Benefits of having a good mood for our health

The human being is the only animal on Earth with a capacity for humor, which can influence us at different levels. On the one hand, it helps us to think differently irrational ideas, mental distortions or negative thinking, it influences us to cognitive level. It also increases our energy and the pleasant emotions we experience, influences us to affective level. Finally, it makes us act differently so it opens up new experiences and possibilities, influences us to behavioral level.

What's more, did you know i know can train? It can be cultivated and improve if you exercise. In fact, we would have to understand humor as a way of being and perceiving the world. In fact, more and more health and educational disciplines who incorporate humor into their regular practice:

• Pediatrics: children overcome or cope with diseases or diagnostic tests more easily if humor is used, they are also very receptive.
• Surgery: reduces pain.
• Chronic pain and diseases such as cancer or AIDS: provides greater endurance and emotional management.
• Palliative care: It improves the quality of life of the person in the last phase of life, to accept the limits and handle the day to day in a more tolerable way. It also helps in the farewell and subsequent mourning of relatives.
• Psychotherapy: Helps refocus and create therapeutic options. Improves mood and sociability.
• Education: helps in learning processes.

: it is a psychological technique that focuses humor as the axis of his work. It assumes that humor enhances the proper functioning of the human body, improving the cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, respiratory and musculoskeletal systems. It teaches to laugh from the inside, since it understands that, if the laugh does not make the body vibrate, it has no effect.

The power of laughter for our health

Psychological functions

• Reduces stress, anxiety and depression.
• Releases endorphins and adrenaline.
• Reduces cortisol levels (helps reduce fears, disinhibits tension and insecurity and generates a feeling of well-being)
• Improves the planning Y Problem resolution
• Reduce negative thoughts
• Encourages emotional expression, which helps understand each other better to oneself and to others
• Increase the self esteem
• Strengthens the creativity and imagination

Physiological functions

• Immune system: increases the proteins that fight gamma infections. Increases IgA and T cells.
• Hormones: endorphins are released that reduces pain and generates well-being. Adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin are also released. Hormones that are released too.
• Circulatory system: laughter improves venous circulation by vibrating massage and by relaxing the muscles. and reduces blood pressure.
• respiratory system: increases lung capacity and reduces snoring, as it makes the diaphragm vibrate through clonic contractions, it is better oxygenated.
• MusculoskeletalLaughter increases muscle flexion, tones and relaxes muscle tension. Each laugh moves up to 400 muscles in our body at a time.
• Favors the rest and the dream.
• Improves the digestion: laughter produces a vibration of the liver, which favors the secretion of gastric juices and saliva.
• Improve the constipation, by the internal massage that generates laughter thanks to the movements of the diaphragm.

Social functions

• Help create a link Between people
• Reinforces the interpersonal relationships
• Improves communicative skills.
• Help in social situations uncomfortable or adverse
• Consolidates the membership To the group

What types of humor are there?

Is humor always beneficial? Although it seems shocking, the answer is no. From empirical studies, it was concluded that there are four types of humor:

• Affiliative humor: is he playful humor, no hostility. Jokes and well-meaning jokes with the aim of reinforcing interpersonal relationships.
• Self-assertive mood: it is the one that tries to remove iron from the incongruities or adversities of life, it is used as strategy to face difficulties and distance yourself with stressful problems or stimuli. It is an adaptive style and reduces anxiety and sadness.
• Aggressive humor: is the one used to criticize or manipulate others using the sarcasm and irony. It is a potentially offensive style, although it does not have to directly affect well-being.
• Personal disqualification: it's a humor contemptuous. Use humor to ridicule or belittle a third party. You can also address yourself as a way to get the attention of others.

• Humor is a skill that can be trained. It can be cultivated and improved by exercising.
• More and more health and educational disciplines are incorporating humor into their regular practice.
• In chronic pain, surgery, in learning processes, in palliative care, in diagnostic tests in pediatrics ... it is used with good results.

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