Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Benefits of Laughing

Benefits of Laughing

Everyday you must be laughing for different reasons. Have you ever

noticed, how you feel relaxed after laughing? There are a number of

health benefits of laughing and that's why, laughter is stated to be

the best medicine.

Every person laughs several times a day for different reasons - after

hearing a joke, watching a comedy movie or reading a comic book. Humor

is one of the important senses that human being is blessed with.

Laughing expresses a feeling of happiness. Humor and laughter are

contagious and they cause a cumulative effect of amusement and joy. In

addition, they offer a number of positive health benefits.

Laughter makes it easier for us to cope with different challenges in

life. It improves and strengthens our immune system and helps prevent

a number of diseases. Laughter therapy can be used to cure several

diseases such as hypertension, ulcers, arthritis, stroke, diabetes and

even heart diseases. It offers good relaxation and helps you relieve

stress and depression. Read on to know about benefits of laughing in

detail.

Benefits of Laughing

Laughing is not just related to facial expressions, but it causes a

number of chemical changes within the body. Good hearty laughter helps

release enzymes and hormones that are helpful for normal functioning

of various organs. This is due to a connection between laughing and

stimulation of brain and different glands. Laughter enhances the body

to release natural antihistamines. It also activates T-cells, a

natural anti-biotic produced in the body. It helps boost the immune

system and fight infections. It prevents numerous diseases by

strengthening the immune system.

Laughter reduces the levels of certain hormones, namely cortisol,

growth hormone, epinephrine and dopac, which are associated with

stress response. Thus it helps relieve stress, depression, anxiety,

grief, anger and irritation. Laughing also decreases pain by releasing

a hormone, endorphins. It improves our attentiveness, pulse and heart

rate.

Laughing is proven to be very beneficial for the people suffering from

hypertension. It helps lower the blood pressure to normal. Laughing

causes deeper breathing and increase in blood flow, due to which

oxygen and essential nutrients are supplied to all body parts.

Laughter is a good workout for respiratory, abdominal, leg, back and

facial muscles. It tones intestinal functioning, massages abdominal

organs and strengthens abdominal muscles. This activity is

advantageous for digestion as well as absorption. Laughter also helps

burn calories and is beneficial for weight loss.

In addition to physical health benefits, laughing offers several

psychological health benefits. It boosts self-confidence and gives

mental strength to cope with conflicts and challenges in life. It also

helps us come out of anxiety and depression. It improves out mental

health and makes us forget all the tensions in our daily busy lives.

Laughing enhances our ability to connect with others. It also causes a

number of behavioral changes. It makes us energized and increases our

interest in daily activities.

Laughing also offers many social benefits. A person with a smiling

face is always popular amongst a group. It lessens the distance

between two individuals and brings them together. It increases healthy

communication with others.

Laughter positively affects many aspects of your life, including your

health, well-being and energy, leading to a healthy, quality life. So

always smile, it improves your face value too.



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Seven Deadly Enemies That Stop You From Reaching Your Goals

Seven Deadly Enemies That Stop You From Reaching Your Goals

What prevents your from achieving your goals? Find out all about the

enemies of personal goal setting!

Enlarge ImageEverybody on this planet has enemies, rivals and foes.

Call them any way you like, but nevertheless they exist, chasing you

at every step you make. Nobody knows where they come from, but the

fact of their existence was detected on the planet and still nobody

knows completely the effective remedy from them. They spoil our lives;

put the spokes in our wheel, making tricky endeavors to distract us.

The biggest nuisance they cause is that they prevent us from reaching

success in life. The only way out of this situation is to disclose

them and to wipe them out once and for all.

You'll be surprised to know that those enemies live within you.

Our greatest enemies, whom we must chiefly combat live inside of us.

So, what are those crafty enemies that hold us back from reaching our

goals?

7 Deadly Enemies of Your Goals

Enemy #1

For 33 percents of people it is shortage of time. They claim that 24

hours are always not enough for everything they have planned. Time is

of the essence, they say. And they try their best with 24 hours and

manage their time vary carefully, but in any case they constantly feel

the lack of time. Time is an illness causing fatigue.

Enemy #2

For 11 percents it is lack of motivation. These people feel that they

don't achieve their goal, because they don't know exactly why they are

aiming at it. As a result, they don't know how to persuade their mind

to achieve that goal. More often these people are satisfied with small

achievements.

Enemy #3

For other 33 percents of people it is lack of persistence. These

people just go with the stream, because they lack decisiveness and

perseverance. They can't get over the difficulties, they easily give

up and refuse from their dreams.

