From the Islamic perspective, happiness is not merely a temporary state of joy and delight, rather it is a lifelong process aiming primarily at:<ul><li>Bringing eternal happiness</li><li>Peace of mind</li><li>Tranquility of heart</li><li>Contentment in this world and everlasting bliss in the Hereafter.</li></ul>

Islamic Definition Of Happiness

It is commonly believed that happiness can be achieved through the accumulation of wealth of material possession, as a result of power, through fame, recognition, satisfying one’s each and every sensual desires. Materialists tend to disregard the spiritual aspects and view life as nothing but a means to satisfy ones’ whims and desires. This is a common trend in the west, which led to abandonment of religion.

Common Misconceptions 

Statistics reveals that the highest suicide rates, divorce rates, run-ins with the law, drug problems and rehabilitation problems are always rampant in the rich and elite of society.

The Reality At A Glance

Many people attempt to follow complex paths in order to achieve happiness. However, they fail to see the easier path that is Islam.Happiness can be achieved by:<ul><li>Sincere worship</li><li>Competing to do righteous good deeds</li><li> By performing acts of kindness or giving charity</li><li>Bringing smile to the face of a child</li></ul>These things have the potential to make our hearts truly happy.

On Attaining Happiness

True happiness and contentment, is the result of a number of factors and can only be achieved by striking a balance between the material and spiritual aspects of life. If we overlook the spiritual aspect of life, it will result in the illness of the soul, which is a common spiritual disease. The cure is quite to believe in God Almighty and to accept the faith that He has approved for mankind.

“There is no Muslim servant who says in the morning and the evening three times: I am content with Allah as my Lord, with Islam as my religion and with Muhammad ﷺ as my Prophet, except that it will be a right upon Allah to make him content on the Day of Judgment.”

A believer does not believe in gathering as much wealth as he can in this life, for the Prophet (SAW) said,“This world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the non-believer.”(Sahih Muslim 2956)

Eye Opener 

“And whosoever turns away (blinds himself) from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent (Allah) (i.e. this Qur·an and worship of Allah) , We appoint for him Shaitan (Satan devil) to be a Qarn (an intimate companion) to him.”

A content believer relies on Allah SWT, puts his trust on Him, which, ultimately result in warding off his worries and distress, relieving him of mental and physical sickness leading to comfort and happiness to the heart.

Relax Your Mind

A believer becomes mindful of the fact that Islam does not order its followers to become monks or to distance themselves from worldly pleasures; on the contrary, it obliges a believer to exploit whatever worldly possessions they have in a legitimate way to obtain true happiness.

Moving Towards Contentment

Belief plays a vital role in a believer’s life to make him feel content with things that have been destined for him. It is through this that one can enjoy the blessings of this life and everlasting bliss in the world to come.It drives him closer to Allah and makes him turn to Almighty when faced with trials seeking His help to alleviate the problems that he faces. Polytheism, not believing in God ultimately results in anxiety and misery.

Faith and righteous deeds

The Qur’an portrays the life of the misguided and wicked ones as “the mutual rivalry for piling up (worldly gains)” (al-Takathur, 1), and “play and amusement, a show and boasting among yourselves, a quest for greater riches and more children” (al-Hadid, 20).

“But, as for those who desire the life to come, and strive for it as it ought to be striven for, and are true Believers- they are the ones whose strivings find acceptance and reward.

A true believer appreciates all that Allah has bestowed on him; body, mind, faculties and property, and utilize them towards his real objective and that is to earn the pleasure of Allah and the rewards of Jannah.

The Objective of Life

A true believer loves the Hereafter more than this worldly life and prefers it to all that exists in this world. For such believer, Allah has promised a great reward. Allah S says in the Quran, “God will say, ‘This is a Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness. They will have Gardens graced with flowing streams, there to remain for ever. God is pleased with them and they with Him: that is the supreme triumph.” (Al-Ma’idah 5:119)

The gateway to achieve the happiness and contentment of the heart and its tranquility and satisfaction is abundant remembrance of Allah SWT. Remembrance of Allah results in bringing expansion and tranquility to the heart, and eliminating worry and grief from it. If due care is not given to suffice the soul, it will ultimately lead to great worries, feelings of discontentment and unhappiness.

