Saturday, April 5, 2008

Benefits of Humor

Laughter itself provides relief from uncomfortable emotions and creates biological changes in our body by letting off chemicals that fight disease. There is a natural increase in the number and activity of natural killer cells that attack viral infected cells and some types of cancer and tumor cells. No joke!

"The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick."
Bernie Siegel, MD

Stress hormones that constrict blood vessels and suppress immunity decrease when exposed to humor. Therefore . . . laughter strengthens the immune system! Belly laughing even cleans your lungs and reduces your blood pressure!

A sense of humor allows us to perceive and appreciate the incongruities of life and provides us with joy and delight, great positive emotions.

"A merry heart does good like a medicine,
but a broken spirit dries the bones." Proverbs 17:22

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