Benefits of Laughter
Laughter lifts us up. Life becomes worth living. You experience that vanishing state of being called relaxation. You stress less and enjoy the company of other people more. You live and enjoy the present moment. Laughter is contagious and it creates laughter for other people. Allowing laughter to swell into a movement across the world would reduce the growing anger and violence.

Most important point is that the people suffering from a variety of diseases have benefited in some way or the other. But we don’t claim to have cured long-standing ailments with laughter therapy for healing a person. Laughter is more of an alternative supplementary and preventive therapy. There are numbers of clinical research going on to determine the benefits of laughter and the results will be available in future. It will take a couple of years before these organizations publish research data on laughter therapy. Based on the survey feedback and interviews people in USA, India and research done all over the world, we have found that laughter has helped many people. In general I like to describe the laughter benefits in two categories as follows:


1. Personal / Individual benefits
2. Organization / Corporate benefits

Findings of a Laughter Satisfaction / Benefits Survey


Laughter is the best medicine. All of us have heard this from childhood but where is our laughter. Today, life is very stressful and stress related diseases are on the rise. Majority of illnesses has some relation to stress. Some of the modern life stress related diseases are: high blood pressure, depression, anxiety, nervous breakdowns, heart disease, cancer and low immunity etc. Research indicates that the children smile or laugh 400 times per day, adults smile or laugh 15 or less times per day and think negative ideas three fourth of the times.

Most of the people asked what are the benefits of laughter. To answer this question, YoLaugh conducts Laughter Satisfaction Survey after each laughter session. This article describes the overall ratings, need satisfaction and benefits of laughter seminar. YoLaugh has conducted a number of laughter session with various groups. Laughaway requests each person to complete the Laughter Satisfaction Survey at the end of the laughter session and this feedback is used for continuous improvements for laughter session. The survey results are collected and compile to share the results with people.

Laughter Satisfaction Survey includes the following key items such as:
Name,
Telephone number,
Address, email,
Laughter session overall rating,
Laughter session need satisfaction,
Laughs per day,
Benefits of laughter,
Benefits age group,
Fun stops at age,
What are the fun movies, ideas and jokes and key causes of stress and ideas to improve further.

Until now we have collected feedback from 165 persons and results are as follows:

Rating of laughter session % Excellent % Good % Fair

Your Overall rating 75 % 24 % 1 %

Your need satisfaction 73 % 25 % 2 %



You laugh per day % laugh per day

0 to 25 times 64 %

26 to 50 times 32 %

51 to 100 times 4 %

There are number of laughter benefits. For simplicity laughter benefits has been divided into 2 categories such as corporate and personal laughter benefits. As you know that there is a relationship between corporate and personal benefits because a typical corporation includes people.

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Corporate & Personal Laughters
A. Corporate :
The typical corporate laughter benefits are reduces stress, improve personality, improve creativity, improve teamwork, and develop trust. Improve participation and improve leadership. The corporate laughter benefits as a result of survey results are as:

Corporate Laughter Benefits Percentage

Reduce stress 69 %

Improve personality 57 %

Improve creativity 43 %

Improve teamwork 39 %

Develop trust 35 %

Improve participation 40 %

Improve leadership 24 %



B. Personal :
The typical personal laughter benefits are: Improve lung capacity, Makes you look younger, Improve blood pressure, Improve meditation, Improve immune system, better control of speech and reduce snoring. The personal laughter benefits as a result of survey results are as:


Personal Laughter Benefits Percentage

Improve lung capacity 51 %

Make you look younger 38 %

Improve blood pressure 36 %

Improve meditation 32 %

Improve immune system 40 %

Better control of speech 23 %

Reduce snoring 20 %

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