Laughter The Best Medicine Modified

Laughter The Best Medicine:

Laughter The Best Medicine

INTRODUCTION:

INTRODUCTION Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. In addition to the domino effect of joy and amusement, laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body.

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Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.

How is Laughter good for your health? :

How is Laughter good for your health? Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after. Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease .

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Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain. Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

The Benefits of Laughter :

The Benefits of Laughter Physical Health Benefits: Boosts immunity Lowers stress hormones Decreases pain Relaxes your muscles Prevents heart disease

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Mental Health Benefits: Adds joy and zest to life Eases anxiety and fear Relieves stress Improves mood Enhances resilience

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Social Benefits: Strengthens relationships Attracts others to us Enhances teamwork Helps defuse conflict Promotes group bonding

Creating opportunities to laugh :

Creating opportunities to laugh Watch a funny movie or TV show. Go to a comedy club. Read the funny pages. Seek out funny people. Share a good joke or a funny story. Check out your bookstore’s humor section .

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Host game night with friends. Play with a pet. Go to a “laughter yoga” class. Goof around with children. Do something silly. Make time for fun activities (e.g. bowling, miniature golfing, karaoke).

Checklist for lightening up :

Checklist for lightening up When you find yourself taken over by what seems to be a horrible problem, ask these questions: Is it really worth getting upset over? Is it worth upsetting others? Is it that important?

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Is it that bad? Is the situation irreparable? Is it really your problem?

DISADVANTAGES OF LAUGHTER:

DISADVANTAGES OF LAUGHTER Laughing can be good for the heart, sometimes it has actually caused a stroke or heart attack. After abdominal surgery, it is also advised for the patient not to laugh, as it could rip the stitches. Pregnant woman should also preferably avoid laughter sessions until some conclusive data regarding the safety is available.

FACTS ON LAUGHTER:

FACTS ON LAUGHTER Studies have pinpointed 18 different kinds of smiles. The most common is the smile of enjoyment 13 muscles are used to smile, but 47 are required for frowning. You have to smile nearly a quarter of a million times to make 1 wrinkle.

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In terms of exercise, you can get the same benefits from laughing 100 times a day, as you can from 10 minutes of rowing. 15 minutes of laughter equals the benefit of 2 hours sleep. One good belly laugh burns off 3 1/2 calories. Laughing for 15 seconds adds 2 days to your life span.

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An Irish study showed that laughter causes a rise in blood pressure. Other studies showed that blood pressure drops for a time when we stop laughing, which is much like aerobic exercise. University of Chicago studies show a great sense of humor can add 8 years to your life.

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Finally, even a normal person experiencing discomfort while laughing, must discontinue immediately and seek expert medical help. People with certain types of brain damage produce abnormal laughter.

RECENT DISCOVERIES:

RECENT DISCOVERIES Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to a recent study by cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of situations compared to people of the same age without heart disease.

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World Laughter Day was created in 1998 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. The celebration of World Laughter Day is a positive manifestation for world peace and is intended to build up a global consciousness of brotherhood and friendship through laughter.

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Its popularity has grown exponentially with that of the Laughter Yoga movement now counting over 6000 Laughter Clubs in more than 65 countries. “HAPPY-DEMIC” was the first World Laughter Day gathering outside India. It took place in the year 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark where more than 10,000 people gathered at Town Hall Square.

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It was the largest ever gathering that laughed and bonded together and the event went into the Guinness Book of World records. It said that during the march all chant “Ho, Ho, Ha, Ha, Ha” and “very good, very good, yeah!” clapping and dancing. After walking some distance, they stop to do a few Laughter Yoga exercises and then move on.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN:

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

THE KING OF LAUGHTER:

THE KING OF LAUGHTER Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin , KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era.He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of World War I.

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Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

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Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. Chaplin's robust health began to slowly fail in the late 1960s, after the completion of his final film A Countess from Hong Kong , and more rapidly after he received his Academy Award in 1972. By 1977, he had difficulty communicating, and was using a wheelchair. Chaplin died in his sleep in Vevey, Switzerland on Christmas Day 1977.

CONCLUSION:

CONCLUSION Even though laughter has many disadvantages more than 90% of the world accepts it and measures have been take for it. Moreover , why do you want to waste a priceless gift like that when it is right in your hands!!!!!!

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“ Laugh as much as you breathe and love it as long as you live.”