The positive and healing power of humor

Humor is not only when one of the Internet and collect a few jokes. Humor is much more than that. "If you make me laugh, I'm not depressed!" Experts tell us that it can occupy only one feeling a space at a given time. Therefore ... you're either happy or sad.

From: The Association for Therapeutic Humor;

What is therapeutic humor? Therapeutic humor is all assistance to health and wellness by stimulating a playful promotesDiscovery, expression or understanding of the absurdity of situations in life.

I'm in the mood for over 50 years, as I have never tired of a smile on someone's face! Each of us knows that laughter is the best medicine for what ails you, and it has humor and positive thinking that helped me through my darkest day to cope with ... and there are many of them has! No matter what or how hard ... Pain is pain! And pain comes in many different flavors. When it comes toPain ... there is no discrimination ... everyone is treated equally ... how the hell!

In my case, and because of a childhood injury that was never resolved, the following years brought a 20 years struggle against the implacable paralysis and migraines. In 2008, there are more than 40 million headache sufferers in the United States ... and there is no cure! I have a lifetime of the patient was headache one kind or another, and.or one degree or another. And with all the pain,comes with a headache ... Depression, anxiety, stress, epistaxis, hypertension, weight loss, despair, loss of confidence / self-esteem, etc.

From: Healing Tides.net;

The healthy-promoting and healing power of humor got its biggest boost from the book Norman Cousins, The Anatomy of an Illness, "published in 1979. He came spondlitis with a serious disease called Crohn's and got a 1 chance in 500 to survival. Cousins was aware of the statement ofPsychosomatic Medicine & research showing that negative emotions are harmful to health. He reasoned that the opposite must be true. The positive emotions should promote health and healing. Cousins Beat the odds and survived.

In my book, the positive and healing power of humor (work-in-progress), I would like to share with the afflicted reader and carry them with their own pain ... and encourage them to say that there is hope! Brings humor and a positive attitude in your lifeYou will also win the battle for what ails you!

For over twenty years my life has been a role terrible and descent ... Feel good one days ... and rotten the next ... and all the depression and despair that goes with it. A summary is as follows.

Almost homeless more than once worked as a temporary employee for more than a decade without a car for more than seven years, bleeding ulcers, weight loss, little or no confidence, more than 150 visitors to the medical facilities, loss ofeducational benefits (GI Bill), no family support, poor memory / poor student retention, hypertension, depression, contracted TB; did not get a credit card, until I 38 years old, etc.

The only thing that had helped me get through it all, to keep a diary, because of a terrible memory on my side. It enabled me to go back and the progress I made in the areas of nutrition see motion medications, pain, posture, and so on.

By: Pub Med

In the last threeDecades has begun, the world of medicine, take a serious notice of the healing power of humor, and connected with positive emotions. Humor and laughter are currently of psychotherapists and other caregivers employed as instruments to promote and maintain health, as well as intervention and rehabilitation tools for a variety of illnesses and diseases, stress and life-style. Although this empirical medical approach is relatively new, the study of humorhas revealed a complex psychological phenomenon.

Laughter has many clinical benefits, the promotion of economic and psychological change is an over-all feeling of well being. Humor also has long-term impact that the effectiveness of the immune system. In healthcare, humor therapy can help, stress related illness and disease. It serves as a diversionary tactic, a therapeutic tool for disorders such as depression and a mechanism of coping. Other benefits of humorFeedback:

* Humor can help create a positive work environment place that can create awards for creativity and idea development. Humor and creativity just seem to go together.

* Research has shown that the ability to laugh at ourselves, all the crazy and crazy things we all can be healthy for our wellbeing.

* Humor can help bring people together, and this is important, because teamwork is ensured a high priority in the work.

* Humor can help us all cope with theAging process.

* Research has shown that the point can help the bottom line.

From: Self-Growth.com

What is the difference between humor and laughter? Laughter is innate, and you are born with your giggles. They have unique sounds of laughter. Her laugh sounds similar to other's laughter, but your sound is brilliant, your laughter. Laughter can be found on its own merit. They have not been to "Get the joke," hear a story or a code to decrypt it to laugh!

So,My advice to all is a large dose of vitamin H. .. Take a joke for the health of it!

Love, peace, freedom, friendship, trust, humor ... it's nice to part of one of the most important words in the world.

How about with a little kitschy humor?

Two peanuts were on the street when they attacked!

A few resources include:

- Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor; http://aath.org

- World Laughter Tour.com;http://www.worldlaughtertour.com

- Laughing Matters.com; http://laughingmatters.com