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ENDORPHINS, MENTAL HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE 
                               

Drógate with your own endorphins! 

Endorphins; issue which should be handled in different areas and human quality science and knowledge is very important for our body. Endorphins are powerful painkillers biochemical secreted by the brain are one of the most important scientific discoveries of the history of medicine and therefore of psychology as they are those who seek the welfare of the human being, is why in this research joins medicine to psychology to give a full consultation on this issue. 

Endorphins were discovered by John hugles and colleagues of the foundation unit for research on addictive drugs, Aberdeen. Those that have opened their discovery relentless search to this important issue. 

What are endorphins? 

Endorphins are natural biochemical substances, which act as analgesics and euphoric. Secreted by the brain that perform various functions among which include an essential role in the balance between vitality and depression. Endorphins are closely linked to defense mechanisms, enabling them to practice as massage, or touch, so pleasant that we are, contribute greatly to alleviate and even cure many diseases. We are healing massage that after all is something outside our own endorphins if those in charge of any physical pain, mental or emotional such as when you get hit often feel some pain at the time himself alone, as your body has reacted to pain endorphins to mitigate synthesizing. In short it depends on something so simple and yet so important that we are right or we are wrong. 

There are several personalities which cause your body to produce endorphins and changes that could be called "emotional changes" such as: 

Sensitive individuals: maybe have experienced a euphoric state while listening to music or while reading a poem for these people well as the name says are sensitive to any situation. 

Strong team: there is a man of action, an athlete, a fighter, then your body will secrete endorphins gratified when you press on the accelerator of your car and forward to someone on the highway, or when he can beat a record. 

Person Capricious: if it is this personality, getting what he wanted or receiving or gift will be loved what scresion activate endorphin system. 

Endorphins occur in two ways Artificial and Natural 

A. Artificial In this way we find such a person makes your body produce endorphins so not healthy for your body. 

Endorphins and Drugs 

As we have seen endorphins are a true vehicle of pleasure, euphoria and feeling of happiness. This is exactly what large numbers of people seek drugs. This seems to be a constant in human history since abandoning the earthly paradise: Find out if what you have inside. 

Drugs are a relaxation effect apparently in their first doses are whom produce endorphins that given the supposed happiness of man, but without knowing how many negative things are getting your body by a single positive delivery since our body does not need drugs to produce their own endorphins is like forcing a key into a lock that is not theirs himself in our brain, is that lock and key drugs wrong with today's society wants to force the brain to break open open or produce something that internally but unfortunately we have not yet found themselves. Really dramatic case, besides the terrible poisoning is being created, is that the body's ability to secrete endorphins and receive decreases, so that the addict is unprotected in the pain and stress that he believed that a cure now becomes the opposite of this, for the same request that your lock is obstructed by wanting to force the brain into producing endorphins momentary so you can say artificial, therefore nothing is as before the addict felt pleasure, relaxation and happiness forgetting everything that was of concern or pain but did not realize that the passage of time and this does not become as wonderful as it was, that's where it becomes an addiction and this would create a stress, pain something that the person would cause decreased energy and endorphins giving little physical wear your body positioning to be addicted to that drug whatever and is no longer looking for a haven take but because your body constantly reacts with pain the person causing despair is where by obligation will have to remain in bondage to it. From the point of view of psychologists for this class of problems the only way out of this is natural endorphins to the brain producing all know that to take something someone in a nonviolent way we must offer something in return and how does it occur? 

Here we would spend to point B. 

B. Natural Endorphins: There are variety of ways to produce this kind of endorphins such as: 

Laughter: Several modern researchers have discovered something our grandparents already knew: laughing is good for health. But not only laugh, take it with good humor, positively, without projecting negativity all help to live a fuller life. We have an example of a new york executive acknowledged that upon learning that he was condemned to death by a compelling cancer, decided to spend his last days with the woman he loved in a good hotel watching video all comedy movies. The effect of mixing and especially the hartones was done laughing at the jokes of those characters was spectacular: not only did not die on the date given by their doctors if not a few weeks after his cancer was gone. It had healed with laughter. 

