• What is it?

• How did it begin?

•What does it consist of?

• How is it useful?

• What does it imply?

• Which benefits have?

• Are there any problems?

• Using of humour to help

• To promote healthy and cope with illness

• Used in medicine during the whole history

• Earliest mentions for health benefits from humour is in the Bible

• Surgeons used humours to distract patients

• Using different ways, prepares us for laughter.

• Can help people to comfort better the changes in life.

• Principal aim: to teach us how to laugh.

• To improve the quality of life, help for pain...

• Passive humour.

• Spontaneous humour involves finding humour in everyday situations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI

• Increased breathing, oxygen use, changes in hormes and heart rate

• For example: many hospitals have set up rooms with humorous materials.

Some cancer treatment centres offer humour therapy.

• Provides physical and emotional release.

• Exercises the diaphragm, works out the shoulders, muscles more relaxes...

• Away from anger, stress...

• Can give us a cheerful perspective.

• Laughter contacts us to others.

• It is considered safe with conventional medical therapy.

• Can be harmful used with delicates issues.

• Cause pain after surgery.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc2F1U_oSxY