Laughter provides physical, emotional, and social benefits. It acts as a natural stress reliever and boosts mood. Laughter activates reward centers in the brain and releases endorphins that relieve pain and boost the immune system. Clinical research has shown laughter lowers stress hormones and improves personal efficacy. While humor is innate, regular laughter must be cultivated for its healing effects.

1. The best medicine

2. Laughter has been used as
a therapeutic tool for many years because
it is a natural form of medicine. Laughter
is available to everyone and it provides
benefits to a persons physical, emotional,
and social well being.

3. Laughter is
strong
medicine for
mind
and body

4. Laughter is good
for your health!!!

5. Benefits
• Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict.
Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and
body back into balance than a good laugh.
• Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to
others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.

6. With so much power to heal
and renew, the ability to laugh
easily and frequently is a
tremendous resource for
surmounting problems,
enhancing your relationships,
and supporting both physical
and emotional health.

10. WHY WE LAUGH?
Laughing is an involuntary, physical reaction in humans, consisting
typically of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and
other parts of the respiratory system.
it is considered a visual expression of a number of positive emotional
states, such as joy, mirth, happiness, relief, etc. On some occasions,
however, it may be caused by contrary emotional states such as
embarrassment, apology, or confusion.

11. The Brain
Laughter is a part of
human
behaviour, regulated
by the brain, helping
humans clarify their
intentions in social
interaction and
providing an
emotional context to
conversations.

12. “Laughter activates
reward centers in the
brain, Wilson said,
causing a pleasant
release of tension within
the body. The ability to
laugh is innate, and we're
hardwired to laugh about
a month or so after birth.”

13. That’ s
so funny!!!

14. When laughing the brain also
releases endorphins that can
relieve some physical pain.[19]
Laughter also boosts the
number of antibody-producing
cells and enhances the
effectiveness of T-cells, leading
to a stronger immune system.

15. Laughter has also been
shown to have beneficial
effects on various other
aspects of biochemistry.
For example, laughter
has been shown to lead
to reductions in stress
hormones such as
cortisol and epinephrine.
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16. *Laugher therapy*
Where does it come from?
The therapeutic effects of laughter have been
clinically studied since the 70s, but Dr Madan
Kataria - who developed laughter yoga in
Mumbai - is credited with bringing laughter
therapy into the mainstream. Kataria set up the
first laughter club in 1995. There are now more
than 5,000 laughter clubs worldwide.

17. Who can do it?
Laughter therapy is suitable for everyone although most
therapists work within the healthcare profession or in the
workplace, where laughter is used as a means of relieving stress.
Elderly groups, young people in care and mental health patients
are all thought to benefit especially from laughter therapy. If
you're undecided, remember this: children laugh about 400 times
a day whereas adults manage a miserable 15.

18. Scientifically Proven Benefits
Clinical research conducted at
Bangalore, India and in the United
States has proved that Laughter
lowers the level of stress hormones
(epinephrine, cortisol, etc) in the
blood.

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United States
looked at the
effects of
Laughter on
personal efficacy
in the workplace.

20. There's no doubt that
laugher is a good thing

21. Presentation By Oscar Miranda Hernandez
Roberts Education CentreVancouver School
Board.
June 2014.
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