Laughter

Do you smile shyly, laugh silently or loudly? There are a lot of types of people, so there are and lot of types of laughter. However, the most important thing is that laughter makes you and other people feel better, picks up your mood and improve your physical and psychological state. But how can we describe this word-laughter?

Laughter is an expression or appearance of amusement. It is a sound that can be heard. Laughter establishes or restores a positive emotional climate and a sense of connection between two people.

There are a lot of benefits of laughter:

• It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort
• It reduces blood sugar levels
• It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving complex problems.
• Now comes hard new evidence that laughter helps your blood vessels function better. In other words, it is good for your heart and brain, two organs that require the steady flow of oxygen carried in the blood.

However, the most important thing for us is what the role of the laughter in psychology is.
For example, therapists have long used laughter to treat patient‘s depression using laughter as a part of therapy. Laughter is good even for people who are not sick. Psychologist Black says strong laughter gives people a mini-workout. When people laugh, their muscles contract, their pulse rates rise and their breathing is faster. Humor therapists suggest adopting an attitude of playfulness. It is a traditional form of American humor--listening to tapes of funny jokes and stories, taking a humor-meditation break during a tense part of the day, and sharing laughter. Other physical and mental exercises to create humor and reduce tension in daily life include making funny facial expressions, looking at funny photos of yourself, and making lists of what makes you especially happy.Some hospitals now have a special rooms, where patients can go to read humorous books and watch funny videos.So, there are a lot ways to pick up your mood.

However, there are and some disadvantages of the laughter. Hobbes argues that "laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves „Laughing can be good for the heart, sometimes it has actually caused a stroke or heart attack. After abdominal surgery, it is also advised for the patient not to laugh, as it could rip the stitches. Pregnant woman should also preferably avoid laughter sessions until some conclusive data regarding the safety is available. Finally, even a normal person experiencing discomfort while laughing, must discontinue immediately and seek expert medical help. People with certain types of brain damage produce abnormal laughter.

Freud had said that we laugh because we have to release "psychic energy". For Aristotle, we jus laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at being superior to them.

To sum up, at least laughter is good way to feel better, take a little bit different look to the life. And there are much more advantages, than disadvantages. And we do not have to forget that the more we laugh, the longer we live.