It can evoke emotion when you hear someone else laugh and can create both conscious and subconscious, positively-charged, deep-seeded physiological benefits when we laugh ourselves.
Kids laugh about 400 times a day; adults only about 15 times. What's wrong with this picture? We, as adults, must laugh more - both to be happier and to be healthier!
Laughter makes us feel better emotionally, yes, but it's much more than that. Some of the positive physiological effects of laughter are:
CLICK HERE to go directly to lots of Jokes to make you laugh.
Helps to reduce stress
Enhance the immune system
Strengthen cardiovascular functions
Oxygenate the body by boosting the respiratory system
Improve circulation
Tone muscles
Help with digestion and constipation
And, many of you have probably heard the somewhat famous story about Norman Cousins (the well-known prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate) and how he "cured" himself of heart disease and a severe form of arthritis, mostly by laughter.
As this section of the BeHappy! site grows, it will serve two purposes, a short-term purpose and a long-term one.
The short-term purpose is to help you laugh whenever you need to just "pick yourself up" a bit. If you're having a bad day or you're working on a stressful project, and you need to just laugh for a minute or two (to just feel better), you can jump to this page in a few seconds and pick from several different ways to make you laugh. You can click on any one of the following:
They include, just-for-laughs PICTURES, and just-for-laughs PRODUCTS - among other things. Or, just laugh right now for no good reason. And, I'll be back soon with lots more stuff to make you laugh even more.