Refining the heart

“When disaster strikes them, they say, “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return. Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy and it is those who are the rightly guided.”

‘Whoever abandons habits for the sake of someone or something other than Allah, will surely suffer hard and difficult times. However, whoever abandons habits for the sake of Allah sincerely from his heart, he will not suffer from leaving it except at the beginning so that his credibility will be examined. If he bears this pain it will be turned into pleasure, and satisfaction within his heart, its strength, activity, happiness, and contentment.’ (Al Fawaid)

It is wisely said that in three situations our relationship with our Lord gets justly determined: when listening to the Qur’an, during gatherings of remembering Allah, and during times of solitude. If we do not find our heart in these three situations, better to ask Allah to grant us with a heart, as we do not have one.

The feeling of insufficiency and incapacity is the major source of discontent and unhappiness. We tend to look at people above us and desire to be like them. Islam advises us to look at those below us and feel content at what Allah has provided us. The most effective way is to forget the people with higher standards of living. Allah says in the Quran, “Do not strain your eyes in longing for the things that we have given to some groups of them to enjoy, the splendour of the life of this world through which we test them. The provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.” (Quran 20:131)

Avoiding comparisons

Happiness has more to do with human mind and heart. Hence peace of the mind and psychological security play a key role in the attainment of happiness. That is why we see that many affluent people do not find the way to happiness despite all the prosperity and luxury they enjoy.

Sense of Peace

One of the useful ways to attain the happiness and tranquility is to have self-confidence and strong will. These are the leading factors to develop and direct the life of the individual toward success and happiness. They are also instrumental to get rid of the hardships and difficulties of life and endure all odds that hinder the way towards the achievement of happiness.

Developing Resilience 

One of the greatest injustices we do to the Quran is that we treat it as if it was a thing of past and of no relevance to the present. The ideal way to benefit from the Quran is to read it thinking as it is being revealed to us. We must feel that we are in conversation with our creator. It is imperative to make sure that we are not only reading it rather we are living by what it invites us to. It must have the impact upon your actions.

Reading Quran with understanding

One of the prime reason for rampant anxiety, grief, unhappiness, in every society, is abandoning the Quran and our grave negligence towards the rights of the Quran. We must observe what it enjoins and avoid what it prohibits. If we are impacted by Quran, and start sincerely changing our lives according to its commands, Allah will certainly help us in finding the peace and tranquility of happiness.

It is completely ordinary that man wants to possess as much as possible. However, an enlightened, guided and spiritually charged individual never deeply attach to worldly affairs so that it holds their lives. It is due to the occupation in the hearts that people cling to this worldly life. The strong desire in this life undermines the very purpose of our creation and diminishes the real desire for the Hereafter.

Detachment Feom Materialism

The more firm we are in this material world, the more we are cut off from the Hereafter. This inevitably increases the people in uncertainty and discontentment.The desire to acquire more and fear to lose are the real causes of feeling unhappy and uncontended. Therefore, the remedy for this decrease is to know that Allah SWT has allocated for us our provision. As long as one strive, one will get what is written for him.

“Know that even if the whole community were to gather together to benefit you with something, they would not benefit you with anything except that which Allah has already recorded for you; and that if they gather together to harm you with something, they would not be able to harm you with anything except that which Allah has already recorded against you.” (Tirmidhi 2516)

The aforementioned narration is profound to enlighten us. A true believer is aware that everything that happens is by the permission of Allah (swt). Therefore, the intelligent person finds his heart attached to the highest aim (the Hereafter) which potentially removes all the pains and regrets. A believer never seek help except from Allah.