Enemy #4

For 22 percents the major enemy is their uncertainty. They don't know

what their goals are. These people just don't know what they want to

get from this life. Their life is one big question-mark for them.

Enemy #5

For some people it is fear, because they afraid to fail and get

frustrated. They get angry with themselves when they don't fulfill

their goals.

Enemy #6

For other people it is laziness. These people just idle and don't want

to make any effort to achieve their goals.

Enemy #7

Finally, for some people it is a lack of opportunity. Some people are

deprived of the opportunity to exhibit their talents and gifts.

Success is people-dependent factor. Often most of aspiring people are

driven away form their dreams on account of opportunity factors.

A common enemy of ours is the surrounding: jealous and envy people who

put obstacles on our way to success.

Now you know your enemies by their faces, so it will be easier for you

to fight against them.



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Funny Phrases

Funny Phrases

It is very difficult to have a comic timing that can liven up a party.

It requires presence of mind and a whole lot of funny phrases. Hoping

that you have been blessed with good presence of minds, here are some

phrases that you can use to make someone laugh…

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

If you are born ugly blame your parents, if you died ugly blame your doctor.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...

Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

I married "Miss Right". Unfortunately, I didn't know that her first

name was "Always".

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

I am planning to be more spontaneous in the future.

Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more.

They've got a picture of her at the hospital - it saves using the stomach pump

There is an exception to every rule, except this one.

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

Love is photogenic, It needs darkness to develop.

When you are working late, the boss will never be around. When you are

surfing the net the boss will always drop by.



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Funny Phrases

Funny Phrases

It is very difficult to have a comic timing that can liven up a party.

It requires presence of mind and a whole lot of funny phrases. Hoping

that you have been blessed with good presence of minds, here are some

phrases that you can use to make someone laugh…

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

If you are born ugly blame your parents, if you died ugly blame your doctor.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...

Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

I married "Miss Right". Unfortunately, I didn't know that her first

name was "Always".

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

I am planning to be more spontaneous in the future.

Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more.

They've got a picture of her at the hospital - it saves using the stomach pump

There is an exception to every rule, except this one.

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

Love is photogenic, It needs darkness to develop.

When you are working late, the boss will never be around. When you are

surfing the net the boss will always drop by.



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Funny Slogans

Funny Slogans

Here are some slogans that you can use on T-Shirts or bumper stickers

that is sure to bring a smile on the lips of the person reading the

same:

If there is no god, who pops up the next kleenex?

Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for cash and valuable prizes.

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Five days a week my body is a temple. The other two it's an amusement park.

People who say you can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

I am a Nobody. Nobody is Perfect. Therefore I am Perfect.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

If Noah had been smart he would have swatted those two flies.

I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow

is not looking good either.

Reality is only an illusion that occurs due to a lack of alcohol.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

How come we have to choose from just 2 persons for president, and 50

for Miss America?

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

Ninety-nine percent of all lawyers give the rest a bad name.

The more I learn about terrorism, the more I understand the phone company.

Ham and Eggs: A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.

I want to die while asleep like my grandfather, not screaming in

terror like the passengers in his car.



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General Humorous Quotes

General Humorous Quotes:

"I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it

made my landlord mad as hell." - Garry Shandling

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious." - T S Eliot

"Time is God's way to keep everything from happening at once."- James Brown

"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere

else!"-Yogi Berra

"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing." - Robert Benchley

"I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn"t true." -

Katherine Hepburn

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick."- George Burns

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that

perhaps they're too old to do it."- Anne Bancroft

"Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only

three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote

control.."- Diana Jordan.

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Gloria Steinem



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Humorous Quotes on Alcoholism

Humorous Quotes on Alcoholism:

"I'm not as think as you drunk I am." - Mega Jones

"The best beer in the world, is the open bottle in your hand!" - Danny Jansen

"Irish coffee is the perfect breakfast because it contains all four

adult food groups: fat, sugar, caffeine and alcohol." - Anonymous

"It was a woman who drove me to drink and I never got the chance to

thank her." - W.C. Fields

"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you

will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

"Beauty lies in the eye of the beer holder." – Anonymous

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Henny Youngman.

"I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than

gin before breakfast." - WC Fields



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Humorous Quotes on Age

Humorous Quotes on Age:

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the

cake." – Bob Hope

"I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow." -

Billy Connolly

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so

calculating." - Oscar Wilde

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that

it's such a nice change from being young."- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle" – Bob Hope

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it

doesn't matter." - Jack Benny



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