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[quote][maroon]The idea that laughter can be therapeutic certainly isn't new.The Bible says[/maroon]

[navy]"a merry heart doeth good like a medicine".[/navy]

[maroon]Norman Cousin's in  1979 wrote  a best seller,  Anatomy of an illness. Cousins, who became a professor of medical humanities at the university of California, battled the pain crippling arthritic disease ankylosing spondylitis.Faced with a poor prognosis, he ditched his drug regimen in favour of large doses of vitamin C and even larger doses of humour. He had a film projector moved into his hospital room, where he'd watch Candid Camera episodes and Marx brothers films. A nurse read him humour books.[/maroon]

[navy]"I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me atleast two hours of pain-free sleep," [/navy][maroon]Cousins wrote.
Gradually, the pain went away, he became more mobile and he did what doctors didn't expect:he got better.
Following in Cousins footsteps psychologist Robert Holden set up Britain's first NHS -funded Laughter -clinic in Oxford in 1991.Today he runs the London-based Happiness Project, organising workshops around the country on positive psychology and personal happiness.A commited believer that humour is medicinal, he says [/maroon] [navy],"Laughter has a two-step action on the body:one, it stimulates, two, it relaxses and calms us.It helps us let go of physical and mental tensions."[/navy]

[maroon]Medical research studies from University of Texas revealed that subjects who scored high on a happiness questionaire had a much lower risk of stroke then their more despondent couterparts.The happier they were , the more protective the effect.
Japanese researchers announced that a little laughter helps patients with type 2 diabetes.,They had less of a spike in post meal blood sugar levels after watching Japanese comedy show.

Another Japanese study suggests that comedy might give anti-allergy drug clarityn a run for their money.Patients allergic to dust mites and other common irritants saw their skin welts temporarily shrink after watching Charlie Chaplin's comedy classic Modern Times.
Being able to laugh at yourself-or atleast being able to see humour in difficult situations-may help your heart too.Cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Centre believe that laughter may be a buffer against heart attacks.The investigators found that people with heart disease were 40 % less likely to see the humour in life's every day absurdities than were people the same age with healthy hearts.
In one year study involving two groups of heart attack patients in cardiac rehabilitation programme, the group that got to watch a half hour sitcom daily boasted lower blood pressure, took lower doses of beta blockers, had fewer episodes of abnormal heart beats and fewer subsequent heart attacks.
The scientific evidence that laughter increases pain tolerance and eases stress symptoms is long established and convincing. It is thought that humour helps body's natural pain control system at the level of neurotransmitters, like endorphins and other chemicals.[/maroon]

[green]kind regards
Waseem[/green][/quote]

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