A day without laughter is a lost day. This phrase may sound like a dentist’s advertising campaign, but it is scientifically proven that the cerebral cortex releases electrical impulses one second after the start of laughter. When we laugh, the brain issues an order that causes the release of endorphins, producing an inner sense of comfort and well-being, as well as relieving pain and balancing our vital energy. In other words, the benefits of laughter are many.
Laughter is a natural relaxer and, in a way, it’s a form of meditation. If we can laugh, we’ll enter a space where there’s no mind and no time. The mind lives on expectations, laughter is something that goes further. As with meditation, laughter immerses us in a timeless state in which we can disconnect and forget all our worries.
- Laughter is so therapeutic that it has its own derivation in psychology: risotherapy.
- Is a strategy focused on the production of emotional states through laughter.
- Although therapy cannot be considered because it does not cure the disease alone.
- The benefits of laughter help to neutralize.
- For example.
- The negative effects of anxiety or reduce the intensity of negative emotions.
- Like sadness.
Over the years, you feel less like crying about nonsense and more desire to laugh about nonsense.
Laughter therapy helps us not to dramatize life situations by developing an optimistic mind. People who practice laughter therapy learn to have a better view of themselves, their surroundings and their possibilities. Is that why these situations that make us laugh? they are so irresistible.
This technique says that you have to laugh at least one minute, three times a day, although this seems very little, is enough for a person to notice an improvement in their quality of life, because laughter is a good preventive measure against unwanted emotional states. In short, risotherapy allows us to free ourselves from stress (lower our cortisol levels) and improve our attitude to difficult life situations.
Several scientific studies have shown that laughter is beneficial to health, helps increase our defenses and promotes psychological balance What do you expect to experience risotherapy?
“There are people who make us laugh, even if they don’t intend to. They do this because, above all, they gladden us with their presence and, therefore, it is enough to make us laugh with very little. Seeing them, listening to them and being in your company, even if they don’t say too much or are they neither nonsense nor jokes, does that make things even more fun?. – Javier Marias-
One of the best techniques to combat depression is the sense of humor, it will be much easier to get away from negative emotions and thoughts if we observe and interpret what happens to us in a good mood, we must not forget that the way we interpret the facts interfere much more in our mood than the facts themselves.
Risotherapy is a beneficial and effective technique to supplement the therapy used to combat depression. When we laugh, we feel more relaxed, happier, calmer, more relieved. In addition, as noted above, the benefits of laughter include the generation of endorphins. that improve our mood and promote well-being. Pablo Neruda used to say that “sincere laughter is a mirror of our interior”, so living in a good mood is a way to take care of health.
“There’s nothing like breathing deeply after laughing so much. There’s nothing better in the world than feeling a stomachache for good reason. -Stephen Chbosky-