Laughter Takes The Weight Off!
Have you ever laughed so hard and so loud and so much that your face and cheeks start to hurt and you find yourself rubbing them to stop the ache. Or you're laughing so hard, tears are rolling down your face, you wet your pants, your side start hurting. Ever wonder why?
Laughter flexes dozens of muscles all over the body, and experts suggest that 100 to 200 chuckles per day is the cardiovascular equivalent of rowing for 10 minutes.
Laughing intensely for an hour can burn as many calories as lifting weight for 30 minutes, scientists have found.
Besides laughing the weight off and giving the body a "mini aerobic workout", laughing has other benefits as well such as:
*It causes the heart to beat faster, sending larger amounts of blood around the body.
Laughing out loud also makes the chest rise and fall, which in turn means that stomach muscles have to work harder, which can help to tighten them.
The act of laughing can even help the skin, by using up to 15 facial muscles, helping to give the face a work out.
Laughing can also bolster the immune system, aiding the body to fight off infections like coughs and colds.
When Chicago public relations professional Betty Hoeffner decided to make a CD of uproarious laughter, her friends thought she was crazy. She had been using concerted laughter to reduce stress for years and was convinced that laughing 10 minutes a day would reduced stress for others.
She founded the Laughtercising program that gradually builds up people's ability to laugh hard for 10 minutes at a time. Betty produced a 60-minute "Laugh It Off" CD to trigger laugh contagion. The CD is called LAUGH IT OFF and it's $10 at http://heyugly.org
Laughing's not as easy as it may sound. How many times have you tried to make yourself laugh, when you didn't feel like it? What will makes you burst out laughing? Is it watching your dog play with others? Listening to a toddlers giggle and laugh?
One time while sitting in church and I couldn't stop crying, and I didn't have a Kleenex to wipe the tears, so I asked my friend for one and she handed me one of her baby's diapers and I burst out laughing, so did everyone else around us. Till this day, I don't remember why I was so teary eyed, but I do remember the laughter.
The thing about laughter is that it is terribly contagious. Someone in the group has a great, infectious laugh, or sniggle and it’s all over. Do you know what I mean? Ha ha ha ha!
Take a look at this video on Youtube “Dutch TV presenter can't stop laughing. Or could he be Belgian”, I don't even know the language they're speaking, but I started laughing right along with him. Watch the video for yourself and see if it will make you laugh as well.
Laughter is a Universal language and it will have you feeling better afterward every time.
Laughing away excess weight is a great way to stay in shape.
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Laughter flexes dozens of muscles all over the body, and experts suggest that 100 to 200 chuckles per day is the cardiovascular equivalent of rowing for 10 minutes.
Laughing intensely for an hour can burn as many calories as lifting weight for 30 minutes, scientists have found.
Besides laughing the weight off and giving the body a "mini aerobic workout", laughing has other benefits as well such as:
*It causes the heart to beat faster, sending larger amounts of blood around the body.
Laughing out loud also makes the chest rise and fall, which in turn means that stomach muscles have to work harder, which can help to tighten them.
The act of laughing can even help the skin, by using up to 15 facial muscles, helping to give the face a work out.
Laughing can also bolster the immune system, aiding the body to fight off infections like coughs and colds.
When Chicago public relations professional Betty Hoeffner decided to make a CD of uproarious laughter, her friends thought she was crazy. She had been using concerted laughter to reduce stress for years and was convinced that laughing 10 minutes a day would reduced stress for others.
She founded the Laughtercising program that gradually builds up people's ability to laugh hard for 10 minutes at a time. Betty produced a 60-minute "Laugh It Off" CD to trigger laugh contagion. The CD is called LAUGH IT OFF and it's $10 at http://heyugly.org
Laughing's not as easy as it may sound. How many times have you tried to make yourself laugh, when you didn't feel like it? What will makes you burst out laughing? Is it watching your dog play with others? Listening to a toddlers giggle and laugh?
One time while sitting in church and I couldn't stop crying, and I didn't have a Kleenex to wipe the tears, so I asked my friend for one and she handed me one of her baby's diapers and I burst out laughing, so did everyone else around us. Till this day, I don't remember why I was so teary eyed, but I do remember the laughter.
The thing about laughter is that it is terribly contagious. Someone in the group has a great, infectious laugh, or sniggle and it’s all over. Do you know what I mean? Ha ha ha ha!
Take a look at this video on Youtube “Dutch TV presenter can't stop laughing. Or could he be Belgian”, I don't even know the language they're speaking, but I started laughing right along with him. Watch the video for yourself and see if it will make you laugh as well.
Laughter is a Universal language and it will have you feeling better afterward every time.
Laughing away excess weight is a great way to stay in shape.
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