TO LAUGH OR NOT TO LAUGH: Laughter and the Modern World

PRESENTATION


Why do human beings laugh?
Why did they start to laugh?
Why do we laugh less and less nowadays?
What happens when we don't laugh enough, or none at all?
How can we make ourselves laugh when we don't feel like it?

These are some of the issues dealt with in this book.

Laughter is certainly pleasurable, but how many of us would actually consider it a vital function ? How many of us are aware of the extent of its powers?

This book examines laughter's extraordinary and virtually unlimited potential. It shows why and how laughter helps us to better manage our health, love and family life, stress and our problems in general... in short, to help us regain control of our lives.

But laughter's (possible) effect far exceeds the individual. We see that on a global scale, it has the potential to overcome the major problems (be they social, environmental or other) of the modern world. We then come to the notion of its necessity: laughter, which has up to now been incidental in our lives, has become, with the advent of modernity, a necessity.

A shortcut to health and happiness, as well as a factor of equilibrium on an individual as well as global scale, laughter is something to be taken seriously! And if the aim of this book is not to make us laugh, it has a much more lofty goal: bringing us all to laughter.

PRESENTATION


Why do human beings laugh?
Why did they start to laugh?
Why do we laugh less and less nowadays?
What happens when we don't laugh enough, or none at all?
How can we make ourselves laugh when we don't feel like it?

These are some of the issues dealt with in this book.

Laughter is certainly pleasurable, but how many of us would actually consider it a vital function ? How many of us are aware of the extent of its powers?

This book examines laughter's extraordinary and virtually unlimited potential. It shows why and how laughter helps us to better manage our health, love and family life, stress and our problems in general... in short, to help us regain control of our lives.

But laughter's (possible) effect far exceeds the individual. We see that on a global scale, it has the potential to overcome the major problems (be they social, environmental or other) of the modern world. We then come to the notion of its necessity: laughter, which has up to now been incidental in our lives, has become, with the advent of modernity, a necessity.

A shortcut to health and happiness, as well as a factor of equilibrium on an individual as well as global scale, laughter is something to be taken seriously! And if the aim of this book is not to make us laugh, it has a much more lofty goal: bringing us all to laughter.