OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION

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Hospital is not a heaven, place where people have to be tough. The most powerful medicine were given, actually is our ability to laugh

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION DEFINITION OF LAUGH

Laugh is to make sound that show people are happy or amused.

ADULT laugh approximately 15 times per day.

Did you know..

CHILDREN laugh approximately 400 times per day.

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The Benefits of Laughter Physical Health Benefits: Mental Health Benefits:

Social Benefits:

Boosts immunity Lowers stress hormones

Adds joy and zest to life

Strengthens relationships

Eases anxiety and

Attracts others to us

Decreases pain
Relaxes your muscles Prevents heart disease

fear
Relieves stress Improves mood

Enhances teamwork
Helps defuse conflict Promotes group

Enhances resilience

bonding

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION LAUGHTER AS MEDICINE?

Laughing produce happy chemical called endorphin, which work in the brain and give an overall feeling of well-being. Laughter brings balance to all components of the immune system. Laughter also begins to take place of anti-depressants drugs and decrease the need for pain killers. When people laugh heartily, every organ is being massaged including their heart, lungs and digestive systems.

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION LAUGHTER THERAPY

Laughter Therapy can help relieve stress associated with disease and illness. It serves as a diversionary tactic, a therapeutic tool for disorders such as depression, and a coping mechanism.
These method offer rooms with video cassette recorders and compact disc players, in-house humor cable channels, library shelves filled with humorous books, and movable humor carts to promote laughter. People might see more humor rooms in hospitals, as well as laughter wagons full of funny books, games and toys roaming the halls. Some hospitals will use clown to promote laughter among patients who have serious illness.

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY

1st Case Research of Dr Lee Berk
Berk studied the effects of laughter in 10 healthy males.

Five experimental subjects watched an hour-long comedy

Five experimental subjects did not watched the comedy RESULT

Cortisol (the hormone our body releases when under stress) in the experimental subjects had decreased more rapidly in comparison to the control group.

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY

2nd Case Cancer Patient in Noji Clinic Japan Patient diagnosed as having advanced gastric cancer at the age of 88 years old. Noji Clinic prescribed LAUGHTER THERAPY as recommended by the Society for Healing Environment.

RESULT

One year and seven months later, an endoscopy of the lesser curvature of the middle stomach body indicated that the lesions clearly improved with a morphological reduction into IIa + IIc masses.

Five years after the initial diagnosis, she maintains a good condition.

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3rd Case Norman, noted editor and writer who diagnosed with a lifethreatening disease Doctors gave him little hopes so he took massive, doses of vitamin C and rental classic comedy movies like Charlie Chaplin.

RESULT

Hour after hour, and the more he did, the more he laughed and little by little he began to feel better. Eventually, doctor could not find any trace of his incurable disease and he lives another 25 years.

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY

4th Case Research from University of Maryland Medical Centre in Baltimore

RESULT

Cardiologists reveal that laughter may help protect against a heart attack. His study indicates that people with heart disease were 40% less likely to laugh compared to the people of the same age without heart disease.

OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION CONCLUSION

Although not an immediate cure for trauma, chronic illness, or emotional difficulty, laughter can be a therapeutic tool. When people laugh, the blood vessels carrying blood in their body expands which results in increased blood supply to various body parts. Laughter is really important in our life and to be healthy.

Laughter is expected to become alternative medicine in the future.

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We dont laugh because were happy. Were happy because we laugh

William James