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Do not like the humor? Think again. Recent research suggests that indulging a sense of humor you can prolong life, making life healthier.

Laughter not only release the stress, enhance social life, and lowers blood pressure, but also boost the immune system. Moreover, the humor becomes more valuable as increasing age, and was associated with a satisfying life. Once the research conducted in Switzerland.

Want to know more about the health side of humor? Consider the five striking facts of the health side of humor that loaded BBC.

* It is easier to breathe
“Ninety per cent of laughter involves deep breathing,” said Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Born to Be Good. “When the exhaled breath, pulse and blood pressure dropped and you enter the calm conditions. You will feel the sensation of the release of laughter.”

* Better relationships.
Couples who told jokes and laughed lightly to relieve the tension tends to have a better marriage, says psychologist John Gottman, Ph.D., from the Gottman Institute, social relationship problems counseling center in Seattle.

* Combating stress
Laughter can reduce stress dopac hormone, cortisol, and epinephrine in a row until 38%, 39%, and 70% according to research at Loma Linda University, California. Research at the University of Maryland with a short film showing, those who watched funny films experienced an increase in blood flow to the heart as much as 22%.

* Feel more healthy
Laughter not only releases the tension, but also makes you healthier. People who laugh 10-25 times a day much less affected by the disease than those with less than that amount in a day. So according to study International Journal of Medical Sciences in 2009.

* Work better
According to Men’s Health survey, of nearly 600 men who responded, 73% of them stated that having a sense of humor makes them better at work.

Donate to charity promotes mental health

Psychology today, body minding blog advises people to improve their mental health by giving money to charity: Worried about money? Give some away.

Quoting several studies that show some of the positive effects of the charity have principles:

-  It can create a sense of social belonging.
-  It gives you a feeling of making a difference.
- It can reduce the stress response of the body to make you produce less cortisol, a stress     hormone.

There is much more than that too. Donors are ahead economically, socially, physically, spiritually – in every way possible – when they give.

Remember: When you ask donors for money, not trying to make them poorer. You are offering them a path to a better life – including better mental health.

When you realize how good you can open the donors by asking them, you will do a better job with it.

The fundrising is not about social media, online video, etc. Neither about any technology, medium or technique. It’s about donors. If you want to raise funds from donors, you have to study, respect and build everything you do around them.

We  now need  professionals in fundraising who:

- Be aware that fundraising is about donors, not us.
- Be aware that fundraising is both a science-based art and number one heart motor.
- Understand that fundraising is a noble activity and change the world, not just a necessary evil or sidekick to the real thing.

Think of the fundraising can be done much better.