Hundreds of years ago, it was affirmed that “Smile is the best medicine for human happiness”.
Subsequent groundbreaking scientific studies shed light on the beneficial physiological effects of humour on health.
Laughter can help, whether it’s dealing with illness, the pressures of everyday life, workplace stresses or even laughter can transform the quality and outlook. For our lives.
Smiling makes us feel better for several reasons. Some experiments have proven this:
1. Regulate your hormone levels
Laughter lowers levels of stress hormones like cortisol, epinephrine, dopamine, adrenaline and growth hormone. It also boosts the hormone endorphins and neurotransmitters.
Laughter increases the number of antibody-producing cells and enhances the efficiency of other cells. All of this makes for a stronger immune system, as well as less physical stress.
2. Exercise the internal muscles:
Did you know that laughter is very good for abs, shoulders and muscles?
It is even very good for the heart. Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 10 minutes of rowing or 15 minutes of cycling.
3. Release defilements:
When you feel like laughing or crying, that means you want to release all the pent-up in your head. This will make you feel better physically and mentally.
4. Improve Negative Attitude:
Laughter can move you from anger, stress, guilt, and negative emotions to joy and bring you into a more positive sphere of mind that makes you happy. become changed for the better with yourself & everyone.
5. Change your point of view.
The researchers found that people’s responses can alter even too stressful events if they view it as a “dangerous threat”. Being able to be funny to see an event makes you feel lighter and see the events that happen simply as a “challenge” in life.
6. The social benefits of laughter.
Laughter is contagious, so if you bring more laughter into your life, you can make others around you laugh more. By elevating the mood of the surrounding people, you can reduce their stress levels, and possibly improve the quality of social interaction, and reduce your stress levels much more. Many times.
7. Fight disease.
Optimists have stronger immune systems and can actually fight disease better than pessimists.
This research is very clear–this is not a generalization of the social sciences–there is a link between optimism and good health. And it has been measured in a variety of ways. Overall, scientists have found that optimists are healthy. Their biological score is different and they have a stronger immune system.
8. Live longer.
According to some recent studies published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, optimists, older people who believe good things will happen, are less likely to die than pessimists.
In fact, of the 65-85 study participants, the optimists made up 55% and we’re less likely to die from any cause than the pessimists. After the researchers adjusted for outcomes for age, smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and other measures of health, optimists were 71% less likely to die than pessimists.
9. Create a sense of excitement
According to the British Mental Health Foundation, a smile has the same level of stimulation as eating 2,000 chocolate bars. They found the results after the scientists measured brain and heart activity in volunteers.
People have long noticed the fact that smiling increases happiness for both yourself and those around you. So make use of it in your life as a daily spiritual potion.
10. Totally Free
The smile costs nothing at all, and it’s contagious. A recent study found that preschoolers laugh up to 400 times a day, but by the time we reach adulthood, we’re only smiling an average of 17 times per day. It sucks because we obviously feel the pressures keep mounting with no one thinking about having to laugh more to ourselves.
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This post was previously published on medium.com.
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