Laughter by English Test..LOL

You mess up your History test and a classmate storms up to your desk and abuses you. Do you yell back and suggest that he drops dead or something to that effect? Or do you simply smile and shrug it off as one of those days?

Whether you are having a bad day at school or recovering from an illness, laughter may be the best medicine - it is natural, free, positively contagious and very effective. The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs, said the 17th century physician Thomas Sydenham. And he was not far from the truth.

Laughter exercises the muscles in your face, shoulder, diaphragm and abdomen. During a hearty laugh, oxygen surges through the bloodstream and your brain orchestrates hormonal rushes that raise alertness and numb pain. Scientists at the Centre of Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland in America believe that laughter is very good for the heart.

We start laughing when we are around 10 weeks old. At 16 weeks, we laugh at least once an hour and by four, we are cracking about once every four minutes. In contrast, the average adult only manages to laugh about 16 times aday. It appears that we actually took it to heart what our parents told us that life " was no laughing matter".

In order to get ourselves laughing, it has been suggested that we expose ourselves to humour - watch funny movies, learn jokes, start to laugh at ourselves and improve the sense of ridiculous. However, we should try to avoid using negative humour, and that includes sarcasm, ridicule, contempt and joking about people's name.

Knowing you are not alone is a key to great physical and mental health. In our day-to-day life, we rarely laugh alone. Laughter tracks in sitcoms testify to the fact that we are readily to laugh when we are with people. Laughter is about relationships and about sharing - qualities that are known to relieve stress and promote recovery from illness, especially among cancer sufferers.

Sadly, bad mood is something many of us are experiencing with more frequency while occasions for us to have a good and hearty laugh are becoming few and far between. It is not surprising when you think of the hectic lifestyles and pressures we live with today, but too many down days can start to seriously interfere with our work, relationships and home life.

Studies have shown that women are almost twice more likely to suffer from bad moods and depression than men, and it is not solely due to hormones. Research indicates that women spend a lot of time thinking about what is making them unhappy instead of "laughing their blues away". Consequently, they draw themselves far deeper into the misery they are in. Men, on the other hand, are better at distracting themselves from their problems by doing something totally different. They seem to be able to shrug their shoulders and laugh it off and as a result, their mood quickly improves.

So, the next time you are feeling low, instead of wallowing in self-pity, laugh and shake off that bad feeling and you can lift your spirits immediately.
Thats really good for Deepika...haha~ now i understand why she laugh all the time... :D should learn it though... ;) LMAO

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