1. What makes you the happiest?
Optimism
Defined as the inclination to anticipate the best possible outcome for actions or events.
What makes you the happiest?

2. Jokes

7. Movie Clips? Dumb and Dumber
-I got robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart. I didn't even see it coming.
-That's what we're gonna call it. I got worms! We're gonna specialize in selling worm farms. You know, like ant farms.
-Hey, I guess they're right. Senior citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back. Don't you go dying on me!
- Jim Carrey]: "What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me? One in a thousand?" [Lauren Holly]: "Um, more like one in a million." [Jim Carrey]: "So you're saying there's a chance!"

8. Patch Adams
A man who checked himself into a mental institution because he tried to kill himself.
He realized there was more to life and decided to become a doctor
He is a very intelligent student and finds that the best medicine is laughter, humor, and caring for the patient.

9. Optimistic People
Stay positive and expect the best outcome regardless of their limitations.
When they experience set backs they attribute them to external causes that temporary and can be changed.
Tend to do better in school and college.
Happy, healthier life with less illnesses, experience more success and have greater joy in their lives.

10. Pessimistic People
Tend to give up more easily and have hopeless thoughts.
Say things like “ ill never get it right or I always make mistakes.”
More likely to suffer setbacks and it plummets them into helplessness and despair
Get depressed more often, have poorer health, more passive.
Don’t believe in themselves or the situation at times.

11. Laughter When was the last time that you laughed so hard?
Why do we and chimpanzees, apes, and orangutans laugh?
Not sure but we have learned a lot about it…

12. What we have learned…
You use 15 different muscles in your face to laugh.
The sound of laughter is created when you inhale deeply and then release the air while your diaphragm moves in a series of short, spasmodic contractions.
The typical laugh is made up of pulses of sound that are about 1/15th of a second long and 1/5th of a second a part.

13. Continued..
When tape recorded and played backward, laughing sounds virtually the same as it does when it’s played forward.
Hearty laughter produces physical effects similar to those resulting from moderate exercise.
The pulse of the person laughing can double from 60 to 120.

14. We love to laugh… Have a industry built around it Jokes Sitcoms
Comedians
Spoofs
* Laughing feels good and feels so natural.

15. Powerful healing effect of laughter…
Caution: “Humor may be hazardous to your illness.”
Benefits
-Reduces stress
-Enhances immunity
- Reduces pain

16. Is laughter ever bad?

17. Watch out
Laughter could be dangerous if you have a rib fracture, or just had abdominal surgery.
For negative humor:
-Scorn
-Sarcasm
-Ridicule

18. How much should we laugh?
Babies start to laugh when they are 10 weeks old: 6 weeks later they are laughing about once every hour.
Average American grown-up is said to laugh only about 15 times a day.
Very happy people tend to laugh 100x.

19. How to use your humor to stay healthy…
Expose yourself to humor
Tell a joke
Laugh at yourself “Not cool to be cool”
Fake it until you make it
Look for the funny side
Exaggerate
Try to have a good cry
Hang out with happy people

20. Last thoughts
Humor can be a powerful medicine, and laughter can be contagious. It’s reassuring in these days of deadly epidemics and sometimes painful expensive medical treatments that laughter is cheap and effective. And the only side effects are pleasurable

21. Put on a happy face Experiment:
-1st, raise your eyebrows and show your teeth. Hold this posture for 30 seconds.
What kind of thoughts go through your mind?
How do you feel?