"Is laughter the best medicine?” Scientists have found that laughter is a form of internal jogging that exercises the body and stimulates the release of beneficial brain neurotransmitters and hormones. Positive outlook and laughter is actually good for our health! It may not seem to have much benefit, but to someone who has just gone through a tough day, a good laugh can do wonders. It does raise your spirits.
It was found that adults don’t laugh as often as children. While adults laugh approximately 15 times a day, children on the other hand laugh some 400 times. It seems as we grow up, we lost the sense of humor and few hundred laughs. We need to learn to be positive, to smile and laugh again and I think it will have tremendous impact and effect on our well-being.
Laughter is a form of good stress, or stress in reverse. Laughter is one of the body’s safety valves, a counter balance to tension. When we release that tension, the elevated levels of the body's stress hormones drop back to normal, thereby allowing our immune systems to work more effectively. Cells which produce anti-bodies increase in number, T-cells which combat viruses are activated and ready for battle. Our natural killer cells increase in number and activity. All this occurs as a direct result of laughter!
Being unhappy or very sad can seriously damage your health. So don't worry, be happy!
Humor therapy is the term given to a therapeutic process which claims beneficial effects from the use of positive emotions associated with laughter.
1. Research has shown that laughing can help in:
2. Lowering blood pressure
3. Reducing stress hormones
4. Increasing muscle flexion
5. Boosting immune function
6. Producing a general sense of well-being.
A Joke To Cheer You
When Mozart passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple of days later, a drunkard walked through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Mozart was buried. Terrified, the drunkard ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave.
Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate. When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, “Oh Yes, that’s Mozart’s Nine Symphony, being played backward”.
He listened a while longer and said, “There’s the Eight Symphony, and it’s backwards too. Most puzzling.” So the magistrate kept listening; “There’s the Seventh, the Sixth…the Fifth..” Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate, he stood up and announced to the crow that had gathered in the cemetery, “My fellow citizens, there’s nothing to worry about. Its just Mozart decomposing”
