Feeling stress?
No way to go?
No ideas on how to cope with it?
Then, just LAUGH OUT LOUD!
Do you know, research has shown that health benefits of laughter ranging from strengthening the immune system to reduce food cravings to increase one's threshold pain? There's even an emerging therapeutic field known as humor therapy to help people heal more quickly, among other things. So, all we need is HUMOR! Humor has many important stress relieving benefits. Here goes the benefits:
Hormones : Laughter can reduce the level of stress hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine and growth hormone. It also helps in increasing the level of health- enhancing hormones like endorphins and neurotransmitters. At the same time, the number of antibody-producing cells will also increases. Besides that, laughter enhances the effectiveness of T cells. When we get a stronger immune system, there will be fewer physical effects on stress!
Physical Release : Have you ever experienced the cleansed and the sensation after having a good laugh? Thats it! Laughter actually creates physical and emotional release. So, when you have fun and laugh, it will balanced your level of emotions.
Internal Workout : When you laugh, you're doing exercise on your diaphragm, contracts the abs and even works out the shoulders, leaving muscles more relaxed. One more interesting fact is that it is also a good workout for the heart!
Distraction : Laughter will brings your focus away from anger, guilt, stress and negative emotions in a more beneficial way!
Perspective : Humor can give us more lighthearted perspective and help us view events as 'challenges', making them less threatening and more positive. Positive is much more better that negative!
Social benefits of laughter : Laughter connects us with others. Do you realize that laughter is contagious? If you bring more laughter into your life, you're actually helping the people around you to laugh more, and don't you realize that it brings benefits as well? By creating the mood of the people around you, you also can reduce their stress levels and improve the interactions between you and them and most of all, it reduces your stress level even MORE!
SO, HAVE FUN AND LET'S LAUGH OUT LOUD!
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