Have you ever heard that laughing is actually good for you? It is a proven fact that watching comedy’s and laughing is a great cure for illnesses. Cincinnati’s Natural Awakenings has a total edition almost totally dedicated to the issue.
Pg 9 Children Playing Outside Laugh More
Pg 12 Laugh More~Why feeling tickled is good for us
Pg14 Yoga Laughter Exercises~Catalyst for laughing alone
Pg 21 Ten Ways To Create Humor In Your Life
Pg 22 Good Humor~Foods that make us smile
Pg24 may I Have Your Tension, Please?!
On page 12, Enda Junkins writes,
LAUGH TO:
Relieve Stree
Resolve Conflict
Enhance Communications
Enrich Relationships
Have Fun
Why is that once we become adults, we feel like we can no longer play and laugh? It’s childish or not professional. Worried about what others may think or that you may not be taken seriously? You may just worry yourself right into illness and despair. Are there times when one needs to be serious? Sure. It doesn’t have to be all of the time though even at work!
Every day stresses cause different hormones and stress chemicals to get into our blood stream causing problems with our biochemistry functions. According to Donna Eden (Pg 24), “We are left feeling more fearful or anxious or angry or aggressive than the situation warrants.” I know this for a fact in my own experiences and that of those around me. I used to make myself sick and stay awake all night thinking about it until I started to tell myself “there’s nothing I can do about it right now”. Set aside time to think about it, write it down and make a plan and then let that be that!
Here’s a good one for you. Dr. William Fry at Stanford University, found that laughing 200 times burns off the same amount of calories as 10 minutes on a rowing machine! So what if you went to see a really funny movie that lasts around 90 minutes? Perhaps you could even have a small theatre popcorn?
Laughing can lower blood pressure, relax your muscles and work your major bodily systems (circulatory, respiratory and immune system). There is a website dedicated to researching laughing and how it effects illness and pain.
Dr. Lee Berk of California…says laughter makes the immune system grow stronger-it’s like your internal army.