Laughter is the best medicine.
How many times have we heard this phrase? Do we believe it?
Laughter is something everyone has, it is part of universal human vocabulary. There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but everyone speaks laughter in pretty much the same way. Everyone can laugh.
There have been many cases which would suggest that laughter is the best medicine. I heard of a story of a man in India, he used to go to a local park every morning and just start laughing, passers by would walk by and stare at this man believing him to be insane. One day a man who passed him everyday was curious enough to ask him why he did what he did. The man simply replied “I start of the day happy and the rest of the day will be happy” and carried on laughing. What the man failed to also say is that laughter and laughing therapy can keep one in good health.
Before long this laughing man was having thirty people join him in a daily forty five minute laughing session every day. Many of his fellow revellers had different ailments all of which were cured as a result of this laughing therapy.
The Effect of Laughter
Specific medical theories indicate that laughter contributes to improved health, increased life expectancy and overall improved well-being. In a study conducted it has been demonstrated that neuroendocrine and stress related hormones decreased during episodes of laughter giving claim that humour relieves stress. Some therapy movements believe that laughter is a type of “bodily discharge” along with crying, yawning and others, which requires encouragement and support as a means of healing.
Raju Mandhyan states “The physical and psychological benefits of laughter come second only to the physical and psychological benefits of sex.”
I assume many of you people out there has seen the film “Patch Adams” to me that epitomises the benefits of laughter. The film is a fact based story of Hunter “Patch” Adams, the founder of the Geshundheit Clinic, a clinic which deals with their patients with humour and pathos.
I personally believe that laughter is the best policy. I like to laugh a lot and have been known to have an infectious laugh, it keeps me happy and looking young. Laughter keeps everyone in a positive mood,
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