LOL to Good Health: Site Map

Site Map

Emotions

The Study of Emotions
- The Study of Emotions - Begin your journey into our study of emotions
- What are emotions? - Not just what Noah Webster has to say!
- Functions of Emotions - More than just the "color" in our lives
The Nervous System
- The Nervous System - The "nuts and bolts" behind how our body reacts to our environment
- Emotions and the Brain - How our grey matter deals with our emotions
- The Lobes of the Brain - One of the ways our brain is divided
- Divisions of the Brain - The Forebrain, Midbrain, and Hindbrain - A no brainer!
- The Limbic System - Find out what makes you "behave like an animal"!
- Evolution of the Brain - Archipallium, Paleopallium, Neopallium - What's your pallium?
Candace Pert's Theory
- The Body: A Communication Highway - Introducing Candace Pert's theory of emotions
- Brain-Body Communication System - Find out who's behind the wheel in your body!
- Ligands - Your body's little message carriers
- Receptors - Learn the Dance of the Receptor and Peptide!
- The Emotional Connection - Candace Pert's theory of "Molecules of Emotions"
- History is Imprinted on our Bodies - The influence of your childhood
- The Way Out: Laughter - It's the best medicine!
- Putting YOU in the Driver's Seat! - Taking charge of what goes on in your body
Expressions - two nonverbal ways we inform others of what we are feeling
- Facial Expressions
- Body Language
Types of Emotions
- Survey on Experiencing Emotions - You can share how you personally experience emotions
- Survey on Experiencing Emotions Results - Check out how others feel
- Types of Emotions
- Happiness
- Surprise
- Disgust
- Fear
- Anger
- Sadness
Theories of Emotions - The progression from what we used to think about emotions and what the most recent research suggests
What Influences Emotions?
- Influencing Our Emotions - How and why we feel certain emotions
- Color & Colour - Color's role in what we feel. Be sure to take our color investigation!
- Influencing Our Emotions: Family - The root of many emotions
Effects of Emotions
Dealing with Emotions
- Dealing With Emotions - What it means and why it is necessary
- What You Can Do - Practical suggestions to help you deal with your emotions
- A Quick Checklist to Deal with Intense Emotions - Easy things you can do!
- What Is Your Emotional Intelligence? - Not just another IQ test
- Dealing with Emotions: An Alternative Approach: Polarity Therapy - A popular alternative to dealing with emotions
- Dealing with Emotions: An Alternative Approach: Aura Soma - Another option!
- Dealing with Emotions: An Alternative Approach: Directed Pressure Point Technique - Learn about this alternative technique.
Bibliography
- References: Emotion Section

Stress

What is Stress?
- Stress: Overview - What it's all about
- So, What is Stress? - Find out here!
Good Stress vs. Bad Stress
- Good Stress / Bad Stress: Distress - The kind you don't want, but we all get!
- Good Stress / Bad Stress: Eustress - Times when stress is good for you
What makes us stressed?
- Stressors - Not just homework!
Factors influencing stress
- Factors that Influence the Severity of Stress
- Characteristics of the Stressor - How many "life change units" have impacted you today?
- Your Perception of the Stressor: Self Concept - It's all about me!
- Your Perception of the Stressor: Body Stress Tolerance & Age - Other factors influencing stress
- Your Perception of the Stressor: External Sources - One final factor influencing your stress level
Reacting to Stress
- Response to Stress - The short term effects of distress
- Physical Stress Response - When it's time to fight or flight, how do you react?
- Psychological Response - What stress does up in your head
Effects of Stress
- Impact of Stress - Long term effects of stress
- Impact of Stress Diagram - See how it all fits together
- Physiology & Health - How we deal with our physical stress response
- Cognition - Mind games stress can play!
- Emotions - Your emotions want attention!
- Behavior - Your behavior as a result of stress
Stress Reduction
- Body-Brain Boosters: Help in Managing Distress - Stress management
- Body-Brain Boosters: Gaining Control of the Stressor - Techniques to stay in charge
- Body-Brain Boosters: Attitude - Having the right attitude can make a difference
- Body-Brain Boosters: Unclogging Your System - Relieving stress with laughter
- Stress Buster Checklist - Practical ways you can reduce your stress level
- Stress - Response Diagram - Review our stress section in chart form
Bibliography
- References: Stress Section