It is therefore of utmost importance for a believer to ensure that he is not attached to the worldly affairs to the extent it starts controlling his life and distracting him from the real goal of Hereafter. Ibn Al-Qayyim said, “Desiring the Hereafter can only be achieved by eschewing life of this world.”

An intelligent person does not put money high on their priority list, which are the main causes of depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Thus if one intends to achieve the contentment, he has to repel the greed of want of more. The prophet (SAW) said, “Be happy, and hope for what will please you. By God, I am not afraid that you will be poor, but I fear that worldly wealth will be bestowed upon you as it was bestowed upon those who lived before you. So you will compete amongst yourselves for it, as they competed for it and it will destroy you as it did them.”(Sahih al-Bukhari 4015)

Eye Opener

It will be wrong to assume that we should not enjoy the good things of this world. Rather, we are encouraged to strive to achieve our career goals and acquire possessions that will earn us the pleasures of this world provided we remain mindful of our Allah. There is no true enjoyment of the good of this world if we do not strive for the Next world.

A believer is aware that his very existence and his unending sustenance are only dependent on Allah. All the praises, therefore, are due to Him alone.Therefore, a believer is always grateful to Allah for all the blessing he received and patient over calamities he is afflicted with or tribulation he is in, and as a result, finds perfect peace of mind and happiness. Every person experiences both the conditions. Hence, neither a state of affliction nor a state of prosperity mean we are ultimately successful, or ultimately doomed. Allah has already made that clear to us.

Living between patience and gratitude

It is incumbent upon every Muslim to exercise endurance to compel his self into obedience to Allah. Almighty says, “Do people think that they will be left alone because they say, ‘We believe’, and that they will not be tested? And We indeed tested those who were before them. And Allah will certainly make fit] known [the truth of]those who are true, and will certainly make [it] known [the falsehood of]those who are liars [although Allah knows all that before putting them to test].” [Surah Al-‘Ankabut (29), Ayah 2-3.]

Enduring trials and tribulations

A content believer accepts God’s decree for him and leads a happy life free from total despair or unbearable pain. He feels the pains and trials of this life, but does not complain about them.

Seeking beneficial knowledge brings happiness. The angels flutter their wings and keep records of those who seek knowledge. Occupying oneself with useful knowledge is among the means of warding off anxieties and eliminating what is distracting the heart from being in peace and tranquility. However, what is integral in seeking happiness through knowledge is having good intention of doing it with sincerity and seeking the pleasure of Allah.

Occupying with Useful Knowledge

Being rich is all about the soul and mind. The Prophet (pbuh) once explained that whoever makes this world, rather than the Hereafter, his most important matter, God will confound his affairs and make poverty appear before his eyes (Sunan Ibn Majah), so wherever he wants to look, he will see only poverty. Poverty will become his greatest fear. But whoever makes the Hereafter his most important matter, the Prophet (pbuh) continued: “Allah will settle his affairs and make him content in his heart and the world will come to him although he does not want it.”

True Richness

“Richness does not lie in the abundance of (worldly) goods, but richness is the richness of the soul (the heart)” (Sahih Muslim 1051).

The constant nagging in the heart for more is what makes the people unhappy. We see many among us who possess the material goods of the world and yet not happy, rather they are often the unhappy people. Therefore, we find that those who have little but feel no need for more do not feel this nagging in their heart. Certainly, the richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who is content with what he has.

“today people spend more, but have less, they buy more, but enjoy less. They have bigger houses, but less warmth and smaller families in them, more conveniences, but less time. They own houses, but not homes. They have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment and wisdom, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. They have multiplied their possessions, but reduced their values. They have learned how to make a living, but not a life. They have done larger things, but not better things.”

True happiness is not about acquiring the wealth, fame, prestige, status, and satisfying one’s desires. Rather, it is achieved by accumulating the pleasures of the body, heart and soul.

Conclusion

Almighty said, “But whosoever turns away from My Reminder (i.e. neither believes in this Qur’an nor acts on its teachings) verily, for him is a life of hardship, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection.”

