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Laughter
lifts us up. Life becomes worth living. You experience that vanishing
state of being called relaxation. You stress less and enjoy the company
of other people more. You live and enjoy the present moment. Laughter
is contagious and it creates laughter for other people. Allowing
laughter to swell into a movement across the world would reduce the
growing anger and violence.
Most important
point is that the people suffering from a variety of diseases have
benefited in some way or the other.
But we don’t
claim to have cured long-standing ailments with laughter therapy
for healing a person. Laughter is more of an alternative supplementary
and preventive therapy. There are numbers of clinical research
going on to determine the benefits of laughter and the results
will be available in future. It will take a couple of years
before these organizations publish research data on laughter therapy.
Based on the survey feedback and interviews people in USA,
India
and research done all over the world, we have found that laughter
has helped many people. In general I like to describe the laughter
benefits in two categories as follows:
- Personal/individual benefits
- Organization/corporate benefits
I like to emphasize that these two categories of benefits are
interrelated to each other and not independent from each other.
The organizations consist of people and if people are happy then
the organizations can achieve all the positive results due to happy
people as part of the organizations.
There are many laughter benefits and few of them are listed as
follows:
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Laughter benefits the body,
mind and intellect
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Laughter is a state of the mind-body in which
the dominant emotions are pleasure, peace, love, and joy
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Sense
of well being and freshness
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Easy form of meditation and relaxation
to reduce stress
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Control high blood pressure and heart disease
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Strengthen the immune system by
increase of natural killer lymphocytes
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Natural pain killer by
increasing the levels of endorphins
(white cells) in our bodies
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Best exercise for bronchitis
and asthma by improving the lung capacity and oxygen level in
the blood
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Good for actors and singers for better control
over speech
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Makes you look younger
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Develop your personality
and leadership qualities
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Improve teamwork and partnering
with people
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Improve interpersonal relationships and self
confidence
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Reduce snoring because laughter
is very good for the muscles of the soft palate
and
throat
Laughter Benefits as a result of Laughter Satisfaction Survey
Laughter is the best medicine. All of us have heard this from
childhood but where is our laughter. Today, life is very stressful
and stress related diseases are on the rise. Majority of illnesses
has some relation to stress. Some of the modern life stress related
diseases are: high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, nervous
breakdowns, heart disease, cancer and low immunity etc. Research
indicates that the children smile or laugh 400 times per day, adults
smile or laugh 15 or less times per day and think negative ideas
three fourth of the times.
Most of the people asked what are the benefits of laughter. To
answer this question, laughaway has been conducting Laughter Satisfaction
Survey after each laughter session. This article describes the
overall ratings, need satisfaction and benefits of laughter seminar.
Laughaway has conducted more than 90 laughter session with various
groups. Laughaway requests each person to complete the Laughter
Satisfaction Survey at the end of the laughter session and this
feedback is used for continuous improvements for laughter session.
The survey results are collected and compile to share the results
with people. Laughter Satisfaction Survey includes the following
key items such as: Name, telephone number, Address, email, laughter
session overall rating, laughter session need satisfaction, laugh
per day, benefits of laughter, benefits age group, fun stops at
age, what are the fun movies, ideas and jokes and key causes of
stress and ideas to improve further.
Until now laughaway has collected feedback from 165 persons and
results are as follows:
| Rating of laughter session |
% Excellent |
% Good |
% Fair |
| Your Overall rating |
75% |
24% |
1% |
| Your need satisfaction |
73% |
25% |
2%
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| How Much You Laugh Per Day |
0 to 25 times |
26 to 50 times |
51 to 100 times |
| % laugh per day |
64% |
32% |
4% |
There are number of laughter benefits. For simplicity laughter
benefits has been divided into 2 categories such as corporate and
personal laughter benefits. As you know that there is a relationship
between corporate and personal benefits because a typical corporation
includes people.
The typical corporate laughter benefits are reduces stress, improve
personality, improve creativity, improve teamwork, and develop
trust. Improve participation and improve leadership. The corporate
laughter benefits as a result of survey results are as:
Corporate Laughter Benefits Percentage
- Reduce stress 69 %
- Improve personality 57 %
- Improve creativity 43 %
- Improve teamwork 39 %
- Develop trust 35 %
- Improve participation 40 %
- Improve leadership 24 %
The typical personal laughter benefits are: Improve lung capacity,
Makes you look younger, Improve blood pressure, Improve meditation,
Improve immune system, better control of speech and reduce snoring.
The personal laughter benefits as a result of survey results are
as:
Personal Laughter Benefits Percentage
- Improve lung capacity 51 %
- Make you look younger 38 %
- Improve blood pressure 36 %
- Improve meditation 32 %
- Improve immune system 40 %
- Better control of speech 23 %
- Reduce snoring 20 %
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