Name: Better Than Meditation? The Story And Science Behind Humor
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T03:54:00.000Z
Duration: 8 min 18 s
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- [Narrator] Karyn Buxman is an international speaker

Booked by more than 500 companies worldwide,

Karyn is one of the few people in the world to be inducted

into the National Speaker Associations' hall of fame.

Today, Dan Lok interviews Karyn on the secret

to enhancing your humor skills to become a better leader

with personal stories and cutting edge tips.

- Karyn, speaking of funny photo, I think one

of the funniest thing that I've seen was in a restaurant,

it's actually in a bathroom, so I went to the men's bathroom

- They had to post that because there was that one person.

- Eww, it's very true that we look for humor

in day-to-day life, how does that relate to health

- It's so wonderful, and that's really what brought me

into this field in the very beginning was the health aspects

and when I looked at humor, I found that there's three

The one being entertainment, which everybody,

that's what they think of when they think humor.

and then another is influence which is so important

in business, but in terms of health, there are so many

and for people particularly who use it consistently.

- I loved what you said, use it consistently.

- Use it consistently, the issue is that so often

humor happens by chance and when it happens

by chance that's wonderful, but I want your listeners

and your viewers to understand that it's humor by choice,

not by chance, it could be both, but it's by choice,

and people who use it by choice, what we find is

It's a wonderful thing that humor is a whole brain activity.

which is where we have wit, that's the understanding

of the joke, the emotional component of the brain,

That's how we know we feel good and happy,

and then the occipital lobe in the back of the brain

which is the physical expression which is laughter,

and because of this whole brain activity,

there is this cascade of neurotransmitters that affect us

all over our body, and some of it we're aware of

because we have the oxytocin and the serotonin

and the endorphin-like pinnacles that make us feel good,

but also things that are going on are hormones and proteins

and things that are doing wonderful things for our body.

For instance, the number one negative process

in our body that just fans the flames of so many illnesses

Cortisol is an inflammatory process that's throughout

every cell of our body, but humor decreases

those cortisol levels, and so this is why we see

positive effects in terms of autoimmune diseases

and we see positive effects in terms of heart diseases,

All of these kinds of things we see positive effects

in people, and one of the studies that was done in Japan,

actually it was repeated, and I was so impressed with this,

I had mentioned it in my TEDx Talk, was that we saw changes

We actually saw positive change in people's DNA.

- Now we're talking epigenetics, and that people have

the ability to positively influence future generations

by using humor intentionally and consistently.

I mean, with something this powerful, why would you not want

to include it, and one of the number one issues

in our country costing us billions of dollars--

Stress and depression, and work loss, days off, sick days,

errors that are made at work, accidents that happen,

and that humor can help deal with that, and so using this

and implementing it, it helps people on a personal level

and at companies it's saving them millions and even billions

of dollars in lost work days and accidents, engagement,

- [Dan] And they're more looking forward to go to work

since their workplace is a friendly environment,

is a fun environment, versus people dragging, oh,

gotta go to work, of course they're not gonna be productive.

- Yeah, 100%, if one person is, oh, you think you having

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