The guidelines provided by Islam helps us seek happiness in this world. However, the point worth noting is that the total peace, tranquility and security and everlasting happiness can only be in Paradise where there will be no fear, anxiety and pain which we human experience in this worldly life.

In light of the above, we are able to draw the conclusion that happiness is purely our decision. We have the choice to be happy and content or to remain an unfortunate victim of our current situation, as we are responsible for our own happiness

The humanity is desperately looking for the solution to all the problems the world is facing today at every front. The remedy is with Muslims, the carriers of the last Divine message, the Quran. It is high time to reach to humanity reeling from the illness of body and soul, and convey the sole message of Almighty guaranteeing the peace of mind, tranquility, eternal happiness and contentment in this life and everlasting bliss in the Hereafter.

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Here’s the lowdown on everything psychological that influences our crying, as well as how people respond psychologically to us when we cry.

41 Psychological Facts About Crying

Emotional crying is one of those mysteries that scientists and biologists are still trying to wrap their heads around. Charles Darwin said it was “purposeless,” but there’s a host of people who disagree with him.

After all, being able to cry from strong feelings and also being able to respond to those tears is an integral part of what it is to be human. Whether you’re weeping from love or mental pain, it’s one of those abstracts of <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/psychology-facts-about-human-behavior/">human behavior </a>that’s impossible to pinpoint but equally impossible to ignore.  There are plenty of reasons to tear up biologically, but even more for us to blubber on account of emotional reasons. We’re a pretty emotionally-driven species, after all.

This may seem like an obvious one, but there are different classifications of tears. Basal tears care for the cornea, reflex tears guard against irritants, and emotional tears are produced when we feel something strongly.

1. Tears Can Be Emotional

When we cry from overflowing emotions, the hormones behind those feelings tend to make their way into our tears. These hormones aren’t present in standard basal tears or reflex tears, so emotional crying really is a release.

2. Emotional Tears Contain Hormones

Yes, actual pain. They contain a neurotransmitter called leucine enkephalin, which is a natural painkiller that the body releases when under stress. So when you cry from physical or mental anguish, your body is literally trying to dull your pain.

3. Crying Also Relieves Pain

Women have always been stereotyped as the weepy ones and <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/interesting-facts-about-men/">men </a>as the stiff-upper-lip lads, but there is research to back this up. On average, women cry two to four times a month, whereas men only tend to cry once every second month or so.

4. Women Cry More Than Men

Men are more likely to have short crying outbursts that last less than five minutes. Although plenty of women are also prone to keeping it short, as many as 38% said their crying sessions tended to last up to fifteen minutes. Hey, sometimes five minutes just isn’t enough.

5. Women Also Tend to Cry for Longer

<a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/psychological-facts-about-sadness/">Sad </a>but true. While they do cry less than women, it may not be because it’s natural for them to hold back their tears, but more that it’s a socially-required decorum. Although times are changing and men (and boys) are being encouraged to let loose their tears, it can be hard to unlearn the social norms of the past.

6. There’s More Social Pressure on Men Not to Cry

When it comes to mundane everyday issues that might make you feel helpless in the moment, women tend to let the waterworks flow more easily. Sometimes all it can take is a computer crashing or the car not starting, and a <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/psychological-facts-about-cheating-woman/">woman </a>might start crying. In the same scenarios, men simply tend to swear.

7. Women Are More Likely to Cry When Feeling Helpless Than Men

Quite literally. A study on this hypothesis was conducted, and the results were that a man felt less sexually aroused when smelling a woman’s tears shed from negative emotions. It’s a bizarre study, that’s for sure. It has been contested by another scientist who said it might not be the tears’ chemicals but the act of crying itself that’s the turn-off.

8. Men Get Turned Off by Tears

Tears seem to be a strong signal to other humans that you need some help. Seeing someone else cry can inspire empathy and cause you to cry in response or simply feel more connected to them because of that same empathetic response.

