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Health & Wellness Directory - Niche Free Medical Directory » Alternative Medicine » Therapeutic Humor

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Humor is an important part for the well being of mind. Humor influences health, reduces stress, provides perspective, improves communication. Humor energizes the body, enhances personal relationships, and generally makes people feel better.

Humor is often used in the therapeutic context. The humor therapist creates humorous interventions, which target the clients emotional distress. Since humor directly changes our emotional states humor and distressing emotions cannot occupy the same psychological space. Therapeutic humor uses this aspect to relieve anxiety and depression. Humor relieves emotional distress and empowered patients with depression and anxiety to manage their emotional reactions.

Laughter changes how we feel physically, and it affects our biochemistry. A deep laughter gives a feeling of lightness. Work is often associated with stress, and stress is one of the main causes of physical and mental illness. Humor is a great stress reliever because it makes us feel good, and we can't feel good and feel stress simultaneously. At the moment we experience humor, feelings like depression, anger, and anxiety dissolve. You can learn more about the therapeutic benefits of humor from the following resources.

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