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This book is meant to both educate and inspire people in terms of what laughter can do to enhance one's life. We will talk about using laughter to enhance creativity in chapter two and even how you can use laughter to enhance productivity in chapter three. There are many uses for laughter for those in the business world, and businesses may just find that in the end, laughter can even help their bottom line. We will talk about why humor is important for innovation in chapter four and humor and different personality types in chapter five.

Chapter five will also explore the idea of the Enneagram, which is a system of nine personality types. The goal of this writing is to help people better understand how laughter can both enhance and improve their lives. One doesn't have to be the class clown to appreciate and use laughter because it just may indeed be more useful for those who take like a little more seriously.

Whether you're a peacemaker, a reformer, a helper, an achiever, an individualist, an investigator, a loyalist, an enthusiast or a challenger, you will find the usage of laughter extremely beneficial.

This book will also explore why learning how to lighten up is good for business and it will also look at humor and its effect on the brain and memory. We will examine the psychology of laughter and laughter and stress relief and ways in which laughter can enhance corporate wellness.

Finally, we will examine laughter as it pertains to the mind/body connection and look at ways in which laughter can enhance one's health, including examining the idea of laughter clubs and some important research.

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Santé et bien-être

Bien-être émotionnel

Bien-être

Happiness

Self-help

Personal Growth

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Publié par	eBookIt.com
Date de parution	21 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456611651
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Ram Up Your Laughter

by
Santhanaram Jayaram

Copyright 2012 Santhanaram Jayaram,
All rights reserved.

Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-1165-1

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

Dedication

To Mum (Vasanta),
Dad (Jayaram),
Sister (Dharma),
Bro-in-law (Guru),
Nephew (Arjun)
& Niece (Akshal)

Chapter 1: The Physiological Effects of laughter: Laughter and Endorphins
We've all heard the quote that laughter is the best medicine, but what does it mean? There has been a lot of research done on laughter and its ability to heal and restore the body and the truth of the matter is that laughter actually has many positive benefits.

Laughter releases your body's endorphins or feel good chemicals.

In essence, laughter is nature’s own pain reliever, and it may in fact be much more effective than any drug you could ever purchase. Laughter can be a great stress reliever as well as a pain reliever and it is not just for fun because laughter can even enhance creativity and increase innovation. There has even been research that tells us that a before we actually even laugh, a wave of electricity shoots through our brain and this research tells us that this wave of electricity covers the entire cerebral cortex region, rather than just a single region, so there really is some science behind the idea of laughter.

It is hard to be in a bad mood when you are laughing and it actually takes much more effort and muscle power to frown than it does to smile. Laughter can help relax us, amuse us, calm us and even surprise us. Laughter is a wonderful ice-breaker for a nervous crowd and it can be a great coping mechanism.

Those who have a sense of humor deal with life's problems much better because they have a tendency to roll with the punches better. According to Doskoch (2011) laughter causes your blood pressure and even your heart rate to drop below normal helping you feel extremely relaxed; laughter also stimulates your endorphins, which are of course your brain's natural pain reliever.

According to William Fry, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, "creativity and humor are identical" (Doskoch, 2011). Fry also contends that creativity and humor bring together two things, which do not normally have an obvious connection, creating a beautiful relationship. Laughter has so many benefits it's hard to list them all.

According to researchers at the Loma Linda School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California laughter sharpens the instruments of the immune system and it activates our natural killer cells and T lymphocytes, which help our body destroy various microorganisms; furthermore, laughter increases the production of the immune boosting gamma interferon and it even speeds up the production of new immune cells (Doskoch).

Laughter is a great distraction as well, and it can help us forget about our problems, even if only temporarily. Research also tells us that most children laugh at least 300 times a day with the average adult only managing a mere 17 times, it’s no wonder we are all so crabby! (Doskoch, 2011). Laughter can help us through dark times and through happy times. Laughter can lift us up when we feel sad and it can help us cope when things go bad. Laughter is one of the best tools we have to deal with life's ups and downs and it can be a miraculous healing mechanism.

Laughter is also contagious and infectious. If someone in the room is laughing, chances are others will start laughing as well. Laughter binds us together in many ways and it may even make us happier.

Humor can make life bearable and manageable and it may even protect your heart. Laughter improves the function of your blood vessels and can even increase the blood flow and protect you from future heart attacks and other related problems.

