in human beings, our feelings our emotions and much more human behaviour are yet unanswered.

Don’t you think, how great is our God that he would create us in this way? Feel free to give your comments and views on this topic.

5 comments:

  1. How does a painkiller released outside of the body helps controlling the pain?

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  2. Hey Umesh thanks for your comment. I know i haven't elaborated the whole process because i didn't want to make it a scientific post. However this is the explanation to your question.

    The researchers concluded that chemicals built up by the body during stress were removed by tears, which actually lowered stress. These include the endorphin leucine-enkephalin, which helps to control pain.

    Endorphin and enkephalin are the body's natural painkillers. When a person is injured, pain impulses travel up the spinal cord to the brain. The brain then releases endorphins and enkephalins. Enkephalins block pain signals in the spinal cord. Endorphins are thought to block pain principally at the brain stem. Both are morphine-like substances whose functions are similar to those of opium-based drugs.
    I hope you must be clear now.

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  3. Hi Umesh
    Where did you get the Tears image from? I really like it. Is it royalty free?

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  4. Yes u can use these images free of cost

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  5. excellent sir this is wat i wanted to get answered thnx a lot sir..........

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