A laugh a day keeps the doc away🤣

How often you laugh? The health benefits are staggering❣️

The founder of Mental Training in Scandinavia, Lars-Eric Uneståhl, often highlights laughter and humor as a mental training method and describes many psychological, physiological, and social benefits.

For Uneståhl, laughter isn’t just fun, it is a tool for relaxation, recovery, motivation, positive focus, stronger relationships, and better health.

These are the key advantages according to Uneståhl:

1. Laughter activates the body’s “relaxation system” (the parasympathetic nervous system)

Uneståhl connects laughter to the parasympathetic nervous system.→ Heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension decrease.→ The body shifts from stress to recovery more quickly.

2. Laughter increases oxygenation and energy levels

When we laugh, we breathe deeper and faster.→ More oxygen to the brain→ Increased alertness and energy→ Improved mental sharpness

Uneståhl sometimes uses “laughter breathing” as a mental training exercise.

3. Laughter reduces stress hormones and boosts feel-good chemicals

According to Uneståhl, laughter affects the hormonal system:

• ↓ Cortisol (stress)

• ↑ Endorphins (well-being)

• ↑ Dopamine (motivation and drive)

• ↑ Serotonin (calm and emotional balance)

  
  

4. Laughter strengthens the immune system

Lower stress levels and positive emotional activation help strengthen the body’s natural defenses.

5. Laughter improves relationships and group climate

Uneståhl often talks about laughter as a social connector:

• Increases trust

• Improves collaboration

• Creates quicker bonding

• Releases social and mental tension in groups

This is why laughter is used in his leadership and team development programs.

6. Laughter trains “positive focus”

Uneståhl emphasizes that the brain performs better in positive emotional states:

• Higher creativity

• Better problem-solving

• Increased resilience

• Improved self-leadership

Laughter acts as a shortcut into a more resourceful state.

7. Laughter creates a bodily memory of joy

Just like mental training can program relaxation and focus, laughter can:

• create positive anchors

• make it easier to return to a good state

• strengthen emotional flexibility

5 questions to get started now📝

👉Who makes you laugh (go back in time too)?

👉In what situations do/did you laugh?

👉What comics, you-tube channels and clips makes/made you laugh?

👉When you laugh, what shifts in you body/mind do you notice when you pay attention?

👉Other things that you believe would make you laugh?

💭What are your reflections on the above answers?

🧠Start straight away with a long big smile, head high, shoulders back and notice the shift-We can trick our brain!

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