Doctor Fried found it strange and poked again and once more the patient laughed. Thus, he discovered by change the part of the brain that triggers laughter and started to research the region.

But when he poked the brain of a monkey, rabbit and cat, none of them laughed. Many animal species inhabit the earth, but not a single animal laughs. Even if we tried to make a dog, the closest animal to people, laugh, it wouldn’t laugh. Once on TV, they broadcast a program on a laughing monkey and lion, but they weren’t quite laughing but only moved their eyes and facial muscles from training. Only people were created to laugh. I believe God created only human beings with the laughter region so that we would laugh a lot and be healthy.

3) Laughter, the best condition for wellness
The longest word in English is 1.6 km long. The 1.6 km long English word is “smiles.” There is a mile between the two s. One mile is 1.6 km. Maybe the word smile was thus made so that we would live long and healthy laughing. John F. Kennedy said that if there is one thing on earth that is true, it is laughter. Laughter heals the earth and makes the body beautiful. You should laugh if you want to be beautiful and handsome. If we look around, even if some are not good looking, if they laugh a lot with always a bright heart and positive thinking, they stand out as beautiful. On the other hand, even if some are pretty but easily gets angry, is hysteric and does not care of their neighbors but only takes care of themselves, the value of their looks drops. The more we laugh, the more our hearts warm up and we become full of joy and love. Laughter has the capacity of fundamentally changing people both internally and externally. In a happy family, we should hear the sound of work, reading and further laughing. Laughter is the best medicine of all medicines for both the physical and environmental health and the most important condition for wellness.

4) Development of laughing muscles
Our face has about 80 muscles. Of these, we use about 20 muscles to laugh, while we use about 40 muscles to frown. The other20 muscles are used both to laugh and frown. If we always smile and laugh, the 20 muscles used to laugh and the 20 muscles used to both laugh and frown develop. Then, the 40 muscles used to frown shrink.    

On the other hand, if we are not humble, frown, exert force on our neck and become too proud, the 40 muscles used to frown and the other 20 muscles develop. Then, the 20 muscles used to laugh shrink. 

5) Laughter treatment
Music and art treatment is developing in the medical field. In addition, laughter treatment is getting the spotlight. When we think about laughter treatment, we just vaguely think that since it is positive, it would help. However, laughter treatment is not a concept or thought, but is being acknowledged as an actually effective treatment method. Laughter treatment has surfaced recently in the medical field as a new area and the clinic-pathologic records reported are amazing. They carried out tests on several dying people and those who used good medication all died as expected, while many who stopped taking medication but were given laughter and joy treatment, amazingly survived. The tests proved that laughter treatment is the best treatment in the world.

The father of laughter study is Norman Cousins.He became the father in this field because of the following reasons. Cousins was an editor of the famous U.S. Saturday Review. He went on a business trip and was returning when he became ill with a rare disease called ankylosing spondyliti. It is a type of rheumatism that causes inflammation between bones with low recovery rate. He was about to die with this disease at the age of 50. When he thought he would die at the age of 50, he became angry and bitter. It was then that he read a book in his library by Professor Hans Selye of the University of Montreal about life’s stress. While reading, he was moved by the statement that joy in the heart is a good medicine. So, Cousins concluded that joy in the heart is the best medicine and started to laugh. As he continued to laugh, the pain started to dissipate. He was really amazed that his pain dissipated and he slept well. But one day, he got up when he found that one of his fingers was opening. From then on, he laughed a lot with his family as he had heard that laughter helps to open the fingers. And ever since, his body got better and he was completely healed. Healed with laughter, Cousins was so amazed that he went to Harvard and Stanford University and told his story.

Cousins said his being healed was testified the effect of laughter and tenaciously asked that they research about laughter. He believed 100 percent that joy was medicine that he did not give in to negative and deriding responses and eventually the professors at the school of medicine started to research about laughter. And the more they researched about it, the more they found the secrets of laughter and discovered hundreds of amazing facts about the treatment effect of laughter and its influence.

6）Medical study of laughter treatment
Once we laugh out loud to our heart’s content the clogged blood vessels open up at times and as good blood circulation gives life to the body, we can be healed from even life-threatening diseases. If we laugh out loud, the anticancer drugs like T lymph and 임페테론 start to increase, increasing the number of cells attacking cancer cells in the body. There are cells in our body that attach cancer cells and the representative is the Natural Killer (NK) cell. As the natural enemy of cancer cells, this cell actively attacks them. But if we laugh out loud once, NK cells sunddenly start to attach cancer cells as if hungry. And if we laugh out loud once, of the 650 muscles in our body, 231 get to exercise simultaneously.

Cousins was so amazed of the healing effect of laughter that he quit his job as editor of Saturday Review and started to work as an assistant under a professor of medicine. He thus continued to study and started to research on the laughter’s influence on treatment. After a few years, he got to make a presentation about his paper before professors of medicine. The content of his paper  was so sound and based on research results that the professors and many people were astounded.

Cousins thus became a professor of medicine and devoted the rest of his life to laughter and health at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States. That is why we call him the father of laughter. In his bestseller book Anatomy of an Illness, laughter is said to be a bullet-proof vest. Whichever germs, bacteria and viruses cannot enter the body of those laughing. And while laughter helps to keep a healthy body, derision doesn’t.  

Many leaders say laughter “is the flower of recreation.” And there are quite many who say that they laughed more during the four days of recreation training than in their lifetime. As such, recreation activities make people laugh and the positive effect of laughter has been proven by many scholars. Depending on the leader’s capability, more laughter is generated maximizing the effect of recreation. Ways to make people laugh are various depending on the lecturer and their personality. To become competent recreation leaders, leaders should study when laughter is generated. Below is a summary of when laughter is generated mainly as put together by the Haneol Humor Club. 

1) Instinctive laughter is the expression of pure energy inherent in human beings and we instinctively laugh to satisfy ourselves when we pursue psychological comfort and stability.
2) Artificial laughter is made calculation and comes from desire. It is packaged laughter with a purpose.
3) Mental laughter as an outcome of cultivating a good personality derives after we have a sound mind.
4) High emotions and a sense of mental superiority generate creative laughter. When we do good works such a sacrificing and volunteering as part of religious or volunteering activities, we get to laugh from satisfaction. It is creative laughter emanating from high mental satisfaction and a good personality.
5) Laughter can be handed down and developed through teaching. Laughter is generated by the social environment and education and its quality and amount differ when trained.
6) Human beings laugh when a person or phenomenon is not normal and is exceptional and we then laugh affected by surrounding stimuli regardless of our will.

1) Develop and lead laughter dances or songs according to your personality
2) Develop one’s distinctive voice to vocally mimic various people
3) Challenge the normally expected because people laugh when their expectations are suddenly challenged
4) Exaggerate to the maximum what you want to say with passion by making overstrained interpretations and sophistry
5) At times, don’t hesitate to play the fool and make fun of social conditions with trenchancy
6) Use synonyms and interpret them differently. This generates laughter.
7) Develop idiosyncratic expressions and body movements mimicking the movement of machines and animal behavior

9) Make people pound the entire body or follow all kinds of clapping to generate laughter
10) Creatively prepare scripts that would generate laughter to make them laugh individually or in groups