Let out the clown inside you

An Apache myth says: “The creator made man capable of speaking, running, seeing, hearing, but he was not satisfied until he gave him one more quality: laughter. And so the human being laughed and laughed, and then the creator said: “Now he is prepared for life.”

Laughter is a powerful weapon that we have at our disposal. It’s a highly effective remedy against depression and sadness, and a quick way to get rid of depression. However, sometimes days go by without us laughing once. Did you know that children laugh at least 300 times a day? When we become adults and life gets complicated, we get serious and forget to laugh. However, we all have an inner clown struggling to come to the surface.

It is not only about laughing when everything is going well, but laughter is a instrument with which we can improve our lives and our personal relationships. Many times I have heard how people who laugh a lot are called superficial and crazy or they are told that they have not suffered in life. There is nothing further from reality. We have all suffered, everyone has problems, the difference lies in how we face them, in how we stand up to them.

It is not even necessary to laugh out loud, just by changing the expression on our face favorable changes are generated in our hormones and neurotransmitters, in addition The smile is a means of instant communication that connects us with others in an incredible way.. My mother always told me: “You can achieve everything in life with a smile,” and she was right.

Sometimes it is difficult for us to find a reason to laugh and we do not realize that we have it very close: ourselves. Our mistakes are an inexhaustible source of laughter. Laughing at ourselves helps us be more tolerant and understanding. Laugh at yourself and let others laugh at you. Tolerate and tolerate yourself. We all do really stupid things at the end of the day, if when we remember them, instead of feeling humiliated or ashamed, we saw them as if we were the protagonists of a comedy movie. we would be much happier.

Much has been studied about the benefits of laughter. Scientists, philosophers, psychologists and psychiatrists from all over the world have provided endless reasons why laughter is the best therapy.. Psychiatrist William F. Fry, who has studied the effects of laughter for more than 25 years, says that three minutes of intense laughter is equivalent in health to about ten minutes of vigorous rowing and One minute of laughter daily is equivalent to 45 minutes of relaxation.. From the East there have also come numerous reasons why we should laugh more: Hindu philosophy tells us that with one hour of laughter a day we obtain the same benefits as with four hours of Yoga.

And so why don’t we laugh more?