The Cause

The first visible signs of laughter typically occur between the fourth and the tenth week of life and it is considered as a conduct established from the fourth month. Laughter plays a role similar to the smile in the creation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships positive, joyful and firming of life.All children are born with a superabundant creative potential for laughter, fun, game, happiness and love (Holden 1999). Potential that we will abandon throughout our growth, development and socialization in favour of a seriousness, sometimes sterile and in many more unnecessary. Facebook pursues this goal as well. Human beings trastornamos ourselves with thoughts irrational, subjective and overly serious. We create our own straitjackets mental, dogmatic and exempt of humour to let us go by you should them, it is necessary that and you have to illusory (Ellis, 1976) define laughter as a reaction Psychophysiological characterized by a repetitive vocalizations (ja-ja-ja, je-je-je), a facial expression, a few characteristic body movements and a series of processes specific neurophysiological (respiratory and circulatory changes, activation of dopamine and other neurochemical circuits system(, etc.) and a subjective feeling which we call hilarity and has a pleasant character (Carbelo and Jauregui, 2006).Laughter is considered the cause or consequence of a positive emotion. The enjoyment that laughter can provide has come to It compared with orgasm and other pleasurable reactions of the organism.

In fact, laughter activates the mesolimbic dopamine reward system, system associated with different hedonic pleasures (Reiss, Mobbs, Greicius, Eiman and Menon, 2003) humor and laughter are fundamental in the psychotherapeutic relationship and the health professions in general. Humor and laughter that derives from can serve to establish therapeutic relationship, to orientate the diagnosis, foster communication, reducing resistances, fears, anxiety, to facilitate emotional expression and promote the autobservacion and the distancing. Positive humor and laughter are not only relevant for the health of patients but also for the physical and psychological health of their caregivers, they are doctors, psychologists, nurses, etc.