Laughter increases life and learning!

"He who laughs, lasts." - Mary Pettibone Poole


Did you know that on average a 5 year old laughs 150 times a day however, on average, a 45 year old laughs 5 times a day. How Adults Learn is completely driven by the emotional state of the learner. Unhappy emotions craete bad and hard learning, whilst happy and enjoyable emotions create easy and fast learning. The throury of emotional ststae in learning is a core to accelererated learning and how adults learn.

Laughter is definitely the best medicine! Laughter and uplifts directly increases the number of Immunogloblin A antibodies in your immune system, making your body stronger. It is a recognised medical therepy known as 'laughter therapy'. "Uplifts" is a psychological term that includes laughing, smelling and eating chocolates. In fact choclate is known chemicval to alter your brain imulses to make you feel happier. Make sure you stick to the high quality high Cacao content choclate mind.

Making learning fun is good for your health. There is a direct link between laughter and learning faster. Laughter also has substantial health benefits as you can see below. It produces endorphins in the blood and is directly responsible for improving moods and reducing stress, which in turn increases the brains ability to learn.


Laughter lowers blood pressure.

People who laugh heartily on a regular basis have lower standing blood pressure than the average person. When people have a good laugh, initially the blood pressure increases, but then it decreases to levels below normal. Breathing then becomes deeper which sends oxygen enriched blood and nutrients throughout the body.

Humor changes our biochemical state.
Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases infection fighting antibodies. It increases our attentiveness, heart rate, and pulse.

Laughter protects the heart.
Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack, according to the study at the University of Maryland Medical Center (cited above). The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease, found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of situations compared to people of the same age without heart disease.

Laughter gives our bodies a good workout.
Laughter can be a great workout for your diaphragm, abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg, and back muscles. It massages abdominal organs, tones intestinal functioning, and strengthens the muscles that hold the abdominal organs in place. Not only does laughter give your midsection a workout, it can benefit digestion and absorption functioning as well. It is estimated that hearty laughter can burn calories equivalent to several minutes on the rowing machine or the exercise bike.

Laughter improves brain function and relieves stress.
Laughter stimulates both sides of the brain to enhance learning. It eases muscle tension and psychological stress, which keeps the brain alert and allows people to retain more information

Fact:
It takes 42 separate muscles to frown but only 28 muscles to smile.

So watch those funny films, read and listen to jokes and let yourself go when sometihing even slightly fuunny passes your way! Seek out the internet jokes as they do the rounds...it will make your life better and allows adults and choldren to learn faster..what more could you ask for!

More data is at

http://women.webmd.com/guide/give-your-body-boost-with-laughter