The benefits of smiling and laughing for your health

Do you often see people frown or people who do not like to smile? There are even difficult people who laugh, smile even when they're your friends who are telling funny stories or jokes. Hopefully you are not among the group of people that anti smiling or laughing. There is a proverb that says "Laugh before laughing it prohibited". Is there a country that would prohibit their citizens to laugh?

Many people say that laughter and smiling are very beneficial to humans both psychologically and physically. A study which was presented at the Experimental Biology annual conference mentions that when people laugh, their brains automatically 'switched on'. It is just like when they're doing meditation.

 

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You would agree that laughter is positive for mental health, will be an even happier life. To refresh your memory about the benefits of laughter, then you can see what the effect of laughter on our lives as mentioned below:

1. Physical benefits of laughter.

     In addition to reducing the strain on your muscles, laughing also proven to bring several other important benefits such as improving memory, helping to prevent the risk of heart disease and increase the body's immunity so as not vulnerable sick. In fact, even if you just fake laughing at a joke your partner, it would also bring benefits to you.

2. Improve your mood.

If your mood in a bad situation, or you're feeling angry and upset, then laughter can overcome these problems. It is true, that grief and stress will be the center of attention on yourself, then at times like this you usually tend to avoid laughing because it was too focused on the grief that befell you. However, laughter makes the body produce more happy hormones either. So the laughs will magically make a happier mood. Laughter is also able to reduce stress and can relieve your emotions.

 

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3. Laughter brings serenity

When you do not feel like laughing, but the brain can be ordered up for a laugh. Even when you see and hear things that are ridiculous, but someone forbids you to laugh. You do not obey, on the contrary sometimes you lose control of yourself by continuing to laugh out loud. It is proved that humor will get more done and make you feel more calm and comfortable.

4. Laughter can prevent heart attacks

Laughter can also be one of the natural remedies to prevent the diseases. In addition to helping the body to have an immune system better, laughter can also reduce the risk of a heart attack. Because studies show that laughing is a good exercise for your heart. Laughter makes your heart healthy, active, and happy. In addition to reducing stress, laughter can make your blood pressure more smoothly, it can even reduce pain.

  

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5. Laughter is the energy source for the immune system.

Laughter is one of the healthy and easy ways to boost your immune system, because laughing makes you happy, and happiness can strengthen the immune system to fight disease.

6. Laughter stimulates organs

If you often laugh, it will have a positive impact on some organs and muscles of the body, because laughter can stimulate these organs. Laughter can stimulate the heart, diaphragm, lungs, and abdominal muscles. This stimulation can improve the function of your organs and muscles.

7. Laughter can improve brain function

Laughter is also able to improve the function of the left brain and your right brain, because it will be stimulated when we 're laughing. Brain stimulation beneficial to reduce stress, relieve muscle tension, and improve brain function.

 

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A bad mood can decrease the concentration of mental powers, pass judgment, and control of emotions. Laughter can improve mood someone who is bad. Laughing makes people more relaxed thus improving mental strength. If you often see many people doing gymnastics on the face, which is to maintain the skin and facial muscles are always tight and so healthy, then laugh or smile is one of the natural ways to do facial gymnastics.

Laughter is a uniquely human activity, so you do not have to maintain your dignity, when you see anything funny around you, even watch funny videos, is highly recommended so that you can laugh with ease so that you can get the benefits of laughter, and the positive effects of smiling for your mental and physical health.