A positive attitude and a certain touch of humor to life implies a balanced biochemistry and balanced biochemistry helps correct our glands secrete hormones to be secreted. Thus we find a <Normal> rate of endorphins in our body and logically defenses and ability to feel happiness. 

We now turn to one of the many kinds of produce natural endorphins. But this will give priority especially as it is the one you should use in our life because in this way managed to be healthy. 

Mental Health and Sport: 

 Physical exercise is a social practice directly related to the evolution of the levels of economic and social life over time. Currently the physical exercise does not see society as an important factor in their lives without knowing the effects both physical and psychological benefits derived from the practice of physical activities - sports are many among them would highlight the following: 

- Increase of the cardiorespiratory and muscular 

- Increased endorphins 

- Body weight control 

- Improves muscle tone 

- Improved sexual satisfaction 

- Reduction of stress 

- Reducing sedentary 

- Increased self-control skills 

- Improves mood 

- Increased self-esteem 

That is why one of the areas that has been occupied between physical and mental health has been the psychology of motivation, motivational psychologists actually have been numerous studies and contributions to achieve purposes that sport and physical activity serve as instruments of social integration as a means of physical and mental health of individuals. Thus, the potential of sport as therapeutic support have been very effective in the rehabilitation of drug-dependent subjects. 

Now dictaremos few important points which are to be understood as psychology tries to reflect society against the phenomenon of inactivity, drugs etc. 

 This brief analysis of sport as a social phenomenon of our day, makes us reflect on the importance it has acquired in the daily lives of much of the population, both recreational and performance, such as health seeking. 

Health Psychology 

    In recent years we have witnessed a resurgence of the relationship between physical activity and health, due to growing concerns that have raised issues related to health in the Spanish society of today. It has played an increasing role in cardiovascular disease, the support received preventive medicine and the extension of a more open and dynamic concept of health has focused on environments and promoting healthy lifestyles ( Devis and Peiro, 1993). 

    The impact of this "social health consciousness" (Crawford, 1987; Tinning, 1990) were felt in the Spanish society of the eighties with the appearance of foods, drinks and popularization light jogging and gymnastics maintenance. 

    Earlier this decade is detected in the United States that lack of exercise is involved, along with other unhealthy habits, in the genesis of seven of the ten leading causes of death in this country (Rodríguez Marín, 1991). From that point, begin to systematically and deeply studied relations exercise not only to the disorders that might call medical, such as cardiovascular disease, obesity and cancer, but also with more psychological in nature, as the anxiety, stress or depression. In this context, we can speak of the exercise as an aspect of health psychology, as is assumed, and thus appear to corroborate many studies (Plante and Rodin, 1990; Biddle and Mutrie, 1991; Willis and Campbell, 1992) that the exercise healthy effects, either preventing the onset of health disorders, by facilitating the treatment thereof (Blasco, 1997). 

April. Physical exercise and psychological well 

 Effect of physical exercise on psychological wellbeing 

    

 The various ideas presented here suggest a positive relationship between physical exercise and psychological well being. Several hypotheses have been proposed, both psychological and physiological, to explain how physical exercises on welfare (Weinberg & Gould, 1996): 

Hypothesis distraction 

    

 Is that it is the distraction of stressful events, rather than the activity itself, which explains the improved feelings related to physical exercise. The support for the distraction hypothesis comes from studies Bahrke and Morgan (1978). 

Hypothesis endorphins 

     

The endorphin hypothesis is the explanation of more popular physiological basis for the benefits of exercise. Not all studies support it, but the weight of the evidence seems defensible. The brain, pituitary, and other tissues produce various endorphins that can reduce the feeling of pain and produce a state of euphoria. It seems likely that the improvement in welfare following the exercise due to a combination of psychological and physiological mechanisms. 

Based on the theme sport should be a primary factor in mental and physical health 

Because through this developed an excellent quality of life. As our starting point at all times, exercise is our medicine seen before any field either emotional, physical, or whatever the menara where we feel our need of medicine not forget that our body is only a matter of drawing on it and keep in shape. For himself all our body work well as humans. 

Thesis: 

What if our body is exhausted endorphins, which would cause the impact?