What about some other benefits to laughter? Besides laughter's ability to lower stress and boost your immunity, it also has many social and mental benefits. For example, laughter can:

N Laughter can even help defuse conflict and enhance teamwork, making it a great benefit to companies as well as individuals.

Just like taking a short nap, laughter can help you recharge and rejuvenate.

If you feel overwhelmed, the best thing you can do is to laugh, because it will give you an immediate mood boost. Just as optimists seem to deal with life better, those that laugh may be able to cope better as well. Some of us even find that we laugh in times of grief or despair, usually as a coping mechanism. The old black and white movies used this tool quite effectively creating characters that slipped and fell or tumbled down a hill creating laughter. The truth of the matter is that many of us could use a laughter break during the day.

There are many social benefits to laughter because laughter can help strengthen your emotional bonds. Laughter can release your inhibitions and help you express your true feelings and it may even help you enhance your creativity leading to more innovative thinking. Companies may find that laughter helps diffuse difficult situations at work, because a good belly laugh helps ease stress in any situation. Humor can be a very effective tool to have in your arsenal and it can help you in many ways. Just as having a pet may help you ward of depression, stress and even heart disease, laughter may be able to do the same thing. If you feel stuck or stagnate, the best thing you can do is to go take a walk or have a good laugh. Laughter may be one of the most effective tools we have to deal with stress. Nothing makes you feel better faster than laughter.

By bringing more humor into your life, you can more easily count your blessings and learn to appreciate things more. Laughter can help you feel more gracious and more loving and it can help you heal.

People that take life too seriously may end up driving people away. Attitude really is everything when it comes down to it, because your attitude shapes the world around you. If you wake up in the morning sunny and happy expecting a great day, you're going to be much better off than someone who is always expecting the opposite.

This book is meant to both educate and inspire people in terms of what laughter can do to enhance one's life. We will talk about using laughter to enhance creativity in chapter two and even how you can use laughter to enhance productivity in chapter three. There are many uses for laughter for those in the business world, and businesses may just find that in the end, laughter can even help their bottom line. We will talk about why humor is important for innovation in chapter four and humor and different personality types in chapter five.

Chapter five will also explore the idea of the Enneagram, which is a system of nine personality types. The goal of this writing is to help people better understand how laughter can both enhance and improve their lives. One doesn't have to be the class clown to appreciate and use laughter because it just may indeed be more useful for those who take like a little more seriously.

Whether you're a peacemaker, a reformer, a helper, an achiever, an individualist, an investigator, a loyalist, an enthusiast or a challenger, you will find the usage of laughter extremely beneficial.

This book will also explore why learning how to lighten up is good for business and it will also look at humor and its effect on the brain and memory. We will examine the psychology of laughter and laughter and stress relief and ways in which laughter can enhance corporate wellness.

Finally, we will examine laughter as it pertains to the mind/body connection and look at ways in which laughter can enhance one's health, including examining the idea of laughter clubs and some important research.

There are so many benefits to laughter and positive thinking that one could fill up an entire book just boasting about it! Many illnesses have an emotional component and laughter with its powerful endorphin releasing qualities could be a huge help to someone who may be ill.

Not only can laughter help us redirect our energy, it can help us help ourselves by giving us something natural to use as a natural pain reliever.

There has been a lot of press about therapeutic laughter as well with things such as Laughter Yoga and even Traditional Therapy utilizing laughter. The Cancer Treatment Centers of America use laughter as part of their integrative therapeutic approach hosting sessions for patients called Laughter Clubs or humor groups.

According to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, there have been many scientific studies exploring the benefits of laughter and laughter can be used to decrease stress, boost the immune system and even be used to decrease pain.

Norman Cousins, who wrote the book Anatomy of an Illness, described how he used laughter to help heal himself from a serious illness. Cousins used laughter by watching funny movies and taking vitamins and he claims that his self-invented regimen actually helped him recover.

There have been many studies, which we will examine in more detail later on in the book, that offer real research into the effects of laughter on the human psyche. Laughter may in fact be similar to the placebo effect in terms that it makes you feel better and in turn may even help you heal.

The placebo effect of course works on the principle that if you believe something will heal you, even if in fact that something is not even real medicine, that it will heal you just by your thoughts alone. There is no limit to the power of the mind, and in many ways this j