Simarjeet Singh Bhatia
Reserach suggests that being happy may cue you in to a larger and richer context, and that could significantly affect your creativity.
The positive memories are more extensive and are more inter connected than negative ones.
A good sense of humour is no laughing matter. It makes a difference. Laughing and being in a good mood can help you solve problems, can make you more innovative and can make you more effective in the world. Humour also makes you measurably tougher. It makes something painful less painful.
Humour is also an excellent and healthy way to deal with stress. Former US President Abraham Lincoln had a Ist rate sense of homour. He has spent his whole life developing it while some people didn’t appreciate his sense of humour and thought it was out of place for the President of the United States during those grave and dreadful times of war, Linclon likes his sense of humour, and had an intuitive sense of its value to his sanity and health.
Doctors in USA established the healing power of laughter. In an American study in late 90’s, scientists asked 150 men and women with heart disease and 150 healthy people if they don’t laugh in various scenarios say a waiter spilling a drink in their lap. Healthy people were 60 percent more likely to laugh. People with heart disease tended to be angry ever hostile.
If you don’t laugh much, it would not hurt to kick back, read the comics, watch a funny movie and try to take yourself less seriously.
Just go ahead and laugh whole heartedly. It is a strong medicine to de-stress your mind and body. Even the physical exercise is good for you. William Fry an American University professor who was pioneer in laughter research, established the fact that a good laughter increases blood flow and contracts abdominal muscles. A hundred belly laughs is the aerobic equivalent of 10 minutes on a rowing exercise machine, according to Doctor W.Fry.
But the benefits go beyond a workout. The most astonishing evidence of laughter point comes from a study of 48 heart patients half watched comedy shows for 30 minutes every day, the rest served as controls. After a year, ten patients in the control group had suffered repeat heart attacks compared with only two in the group that watched the shows.
“Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, says laughter expert Lee Berk of University of California and Co-author of the heart attack study. In earlier research, Berk showed that watching a humorous video decreases levels of two key stress hormones that can cause irregular heart rhythms which may lead to heart attacks. Indeed, heart patients are often given drugs called beta blockers specifically to block these hormones. “Laughter can do the same thing and it can be lot more fun.”
Can a good laugh help patients get well? In a landmark experiment at the University of California called Rx laughter, Scientists plan to test the effect of laughter in children with serious illness, including cancer. Early results suggest that humorous videos help kids handle uncomfortable or painful procedures more easily.
And there goes an age old saying that: ” When you are laughing, you can’t help but feel better”.
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