Establishing a topic wasn’t the easy part if I may say but under pressure I tend to work well so Instead of just giving up I started smiling, it’s a coping process when it comes down to the stress around life. As weird as that my sound that’s when I came across reasoning to study the meaning of laughter and why it is associated with happiness. In john Morreall’s taking laughter seriously he talks about 3 theories on laughter. These theories can be interpreted differently based on daily activities in which humor is connected. The bases for choosing this topic is not only because the topic is rarely thought about but because I’ve always been told that “laughter is the best medicine” and I want to know the reason behind the words. Also laughter
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Page 23 of taking laughter seriously Herbert spencer’s essay “On the Physiology of Laughter” it says that nervous system emotions connect some form of nervous energy which sometimes causes us to clinch our fist, tighten muscles and you guessed it, Laugh. 1905 Freud also expanded the relief theory when established a three source plan on laughter which includes joking, humor and the comic. From what I’ve read I think you can take apart from these theories each of them In a very different way includes people not laughing by themselves whether it be laughing at someone or with someone your never really laughing alone. Laughing can be the source of being socially inclined when you laugh it makes people want to be beside you, it sends good …show more content…
To branch off of this in class we talk about how stress made a person more venerable to colds and disease. So the saying, laughter is the best medicine what could that possibility mean? Laughter can lower stress increasing the immune response towards fighting infection. Best heath magazine says the obvious that laughter burns calories and makes you feel good increasing how valuable you are to yourself or peers. You can boost your heart rate when combining laughter and movement just as exercise would work. “Laughter is one of the most important helps to digestion with which we acquainted; the custom in vogue among our ancestors, of exciting it by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles”- Gottlieb
Page 23 of taking laughter seriously Herbert spencer’s essay “On the Physiology of Laughter” it says that nervous system emotions connect some form of nervous energy which sometimes causes us to clinch our fist, tighten muscles and you guessed it, Laugh. 1905 Freud also expanded the relief theory when established a three source plan on laughter which includes joking, humor and the comic. From what I’ve read I think you can take apart from these theories each of them In a very different way includes people not laughing by themselves whether it be laughing at someone or with someone your never really laughing alone. Laughing can be the source of being socially inclined when you laugh it makes people want to be beside you, it sends good …show more content…
To branch off of this in class we talk about how stress made a person more venerable to colds and disease. So the saying, laughter is the best medicine what could that possibility mean? Laughter can lower stress increasing the immune response towards fighting infection. Best heath magazine says the obvious that laughter burns calories and makes you feel good increasing how valuable you are to yourself or peers. You can boost your heart rate when combining laughter and movement just as exercise would work. “Laughter is one of the most important helps to digestion with which we acquainted; the custom in vogue among our ancestors, of exciting it by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles”- Gottlieb