The benefits of laughter
Laughing modifies and alters our heart rate. Each breath of air helps the cells receive more oxygen, promoting a release of endorphins throughout our body. This natural drug helps us combat aches and pains. It is a natural pain reliever.
In addition, the vocal cords vibrate, there is some tearing, the lung capacity is quadrupled, 15 muscles of the face contract and relax in harmony, calories are burned, adrenaline is secreted, immunoglobulin increases and blood circulation is stimulated.
How do we start to smile?
Humans possess the smile response nothing else to be born. If we look at babies, after breastfeeding they reach a state of full satisfaction. Her face relaxes and her cheeks lift. Thus begins the first smiles of a person.
During the development of the body, the smile becomes a communicative gesture of acceptance, satisfaction and security. And once our body is fully developed, the smile awakens all those good feelings and benefits for physical and emotional health. Laughing puts us in an incomparable frame of mind, happy, positive and liberating.
Laughter therapy and its history
There have been numerous studies on the benefits of laughter and it is more than proven that smiling helps the person. For this reason, laughter therapies have been gradually implemented. The best known is laughter therapy.
Laughter therapy is not a recent technique, since time immemorial the laughter as a therapeutic weapon. For example, in China temples were used as meeting places to laugh in order to balance health.
In other cultures, there was a figure known as "the sacred clown", a sorcerer who through laughter healed wounded and sick warriors. Or already in the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud gave laughter the power to release the body of all negative energy.
It was during the XNUMXs that laughter therapy It achieved its popularity thanks to Norman Cousins, a leading New York journalist who suffered from a back disease that directly affected the spine. Without any operation capable of alleviating the pain, the doctors chose to resort to laughter to prevent their patient from falling into a serious depression. The results spoke for themselves, they found that with just ten minutes of laughter a day, Cousins forgot about the pain for at least two hours.
This event saw the light in 1976 when the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published the great advances granted by laughter.
Know their technique
Today, we find numerous laughter therapy clinics that help fight serious diseases just with laughter. A deep and true laugh tones our heart, activates around 400 muscles, dilates blood vessels, improves breathing, eases digestion and also strengthens emotional bonds.
Laughter therapy works so well because despite not being a real laugh, the body cannot differentiate whether it is a forced or sincere laugh. And the benefits are equal when it comes to one laugh or the other.
Laughter therapy is practiced in a group, at first there are usually no real laughs, but as is well known, laughter is contagious and soon becomes real. During the exercises, all the concepts of laughter, the types, exercises to provoke it and relaxation techniques are covered. Increases positivity in participants. To get a good laugh you have to work with body expression, dance, breathing exercises, games and techniques to laugh with different parts of the body.
The human being is the only one to be alive capable of laughing. It is children who laugh much more than adults, a baby laughs 300 times a day compared to an adult who laughs 20 times.
Whether with therapy or without therapy, you have to laugh every day. The benefits are innumerable. Each person is in a way, but a laugh from time to time is one of the best sensations one can experience.
To laugh it has been said!