Smokin Moose
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex Moderator
Laughter heals. It promotes and strengthens communion with others, refreshes perspective to make it easier to deal with difficult situations, and even fosters health on a physical level.
Laughter is an agent of social connection and bonding. It relaxes and liberates, dissolving the defenses with which we keep others at a distance. When we laugh with others, we feel closer to them making the time we spend with them rewarding, and so motivating us to spend more time together.
The interpersonal communion promoted by shared laughter is a healing force. Research shows that companionship, social support, and a sense of community are good for health. People who spend significant amounts of time in the company of supportive others get fewer diseases, heal faster, and live longer. By facilitating shared laughter, cannabis widens the doorway to the healing benefits of human bonding.
Cannabis also engenders a spirit of conviviality that leads to healing laughter. Laughing is fundamentally a social phenomenon. People laugh much more frequently when in the company of others than when alone, partly because of laughters contagious nature. One person's laughter triggers anothers' in an effect that bounces back and forth like a ping-pong ball, extending and amplifying the laughter of each. Sometimes the laughter of just one person in a crowd triggers a ripple effect that cascades across the group until everyone is laughing.
People suffering from serious illness tend to withdraw and become reclusive, feeling self-conscious about their disease and that their condition may be burdensome to others. Cannabis lightens such heavy attitudes and promotes conviviality, making us more likely to seek the company of others. The use of cannabis therefore encourages people to avail themselves of the benefits t health afforded by both interpersonal engagement and the laughter that arises from it.
Source: Dr Beverley Potter
Laughter is an agent of social connection and bonding. It relaxes and liberates, dissolving the defenses with which we keep others at a distance. When we laugh with others, we feel closer to them making the time we spend with them rewarding, and so motivating us to spend more time together.
The interpersonal communion promoted by shared laughter is a healing force. Research shows that companionship, social support, and a sense of community are good for health. People who spend significant amounts of time in the company of supportive others get fewer diseases, heal faster, and live longer. By facilitating shared laughter, cannabis widens the doorway to the healing benefits of human bonding.
Cannabis also engenders a spirit of conviviality that leads to healing laughter. Laughing is fundamentally a social phenomenon. People laugh much more frequently when in the company of others than when alone, partly because of laughters contagious nature. One person's laughter triggers anothers' in an effect that bounces back and forth like a ping-pong ball, extending and amplifying the laughter of each. Sometimes the laughter of just one person in a crowd triggers a ripple effect that cascades across the group until everyone is laughing.
People suffering from serious illness tend to withdraw and become reclusive, feeling self-conscious about their disease and that their condition may be burdensome to others. Cannabis lightens such heavy attitudes and promotes conviviality, making us more likely to seek the company of others. The use of cannabis therefore encourages people to avail themselves of the benefits t health afforded by both interpersonal engagement and the laughter that arises from it.
Source: Dr Beverley Potter
Same here.
