How laughter helps you?

It is often adviced us to laugh as much as possible. Even we follow the instruction. Quite in many of the daily situations, one of our friends' crack a joke and we laugh resultantly. But any time, have we tried to observe the changes that occur in ourselves as a result of laughter? There are perhaps many interesting physiological changes that occur in ourselves after we laugh and that's why we see many of us joining the laughter clubs. Here, you might see some of the observable as well as unobservable changes that occur in the body as a result of laughter.

1) It does help the hypertensive patients. Laughing initially hastens the pulse but soon helps to lower down the blood pressure; so, this might prove to be an effective remedy for all hypertensive patients.

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http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/laughter2.htm

2) Laughter also relaxes the smooth muscles. This helps better blood circulation to the muscles.

3) Laughter also lowers the stress hormones and help elevate the hormones associated with happiness. This might be helpful to busy personnels and people engaged in a profession that yields lots of stress owing to the work.

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http://www.laughteryogacorporate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:laughter-yoga-the-best-medicine-for-work-stress&catid=49:ly-for-stress-release&Itemid=94

4) Moreover, a state of happiness as a result of laughter increases the immunity of the body. It elevates the immunoglobulins and Natural Killer Cells that serves to be the defending proteins responsible for a part of immunity.

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0846/is_1_22/ai_90528530

5) Secondarily, it does help to protect from cancer and heart diseases.

Details

http://www.umm.edu/features/laughter.htm

A very good site for laughter as an exercise is

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2249748

Reference Link-

http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20081115/938/thl-laughter-as-medicine-how-it-helps-pe.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124200913.htm

http://www.naturalnews.com/007551.html