The healing magic of family photo! Accompany children through life crisis

Thousands of photos in mobile phones are full of love and joy. However, how long should we watch carefully, or should the family get together, laugh while watching and talk about memories? Psychologists have found that family photos have a kind of magic, which can accompany people through the key and crisis moments of life. The method is simple, just pick out the photos. ...

Watkins is a portrait artist who has won many awards such as the best photographer in Missouri and is the mother of four children. Like you and me, there are many photos of children and family in her mobile phone, but she and her family don't often look at these photos because they have to turn on some equipment. Recently, she found that children who have stopped classes at home and can't play around like to look at photos. They put aside their digital devices and focused on reading and discussing the photos she developed and put in the album.

She couldn't help thinking, what's the difference between these two photos? What's the magic of physical photos? So she searched and read the research on photos and photo therapy in Psychology, and customers who took photos by themselves responded, sharing the magic of family photos, especially the developed paper photos, in the Chicago Tribune.

The big difference is that when people look at electronic photos, especially those in their mobile phones, they often flick their fingers to the next page and give them to the next person for circulation. But with a photo album, they will chew it slowly, and a group of people will discuss it on the same page and even read it repeatedly. This has brought different effects.

Looking at physical photos can sting the sense of * * *, strengthen memory, play a different role from electronic screens, and strengthen the memory of shooting at that time. The author quoted an article from National Geographic Channel, pointing out that when looking at a physical photo, it will trigger memories of the situation at that time. Some people will touch the photo, hold it in their arms and even kiss the person in the photo. Even looking at the photos hanging on the wall may make people stop for a long time and fall into memories. This emotional * * * makes time and memory more profound.

What's even better is that most of the photos are happy scenes in life or important milestones of achievements, such as traveling, graduation, winning prizes, celebrating the completion of new homes and so on. When you look back, you will also think of these satisfying past events, or laugh collectively. Joe Hemmings, a British psychologist, pointed out that this often brings a good mood, helps to relieve stress and improve physical and mental health.

For children, looking at photos will make them feel love and concern, strengthen self-identity and self-confidence, and enhance the highest level of human needs-self-esteem, which is put forward by humanistic scholar Maslow.

The book Photo Therapy and Mental Health, written by psychologist David A. Krauss and others, points out that when children often see family members and photos at home and on the wall, it seems that they have been accepting adults to show and confirm their love, which makes them feel a sense of belonging and family. Whether for adults or children, when tested in life, it will also remind people of the warmth of family support. Although invisible, it is a stabilizing force against life crisis or epidemic panic a while ago.

In addition, children looking at the photos of their unborn family members will also give them a chance to learn more about family stories and history, establish contact between children and their families, relatives and elders, and enhance the centripetal force of family members.

Watkins stressed that some people may think that digital preservation is always safe, and the developed photos will fade or get wet. But many of her customers, as well as herself, have kept some photos on electronic devices or disks for many years, and rarely dig out their old mobile phones or enter the cloud disk to watch them. Some CDs and portable disks are even broken, and these images cannot be returned. But the photos hanging on the wall, developed and put in the photo album, are still often greeted.

In the article, she also suggested how to increase the chances of seeing photos together, or how to enhance the effectiveness of photos. For example, after traveling home, or looking at photos in digital devices with family members regularly, pick out some photos, make photo albums, put them in public areas or hang them on the wall as paintings. Some people also like to turn photos into puzzles or household items such as cups and calendars, and even gifts and souvenirs. This will deliberately remind everyone that often seeing photos will remind you of happy times and friendship.

People who don't like developing photos can also use digital photo frames (in fact, photos can be placed on TV screens or tablets) to play family photos in turn at home and become a part of home decoration.

In addition, when friends and relatives get together, you can also turn looking at photos into one of the activities of family reunion or visiting relatives and friends, which makes the joy and emotion stronger.

Watkins also reminded that good photos and memories can be planned in advance. Readers can decide which photos to take or use before traveling, important ceremonies or festivals. For example, photos that want to be enlarged or made into big puzzles, high-resolution family photos, those special backgrounds or landscapes, and so on. , will make good use of in the future.

Summer vacation is coming. Before and after the next outing, you can have fun with your family and liberate the magic of family photos together!