Read this article to know how laughter is the best medicine.
Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humour lightens your burden, inspires hope, connects you to others and keeps you grounded, focused and alert.
With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships and supporting both physical and emotional health.
A good hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance power against diseases.
Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases.
Laughter makes you feel good. The good feeling, that you get when you laugh, remains with you even after you stop laughing. Laughter helps you keep a positive worldview in difficult times, a laugh or even a smile can make you feel better.
One cannot feel anxious, angry or sad when laughing. It reduces stress and increases energy and enables one to stay focused and accomplished more. Humour enables to see the situation in a more realistic and less threatening light. A humorous perspective creates psychological distance which can help avoid the feeling of being overwhelmed.
Humour and playful communication strengthing our relationships by infusing positive feelings and fostering emotional connections. When we laugh with one another, a positive bond is created. This bond acts as a strong defense against stress, disagreements, and disappointments.
Shared laughter is one of the most effective tools for keeping relationships free and active. All emotional sharing builds strong and lasting bonds, but sharing laughter also adds joy, vitality, and resilience.
Humour is a powerful and effective way to heal resentments and disagreements. Laughter unites people during the difficult time. Thus incorporating more humor into your daily interactions can improve the quality of your relationships, your connection with co-workers, family members, and friends.
