Obvious and non-obvious benefits of physical labor
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Wondering whether you ever wonder why physical work is often contrasted with education, a happy and fulfilling life, no respect and honor? For me, this situation has long been taken for granted. But, as often happens in my life, it was the turn of this question to be questioned and analyzed.
Starting with the last class of the school, I was no longer satisfied responses such as "Everything is live," "All the people think so", "Everybody does it." And today I will try to show you that in matters of physical work, most are not right, that without it we can not develop harmoniously, to succeed, to live a happy and fulfilling.
Possible causes erroneous attitude
To begin, let's understand the causes of the wrong attitude. The first reason - laziness - is as old as human nature itself. I do not want to say that the intellectual work laziness is not a hindrance. Sometimes, on the contrary: I'm starting to engage in heavy physical labor, only would not write the article.
But if a person offer to choose any profession, most likely, his choice will be more concerned with the intellectual work than the physical. And that person does not like, he often tries to introduce himself and others as of little or no unnecessary. Here come to the aid
Plato's ideas.Plato taught that man has an immortal soul - thinking and sentient entity associated with the Graduate School of Information and spiritual matters. The body is for the soul - this is just a temporary shelter, associated with all the low earth, and unclean. Here begins an excessive exaltation of punditry on physical labor.
By the time Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire, Plato's ideas are firmly part of it, in spite of the fact that the main book of Christians - the Bible - says nothing about an immortal soul in the sense of Plato and denies itself the afterlife.
This attitude permeates all levels of society and in the whole European culture. In addition to combat the Reformation Jesuits creates throughout Europe schools and universities, system and philosophy of education which became the foundation of almost all educational institutions the modern world.
Thus, in addition to the natural laziness man since childhood receives setting that intellectual labor is associated with something sublime, spiritual and worthy of honor, and the physical - a lot plebeians.
AND third reason It follows from the second, and, in turn, even more fixes it in our minds. This occurs as follows: the child is lazy to work intelligently and poorly in school (or he recaptured desire for learning), as a result, he grows a man incapable of intellectual work, self-learning and empowerment. Low IQ, small vocabulary, low culture - the only prospect remains unqualified or unskilled manual labor.
Looking at this person, people tend to confuse cause and effect and confirmed in the opinion that physical labor does not contribute to the intellectual and moral development, and general growth of the person as personality. Below we will see that in fact the right approach everything is just the opposite.
The total benefits of physical activity
Today, increasingly, scientists say that exercise helps us get smarter.
In his book "brain rules"John Medina brings a lot of interesting facts about the beneficial effects of physical activity on the brain and its performance:
John Medina... exercise throughout life help to dramatic improvement in cognitive processes, in contrast to a sedentary lifestyle. Adherents of physical education and went around the lazy couch potatoes for long-term memory performance, logic, attention, ability to solve problems, and even the so-called rolling intelligence. These tests determine the speed of thought and the ability to think abstractly, to reproduce previously acquired knowledge to solve new problems.
Medina also said that physical activity reduces the risk of dementia by half, and in the case of Alzheimer's disease is the result of even 60%! 57% reduces the risk of a major cause of age-related diseases of the brain - angina. Physical activity also helps to regulate the flow of the blood of norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin, which are directly related to the health of the brain and its functioning.
Unfortunately, a sedentary lifestyle - not just a problem of adults engaged in office work, but also to children confined to your television, computer tablets and smartphones. it adversely affects not only on the physical but also in mental health:
John Medina... physical activity improves children. Children in good shape quickly recognize visual stimuli than their sedentary peers, and better focus. Studies of mental activity have shown that physically active children and adolescents use more cognitive resources to perform the tasks.
Physical labor can give no less useful and varied load our body than sports exercises, providing the same beneficial effect on him, for example, run. But for all that physical work can give more burden to our brain, which he can not get anywhere else.
sagacity
Even during harvest apartments our brain solves a lot more practical problems than in solving complex mathematical equations. Therefore, well-organized physical labor contributes to the formation of practical thinking. In such a case, the person learns to see the cause-effect relationship and gain the skills to anticipate the consequences and results, not only his own works, but also the words and thoughts.
But due to the fact that physical labor is considered a curse or punishment, most of the job done thoughtlessly, on the thumb and without creativity. Of course, this situation does not contribute to practical thinking, which is so necessary for success and fullness of life.
Children brought up on video games and movies, which are often the cause-effect relationships are completely absent or have little to do with reality, when They grow up, often just can not understand what is going on with their lives, and are taken to curse the stars, world conspiracies, government, aliens, neighbors... And More with an unpleasant surprise for myself know that life is sometimes hard and complicated thing, and their knowledge, skills, and character is not completely prepared for her.
No wonder that in Silicon Valley, there is a school where children learn (without computers and tablets), sculpt, draw, cut and generally work with your hands. And give to the school of their children famous person Hi-Tech-society. Many of them, as Steve Jobs once, to varying degrees, restrict their children's communication gadgets.
character education
Physical same work can be a great help, and in the education of character. More specifically, in the education of character traits: purposefulness, persistence, diligence, accuracy, thoroughness - that are critical to success, development, growth and overcoming difficulties.
Wants the child or not, performing the task assigned to him or rewriting poorly done, it brings up all these qualities. And the fact that without them it is impossible to achieve anything useful, I think, there is no need to explain. Children sharing with the other members of the family household responsibilities, grow more independent, better prepared for life and its unpleasant surprises.
Ready for the vicissitudes of life
No one knows how the future will develop in the circumstances for us, but people accustomed to physical labor, and in this situation has the advantage. -Found skills to help you find temporary work or even start their own business, and seasoned character will not give up and do not stoop to stealing or begging.
And if you take an extreme case - a desert island, natural disasters and other "doomsday", - it is unlikely that a blogger or programming skills will help if there is no electricity. Useful in such a situation would be quite other skills.
Useful practical result
And by the way, about the utility. Bottom line, that can be useful for you personally and other people - this is another advantage of the physical labor.
If the result of the Exercise will be the health of body and mind, then the results of the physical Labor can be added fruits and vegetables from your own site, comfortable and beautiful environment or housing even balcony.
Yield: like physical labor
What to do now? Quit intellectual work and sports exercises? Of course not. For starters, you can simply use every opportunity to work physically, from simple digging ditches to create a masterpiece of furniture made of sturdy oak.
And most importantly: if you work without a good attitude, no creativity, it will be impossible to squeeze all the bonuses. Can I love physical work? I know from personal experience that it is possible, but not soon and easily. Think of the benefits that it provides, moreover free. Usually, people pay a lot of money for different trainings, but here we get training for the muscles to the brain, to the nature and even with a useful external result. You both want to, and I rushed to handle the vineyard.