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Laughter
* accelerates the respiration, and gives warmth and glow to the whole system.
* affects the body in good ways, in ways that nothing else does.
* also boosts white blood cells that help fight disease
  - exercises inner muscles that are otherwise hard to exercise
  - functions with a double meaning in Jazz music
  - has a measurable impact on reducing high blood pressure
* also improves a person's sense of well being and energy level by increasing oxygenation
  - health by suppressing stress hormones and elevating antibodies and immunity
  - mobilizes the body's natural defense mechanisms
* appears to stimulate the immune system, muscle relaxant and lowers blood pressure.
* balm to the soul.
* basic human expression, on par with crying and screaming.
* brings people together and improves interpersonal relationships.
* can also have great moral and spiritual value
  - lessen emotional pain
  - profoundly affect our immune system
* can be a powerful antidote to stress
  - an expression of uninhibited merriment
  - one of the best medicines for stress
  - boost the immune system, lower blood pressure, exercise the lungs, and combat stress
  - ease tension and provide emotional healing
  - improve respiration, circulation, and suppress damaging stress-related hormones
  - provide a cathartic release, a purifying of emotions and release of emotional tension
  - shriek with the same agony as tears
  - spark creativity, especially in the workplace
* causes happiness
  - our bodies to release natural endorphins and enkephalins
* coping mechanisim for the normal stress of life.
* distinctive of human beings.
* even helps to control pain.
* first appears around three to four months in response to active stimuli.
* form of approval
  - good stress, or stress in reverse
* gift that makes all things better.
* has a good effect on the liver and gastric juices
  - healing effect on people
  - the same effect on the body as exercise or aerobics
* helps break down barriers between people
  - muscles to tighten and relax
  - release emotion and tension
  - relieve stress and make life easier
  - resolve anger and feelings of powerlessness
* improves breathing and helps digestion
  - the immune system, relieves stress and lightens burdens
* increases energy
  - relaxation when under stress
  - serotonin and endorphins the body's natural pain killers
* increases the level of endorphins, the body's natural pain relievers and relaxers
  - levels of endorphins in our bodies, which are natural pain killers
  - tolerance to pain
* is activities
  - aerobics without pain
* is also an elixir for the mind
  - the shortest distance between two people
  - an efficient form of deep breathing
* is an essential ingredient in dealing with life and each other
  - part of life but so are tears, anger and sorrow
  - expression of happiness
  - important means of healing and controlling stress
  - instrument of human joy
  - integral part of emotional health
  - created by happiness
* is essential to all of our life systems
  - our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness
  - fundamental to our being
  - good medicine
  - important medicine
  - located in movies
  - medicine for the soul
* is one of the best health cures in the world
  - body's safety valves, a counter balance to tension
  - distinctions that humans enjoy over animals
  - foundation stones of humanity
  - healthiest antidotes to stress
  - oldest and most natural stress reduction techniques
* is our body's natural way to release stress
  - natural, physiological response to stress and pain
  - particular to men
  - partly an emotional response to living
  - prized by all people of every race and in every nation
  - simply the physiological response to humor
  - sometimes contagious
  - spontaneous happiness
* is the antidote to the stress response
  - closest distance between two people
  - healer of many pains and also the reliever of much stress
  - human gift for coping and for survival
  - lubricant of life
  - mortar that hold the bricks in place
* is the most humanizing and vital of human reactions
  - universal of all human experiences
  - music of the soul
  - realization of absurdity and the most effectively simple means of banishment
  - shock absorber of life
* is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life
  - softens and minimizes the bumps of life
  - sound of true love
  - spontaneous outburst of emotion
* is the sun that dries the winter from the human face
  - drives winter from the human face
  - thought to show happiness but it can sometimes be a curse
  - universal and contagious
  - when the unexpected occurs
* is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
* loosens muscles, enhances circulation and triggers the body's natural pain killers.
* makes it easier to learn and remember.
* man's most distinctive emotional expression.
* occurs as convulsions.
* occurs when people are comfortable with one another, when they feel open and free
  - the unexpected happens
* often yields social acceptance, which diminishes anxiety and bolsters our emotional health.
* physiological response to humor that is distinctly human.
* plays an important role in our physical health.
* powerful antidote for pain and fear.
* precious commodity for people dealing with breast cancer.
* pressure valve which releases muscle tension.
* reduces feelings of stress
* relaxes both the body and the mind
  - muscles, lowers blood pressure and eases mental tension
* releases an endorphin that helps dull physical pain in the body
  - chemicals in the brain and makes muscles contract and relax
  - endorphins, chemicals in the brain that restore calm
  - immune-system boosters that protect against respiratory and other illnesses
* requires the coordination of many muscles throughout the body.
* seems to have a positive effect on many cardiovascular and respiratory problems.
* sign of a people in control of their destiny
  - confidence, a sign of a people at peace with themselves and their world
  - faith
* sometimes causes a release of tears, helping the body to relieve bottled up feelings.
* stimulates the cardiovascular system and exercises the lungs
  - skeletal, facial, abdominal and thoracic muscles
* strengthens the body's ability to fight disease
* stress reducer for the whole body.
* tool for enforced social conformance, for coercion.
* tranquilizer with no side effects.
* universal language.
* way to cope with stress, reduce anxiety, and combat pressure, worry, and frustration.
* way to reduce both fear and stress