Laughter is a key element of healthy and happy life and has numerous physical and mental benefits. Many scientific studies prove that laughing makes people feel better and trigger healthy physical changes in the body.
In natural sense laughter binds people together and increases happiness, it provides several benefits to protect you from the damaging effects of stress. It can certainly be said that laughter is a priceless and easy to use medicine.
Laughter is a cream on cake; it provides physical, mental and social benefits. Since it protects you against heart diseases and helps to lower the sugar level in blood, it is very well said that laughter is a best medicine. After having a good laugh we feel better, our body releases the physical and emotional tension and stress and the body becomes more calm and relaxed. Laughter is an easiest way to deal with stress and help to increase your energy and motivation levels by making you more focused and productive. It decreases the level of stress hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline, epinephrine, growth and dopamine hormone, on the other hand it increases the level of endorphins and neurotransmitters and number of antibody producing cells. Apart from this, laughter helps to enhance efficiency of T-cells which are the body's main way to fight against diseases. By having all such features laughter helps to build stronger immune system.
Laughter adds spice to life as it improves a feeling of well-being and enables to have a more positive outlook towards life. Generally everyone likes those people around them who have smiling faces and enjoy their life with fun and excitement. Therefore laughing plays a vital role to improve social life. From the social point of view laughter strengthens the relationship as well as attracts others to us and helps to promote group bonding; even when any matter comes to the point of conflict, a healthy laughter helps to defuse conflict.
Anyone can improve his or her life by using laughing as a pleasant way of living. But it doesn’t mean that you have to laugh alone; sharing laughter always gives better results than alone laughing. Therefore try to share laughing and keep relationship fresh and exciting.