WARNING: Laughter can Improve your Immune system! :)
Your sense of humor is one of your most powerful inner resources! It is there whenever you need it and it works fast and is free! A healthy sense of humor can inspire hope and optimism and also keep you grounded in what is essential. Humor helps to make the enemy or the challenge seem less intimidating, eases tension, makes suffering in the moment seem far more tolerable, and strengthens social bonds.
Here are some simple facts:
– Kids laugh on an average of 300 times a day, Adults laugh only about 17 times a day.
– On average, adults ages 18-34 report laughing the most.
– People tend to laugh more in groups.
– Research shows humor has an effect on perception, judgement, and attitude towards life and difficulties
– Laughter decreases pain and protects the heart by improving blood flow
– Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air, stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles
– Laughter increases the endorphins released in your brain
– Laughter fires up and then cools down your stress response and can increase and then decrease your heart rate and blood pressure.
– Positive thoughts and humor can actually release neuropeptides that help fight stress and potentially more serious illnesses.
– Laughter can ease pain by causing the body to produce its own natural painkillers
– Laughter can help lessen your depression and anxiety and may make you feel better.
– Humor can reduce fear and anxiety
– Humor can maintain stable energy levels that can help you through difficult situations
With all these benefits let’s try putting some humor back into our lives!
With all this seriousness we have to laugh a bit and take some time to feed our soul.
Go ahead give it a try! All your problems will wait for you while you take a little laugh break!
Try laughing at yourself or at the irony of situations.
Seek out and surround yourself with positive people who like to laugh
Live Well and Laugh often!
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