CHAhaHAracter

There is nothing in which people more betray their character 

than in what they laugh at.   

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientists at the University of Oxford in England found that (click that for more info) laughing with friends for about 15 minutes boosts a person's pain threshold by 10%.

A good laugh is spontaneous - something you see, hear, or feel. When you see it or hear it, it's coming from your left brain and from your mouth.   When you feel it and the HAHA comes out, it's coming from the right brain and deep in your belly.

Prolonging that laughter for about 15 minutes requires a COMMUNITY (others to laugh with you), a CIRCLE (others to reflect you to you) and ChaHAhaRACTER (laughing out loud for no reason just because we can).

Which is why WSM NoahaHAha and I practice Laughter Yoga.   It gives us the opportunity to be with other people, to keep the HAHA going so that the endorphins can flood our brains and give us that feel good sensation.  And because it builds ChaHAharacter - the strength to come from the heart and be peace in our world - one HAHA at a time.