Laughter is good for the heart, soul and even your health.
       Laughter draws people to you.
                  Laughter is infectious.
                               Laughter feels good.

Some personal reasons to laugh:

1.   Stimulates the mind and gets the creative juices flowing.

2.   Relieves stress and helps you cope with daily pressures.

3.   Produces endorphins, which reduce pain and induce pleasure

4.   Reduces blood pressure.

5.   Strengthens the immune system and heals the body.

6.   Oxygenates the blood and gives your respiratory system a tremendous workout.

7.   Weight loss. It's true! 10 minutes of laughter burns about 45 calories.

In this age of high-technology, scientific miracles and medical breakthroughs, it might just be that something as simple as laughter is the best medicine, after all. For a long time, medical doctors have known that happy patients generally respond more favourable to treatment and recover faster than cheerless and complaining ones.

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Laughter for your body

The many physiological benefits of laughter make it "great medicine":

1.   Laughter reduces stress and produces endorphins that make you feel good

2.   Laughter relaxes your muscles

3.   Laughter boosts your immune system. This happens for two reasons:

·        Stress hormones and flight-or-fight compounds suppress the immune system. By changing your mood laughter "unsuppresses" the immune system. It provides a safety valve which shuts of the flight-or-fight response and lets your body function return to normal.

·        Laughter boosts your immune system directly and causes:

·        cancer fighting lymphocytes to increase

·        immunoglobin (sIgA) increase - this defends you from infections via the respiratory tract

·        increased T cell activation and number

·        increase in number of B cells which produce disease-fighting protein

·        Gamma-interferon (a disease fighting protein)

·        These effects last from 30 minutes to over 12 hours! There is a famous case of a man called Norman Cousins who cured himself of cancer by laughing.

4.   Laughter is an excellent aerobic exercise.
Laughing 100 times is as much of a workout as 10 minutes of rowing or 15 minutes on an exercise bike.

5.   Laughter helps you lose weight. Researchers at Vanderbuilt University found that 15 minutes of laughter burns as much as 50 calories.

6.   Improves breathing (respiration) and blood circulation.
Under normal conditions a small amount of air stays in your lungs which carries more carbon dioxide and moisture. Laughing forces you to expel all the air in your lungs getting rid of excess carbon dioxide and moisture. It also loosens up and helps you expel mucus and phlegm.

7.   10 minutes of laughter can result in two hours of pain relief. This occurs because laughter releases two neuropeptides endorphins and enkephalins – the bodies’ natural pain-suppressing opioids.

8.   Laughter lowers blood pressure. 10 minutes of laughter reduces blood pressure by 10-20 mm.

9.   Laughter is a good massage for your organs. Laughter has been likened to internal jogging - it gives your organs a good rub around.

10.     Happiness, laughter and love of friends are as important to protecting us from heart disease as keeping cholesterol under control and taking an aspirin. A researcher at the University of Maryland, Michael Miller, recommends at least 15 minutes of hearty laughter a day to ward of heart attack. 15 minutes of laughter relaxes arteries and raises blood flow for up to 45 minutes - comparable with aerobic exercise.

"The more I laugh as an exercise, the more laughter creeps back into the rest of my life. It's like you've tuned the engine. It's quite powerful, you can laugh more than you think you can. And when you do, you'll feel good."


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Laughter for the mind and spirit

In fact the psychological benefits of laughter have the most proven support:


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1.   Laughter improves your mood.
Laughter is cathartic. It releases negative emotions particularly anger, anxiety, fear and boredom in a pleasant and acceptable way. Building more humour and laughter in your life helps assure that these (Neuropeptides) chemical messages are working for you, not against you.

2.   Laughter improves creativity. Laughing in response to something funny is a very sophisticated brain function which sweeps our entire cerebral cortex and is terrific for mental flexibility. Creativity and humour are identical.
They both involve bringing together two items which do not have an obvious
connection and creating a relationship.

3.   There's an old story about a reporter interviewing Albert Einstein at his
laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. The reporter was surprised to see a large horseshoe hanging over the professor's office doorway.
"Professor Einstein," she asked, "you're a great scientist. Surely you don't believe a horseshoe will bring good luck."
"Of course I don't," he replied. "Then why is the horseshoe up there?" the reporter insisted. "Because it works whether you believe it or not."

4.   Laughter relieves depression.

5.   Laughter pulls down the barriers between people
Laughing is wonderful for team building. It also works extremely well at social functions and events where people may not know each other very well initially.

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people”. - Thomas Borges

6.   Laughter helps us deal with our mortality.


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Come on girls get that belly laugh happening - you owe it to yourself!