What makes you laugh?
most often, people associates laughter with joy and happiness. But it is not always the case that people that are laughing are happy. Some people can laugh to hide their real feeling on somebody they are talking to, these people initiates a laughter to distract their audience from any possible body language that could betray their real feelings.
Their is that mischievous laughter we make when we are in the wrong and want to explain to somebody that it is not that serious, we laugh in order to indicate them that it should be that serious.
So i can argue that we have both genuine laughter and a fake one. A fake laughter can be described as a laughter that is triggered by our mind without our heart feeling it. A genuine laughter is a laughter that is felt in our hearts and involves more of our emotions than our mind.
laughter associated with emotions is caused by happiness and is mostly involuntarily. such laughter can be triggered by:
The gloomy world
In professional and academic world, we often have people that are pursuing serious business formality and strict deadlines, rules, policies and procedures are rigidly used. This coupled by the very many demands of adult life can makes us develop the attribute of always being sober and that hearty laughter we used to have in our school days look like something gone for ever.
The heaviness of our heart is too much because of the things that faces us in our lives. we have huge bills to pay, we have collected loans that are now big burdens, that difficult boss, those toxic colleagues, the expectations of our society, the teenage children that have began to give us trouble, the school work for courses we have taken, the sales target we have to meet etc. This things can be too much for us such that we have suppressed completely our emotions of happiness such that getting laughter looks like something that only existed in childhood.
People we thought we loved and loves us turns out to be our greatest nightmare instead of being a blessing, and so our sorrows are multiplied. It has become increasingly difficult for people to live together in marriage and soo increased rate of divorce. This destroys their mental healthy and general well being.
Our technology and machines are isolating us from social life so that our ability to associate with each other is being narrowed everyday, we are always glued to our small gadgets called mobile phones, scrolling and scrolling continuously over the internet, meeting thousands of people on social medial platform who we can never connect with and we successfully ignore people that lives within our vicinity because of technology and advancement. This is destroying our emotions and driving us closer to robots we have created, we are out of control and machines dictates our ways.
However lack of happiness have reduced our lifespan and causing many to flood hospitals with various sicknesses because and have destroyed our mental healthy,sending us to early graves.
Benefits of laughter
- Laughter relaxes the whole body where a good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
- Laughter boosts the immune system because laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
- Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals which promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
- Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.
- laughter can causes us loose weight that could take many hours in the gym. One study found that laughing for 10-15 minutes a day can burn approximately 40 calories.
- laughter melts away emotions of anger and bitterness. when we find something to laugh about amidst anger, the anger will go away, just like the way darkness flee when light emerges.
- Laughter lengthen our days.A study in Norway found that people with a strong sense of humor outlived those who don’t laugh as much even when they are battling chronicle diseases.
May you have a laughing weekend:;;
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