Benefits of Laughter Include:

Strengthens the immune system and lowers blood pressure


Enhances blood oxygen levels and boosts circulation (good cardio-vascular effects)


Relieves stress, improves mental alertness, and lifts spirits

Personal Benefits:

• Meet new people
  
• Expand your range of expression
  
• Practice spontaneity
  

  Reasons to Laugh

Developed by Annette Goodheart, Ph.D., MFCC, Founder of the Advanced Laughter Institute, teehee.com

• Strengthen your immune system
  
• Make your cheeks sore
  
• Enhance your cardiovascular flexibility
  
• Increase your spirit quotient
  
• Think more clearly
  
• Put a devilish twinkle in your eye
  
• Increase your intellectual performance and intellectual retention
  
• Forget what you were laughing about
  
• Replenish your creative juices
  
• Destroy your conservative reputation
  
• "Pop" yourself out of emotional ruts
  
• Dampen your undergarment
  
• Release and transform your emotional pain
  
• Develop abdominal muscles of steel
  
• Rebalance the chemistry of your stress and tension
  
• Create stress and tension in others
  
• Create perspective and remind yourself of the bigger picture
  
• Wonder why you wasted all those years being serious
  
• Experience a deep connection with other human beings
  
• Confuse and confound family and friends
  
• Draw yourself into experiencing the present
  
• Help yourself live and die laughing
  
• Join a growing group of giggling gurus