Is Laughter Really About Happiness? Reviewing 4 States Of Being, From Pleasure To Bliss

2018-11-16T09:07:17-08:00The Laughter Blog|

I hear many of my colleagues associate laughter with happiness. While I understand where they are coming from, I have a different perspective. But first let's review the definition of 4 different states of being (*) to see where happiness fits in there: 1. Pleasure: Is a "physiological" sensation rooted in the body. Examples of [...]

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity

2018-04-03T19:19:22-08:00The Laughter Blog|

“Research shows that most people complain once a minute during a typical conversation. Complaining is tempting because it feels good, but like many other things that are enjoyable—such as smoking or eating a pound of bacon for breakfast—complaining isn’t good for you. Your brain loves efficiency and doesn’t like to work any harder than it [...]

Steven Wright Quotes: Best Of

2023-01-09T04:00:42-08:00The Laughter Blog|

Steven Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and an Oscar-winning film producer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical, and sometimes nonsensical jokes, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations. He was ranked as the twenty-third greatest comedian by Comedy Central in a list [...]

Urban myth: It takes more muscles to frown than to smile

2018-11-16T08:47:40-08:00The Laughter Blog|

Straight from the happiness lore Some sayings have been with us so long that their origins are now wholly forgotten. Popular aphorisms such as "It takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile" claiming that a greater number of facial muscles are needed to produce a frown than to generate a smile are [...]

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