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Living Island Laughter doesn’t magically fix life it fixes something even more dangerous, disconnection.

We’re living in a time when people are surrounded by others yet feel strangely untethered. Researchers like Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon General, call loneliness a public-health crisis on par with smoking. is it that people don’t care?  What we need is more connection.

Here’s where laughter slips in, not as a cheesy gimmick, but as a very old, very human biological tool. Behavioral scientists like Robert Provine (who literally wrote the book on laughter) found that we’re 30 times more likely to laugh with someone than alone. The joke is better  when the connection is real. 

Laughter lowers defenses. It interrupts rumination. It opens a tiny window where people look at each other instead of past each other. It’s one of the fastest ways the nervous system signals, “You’re safe here.” 

Laughter gives people permission to breathe, bond, loosen the armor, and get creative.  

"The closest distance between two people is a smile"  ~Victor Borge