Laugh for Longevity!
Laugh to live long! Perhaps the expression above by some people is only taken as idioms, but they are not. According to some research done, it’s true that laughter will make our body healthier and longer life.
Laughter can reduce stress hormone levels in the body such as cortisol and adrenaline. With the reduction in these hormones, it will increase our immunity and prevent disease. This happens because T cells can release a laugh that is the protein that can help overcome the disease called gamma-interferon and B cells that secrete antibodies.
Laughter also can improve the respiratory system works, the use of oxygen to the body and good for our heart. In addition, laughter may also accelerate the blood circulation and reduce blood pressure.
According to research, there is a unique brain wave patterns when the brain capture a sense of humor. When someone listens to jokes, it left hemisphere analytic processing of words that enter the brain. Brain activity in the next section will move to the frontal lobe (emotional center). And the right brain to process and make the pattern. Selanjutnya, before we stopped laughing, brain wave activity spread.
So the humor does not only affect the performance of one brain only, but other parts secar simultaneously. With a laugh, the activity of natural killer cells will increase disease when we laugh. So that will enhance our immune.
It turnes out that laugh can be trained!
Not everyone can laugh spontaneously because in fact, some people actually find it difficult to laugh. Most of these people are the ones that dissolve in the problem so it can not see the humor of it.
If we can see problems from different sides, we will find solution with greater ease. Because humor can make you look at the issue from a different angle!
With a laugh, positive feelings and expectations will emerge, so that we will escape from the depression or stress. We are also able to laugh at things that usually make us feel uneasy and anxious.
One way to easy laughter is more often see things that make us laugh. For example is watching a humor cartoon that we like, comic book or movie parodies.
Humor can also be found around us. The humorous side of life issues, fir example, so that life will be more relaxed! Humor is humor and good nature was not taunting, harassing others or abusive nature.