Why are people who love to laugh the healthiest?

Lin Yutang, a master of humor, once said meaningfully, "I doubt whether the world has ever experienced the importance of humor, or the possibility of humor changing our whole cultural life-the position of humor in politics, academics and life." Its function is not so much physical as chemical. It has changed the basic organization of our thoughts and experiences. We must acquiesce in its importance in national life. Without humor, people's culture will become more and more hypocritical, life will become more and more fraudulent, thoughts will become more and more pedantic, literature will become more and more dry, and people's thoughts will become more and more stubborn. Therefore, there must be false life and articles in the world, and there must be many psychological abnormalities such as impassioned appearance, old and moldy heart, half-life numbness, moodiness, sentimentality, nervousness, hysteria, exaggeration and depression. "

The power of humor can enhance your understanding of yourself, revive your self-confidence, enable you to express yourself freely, and improve your ability to deal with emotional ups and downs in daily life. Even the power of humor helps you grasp today and face reality with a smile, instead of being immersed in the sadness and sorrow of the past.

Bernard Shaw said: "Humor can't be defined, it is an element that makes people laugh." There is a proverb that says, "He who laughs best is the healthiest!"

The former Federal Republic of Germany once established a "Laughter Association" with the aim of strengthening people's physique and edifying people's hearts through laughter. Essentially, it is a sports club for laughing.

This laughing association regularly holds laughing competitions, including forced laughter, optional laughter, short laughter, long laughter, laughter and sneer.

According to the instrument, laughter can exercise many muscles of the whole body (including the muscles of internal organs and limbs), which has a special exercise effect on all organs of the whole body. Laughter can make people take a deep breath consciously and relax nerves, muscles, bones and joints. Every time a person laughs, the diaphragm wriggles about 18 times. The rhythmic movement of diaphragm can exercise many organs of chest and abdomen, such as heart, lung, liver, gallbladder, stomach, duodenum and even large and small intestine. Of course, the most important thing is that laughter can normalize the pulse and nervous system. This is because laughter eliminates all kinds of serious external interference, thus greatly strengthening the automatic regulation mechanism of the central nervous system.

The human central nervous system is a completely automatic control system, which controls the activities of all organs in the whole body in a unified way. It is precisely because of the interference of various external unfavorable factors that all kinds of pain are caused, and pain affects the further imbalance of the central nervous system. Such a vicious circle makes people's health worse and worse.

Laughter is a powerful means to interrupt this vicious circle, which can cut the gordian knot quickly, eliminate all kinds of interference, restore the normal regulation function of the central nervous system, and re-direct and coordinate the work of various organs in the whole body. Therefore, laughter can help digestion, promote circulation, and remove foreign bodies in the respiratory system, thus greatly enhancing disease resistance, inspiring people's spirit, and greatly improving health and work efficiency.

Regarding the wonderful use of humor, Fu Lianzhang said in his book "The Way to Keep Healthy": "Being mentally happy can make you clear-headed at work, make you not forget things, increase your appetite, and make you not full of worries and difficult to swallow; Can make sleep stable, don't toss and turn, sleep. "

Laughter not only contributes to people's physical health, but also enables people to obtain mental health; It can not only strengthen the body, but also activate brain cells, promote the improvement of thinking ability and treat amnesia, which is the research conclusion of Pavlov, the discoverer of conditioned reflex. He said: "Happiness can make you feel every beat and every impression of life easily, which can make your body develop and strengthen, both physically and mentally."

Henriette BeeChaunier said, "Like art, humor is a kind of therapy. People should improve its status and bow to humorists like doctors. "

Excessive passion and excessive seriousness are both wrong and cannot last long. People must keep a sense of humor, which is the most helpful to keep positive hopes. Even people who are physically and mentally healthy sometimes feel disappointed and depressed. If we can replace disappointment with humor, scars and stress will soon pass and return to the peak of health.

In the book "The Law of Life Extension", Hoofland pointed out: "The shortest life and the earliest death are bad moods and bad moods. Such as anxiety, despair, fear, greed, cowardice ... "

Therefore, if you want to live a long and healthy life, you must get rid of all kinds of troubles and troubles, which requires the power of humor and the help of laughter. Kant, the master of German classical philosophy, is a long-lived old man. But in his early years, he was in poor health, often lying in bed, depressed and suffering physically and mentally. Later, he learned from the works of humorous masters such as Swift Voltaire and Fielding that "man is a laughing animal", and then learned the essence of optimism from German folk jokes and funny stories, learned humor, wit and even wittiness, eradicated paranoia, and lived a relaxed and happy mood from then on.

Hedl, a student of Kant, recalled: "There is no doubt that his optimism and vitality in his mature period remained until his later years. ..... He is very good at using humor, epigrams and humor, but he remains serious when people burst into laughter. "

Kant's famous saying is: "Emotional optimism makes people live longer." This is not only a personal experience, but also a recognized secret of longevity.