Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Laughing: A Great Stress Medicine! 


Stress, anger and depression are categorized in a negative emotions. They are not only giving a negative health impact, but also attract heart problems and making other treatment to become slowly. Apposite to the positive emotions like love, hope and humor, they are proven as an effective medicine to avoid many health problems and making people feel better.

According to Steve Wilson, M.A., CSP, a psychologist and laugh therapist, laughing can make people a lot better off and they might be healthier too. Other study by Doctor Michael Miller of the University of Maryland Medical Center, he prepared 20 healthy student from 20 men and women watching a great comedy movie and a type of war movie (in difference time) to create two difference emotions.

The study found that blood flow decreased in fourteen of the twenty people after they watched the war movie and the decrease was an average of thirty-five percent. But the blood flow increased in 19 of the 20 people after they watched the comedy movie. The increase was an average of twenty-two percent. Doctor Miller says that this is similar to the effects of aerobic exercise!

Other research shows that a manageable laughing can increase breath and improve the body immune. Besides that laughing could be a good supplement medicine to reduce sickness. This is because laughing can removes a natural painkiller which is endorphine.

Let see in a short point what laughing is actually benefits you.
  1. Reduce stress.
  2. Elevate mood and make you feel good.
  3. Making body relax.
  4. Avoid heart problems.
  5. Lower blood pressure.
  6. Reduce sickness and give strength to the body.
  7. Increase the antibody level.
  8. Boost immune system.
  9. Similar to a aerobic exercise!
  10. Strengthen the abdomen muscle. Same as a crunch or sit-up!
  11. Improve brain functioning.
  12. Wider the blood vessel, and sending more blood to all muscle in the body.
  13. Look prettier and younger!
  14. Making your face skin look fairer and beauty!
  15. Connect you to others!
It's amazing! So, get laugh. It's cheer your day and making you healthy!