Happiness is of the key factors to a healthy lifestyle. Happiness is great for the human body. Like Kataria once said, "Faster and better physical healing through laughter remains an unrealized, tantalizing, but still reasonable prospect." (86). It's really weird how happiness comes from laughter. It’s not a proven fact but there is a good enough case and support around this theory. Some people say that the more you smile ads on the years you live. Laughter is a good way to get your mind of stress or the feeling of being miserable. Listening to comedians tell their jokes is the best medicine people need because laughing makes you feel good inside and increase your self esteem. People feel amazing after they had a good laugh. Laughter is a great way to relieve tension and sadness. People even feel good after they laugh at themselves for no reason at all. Happiness is connected with your health and laughter is good way to increase your health and happiness. People should laugh when they are sick or stress, when they want feel better about themselves and people should laugh even when they don’t want to.
If you laugh on a daily basis and you are suffering from an illness, it would do your body good in a way. Kataria claimed, “Patients with multiple sclerosis who laughed regularly,” “had a lot of improvement,” “Asthma patients-- they have benefits.” (84). that’s why cancer patients or serially ill patients try to embrace life. People visit the patients in the hospital and try to make them laugh. They can feel good about themselves, even though they are going through a whole a lot of pain and suffering. Laughter has a big affect on people who are serially surviving. I have a perfect example on how laughter can cure people from illness. In the movie Funny People, Adam Sandler plays a very successful comedian and actor name George Simmons. George is also lonely and his no relation with his family. Later Simmons is diagnosed with some type of leukemia. Except for opting to do chemotherapy, he decide to take an experimental drug that has an 8 percent chance of curing him. After becomes depress, Simmons decides to return to his roots of stand up comedy. At a comedy club, George meets a guy named Ira (who is played by Seth Rogen). George take the stage and did a “dark” routine then Ira goes right after and gets laughs from making fun of George stand up. So George heard Ira mocking him so George decides to hire Ira has his assistant. So after some stand up shows and taking the medicine for awhile George has no longer a trace of the cancer. So people can be cured by laughter even the funniest people in the world need to laugh to feel better sometimes.
People who are happy see the world as a safe place, confident is at its highest, decisions are not difficult to make at all, more tolerant and cooperative to people, and live healthier and more energized lives. Like Kataria told his trainee's that laughter yoga "is based upon the scientific fact that, even if you laugh for the sake of laughing, even if you are pretending laughing, your body cannot tell the difference." (80). Psychology says that the causes and consequences of happiness is a good mood increases people's perceptions of the world and the willingness to help others. The moods triggered by the day's good or bad events. Psychology says stress takes energy from the immune system, inhibiting the activities of the certain cells in your body. Stress does not cause disease, it may affect their progression. The best way to cope with stress is to have a sense of control and building a foundation of social support and to laugh a little more you know. People tend to cope more successfully with stress and enjoy better health. So laughing yoga is good for in psychological point of view. People should laugh more often because it takes stress out their lives from work or school or problems at home. It is a fact that 1/3 people who are happy get fewer colds and flu. Your emotion state affects your immune system more than any food you eat, exercise you do, or supplement you take. Norman Cousins cured himself of a serious illness by watching lots and lots funny movies. Laughter truly is a powerful medicine. Something as simple as smiling can take you from a down and depressed feeling to more normal level of happiness.
People can say happiness is very good for your health but good health is also good for your happiness. Most happy people have some type of physical activity in their daily routine that makes them happy. Whether it is going to the gym or walking outside or running or going yoga or playing sports. Psychologist say that in winter which people are more depress because its dark and cold, that even walking outside when the sun is out is good for your happiness. Working out is a great to relieve stress and problems in your life that decreases your happiness. Most people who are depressed and stress are not active. Those people don’t work out or get there body in movement. They are either eating up a storm or locking themselves from the world. That’s not going to help you with your happiness it will only make it worst. Happiness across your life surely leads to good health and well being both physical and emotional. When you feel good, your body releases chemicals that allow you to heal from any problems or discomfort.
In conclusion, when you are happy, your life will work like a well oiled machine. Laughing is great way to increase your happiness and health. Even pretending to laugh is good for your body. People who invest in laughing yoga will be much happier at the end of the day. Your body will thank you later. Remember at the end of the day your well being and individual happiness and health is what matters the most. Nothing else matters.
Works cited
Raffi, Khatchadourian. “The Laughing Guru.” ENG 101- The Pursuit of Happiness. Ed. E. McCormick. New York: LaGuardia Community College, 2010.
