Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: " Laugh Yourself into a Healthier Person: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Effects of

Laughter is an innate capability that not only helps humankind express emotion, but has also shown promise as a promotive, preventive and therapeutic measure to a wide array of medical ailments. A study by Parse RR, structurally defined laughter as a “buoyant immersion in the presence of unanticipated glimpsings prompting harmonious integrity which surfaces anew through contemplative visioning”. (1) Interestingly, this definition was intimately associated with the structural definition of health proposed by a phenomenological study of health consisting of four-hundred participants between the ages of seven and ninetythree years. (2) Harmony, plenitude and energy were the three commonalities between both definitions.