Laugh more, live long ! discusses the physical and mental health benefits of laughter. It states that laughter boosts immunity, lowers stress hormones, decreases pain, relaxes muscles, and prevents heart disease. Laughter also adds joy, eases anxiety and stress, improves mood, and enhances resilience. Socially, laughter strengthens relationships, attracts others, enhances teamwork, and helps defuse conflict. While adults only laugh around 15 times per day, laughter provides significant health benefits equivalent to exercise or sleep. The document encourages readers to laugh more often for free health improvements and a fuller enjoyment of life.

1. Laugh more,
live long !
By
SHIVAKUMAR.K.R
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Government First Grade College
Robertsonpet
K.G.F – 563 122

2. INTRODUCTION
Sometimes we take life way too seriously. We
have been taught to run through our lives with such a
speed we have no time to laugh. Laughter is the
experience of joy. It is an essence, a movement that
produces a sound. It is one of the favorite emotions to
show every day, especially the laughter that brings
you tears. They are the good ones.
When we were children, we laughed about 400
times a day. As we get older and more serious, the
amount narrows down. Adults laugh approximately 15
times per day. That it not enough! We all need a good
laugh.

3. DEFINITION
Laughter is an audible expression of
happiness, or an inward feeling of joy. A
movement of the muscles of the
face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar
expression
of
the
eyes,
indicating
merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and
usually attended by a sonorous and
interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

4. PHYSICAL HEALTH BENEFITS:
 Boosts immunity.
by natural means an organism that protects against disease.
 Lowers stress hormones
cortisol, GH and norepinephrine are released at periods of high stress.
 Decreases pain
 Relaxes your muscles
It gets a large amount of muscles moving in your body.
 Prevents heart disease
improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help
protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

5. MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS
 Adds joy and zest to life
 Eases anxiety and fear

Relieves stress

Improves mood

Enhances resilience

6. SOCIAL BENEFITS
 Strengthens relationships
 Attracts others to us
 Enhances teamwork
 Helps defuse conflict
 Promotes group bonding

7. LAUGHTER CENTRE

9. LAUGHTER IN ANIMALS
 Laughter and joy are not unique to
humans, the study says.
 Ancestral forms of play and laughter
existed in other animals
humans began cracking up.
long
before
 There is ample evidence that many other
mammals make play sounds.

10. ON LAUGHTER
 18 different kinds of laugh.
The most
enjoyment.
common
is
the
smile
of
 13 muscles are used to smile
 You can stimulate your heart and lungs,
elevate your blood pressure and improve
breathing capacity by laughing.

11. DO YOU KNOW

In terms of exercise, you can get the same
benefits from laughing 100 times a day, as you
can from 10 minutes of rowing.
 one's facial expression can actually influence
one's moods.
 15 minutes of laughter equals the benefit of 2
hours sleep.
 One good belly laugh burns off 3 1/2 calories.
 Laughing for 15 seconds adds 2 days to your life
span.

12. RELAXING POWER OF LAUGHTER

100 laughs = 10 minutes of aerobic
benefits from a rowing machine.
 15 minutes of laughter = relaxing
effect of meditation for 8 hours.
 15 minutes of laughter = relaxing
effect of 2 hours sleep.

14. WHO IS IT ?
The Chinese laugh more
than any other culture in the
world
 they work hard
 they play hard &
 they laugh hard.

15. REASONS TO LAUGH
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The study, titled "The Power of Laughter," was conducted in October 2011 via an
online survey nationally representative by gender and ethnicity.
The survey measured 1200 people ages 21-59 plus.

16. MEN VS WOMEN
women
men

17. IS IT SO ?

In the 50's people use to laugh an
average of 18 minutes a day.

Today, that's down to 4 – 6 minutes a
day.
 Children are known to laugh a great deal
more than adults.
 An average baby laughs around 300 times a
day compared to an average adult, who
laughs around15 times a day.

18. TODAY PAY MONEY AND LAUGH
 Laughter clubs : Laughter Therapy is exactly what
it sounds like: the use of laughter in therapeutic form to
heal the body and emotions. There is no absolute for the
uses of humor and laughter in therapeutic form
 Laughter therapy : Laughter Clubs have become a
social grassroots mass phenomenon. Realizing the
tremendous power of laughter and its efficacy as an
ideal prescription for wellness.
 Laughter yoga :It is a form of yoga employing
self-triggered laughter. Laughter Yoga combines
unconditional laughter with pranayama (yogic
breathing).

19. IMPORTANT
 March 1995, Dr MADAN KATARIA
first started the laughter club.
 World Laughter Day takes place on the
first Sunday in May.

20. CONCLUSION
All in all, laughter offers a wide array of
health benefits without costing you a single
penny (so laughter is the best medicines in
that respect, that it is free!). Aside from
being safe, laughter lessens your chance of
getting sick and allows you to enjoy life
fully. So laugh hard and do it more often.
“Even if there is nothing to laugh
about, laugh on credit”.

21. THANK YOU