According to statistics, every time you laugh, there are about 80 muscles involved in the exercise from the face to the abdomen.
Laughing 100 times is helpful to promote blood circulation and exercise of cardiopulmonary function, which is equivalent to rowing 10 minutes. Japanese medical scientist Watanabe found in his health survey that most people who live long have psychological advantages over ordinary people, one of which is to laugh often.
So, what are the benefits of laughter to people's health?
Laughter contributes to beauty and makes the skin more elastic through the contraction of facial muscles.
Laughter can strengthen the heart and brain, make the heart beat faster, increase blood flow, enhance myocardial function, excite cerebral cortex and enhance brain function.
Laughter can promote breathing, expand the lungs, make breathing deeper and more uniform, and at the same time enhance the self-protection of cough.
Laughter can prevent diseases, relieve tension, relieve anxiety and stress, and help to treat mental diseases such as depression.
Su Jingwen in Huangdi's Internal Classic says: "Happiness means gas and ambition, honor and benefit." It can be seen that laughter can not only add fun to life, but also have a medical effect. The health care effect of smiling every day is far less than that of ginseng, astragalus and angelica.
It is worth noting that although in most cases, laughter is the external expression of inner joy, the facial expression of laughter will also affect the mood in turn.
When having fun in pain,
If you can keep smiling for a while, your mood will really get better and give yourself confidence in facing difficulties. In history, "meet with a smile and forget the enmity". Because of laughter, enemies become friends. It seems that an external smile will not only affect your mood, but also attract people around you. Therefore, sometimes in adversity, "forcing a smile" is necessary. Laughter is a natural health care product. Therefore, in order to live a long and healthy life, we should be contented and laugh at life.