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Can the chortling, sniggering sound of laughter be the answer to stress, loneliness, and depression? You might be pleasantly surprised at how much you can achieve by smiling and laughing your way through each day. Laugher lowers stress hormones, increases our heart rate, helps us breathe more deeply, and stretches many different muscles in our face and upper body.
A positive attitude will not only help us feel better, it also has a general beneficial effect on our health. Laugher lowers stress hormones, increases our heart rate, helps us breathe more deeply, and stretches many different muscles in our face and upper body. Laughter really is good for you, and scientists have now begun to prove what everyone else takes for granted. The study of humour and laughter is gelotology, from the Greek gelos, geloto meaning laugh, laughter, laughing.
What is Laughing?:+
Laughter is not only a simple response to comedy; laughter is a hidden language we all speak that binds people together. Smiling, laughing and tickling might have evolved to create bonds between babies and parents. Laughter is a series of short vowel-like syllables usually transcribed as "ha-ha," "ho-ho" or "hee-hee." These syllables are part of the universal human vocabulary, produced and recognized by people of all cultures. Monkey and apes have some facial expressions that are similar to human smiles.
The Giggle Gym:+
Laughing is good for the heart and the lungs, it increases the amount of oxygen in the body and this in turn, is good for the respiratory system. Researcher has estimated that a good laugh produces an increase in heart rate that is equivalent to ten minutes on a rowing machine or fifteen minutes on an exercise bike. The expectation of laughter is enough to increase the production of endorphins - the body's natural painkiller. The level of some stress hormones is lowered, such as cortisol and other important stress fighting chemicals are released. Laughter requires the coordination of many muscles throughout the body: a long bout of laughter is similar to an aerobic workout. It gives your diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg and back muscles a workout. Laughter also provides a boost to the immune system, which helps us fight off diseases. Laughing is a way of releasing stored up negative emotions. Jokes increases our sense of belonging, and by psychologically connecting us with others, feelings of alienation, a major factor in depression, is counteracted.
Laughter and Brain:+
There is no specific brain centre for laugher, rather a network of different areas are involved. The areas of the brain involving in understanding why a joke is funny are the area mainly located towards the back of the frontal lobes. People who have damaged this part of the brain often lose their sense of humour. Parts of the limbic system are also involved in understanding of a joke: limbic system is the primitive part of the brain that is involved in emotions and helps us with basic functions necessary for survival. It is believed that laughter is an ancient behaviour, and that the physical act of laughter is generated by a mechanism that modifies respiration: this enables the "ha-ha" sound.
We Laugh Together:+
Laughter is more frequent in social than solitary situations - approximately 30 times more frequent. Laughter is a signal to others, we might be happy when we are alone, but we tend not to laugh when we are alone.
The Laughter Virus:+
Laughter is spontaneous and contagious. Our laughter is under minimal conscious control, and it challenges the hypothesis that we are in full control of our behaviour.
Laughter is extremely difficult to control consciously. Most people cannot laugh on command.
When Do We Laugh?:+
We laugh at jokes and funny movies; however, eighty per cent of our laughter occurs during everyday comments in everyday social situations. If you observe laughing in your own life you will find that most situations is like the laugh track of a bad sitcom.
The Tickle Machine:+
Some scientists believe that laughing caused by tickling is a built-in reflex, however, if you try to tickle yourself in exactly the same way that another person tickles you, you do not laugh. The brain needs tension and surprise for the tickling to work. When you try to tickle yourself you know what will happen, and that does not make you laugh.
Having a Laugh With a Robot:+
Laughter has long been considered a profoundly human trait, but maybe one day we will understand laughter sufficiently well to build a laughing robot. Research has revealed that chimps, gorillas and rats seem to laugh when tickled. Laughter might be an interesting challenge for artificial intelligence
researchers. Maybe one day we will not laugh at our robot, but laugh with it.
Tips to Help You Laugh More:+
* Surround yourself with people, and increase eye-to-eye contact.
* Develop your own sense of humour. Be funny - but not at someone else's expense!
* Expect to laugh more, and create a relaxing atmosphere.
* Develop you own sense of humour.
* Tickle, however, it is not recommended to tickle strangers.
aDViCe:+
Laughter is not always good, and there are a few cases when laughing actually caused a heart attack or a stroke. People with broken ribs should avoid laughing and immediately after abdominal surgery, people should not laugh too hard.
"A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip"
LauGH To YouR HeaRT'S CoNTeNT...
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