Hola mi gente,
There is no greater reward than sharing. No gadget, no
toy, nothing glittery will save you from yourself. I believe life’s greatest
challenge is being able see the suffering in the world and still commit to
living with compassion, humor, joy, and a
lot of laughter. For this is what really
matters.
Laughter
It is impossible for a truly grateful person to be sad for an extended
period of time.
Because a large portion of my work
involves the brain/ mind, I consume a lot of research, especially new research from
the field of neuroscience. I love it when this research confirms my
experiences. For example, I came across these few important facts about
laughter…
Research shows that when you laugh from the belly, you breathe in six times more oxygen than normal. Some
experts estimate that twenty seconds of laughter is equal to twenty minutes of cardiovascular exercise. Usually something is funny as well,
which is its own reward. In fact, laughter stimulates the euphoria centers in the brain, the same ones that light
up over sex (or chocolate).
Scientific studies have been done
on the “vocalization” and “burst rates” of laughter, discovering that, cross
culturally, the most constant consonant of laughter is “h.” Most of us go, “ha
ha,” or “hee hee,” “ho ho,” or “heh heh.” the researchers also found that no
one laughs with mixed consonants, as in “ha, fa, la, ca, kee, po… ”
Anthropologists now believe that
the human laughter, “ha ha,” evolved from the rhythmic sound made by other
primate species when tickling and chasing each other in play. The make a sound
like “hooh hooh.”
Primates like to tickle each other,
and one scientist has determined that the first joke ever made was the fake
tickle, when the gesture to tickle is made but withdrawn before contact, as in
“Ha ha. Fooled you.”
Here’s hoping that you have much to
laugh over and that you commit to sharing that bounty and laughter with people
not just inside your insular bubble, but to an ever-expanding network of
relationships.
My name is Eddie and I’m in
recovery from civilization…
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