Bagrut Project/Homor-Health

How Does Humor Effects Our Health

Introduction
Humor is a powerful emotional medicine and can lower stress, reduce anger and unite families that are going through some difficult times.

It also helps us to avoid loneliness by making connections with other people who are attracted to people who are genuinely cheerful. In addition, the good feeling we get afterwards can remain with us as an internal experience even after we stop laughing.

Mental health professionals say that humor can teach perspective by helping patients to see reality instead of the distortion that supports their distress. It changes the way we think and distress is related to the way we think. Our stress isn’t caused by the situation but by the meaning that we give to it. Humor adjusts the meaning of invent in a way in which it is not so overwhelming.

Examples of how laughter benefits mental health:

-Humor increases our ability to connect with others. -Humor helps us to replace stressful emotions with feelings that please us. We can’t feel angry, depressed, anxious, guilty or resentful while we experience humor. -Humor changes our behavior because when we experience humor we talk more, make more eye contact, touch etc. -Humor pumps up our energy and with increased energy we may do some things that we would usually avoid.

It is also important to note that humor is good for mental health because it simply makes us feel good.