Laughter is the Best Medicine
“Laughter is an instant vacation.”
As you live you must have something that makes you upset or sad. Stress, likewise the topic I used for my second blog topic, we are closely related to stress. When we are exposed to stressful moments, our blood pressure and heart beats increase. You may also have some negative changes in your body by just thinking about the bad times that you gained stress. According to Ohio University research centre, if the stressful circumstance lasts for a long time, your biological inflammation would increase by 20 percent. This might cause you to more serious problems like diseases. That is why you have to bear this topic in your mind, today I would like to introduce a way to manage your stress successfully without any cost and time consuming work. Laugh, it can either be a small smile or a burst of laughter. Humour is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious and dangerous than any other things like cough, yawn, or sneeze.
Let me ask you a question that might dwell on your mind for a while. How much time do you laugh or smile a day? Let’s assume that we live 80 years. We spend 8 hours working, so it would be 26 years out of 80. We spend 7 hours sleeping a day, it would be 23 years. We spend worrying and thinking about life for 3 hours it would be 10 years. Then think about the time we spend laughing. Average adult spend 90 seconds a day laughing or smiling, not even 9 minutes or 90 minutes. Then if we reflect it to 80 years of our lives, it will be 30 days. But normal children laugh 300 to 500 times a day, on the other hand adults 5 to 8 times. If we laugh, you will feel better and get over the stressful moments in the bargain because when the face muscles move your brain will detect the movement as, ‘I am very happy,’ So you will be also able to have some better moods. Have you ever heard of the phrase, “laughter is the best medicine?” This phrase tells us laughter is a powerful antidote to stress.
Laughter and humour help you stay emotionally healthy. Laughter makes you feel good likewise I explained above. The good feeling remains with you even after you laughed. Humour helps you keep positive, optimistic and have good impression to others. Furthermore, you will be able to have the social benefits of humour and laughter. Healthy relationship and laughter is closely related to each other. Let’s take an example, when you are having a serious conversation and hard times with your friends, you would not have good experiences with them. However, when you laugh with one another, a positive bond will be created. One of the most effective methods to keep relationships fresh and exciting is to have shared laughter.
If you have trouble with brining more laughter into your life. I would like to give you some tips of how to improve those. First of all, smile, smiling is the beginning step of laughter. Like laughter it’s contagious. Researchers in “laugh therapy,” find it’s possible to laugh without experiencing a fun event is to hole smiling. If you want to have better life, practice smiling. Second, when you hear laughter from others, move toward it. Sometimes or often humours and laughter are private among friends. More often, people are very happy to share something funny with others. So when you hear laughter, seek it out and ask, “what happened? What’s so funny?” Thirdly, take yourself less seriously. One vital characteristic that helps you laugh is not taking yourself too seriously. Often people, do not laugh because they want to concentrate on something else and try to be cool. But, bringing humour into your life would be better for you to live a happier life. Lastly, spend time with fun and playful people. Reference to the first blog, in order to have a good relationship you have to have good people around you. This means, people often affected by nearby environments. So if you have fun and playful friends, you will be able to find the humour in everyday events.
One of the most important things in human communication is to have a good impression on others. A lot of successful people get used to smiling when meeting new people. I would like to introduce some habits that successful people have according to laughing and smiling. First of all, always be smiling while meeting new people. The first impression is really important in human connections, so that by smiling you can have more possibilities of having better relationships. Be thankful with everything and always laugh. You can be thankful of everything and by complimenting and thanking nearby people, you will be able to have the effect of laughing being spread. Lastly, make a laughter mentor which means, a person, who can always make you laugh or a person who laughs easily. When you are having depressed time, by only thinking and talking to them, you will be able to get rid of those sad thoughts.
In this busy and non- stopping life, you can easily find out that laughter is lacking. If you are lack of humour and laughter, you will find your life not very interesting. As laughter and humour become an integrate portion of your life, you will be flourished in every aspect of your life. Laughter is contagious so by your laughter you can also help others in an indirect way. So be comfortable with laughing. There is a famous quote by a famous philosopher, William James. He once said “we don’t laugh because we’re happy- we’re happy because we laugh. In order to be happy, we have to be get accustomed to laughing.