Humor Is A Mood

Humor is a mood

Introduction

Humor is a mood that favors communication. Evolves the ability to laugh at the environment that surrounds you and oneself and acts positively to reduce tensions in addition to facilitating development. It is of great importance to have spaces of humor and recreation, since they produce distension and greater effectiveness as therapy to express positive emotions and discard negatives. People with good sense of humor are more likely to laugh and at the same time it is positive changes in their neuronal, cardiovascular and immune system. It also favors social relationships and works as a stress inhibitor and as a health stimulator.

Developing

Humor reveals and drives social, emotional and cognitive development. Discover thoughts and reasoning about the world of how children play with their newly discovered cognitive abilities. Humor has many positive properties. Carbelo and Jáuregui mention several. There is a relationship between the sense of humor with good mood. This allows to mitigate and moderate possible effects of stress, since it facilitates the person, positively interpreting the threatening situations.

Humor makes us smarter and helps us exercise our brain being a very important factor for the development of children improving their quality of life. Dr. Weems, from the New York Hospital, conducted studies through his therapeutic humor program by distributing comic comics and videos to his patients, and observes that in 50% of cases stress has decreased.

Laughter causes us sensations of joy and vitality in addition to contributing energy, favoring a health improvement.

Some psychologists recommend the use of humor. They reason that this can facilitate many benefits for the development of pathologies improvement and patient improvement. According to them, humor can be used to facilitate and express emotional intelligence. It also serves to avoid negative situations or symptoms. An investigation of the use of humor by people suffering from a disease or pathology, can provide a diagnosis in relation to the difficulties or problems it suffers.

The joke allows satisfaction against an obstacle, when surrounding it, the pleasure of something that was disabled is extracted. You have to extract the thoughts, feelings and desires found in the subconscious to transport them to the conscious, Freud. Many psychologists through Freud’s studies have moved this idea to their patients to tell their favorite jokes to explore the mind and its subconscious. They can convey moments of the life of patients who create those psychological disorders or problems, that is, it serves as a means to understand the repressed desires and experiences of the person.

The theories and experiences of psychologists seem to support treatment through humor to understand and adjust the emotional state in different situations such as the educational context. Psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral therapies, logotherapy and hypnotherapy. In school you have to take into account both the teacher and the students. Sometimes in this context, frustrations, disappointments, failures, tensions and some negative emotions appear.

The first time humor was exposed in a book was in 1979 anatomy of a disease by editor Norman Cousins, implying a correlation between humor and health. In it, he describes how he recovered from a disease through humorous and comic therapies such as comedy movies.

Laughter increases psychological health in addition to being a good protector, not forgetting to carry good habits. On the other hand, when laughter is pretended, it does not act as an improvement exercise but as a defense mechanism in the social sphere. This causes endorphins not to be released. These are chemical substances that activate and stimulate neurotransmitters of the brain, therefore it does not activate dopamine hormone. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter of our central nervous system that participates in the regulation of motor behavior, emotionality, pleasure and affectivity giving rise to that expression of emotions.

Risotherapy is a form of complementary therapy. It does not generate a cure in the person, but allows to achieve physical and psychological well -being, favoring its improvement. This method is mostly worked in hospital environments for people with difficulties to face diseases or pathologies such as stress, anxiety or problems in schools that may cause possible problems such as bullying and fruiting or proliferating future pathologies.

Most common diseases and pathologies: Down, Autism, ADHD (Hyperactivity) and Asperger

Down’s Syndrome

Goes in relation to an intellectual disability depending on the degree in most cases. They have problems of abstraction and conceptualization. Abstract concepts are of greater difficulty, on the other hand, they are capable of understanding to a greater extent, concrete learning and through direct experience. On the contrary, with complex expressions, it will have an indirect effect making it difficult to understand and assimilate requiring an explanation for them to understand it. This occurs a lot in everyday life and hinders inclusion in the social sphere. When instructions are given, they are understood literally, which results in many misunderstandings but at the same time, many comic situations.

They have skills to understand imitative humor and mimicry. Develop knowledge through learning by observation or imitation. Humor is important in the emotional environment where they are, because they will favor their way of dealing with the aspects of life in a positive and very optimistic way to difficulties in their day to day to day.

