Steven Petrov
The Paw Print
It is not a simple coincidence that for centuries people have looked at “laughing” as a “contagious” emotional state that is also a fantastic natural “medicine” and the scientific facts that our modern day world have been founding regarding the “laughing” process and its positive influence on the human body. The laughter in itself causes a series of physical changes within a person’s organism, which deal primarily with the increase of the energy levels, decreasing the pain, strengthening the immune system as well as lowering the stress levels.
We laugh every day for a series of different things, without actually realizing the large amount of benefits that this simple activity has towards keeping us healthy and emotionally stable. The humor helps improve one’s concentration, memory capacity as well as it releases the emotional pressure that comes from overworking. We already mentioned the different physiological benefits that a good, solid and continuous laughter has but let’s go into some more details about it.
At first, it is proven that “laughing” is one of the best and most powerful relaxants out there. People with highly intense professions, where stress is an inseparable part of their everyday lives, keep trying to find different drugs, or medicines that will enable them to truly relax, without actually realizing that a good and continuous laughter can get the job done. As a matter of fact, it has been scientifically proven that after laughing for a decent amount of time, your muscles stay relaxes for over 45 minutes.
Another important benefit for our physical health is dealing with the strengthening of our immune system, which is the most important system that protects us from various forms of sickness. Laughing actually lowers the hormones that cause stress and increases the number of cells that fight all the different kinds of infections and flues that are out there. The heart benefits should also be mentioned here because laughing improves the blood circulation process, by increasing the amount of blood circulated, which in turn lowers the chance of a heart attack.
Last but not least, laughing leads to the release of the hormone called endorphins. As some of us know this is the hormone that makes us feel good and its levels of a person’s organism determines how “happy” that person feels. Most of us would not assume the vast amount of physical and health benefits that an everyday activity like laughing can have. However, besides the good feeling that it leaves, laughing has been proven to be one of the healthiest and most beneficial activities that an individual can exercise. It might seem as an unreasonable topic, but in our overly stressed and high-paced everyday lives some of us need to be reminded, the importance of a good and sincere laughter.
So stay healthy by increasing the time spent sincerely laughing
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