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.” The scientific facts that our modern day world have been founding regard 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 decent amount of time your muscles stay relaxed for over 45 minutes.
Another important benefit for our physical health is dealing with the strengthening of our immune system. 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 heart attack.
And last but not least, laughing leads to the releases endorphins. As some of us know, this is the hormone that makes us feel good and its levels determine how “happy” that person feels.
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