Autism

It is given by an alteration in the neurological system causing problems for its development giving in the first years of life and being permanent. It hinders interaction in the social sphere with other children because they have no interest in other children, consequently it prevents communication between them, imagination and behavior.

You are interested in other types of activities that the common ones and normally do not provide willingness to share them with others. Difficulty establishing visual contact. Their language refers to the literal, for example, it is difficult for them to understand the jokes, jokes or phrases with double meaning. They try to avoid physical contact because they have greater hypersensitivity in the organs of the senses but do not have much sensitivity to feel pain.

ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder)

It begins in the early years and can continue until adulthood if it is not properly treated. Its main problems are that capacities hinder such as paying attention to class, nervous and impulsive behaviors. Behaviors can be different in boys and girls. In the social field they can have many problems for socialization with others, which hinders their school performance and that lowers their self – esteem.

There are treatments that can help and improve this type of symptoms. It is important to pay attention to children at an early age, and thus provide for time to be able to treat it. Their treatment requires medicines and requires interventions with psychologists and psychotherapists to change behavior.

Asperger syndrome

It is an alteration of development to communicate, it makes it difficult to use language and socialization with others. It has many similarities with autism but does not show so much difficulty in cognitive. It occurs at an early age but on many occasions, it is detected later when the child begins to show abnormal characteristics. In general, they have great capacities for memory and calculation, so on many occasions it is not given so much importance.

One of their main problems is that they have trouble changing their routines because they generate great anxiety. They also interpret language literally, which causes the non -understanding of jokes, jokes or metaphors. They present difficulties in motor skills such as walking and running.

Nor does it have a cure as such but it should be treated at an early age properly and can be better adapted in the social environment.

Benefits of humor in pathologies

Physiological: When laughter originates, it is a release of tension and at the same time, it produces a decrease in muscle tone causing a relaxation in the muscles. A positive mood such as joy, optimism, enthusiasm, etc., Helps enhance the emotional state. These moods can manifest by our body as reactions in our body that generate different responses that will help fight and until, in some cases, possible diseases.

Other benefits are that. With laughter, cortisol levels (hormones) descend that occur in the blood and eliminating stress, which could cause negative physiological changes in the body.

In the laughter process there is a decrease and standardization of some functions in our body that are altered with stress. Pointing out that laughter reduces blood pressure, muscle tension and stops stimulating negative factors.

Psychological: It allows an improvement in objectivity and impartiality in the approach of problems, it is able to reduce negative thoughts, help self-concept and self – esteem, and understanding. It can also decrease stress, anxiety and depression, and awaken intelligence, helping to improve the ability of divergent thinking.

Laughing from oneself increases its self – esteem and generates a development of an attitude that consists in facing negative emotions and tensions. Seeing yourself, from a comic point of view, helps to proliferate affection, understanding, dialogue with others, collective game and create closer relationship links with others.

Social: humor has benefits in the therapeutic, social, labor, school and/or social meetings, since it can be useful for solving moments of tension and disagreements. It serves as a method of relaxation and reinforces interpersonal and communicative relationships with others.

Regarding the work area, many companies have incorporated humor in their work philosophy as a strategy that improves innovation, motivation, enhances health and increased productivity.

Respiratory: pulmonary capacity grows, since it allows diaphragm through contractions, allowing better oxygenation.

Circulatory: Improves blood circulation by relaxation of muscles, thus reducing blood pressure and helping to strengthen the heart.

Hormonal: It helps to release endorphins, such as dopamine, which are those that act as a natural body analgesic and that help fight negative emotions, producing a sense of comfort and well -being.

Rest: It relieves negative energy symptoms which allows physical and mental rest.

Digestive: contractions in the liver area facilitate the secretion of gastric juices and saliva.

Elimination: Improves constipation.

conclusion

Humor is not something that is taught, nor has he learned from birth but that the child develops it with the passage of time and experience. It is acquired from an early age. Highlight that humor serves as internal protection that allows possible to release possible tensions as well as a relaxation process that allows the negative and focusing the positive to be able to enjoy the given moment.

When talking about humor, laughter is mentioned because they are interrelated and complement each other, and without it it would be difficult to understand humor. With laughter, this humor can be reflected, the idea that laughter and humor encourage health is not new, it is in recent decades when they have begun to proliferate clinical therapies and interventions based on this matter. Therefore, you can know that they help the improvement of health and disease processes, and in their cure processes.