The formula for personal success must include laughter which is essential for our deep feelings of inner joy and peace.

The definition of laughter according to Wikipedia is an audible expression or appearance of merriment or amusement or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure.
As adults we tend to take life more seriously and miss out on many opportunities through out our days to look at situations from the lighter side.
We are missing out on the sweet juicy richness of life we experienced as children.

On average children laugh 400 times per day, and adults only laugh 15 times per day. So if laughter is so good, why are we not doing more of it? We could have fun while having an inner joy that could lead us to a very satisfying level of personal success. You could say that your health depends upon it. Maybe there should be a laughing room added to the many fitness clubs in our nation. Although this might sound crazy, laughing clubs have already been started. Members of the laughing clubs say they feel better, some say they have even lost weight, others say they are not depressed, and still others say it has helped to get out of the house, and meet people. Whether or not it is the laughter exercise, the physical exercise, or just being with other people, we all know that when we laugh we simply feel better (Roach 1996)

Laughter should be used as a coping mechanism for stress, though it seems to only be used as an outlet for the emotion produced by humor or happiness. Do we laugh because we are happy, or are we happy because we laugh? Both of these are probably true, but we only exercise the former. Laughter is a fascinating phenomenon that works like a medicine. Although most drugs affect everyone differently, laughter is always the same. It exercises your entire body causing you to feel relaxed and pain free. The fact that laughter is good for one's health should be quite evident. So why not laugh? When one laughs, it is like taking a drug, yet there is no such thing as an overdose or, "laughter toxicity," as Kataria says. Maybe we can now say "A laugh a day keeps the doctor away."

There are many areas in our life that we can cultivate that would define our own success. A huge key to success for example is good health. When we have good health we have so much going for us.

Effects of Laughter:
• Laughter therapy boosts the interferon levels of the immune system which helps the system's ability to fight illness and escalates healing. Laughter decreases stress hormones that constrict blood vessels and suppress immune activity.
• Muscle Relaxation - Belly laugh results in muscle relaxation. While you laugh, the muscles that do not participate in the belly laugh, relaxes. After you finish laughing those muscles involved in the laughter start to relax. So, the action takes place in two stages.
• Reduction of Stress Hormones - Laughter reduces at least four of neuroendocrine hormones associated with stress response. These are epinephrine, cortisol, dopac, and growth hormone.
• Immune System Enhancement - Clinical studies have shown that humor strengthens the immune system.
• Pain Reduction - Humor allows a person to "forget" about pains such as aches, arthritis, etc.
• Cardiac Exercise - A belly laugh is equivalent to "an internal jogging." Laughter can provide good cardiac conditioning especially for those who are unable to perform physical exercises.
• Blood Pressure - Women seem to benefit more than men in preventing hypertension.
• Respiration - Frequent belly laughter empties your lungs of more air than it takes in resulting in a cleansing effect - similar to deep breathing. Especially beneficial for patient's who are suffering from emphysema and other respiratory ailments.

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