9. Crying Helps Us Bond

On a bad day even a dropped snack will make you burst into tears, but there are some universal situations that are the most common causes of blubbering. They are loss (either from death or the end of a relationship), helplessness, physical pain, empathetic crying, and extremely positive or very moving situations (tears of joy).

10. There Are Five Most Common Reasons for Crying

Though their crying habits and causes may change a lot as they age into adulthood, there is no difference between how much male and female babies cry.

11. All Babies Cry the Same

We’ve already discussed how <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/interesting-facts-about-men/">men cry less </a>, possibly from social influences. But now you know that those influences take place in late childhood, when they’re at their most vulnerable to peer and familial influences.

12. Men Learn From a Young Age Not to Cry

There are several different attachment styles depending on <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/psychological-facts-about-personality/">your personality </a>These refer to the way we form r<a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/psychological-facts-about-relationships/">elationships </a>with other humans, from romantic or familial to platonic. People with an avoidant attachment style tend to cry less than people who have an anxious or secure attachment style.

13. Your Attachment Style Can Define Your Crying Sessions

As it turns out, people in wealthy democratic countries cry a lot more than people in countries that are less better off. Conversely, people who are oppressed tend to cry less, even though they may have more to cry about.

14. 1st World People Cry More

It may make us feel they are more empathetic, more sincere, and less aggressive. It might also have the ulterior effect of making us perceive them as less emotionally stable. Either way, it can change the way we see them.

15. Seeing Someone Cry Changes How We Think of Them

Crying in private is one thing. Having a massive breakdown in the middle of your office is another. Though tears can’t be helped at times, public crying is viewed by witnesses more negatively than if you find a private space.

16. Where You Cry Is Important

It is an emotional outlet, after all. About 50% of the time, letting go and having a good crying session will make you feel better afterward. But around 10% of people actually feel worse after they’ve cried.

17. Crying Makes You Feel Better…Usually

If you want to feel better after a good old-fashioned blubber session, you’re more likely to if you have supportive people around you to provide comfort. If you’re on your own, you might be more likely to be in that previously mentioned 10%.

18. Having Support Makes a Difference

Therapists keep boxes of tissues on that convenient little table next to you for a reason. In about 15% – 30% of <a href="https://www.camdentherapist.co.uk/">therapy sessions </a>across the board, crying is likely to occur. It’s understandable, seeing as they’re usually digging up traumatic issues and healing wounds from childhood.

19. Therapy Can Make You Tear Up

Perhaps it’s because of that comforting person supporting you, but patients who cry in psychotherapy are more likely to have a better outcome than those who don’t. It’s all part of emotional expression, so don’t feel shy letting the tears fly in front of your therapist.

20. Crying in Therapy Leads to a Higher Success Rate

When <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/interesting-facts-about-ice-cream/">ice cream </a>and carbs can’t even help, tears are the body’s ultimate way of self-soothing. Crying helps us regulate our own emotions, and it enables us to calm down from the emotional or physical pain we’re trying to deal with.

21. It’s Emotionally Soothing

Crying activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is what helps us relax. If you’re having a really frustrating day and feel that tightening of the throat that makes you realize you want to cry, better to let it all out and get rid of the stress.

22. It Has a Physical Effect on Our Stress

Crying in public is like sending a distress beam to the universe declaring, “here is someone in need of help,” and it does tend to cause sympathetic people to rally around you. So crying can have a social benefit that calls others to your aid, alleviating your mental stress.

23. It’s Nature’s Distress Signal

When you cry emotional tears, oxytocin and endorphins are released. Both of these improve our mood and are usually known as the “feel good” chemicals. It’s the same reason we go carb-crazy when we’re experiencing a depressed mood — our brain craves that boost of endorphins to help us feel better.

24. Crying Hormones Improve Your Mood

In 2015 a study was conducted on babies, and it turned out that they tended to sleep better after crying. There hasn’t been a study to determine if the same thing happens to adults, though. But it’s believed that the same chemicals released in emotional tears that cause pain relief and have calming effects can help lull us into dreamland.

