Titus 2 Men And Women

Laughter lowers blood pressure and the pulse rate

Laughter lowers blood pressure and the pulse rate, and helps you to relax, according to researchers into heart disease, who have found that heart patients are 40 per cent less likely than healthy people to laugh in a variety of common situations.  ‘When you laugh, there are opium-like chemicals released by your brain,’ says Dr Michael Miller, lead researcher and Director for Preventative Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, which gave 300 people questionnaires to test their humor responses in variety of everyday circumstances.  These [chemicals] give you a feeling of well-being or even euphoria. We believe this causes you to relax and your blood vessels to dilate. Laughter lowers blood pressure and your pulse rate. Our advice is to laugh heartily for at least five minutes a day. Try to see the funny side and take life less seriously.’
 
Proverbs 17:22  “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Word definitions from the Strong’s Concordance:
Medicine:  a cure
Drieth: to be ashamed, confused or disappointed… – be ashamed, be confounded, (utterly, wither (away).
Bones:  a bone (as the skeleton of the body); hence self,
 
 
Proverbs 15:13  “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.”
Word definitions from the Strong’s Concordance:
Cheerful: to be (causatively) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right):
Sorrow:   an idol; also a pain or wound: – sorrow, wound.
Heart:  the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything:
Broken:  smitten, that is, (figuratively) afflicted: – broken, stricken, wounded.

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