Even kings yield to the best jesters
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In this article you’ll learn about:
- Introduction: Laughter
THE BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER - Boosts your Immune System
- Protects your heart
- Helps you burn calories
- Close more deals and get better offers
- Higher attraction
- More Laughs, More Followers
Laughter is one of, if not the most recognizable and enjoyable emotion, so much so that a handful of our best moments included a hearty, deep chuckle. Due to this, we gravitate toward jokes and humor-related content in our day to day, as It lets us relive our fondest memories in a controlled manner.
However, according to science, the positive effects of comedy are much bigger than just ha-has and an increase in our levels of happiness for a brief period, as a series of recently uncovered benefits show us that It isn’t a joking matter that laughter is the best medicine.
Let’s get right to It.
Boosts your immune system
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According to scientific research on our body’s defenses during social isolation, It has been found that laughter can decrease stress hormones, increasing immune cells and antibodies that help our system get rid of infections.
This means that a couple of laughs a day can not only help us heal faster but also be less prone to catch future diseases.
Protects your heart
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Whenever you laugh, your heart rate increases and you take many deep breaths. Kinda like an intense workout, right?!
What this means is that more oxygenated blood flows through your body, improving the function of your blood vessels and helping you increase future blood circulation to protect you from a heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases.
Helps you burn calories
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When we give a good chuckle, our heart rate increases up to 20% and many muscles of our face and body get stretched, thus resulting in a minor form of exercise that can help us burn up to 40 calories in 15 minutes, which can amount to 4 pounds in a year.
However, before you replace today’s workout with a session of Netflix Specials, take into account that we also burn calories when we drive (120 per hour), when we’re cooking (186/hour) and even when we sleep (46/hour).
But this doesn’t have to stop you from having fun. Next time you go to the gym, play a couple of funny podcasts to enjoy a hilarious workout.
If you are now in awe of all the good things laughter can do for you and your health, wait till you hear about what causing It can get you in life!
Let’s take a look at some of the advantages of making others laugh.
Close more deals and get better offers
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Data points out that when an individual makes another laugh, the latter inherently sees the other as more likable and trustworthy, thus increasing the chances of a stronger relationship and a better outcome.
This is especially true in business and job interviews, where It is stated that subjects who used laughter in their pitches got 50% more positive results and caused better impressions in their counterparts than those who didn’t.
Higher attraction
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Better dust off those old pickup lines and a couple of jokes to your rizz arsenal, as these are a better weapon than you might think!
Women gauge the intelligence and attractiveness of men through their sense of humor. This can be seen in studies realized by Jeffrey Hall from Evolutionary Psychology, where he brought together 51 pairs of single college students and put each one in a room to talk for 10 minutes.
After this, the students were asked to fill out a survey, where surprising results were obtained. Out of all the couples, those in which the man made the woman laugh more times showed a higher degree of success at sparking romantic interest.
More Laughs, More Followers
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GWI reports from March, 2022 say a lot about the preferences of social media users in today’s world, where the vast majority of people pointed out comedy creators as their favorite way to consume content daily.
This comes as no surprise, since studies convey that pieces of media with funny images/videos on them evoke more positive emotions, and, as result, generate more trust and a higher percentage of recall between audiences, which, in turn, creates more followers and opportunities.
Even If making others laugh and having a good time might be discouraged by many these days in fear of offending someone, time has shown again and again that people want to spend most of their time with those who can get a good chuckle out of them.
That’s why I encourage you to not run, but to embrace your funny side and create a better life for yourself by sprinkling a few jokes here and there, you don’t know If you will make someone’s day with them ;).
Pages used for research:
https://multibrain.net/4-reasons-to-be-funny-on-social-media/
https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/social-media-225066
https://news.ku.edu/2015/08/27/first-comes-laughter-then-love-study-finds-out-why-humor-important-romantic-attraction
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humor-2014-0015/html
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/why-does-humour-make-someone-so-incredibly-attractive
https://www.topresume.com/career-advice/how-to-appropriately-use-humor-in-an-interview
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-health/laughter-is-the-best-medicine.htm