To try it on your own, freeze your face into a smile like the Joker of Batman fame, then let your belly do the work of pushing air in and out as if you were laughing out loud. Let's face it, life can be tough sometimes.
Muscles still tight? It's a sign you're still carrying the stress of the day. Stress is one of the most important reasons to find something humorous. Laughter is a sure cure for stress [source: Van Dyk ]. Stress builds tension in the human body, and that tension has to go somewhere. Usually it's the muscles.
So what to do? Yes, you could get a massage, but have you ever considered a good laugh? Stress-relieving laughter can encompass many forms, but it's usually found in an outburst, much like belly laughing. Say you're out for a walk with a friend when something falls from the sky: pigeon droppings. You're splattered, but your friend is untouched. This event is anything but funny to you, yet your friend can't stop laughing. Is this pigeon laughter? Not quite, unless your friend is laughing in a very specific way.
Pigeon laughter, which is often practiced in laughter therapy or laughter yoga, involves laughing without opening your mouth. By keeping your lips sealed, the laughter produces a humming sound, much like the noises a pigeon makes.
It's also been compared to the humming of bees, so if you're still angry at those darn pigeons for dropping poop on you, feel free to call it bees' laughter. When you aren't actively trying to practice the art of silent laughter, odds are some kind of sound will occur when something strikes your funny bone. Most laughter is, after all, a string of vocal ha-has or ho-hos. But what if you're one of the roughly 25 percent of women or 33 percent of men who laugh through the nose?
Then you'd be a snorter [source: Vanderbilt ]. We all knew the kid in elementary school, the one who blew milk out his nose when the class clown cracked jokes in the cafeteria.
You can guess his kind of laughter. If this is your kind of laughter, you're either blowing air out or sucking it in through the nose when you laugh. There's nothing wrong with this -- but you may want to drink in sips for those times when your friends try to catch you off guard with a new joke.
No, the next type of laughter on our list isn't something you can find on a grocery store isle. Canned laughter is another term for what's commonly referred to as the "laugh track.
Canned laughter is real laughter -- it just happens to be laughter taken completely out of one context and placed in another [source: Farnham ]. Because of laughter's social connection, television producers understand that placing canned laughter over the soundtrack to programming increases the chance of an audience finding humor in the material -- or at least laughing in response to it [source: Farnham ].
This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc. This type of laugh also tends to come from someone with a great sense of humour. And this type of laugh usually causes your eyes to water. Most people with this type of laugh may try to suppress them at first, but when they can no longer hold it in, it explodes.
The key to this laugh is to make the most crazy sound imaginable while laughing. It is this crazy sound that makes the laugh contagious because other people will start to laugh at you laughing. This laugh can also start with an attempt to hold the laugh in which then results in a sudden explosion of crazy laughter. This laugh needs to look and sound natural. You also need to avoid looking embarrassed about the sounds your making. Develop a performed laugh.
You probably already have this type of laugh in your repertoire. This type of laugh tends to have a lot of expression in the mouth, but none in the eyes. This laugh requires that you separate the expression in your eyes from the expression your mouth makes. Your mouth should show laughter, but your eyes should not.
The laugh itself needs to sound pleasant, but not exuberant. It needs to be polite, but not overwhelming. Settle for nervous-sounding laughter. Imagine someone slipping on the ice, or walking into a glass door.
This laugh requires that you try to keep your facial expression neutral, but you are going to fail. Work on a child-like laugh. This type of laugh tends to come from folks who have some child-like behaviours. The laugh is usually sudden and impulsive, and the person laughing can almost look embarrassed that they did laugh.
The sound of this laugh is very playful and child-like. And people who make this type of laugh tend not to care that their laugh sounds child-like. Stick to the old stand-by — giggling. Part 2. Study the laugh you want. Wheezy laughers normally have a great sense of humour but they can be a little timid and shy.
The Cackle: If your laugh sounds a bit like a cackle it means that you have trouble relating to other people. People with this kind of laugh usually feel uncomfortable in large groups and much prefer the company of a few close friends.
The Theatrical Laugh Is your laugh completely contagious? Do people tend to laugh at your laugh rather than the joke itself? People who have this kind of laugh are usually fun, sociable and down-to-earth qualities. Share this article Share. Share or comment on this article: Are you a giggler, a gulper or a wheezer? What your laugh says about you e-mail. Comments 85 Share what you think.
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