25. It Might Help You Sleep Better

It can be a powerful weapon in that respect. If someone is angry with you, you’re more likely to switch their mood if they see you cry. This is not only because crying is meant to evoke empathy and make you appear helpless but also because it might make the person who is causing the crying to feel guilty and stop.

26. Crying Neutralizes Anger Fast

Being someone who doesn’t cry much isn’t necessarily a virtue. People who don’t cry a lot tend to withdraw into themselves more, and their <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/psychological-facts-about-long-distance-relationships/">relationships </a>have less connection. They also tend to experience more negative and aggressive feelings like rage, disgust, and anger.

27. You Might be More Aggressive if You Don’t Cry

People with certain forms of clinical depression are counterintuitively less likely to cry. They stop feeling the urge to cry because they have a deep-seated belief that nothing can fix their suffering. This belief is enough to stop their lacrimal glands in their tracks. If you find yourself in this situation, reach out to a trained professional for some help if you haven’t already.

28. You Can Be “too Depressed” to Cry

At least, in terms of purpose, there isn’t much difference between crying from joy and crying from sadness. In both cases, the crying serves the same need of expressing the overwhelming emotion at hand and allowing you to return to a state of equilibrium with regard to mood.

29. Happy Tears and Sad Tears are the Same

It’s called <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18547124/">Pathological Laughter and Crying (PLC) </a>, and it’s when a person can spontaneously burst into either laughter or tears at any given moment. There is no appropriate stimulus for such reactions, so it’s classified as a condition. It’s commonly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, strokes, and other brain diseases, so best to see the doctor if you’re often busting into random giggles or crying fits.

30. There’s a Crying Condition

When we say people cry crocodile tears, we tend to think of giant anime-sized blobs of water streaming from our eyes in over-the-top sobs. But what it actually refers to are people who are faking their sadness and, ergo, their tears. The phrase originates from a story about some crocs who killed a group of men and then cried while eating them.

31. “Crocodile Tears” Aren’t What You Think They Are

There are plenty of examples of writing from the Roman Empire that linked weeping to romantic pleasure. It was based on the belief that crying made someone more desirable to their lover. The same sentiment might not quite carry over into the modern world, but shedding a delicate tear or two while being intimate can still be considered romantic.

32. Romans Wept With Romance

Sometimes the real reason we turn on the waterworks is to simply get our needs met. Whether it’s finally getting your <a href="https://www.newinterestingfacts.com/intimate-questions-to-ask-your-partner/">partner </a>to pack the dishwasher or getting some much-needed attention in a specific area of our lives, the cause is the same. That’s not to say it’s intentionally manipulative. When people get frustrated and can’t figure out how else to get what they need, a natural reaction is to resort to tears.

33. Crying Gets Things Done

Culture and heritage play a huge factor in how you grow up and what you consider to be normal. This might relate to expected behavior as well. In some cultures, crying is far more acceptable than in others. So you may feel more free to cry on a psychological level depending on your background.

34. Your Culture Can Determine How Much You Cry

The loss of a loved one is tough on everyone. Crying is a normal response, but it turns out it might be our body’s way of helping us process and accept the loss. Everyone grieves in different ways, so you might cry more or less depending on your personality and how you cope with grief. There’s no need to force it, but if you feel the need, embrace it and let yourself heal.

35. It Helps You Grieve

As children, the most common emotional trigger for our waterworks is physical pain. It makes sense as kids don’t always understand their physical limits yet and make poor life decisions leading to injury more commonly than adults. Adults also become more capable of dealing with physical pain in other ways (swearing is a common one).

36. We Cry Less Over Pain as We Age

As we get older, other triggers start to take over as our predominant tear-jerkers. Attachment-related pain, sentimental thoughts, and moral feelings, as well as compassion and empathic nature, take over and cause the tears to flow.

