The Multiple Benefits Of Healthy Laughter

Healthy Laughter

Laughter therapy is a novel method that reveals the enormous benefits that laughter brings about our bodies and our moods. Laughter is the biological mechanism that nature has placed at our disposal to raise our physical and mood.

Laughter is a topic of daily application in our lives but, do we ever have asked what is laughter?

Why do we laugh? What is it? How many times a day we laugh? and, beyond that, this, give us some therapeutic benefit?.

 

Medicine for stress
Here we will discuss laughter as the answer given by the body to express
fun, joy, happiness, all positive emotions that reflect an excellent
mood of the human being, and is not the sad smile, laughter nor malicious and
mocking, these do not deserve our interest.

So laugh so understood, is known throughout the world as a sign of good
humor, albeit not to the same extent  in everywhere laughs, depending on
certain factors such as culture, climate, etc.. Thus, for example, in countries with cold climate, people laugh less than in countries with warm climates.

We are in a world of conflict and great medicine, perhaps the best, most
effective and no cost, is the humor, which is what causes us to laugh.
No doubt laughing makes us forget our troubles for a moment while we laugh
there is nothing more, it's like we are  laughing the world is to step aside and for those moments  we are full of joy.


Laughter is usually a vibration sound that will remove the stress accumulated in the cells of the body, and we will regularly practice becoming more optimistic and patient people. It has been proven that laughter significantly strengthens our immune system allowing it to more effectively combat viruses, bacteria and possible body cell mutations that can lead to cancerous tumors.

Laughter causes muscle vibration,toning them and helps eliminate toxins and fatty acids that we have an abundance, contributing to the maintenance of the line.

When we laugh out loud, its secretes biochemicals such as endorphins that help us relieve physical pain and balance our mood.


Humor is the best medicine
The Laughter therapy is a method that promotes health through laughter. To exercise it, laughter therapy workshops are held. In a laughter therapy workshop techniques are performed, games and exercises that stimulate laughter from the participants. The Laughter Therapy Group is normally practiced by the powerful effect of laughter contagious.

And this is a natural mechanism that also facilitates social contact and significantly close bond with those people with whom we laughed, provided that the act of laughing is motivated by positive mood, ie a healthy intention of sharing pleasant emotions and seek our wellbeing and that of others.

And dynamic techniques applied in laughter therapy course structure are studied and previously designed to achieve the maximum benefit and effectiveness in generating laughter and pleasant emotions derived from exercises and designed to cause the release of substances natural endorphins. These dynamics combine different fields disciplines such as theater, gestalt, art therapy, psychology and binds.

This will include creative games for different purposes ranging from: relieve stress, express emotions, increase self esteem, encourage motivation, promote cooperation, become aware of our bodies, increase our creativity, overcome fear of ridicule, give full play to our ability to interpret and learn to trust others.
In a course of laughter therapy generates a space where, through, of all these dynamics the person gets to focus on the present moment and forget, temporarily the problems while acquiring resources to face life from a healthy and positive attitude.

In next articles we will continue speaking about this interesting theme.