Laughter

Laughter & Humor
What is Laughter? - More than just a response to humor
What is Humor? - Healthy vs. unhealthy humor
Why do we laugh?
- Why do we laugh? - A universal mystery
- The Superiority Theory - Punishing others with laughter
- The Incongruity Theory - Something just doesn't belong
- Freud and the Relief Theory - Laughing at forbidden thoughts
- More Recent Theories - Our social glue
- Laughter and the Brain - What goes on in the brain
Healing with Laughter
- Healing Laughter - How laughter makes us feel good
- Humor and our Psychology - Humor is hazardous to your illness!
What makes me laugh?
- What's so funny? Incongruity Theory & Detachment - What makes us laugh?
- What's so funny: Relief - Helping us to cope
- Getting It - Finding something funny
- Getting It: Gender Influences - Battle of the sexes!
- Getting It: Age Influences - How our sense of humor matures
- Getting It: Influences of Emotions - Emotions strike again!
- Getting It: Culture and Community Influences - Funny in one place, but not in another
- Applying Tom Veatch's Theory - Why we don't get jokes
Laughter in your Life
- Telling a Joke - Find out how!
- Interview with Jeremy Hotz - Learn from a master!
- Laughter is Catchy! - Have you caught it?
- Laughter Therapy: The Benefits of Laughter are No Joke! - Healing with laughter and learn from Patch Adams
- Laughter Therapy in Action: Clowns - Clowning around!
- Punchlines for Life - Can you take a punch?
- Humor Enhancers - Simple ways to add humor into your life
Bibliography
- References: Laughter Section

Interactive Fun

Measure your Stress Level
- Stressed Out? Find Out! - Take our interactive survey to find your stress level
Relieve your Stress!
- Stress Busters - Conquer your stress! Take a relaxing trip through your body, enjoy beautiful photographs and music, and release your frustrations by distorting others!
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Time to Laugh!
- Laughter Therapy - Laugh out loud to good health with these jokes!
- Daily Funny - A new laugh every day!
- Short Jokes
- School Jokes
- Punny Funnies
- Funny Signs
- Technology Jokes
- Animal Jokes
- Sports Jokes
- Thought Provoking Jokes
- Miscellaneous Jokes
Our Joke Contest
- Joke Contest - Vote for your favorite joke!
- Winners of our Joke Contest - The winning jokes
- Add a Joke / Enter our Joke Contest - Don't forget to send us your jokes!
- Jokes From Around the World - User Submitted Jokes - Find out what people from around the world laugh at
Send Greeting Cards
- Send a Greeting Card - Share the joy with your friends by sending them greeting cards!
Bibliography
- References

Teacher's Corner

Lesson #1: Getting information from our site - Teachers, find out how to use our site in your classroom!
Lesson #2: What Makes Something Funny?
Lesson #3 Self-Awareness: bringing humor into your life
Lesson #4: What are the common elements of emotions?
Lesson #5: Demonstrating physiological changes in levels of arousal
Lesson #6: Facial feedback hypothesis
Lesson #7: Expressing emotions

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About Us

Student Members: - Meet the students who created this site!
- Jason Anderson - from San Diego, CA, USA
- Lorien - from Cape Town, South Africa
- Elizabeth - from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Our Coaches: - The coaches who helped guide us!
- Rosemary Anderson - Jason's coach
- Kerry Howard - Eli's coach
  - Kerry's Garden - See Kerry's beautiful backyard
- Sharon Frewen - Lori's coach