37. Adults Have a Broader Range of Causes for Emotional Tears

When emotional tears are being produced, your limbic system — the part of your brain that’s associated with emotional arousal — signals <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/pons-anatomy">the Pons </a>, which is your brain’s message station. The Pons then sends a signal to your lacrimal system to produce tears. This is unique from basal and irritant tears, where only the lacrimal gland is involved.

38. Your Limbic System Gets Involved Making Emotional Tears

Leu-enkephalin is a stress hormone and is commonly found in emotional tears. Scientists have a hypothesis that crying is an actual purging of the stress hormone itself, and that’s what makes you feel calmer. There are other scientists who claim this is not the case, so further studies are needed.

39. Emotional Tears Might be a Purging of Stress Hormones

When we’re undergoing extreme mental or psychological stress, crying is an important action that helps protect the brain and our physical health. If we refuse to allow ourselves to cry, we end up doing what is called “repressive coping,” and it can be very bad for our health.  Studies have linked this repressive coping tendency to lower immune system functionality, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, as well as mental health conditions.

40. Crying Can be a Safety Valve

Though all animals tend to have eye lubrication and can shed reflex and basal tears, only humans can cry from emotion. As much as we’d love to believe Lassie is crying from compassion, there’s probably just some dirt in her eye.

41. Only Humans Cry Emotional Tears

Emotional crying is one of those mysteries that scientists and biologists are still trying to wrap their heads around. Here are 41 psychological facts about crying most people don't know

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It is someone who seems to be every nerve recking to be around.Here are some examples:-1) Narcissists2) Control freaks3) Compulsive liars4) Gaslighters and etc...Let's now look at the 7 ways to deal with these toxic people:-

Who are these toxic people?

When you are living with a Toxic person you need to create a separate physical to just be at peace.Like:-1) Go for a walk outside2) Go to another room and close the door3) Have your meals alone

1) Use physical space whenever possible

Home is where you are usually meant to feel "safe", it is not possible when you are with a toxic person.Here are some ways you can make a safe space:-1) Take a place in your home where u can calm yourself down or just breathe.2) Go to a religious place3)  Do meditation for 5-10 mins4) Create a safe place in your mind and imagine it

2) Create an emotional "Safe Space"

You will not feel drained when you have something else to occupy your mind with.So, don't mind start blogging,  joining music classes or just make an effort to spend time in your hobbies.

3) Occupy your mind

You should be smart about how to deal with tension and conflicts with toxic people.Here are few strategies you can use to de-escalate an explosive situation:-1) Try to change the topic2) Pay them a compliment3)  Walk away4) Let them have their opinions

4) De-escalate 

Just be a rock, not matter what they say or do, just don't react because toxic people seek your attention and if you be like a rock, they will leave you alone.

5) Be a rock

A toxic person always tries to isolate you so that they can have a good control on you, therefore you should be in touch with your loved ones...maybe like your friends and etc.

6) Stay in touch with the support system

Despite your best efforts, the tensions with a toxic person can reach a dangerous point. So have the resources and an escape plan in case things go bad.Call the <a href="https://www.thehotline.org/help/">National Domestic Violence Hotline</a> if you’re in a domestic abuse situation. They are available 24/7 to talk confidentially, and to give you the information you need.

7) Know your rights and be safe

If you're stuck at home with a toxic person, things could go from bad to worse quickly. Here are 7 ways to survive the nightmare.

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The first step in healing from body trauma is to recognize and validate your experience. Acknowledge the pain, fear, and distress you have experienced, and understand that it is normal to feel overwhelmed and disconnected from your body. Seek professional support from a therapist or counselor who specializes in trauma recovery.

Recognize and Validate Your Experience

Body trauma can cause us to disconnect from our physical sensations and emotions. Practicing mindful awareness, such as body scans or meditation, can help you reconnect with your body and recognize and process the emotions associated with your trauma.

Body-based therapies, such as somatic experiencing or massage therapy, can help you release physical tension and trauma stored in the body. Consider working with a trained therapist or practitioner who can guide you through these practices and support your healing journey.

Engage in Movement and Exercise

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