Steemit Engagement Challenge S5-W1: Laughter is The Best Medicine.

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Over the years, laughter as been a major therapeutic tool which serves as a stress reliever and likewise relax the body system. Everyone is given the ability to laugh because it enhance emotional, social and physical well being.

Laughter which can be described as a movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

It can also be said to be the action of laughing. Such action arise as a result of humorous stories, event or a tickle. Laughter has lot of benefit to human health and thus, it is referred to as the best medicine. It has been medically proven that those human who laugh or smile often has the tendency to live long and enjoy good health.

The act of laughing can also be seen as a process of exercising the veins and muscle in human face because the movement of those organs gives them the ability to function properly and also laughing helps human to stay positive- people who smile or laugh often has a good human character, hence, it makes them think positively in all situation.

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In addition, psycho somatic illness- illness caused by state of mind- such as stroke, hypertension and so on can be reduced through constant smiling or laughing because it helps reduce the causes of such illness such as anxiety, depression and the likes. Laughter can also be seen as the best medicine due to the fact that it adds beauty to the face, hence, it serves as a remedy to bad looking faces.

Does who laugh often has a special appearance because there faces has been formed or structured into a lively face through frequent laughter, therefore, most of this people are also welcomed anywhere they go to and also people like to associate with them since no one will what to be associated with a sadist.

Laugher also create an avenue for hope or let's say it triggers hope in people. For instance, a student who just finished writing an exam but knows fully that the exam was not well done. The hope for a good result can be triggered in such student through laugher because what a man thinks is what he becomes and therefore laughter will make such a student to stay positive in his thinking.

Moreover, laughter also form a good source of natural depressant. Most people going through a tough situation at home, office or anywhere else always love to go to where or what make them to laugh, hence, it makes them to do away with such situation for the moment.

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Take for instance, a man who has been thinking of committing suicide who goes to a joint which there are funny people or sees a funny senerio, such individual's heart would be softened against such evil thought due to the fact that he laughed. Likewise people who are sick can be healed hastily if they're surrounded with people who makes them happy- happiness goes alongside with laugher.

For example, medical practitioners believe that if aged people are surrounded with happy people- people who make them smile often- there are tendencies that sickness will be far away from them and even if they get sick, it will heal quickly.

Laughter reduces anger level. This made me remember when I was a kid, anytime my Mom wants to discipline me and l do something funny in the process, she burst into laughter and at the spot, her heart becomes softened and forgive me.

Laugter also helps to burn or lose three to four pounds of calories during the year by laughing 10 to 15 minutes a day. Therefore, laugher saves the time, money and energy used in gym. Laughter also promotes the intake of rich breathe, increase the level of endorphins produced by the brain, Stimulate the heart, lungs and muscles in a way that enable the heart to pump faster.

Share a prank that you pranked on someone that makes you laugh even now when you think back about it

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I remember a prank I played on a friend of mine in my secondary school days. It happens this friend mine does not like frog. There was now a day i was passing through the school farm when l sighted a frog- this reminds me of that friend who does not like frog.

I decided to put the frog into a neat carton which l previously picked in my hostel with the aim of buying a bottle of soft drink and put into it- to hid it from others. After puting the frog into the carton, I closed it, walk to that friend of mine which happens to be in the school chapel.

I told him I got him a special cold drink that he should keep the carton jealously- unknown to him that it was a frog that was inside. After the program, he went to the corner of the chapel, opened the carton, and behold, a mighty frog jumped out of the carton.

He screamed! Everyone rushed to where the was to see what was happening. On getting there, people burst into laughter after seeing what happened. It was really a funny scenario. Even, those teachers who were giving some students work to do due to the disobedient act of those student were seen laughing hardly till they eventually released those students. Laugher is the best medicine indeed.

In conclusion, laugher should be a therapy to be adopted by every human because of the wide range of benefit it has. It should also be noted that laughter could be causes by good news, happiness or joy. Also in so case, laughter can be caused by bad occurrence or pain.

I invite @salim001, @patjewell and @marito74 to participate in this contest