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Well being in the workplace is a serious issue. Using terms like “in connection with the stress disease” and “exhaustion” of households and more words that are increasingly searching for new ways to ensure their workers happy, healthy and productive.

So far, most organizations tend to devalue the idea of laughter at work, as a distraction, the “real” work. This position is also supported by the ethics of work by many of us have been with: “No pain, nor profit”, “The work is not fun,” and “It only makes sense if you suffer for it.”

But we begin to realize that all this is, we kill the suffering. Not only that, but we’ve found that it in fact counter-productive results from the baseline in this time of change and job losses. And amazingly enough, this is confirmed by scientific research. A study of Canadian financial institutions has shown that the operators who are simply the highest yield mood of the employees frequently used.

The scientific data is evidence that laughter is part of the physical well-being. Dr. William F. Fry of Stanford University has revealed that 200-times laugh before burning the same amount of calories than 10 minutes on a rowing machine. Another study showed that after an access to laugh, the blood pressure will drop with a lowest level of health that, the laughter began. Laughter also your blood oxygen compounds, thus reducing the level of energy, relaxes the muscles and all the work of the major systems such as the cardiovascular and respiratory failure.

Moreover, while the researchers found that laughter also affects the immune system. According to Dr. Lee Berk of the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California, he laughed intensify, with the body of the T-cells, natural killer cells and antibodies all showing signs of an increase in activity.
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So what are the indicators that we are in our mood at work? KUHLMAN Thomas, a psychologist at the University of St. Thomas, there are two main factors.

The first will not win situations. It is especially appropriate to provide for a job, but not the necessary resources in the form of time, money, politics or persons of power. This can also understand that they serve in a difficult or demanding client or boss, or possibly for compliance with the rules and regulations.

The second is the presence of unpredictable or uncontrollable stress. This may take the form of regular, but unpredictable situations, the effects of stress, working or planning. You can also use the decisions at other levels of the body or the government, based on your work, but you have little or no entry.

Sounds? To illustrate this scenario, the use KUHLMAN example of the TV series M * A * S * H. Here we have the medical staff in a non-classical win situation. Their work consists in the treatment of wounded soldiers involved in the wound, returned to the front to make it re-injured. Stressors are also unpredictable and uncontrollable that the protagonists never know when, or the number of victims will occur. Furthermore, the above-ups make decisions about the war, based on their work and life in which they nothing to say.

In situations where we have little or no control over our external conditions, our only control lies in the way we react to this. We can decide whether to laugh or despair, and M * A * S * H, Alan Alda character, people laugh. In some respects, the laughter is the only sensible answer to everything because in order to survive, we need a life-like claims to be ready. Able to laugh at ourselves and our situation allows us to release the tension, find our position and accept what we can not change. Not only that, it also gives us the physical energy and stamina needed to survive.

More and more groups use to laugh at them in their wellness programs. What I’ve found, working with hundreds of bodies, it is often full of very funny and imaginative people who simply to grant the approval and encouragement to use their sense of mood on the job. Our “Inner Clown” is now our life ring at this time of change and uncertainty. Or him free rein not only results in the work areas is healthier, but also increases the connection with the rest of the team. Remember, the group plays, all still together!

Filed under: -Training and jobs information, Extra on December 11th, 2008