Posts Tagged ‘Life’

How to keep laughter flowing in this hectic lifestyle?

Life is complicated and messy and very hectic. Sometimes laugh-out-loud moments are not always accessible but there are some tips that be used to bring laughter in your life.
- One should determine humor profile. Figure out what makes you laugh and do it more often. As different people have different taste in music, in the same manner we also laugh at different things.
- Spend more time with people who make you laugh.
- Invite your friends over to see funny movies together, you will find yourself laughing harder and longer than if you had seen it all by yourself.
- Suppose your car breaks down in the middle of traffic and you have no cell phone or spare tyre, instead of kicking yourself, laugh at your own incompetence. Laugh at the absurdity of the situation. It requires a certain amount of detachment – one can laugh at a situation if you are above it, not within it and with that kind of detachment, you can see things as funny and not frustrating.
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. Prefer laughing in such situations as there is less cleaning up to do afterwards.
- Hang around with kids more. Kids are constantly discovering the world around them, and a lot of what goes on seems ridiculous and surprising, which strikes them as funny. Few things which may not seem to be funny to you, but when a child is laughing over something, you will find his spontaneous bubbling contagious.
- Laugh at yourself. Recognize how funny some of your behavior is really, especially your shortcomings and mistakes. Sense of humor is the ability to laugh at oneself. Laughing at others can be hurtful and mean but laughing at yourself in alight hearted way can be a great way to perk yourself up.
- Inject humor anytime it is appropriate as people love to laugh.
- Do not run scared from dark humor as the laughter that arises from such humor is not an insensitive reaction, rather it makes the statement that life is not something to be affirmed ecstatically so much as acknowledged comically.
- A smile is not the same as laughter but they are part of the same family. If you are feeling so low that you cannot remember when you last smiled, know that this could be a warning sign of clinical depression.

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Laughter Therapy – how is it useful and in what ways…

Humor is not the same as laughter. Humor is a technology for provoking laughter. Laughter is the physiological response to humor. One of the common misconception is that laughter is unique to human species. Actually, it is not the case. Virtually, all mammals laugh, in one form or another. Laughter did come to us from animals, as a matter of natural selection, indeed a survival tool.
- Laughter is inborn, in fact it is the first social vocalization emitted by infants. It seems that laughter has a biological basis, rooted in our genes, and although different cultures have their own norms concerning the types of situations in which laughter is considered appropriate, as the sounds of laughter are themselves indistinguishable from one culture to another.
- Laughter is not about jokes though the two may appear inseparable. Laughter is primarily a social lubricant, not a response to funny situations. The fact that laughter works as a glue, holding people together.
- Laughter is as contagious as a yawn. Our brains respond to emotive sounds, this response occurs in the area of the brain that is activated when we smile, as though preparing our facial muscles to laugh. Our laughter and the other person’s laughter tend to become intertwined and antiphonal.
- Laughter lowers the levels of stress hormones and thereby reducing the risk of heart attacks. Stress is associated with damage to the inner lining of blood vessels which encourages inflammation and plaque which with resulting arterial stiffening can lead to heart attack.
- Laughter is a coping mechanism in cancer.
- Laughter is an immune system booster. It rev up the body’s production of antibodies and enhance the activation of the body’s protective cells that destroy tumor cells and viruses.
- Laughter helps along weight loss as you burn more calories when you laugh. By reducing levels of stress hormone, laughter helps you grapple with that bogey.
- Laughter improves the appetite eve as it helps you burn calories. The appetite boosting seems to occur via the effect that laughter has on the levels of the appetite hormones.
- Laughter acts as a survival tool. If laughter underlies intimacy, it can also facilitate distance from emotional pain. To laugh in a painful or distressing situation is not to avoid emotional reckoning, but to gain perspective needed to make the experience productive.