Thursday, July 30, 2009
Can laughter help people heal?
As the saying goes "Laughing is the best medicine", can Laughing really be the best medicine?
According to researchers at California's Loma Linda University, laughter can:
- Boosts our immune system, such as human growth hormon.
- Decrease the levels of the hormone epinephrine, which plays a role in hypertension and heart failure.
- The pituitary gland releases its own opiates, which suppress pain.
- and etc.
Besides that, laughters also help to heal people suffering from depression and other mental illnesses. An assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine, William Klinger, says: "No matter where our physical, spiritual and emotional life is, humor keeps everything balanced." Professor Klinger even used humor as a therapeutic tool in individual and group counseling sessions.
As research on the subject grows, it is becoming more evident that laughing can make us healthier physically as well as mentally.
After reading this article, it does seem that laughter benefit all of us. Everyone feels better after having a laugh too. Laughing is always said to be the best medicine. Laughing tends to make people happier, and also healthier! Moreover, it seems to be true that "laugh and the whole world laughs with you", because reasearch also shows that laughters are contagious. When one laughs, the people around them will be affected and thus burst into laughers too.
I've heard that people suffering from certain illnesses if they live their life optimistically, and try to be happier, actually helps them from recovering their illnesses faster. Humor can make them laugh, and happier.
From what I heard, laughters actually appears to burn calories too! Isnt' that a good thing? Also, laughters protect us from heart attacks. Feeling rundown? Try laughing more. It definitely helps you to feel better.
It may not be a treatment to everything, but laughing does no harms, instead it improves quality of life! As the comedian, Charlie Chaplin, says "A day without laughter is a day wasted" live your life to the fullest, and try to laugh everyday! "HAHAHA!"
Chrysillia (2)
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http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/laugh.html ¶ 8:23 PM
As the saying goes "Laughing is the best medicine", can Laughing really be the best medicine?
According to researchers at California's Loma Linda University, laughter can:
- Boosts our immune system, such as human growth hormon.
- Decrease the levels of the hormone epinephrine, which plays a role in hypertension and heart failure.
- The pituitary gland releases its own opiates, which suppress pain.
- and etc.
Besides that, laughters also help to heal people suffering from depression and other mental illnesses. An assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine, William Klinger, says: "No matter where our physical, spiritual and emotional life is, humor keeps everything balanced." Professor Klinger even used humor as a therapeutic tool in individual and group counseling sessions.
As research on the subject grows, it is becoming more evident that laughing can make us healthier physically as well as mentally.
After reading this article, it does seem that laughter benefit all of us. Everyone feels better after having a laugh too. Laughing is always said to be the best medicine. Laughing tends to make people happier, and also healthier! Moreover, it seems to be true that "laugh and the whole world laughs with you", because reasearch also shows that laughters are contagious. When one laughs, the people around them will be affected and thus burst into laughers too.
I've heard that people suffering from certain illnesses if they live their life optimistically, and try to be happier, actually helps them from recovering their illnesses faster. Humor can make them laugh, and happier.
From what I heard, laughters actually appears to burn calories too! Isnt' that a good thing? Also, laughters protect us from heart attacks. Feeling rundown? Try laughing more. It definitely helps you to feel better.
It may not be a treatment to everything, but laughing does no harms, instead it improves quality of life! As the comedian, Charlie Chaplin, says "A day without laughter is a day wasted" live your life to the fullest, and try to laugh everyday! "HAHAHA!"
Chrysillia (2)
3unity.
http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/laugh.html ¶ 8:23 PM
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