Laughter is the best medicine ... but are we getting a regular dose?
You may have heard the story of Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of An Illness, in which he documents his own personal experience with healing through laughter. Having been diagnosed with a serious, painful degenerative disease (ankylosing spondylitis), he was given a one in 500 chance of recovery. Doing research on his own, Norman discovered material that suggested that positive emotions could be helpful in regaining health. He began immediately to find reasons to laugh and feel good. He had friends and relatives bring in cartoons and share jokes that triggered laughter. When he left the hospital, he continued his daily dose of joy by watching Candid Camera or the Marx Brothers movies and others who tickled his funny bone. Medical tests revealed that following bouts of laughter, the inflammation levels in his blood were lower. Ten minutes of laughter resulted in two hours of pain-free sleep.
The endorphins that were produced from his good feelings were natural painkillers. During his wakeful hours he found that he was distracted from pain as he focused on things that made him feel joyful. Norman Cousins became that one in 500 who did overcome his health challenge and he attributed much of his success to laughter and feelings of joy.
Laughter plays a very important role in our lives. It can actually save us from an illness or an uncomfortable situation or simply make light of something that happened.
In Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050406) "Laughter, it's said, is the best medicine. An there's lots of evidence that laughter does lots of good things for us ...
It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort.
It reduces blood sugar levels, increasing glucose tolerance in diabetics and nondiabetics alike.
It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving complex problems. Its role in intimate relationships is vastly underestimated and it really is the glue of good marriages. It synchronizes the brains of speaker and listener so that they are emotionally attuned.
Laughter establishes -- or restores -- a positive emotional climate and a sense of connection between two people, In fact, some researchers believe that the major function of laughter is to bring people together. And all the health benefits of laughter may simply result from the social support that laughter stimulates."
Laughter can help in the healing of Body/Mind/Soul. So, what is keeping you from consciously finding something to laugh about everyday. And not just once a day but as many times as possible?
Another site to see: http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/rr01286.htm
Are you ready to join me in a little LAUGHTER?
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Exercise: LAUGHTER
Please have a pad and pen close by so you
can record your thoughts or answers.
BE FULLY PRESENT for this exercise.
Walk through your house and see if there is something you can laugh about - anything!
Find a friend to laugh with. What did you do?
Be silly and childlike... Remember when you laughed spontaneously all the time.
You haven't lost the ability to laugh - just bring it back into your life.
I love to laugh at my dog - she is so full of unconditional love and is simply joyous!
You don't have anything to laugh about? Then FAKE IT!
Just pretend. Start at in your belly and imagine that the "pretend" laughter is getting louder and louder and louder.
Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - just LAUGH!
JUST BE WILD AND CRAZY AND LAUGH!
DO THIS FOR 7 DAYS AND JOURNAL
Share your laughter with someone who needs a good laugh.
Send laughing-healing energy to someone in another part of town or state that could use it.
Tap into your inner child and get louder and louder and louder!
Don't worry about how you look - just move with the laughter and feel it from the inside out!
A quick story: Have you ever been in an elevator where everyone is so quiet, no one looks at the other person - just up at the lights indicating what floors have been passed? Well, recently I was in an elevator in NYC. There was an attendant asking what floor each person needed to get off. I was with family members and we were going to get off on the 9th floor. My brother answered for the family members "floor 9 please," then someone else said "floor 8 please," and in my devilish way I loudly said "floor 7 please." My brother looked at me as if I had lost my mind! I then burst into laughter - so did everyone else! Suddenly we were not strangers but a group of people who were having a good laugh. Try getting everyone to laugh in an elevator! You'd be surprised at how much joy you can bring into someone's life in those few short minutes. Go ahead...and let me know what happened.
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