Tag: laughter

3 Longevity Lessons: #2

The mind and the body are definitely linked. And it makes sense that one can affect the other because positive thoughts fill the brain with positive brain chemicals that can do positive things for your body. By contrast, negative thoughts flood the brain with negative neurochemicals that can do...

Emotional Gravity Well

Ever listen to Click and Clack, the Tappert brothers, on NPR? They talk about perhaps the most boring subject on the planet … car repair. But you can’t listen to that program for more than 10 minutes without cracking a smile or just laughing out loud. Why? Because THEY...

Aping Laughter

Laughter is a serious subject. Really. In fact, this article shows us that laughter is kind of like language. It is one of the traits uniquely shared by we advanced primates (chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans). And … I’m just thinking here … if the ability to let out...

No Joke … Laughter Loves The Heart

If you could bottle laughter, and prescribe it to patients, you would make a gazillion dollars. According to this report, laughing (basically) gets rid bad chemicals and encourages good ones. Dr. Lee Berk, at the Oak Crest Health Research Institute in Loma Linda, assigned 20 adults with type 2...

Funny Memories

Laughter is a drug. And the nice thing about this particular addiction is that it is so hard to over dose on it. The healing power of humor is getting a new look from research science (now see here). You know those funny TV shows you watch, or that...