Laughter is your birthright, a natural part of life that is innate and inborn. Infants begin smiling during the first weeks of life and laugh out loud within months of being born. Even if you did not grow up in a household where laughter was a common sound, you can learn to laugh at any stage of life.
Smile is the simplest, the most obvious and the most powerful of all body language commandants.
When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. Laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. Humour and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress
Laughter is strong medicine for mind and body
Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh
Laughter is 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 too.
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.
Physical Health Benefits of Laughter—:
§ Boosts immunity
§ Lowers stress hormones Mental Health Benefits:
§ Adds joy and zest to life
§ Eases anxiety and fear
§ Decreases pain
§ Relaxes your muscles
Prevents heart disease Mental Health Benefits:
§ Adds joy and great enthusiasm and energy to life
§ Eases anxiety and fear Relieves stress
§ Improves mood
Enhances Social Benefits::
§ Strengthens relationships
§ Attracts others to us
§ Enhances team work
§ Helps in defuse the conflict
§ Promotes group bonding
The link between laughter and mental health:
Laughter dissolves distressing emotions.You can’t feel anxious, angry, or sad when you’re laughing.
Laughter helps you relax and recharge.It reduces stress and increases energy, enabling you to stay focused and accomplish more.
Laughing with others is more powerful than laughing alone
Sharing laughter and play also adds joy, vitality, and resilience. Laughter unites people during difficult times.
Using humor and laughter in relationships allows you to:
Here are some ways to start:
Smile.Smiling is the beginning of laughter. Like laughter, it’s contagious..
When you hear laughter, move toward it.
Spend time with fun, playful people.These are people who laugh easily–both at themselves and at life’s absurdities–and who routinely find the humor in everyday events. Their playful point of view and laughter are contagious.
One essential characteristic that helps us laugh is not taking ourselves too seriously.Ways to help yourself see the lighter side of life:
Laugh at yourself.
Surround yourself with reminders to lighten up.Keep a toy on your desk or in your car. Put up a funny poster in your office. Choose a computer screensaver that makes you laugh. Frame photos of you and your family or friends having fun.
The ability to laugh, play, and have fun with others not only makes life more enjoyable but also helps you solve problems, connect with others, and be more creative.
People who incorporate humour and play into their daily lives find that it renews them and all of their relationships.
As laughter, humour, and play become an integrated part of your life, your creativity will flourish and new discoveries for playing with friends, co-workers, acquaintances, and loved ones will occur to you daily.
Humour takes you to a higher place where you can view the world from a more relaxed, positive, creative, joyful, and balanced perspective.
Some Quotes on Laughter—
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. — William Thackeray
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron
An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Nansbury
As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul.– A Jewish Proverb
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. — Lao Tsu
Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. John Cleese
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. — Victor Borge
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo
On average, an infant laughs nearly two hundred times a day; an adult, only twelve. Maybe they are laughing so much because they are looking at us. To be able to preserve joyousness of heart and yet to be concerned in thought: in this way we can determine good fortune and misfortune on earth, and bring to perfection everything on earth. –I Ching
Smiles are the soul’s kisses. — Minna Thomas Antrim
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. — Mark Twain
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. — E E Cummings
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. — Abraham Lincoln
“I have not seen anyone dying of laughter, but I know millions who are dying because they are not laughing” – Dr. Madan Kataria
“If Laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely DISSOLVE your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them” Dr. Madan Kataria
Hence it may be concluded that———–
Laughter is the best medicine.
It is better to laugh rather to weep by remembering ‘Failure’ It also help us in rectifying our mistakes
Worst day is one when we have no HEARTY LAUGH
LEARN TO LAUGH AT YOUR TROUBLES AND YOU WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF THING TO LAUGH AT.
A path full of troubles and difficulty become normal and easy if we pass through it by laughing and singing.
Consider that day is merely waste, on which day you have not LAUGH even once.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
By laughing on our self we fell lighter and tension free.
Mental tension can be reduces by Laughter and this gives us pleasure and strength and energy to do work. Laughing is good for the health.जिन्दा दिलइन्सान finds some excuses to laugh. Nothing shows a Man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Complied by J.K. Garg