Laughter is to show emotion with a chuckle or explosive vocal sound. It's to find amusement or pleasure in something. Babies learn to smile weeks after birth and learn to laugh after that. Laughter is a natural part of life. It undeniably improves your quality of life. Laughter lightens your burdens, inspires, and helps physical and emotional health.
An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh. - Tom Nansbury
Laughter is a great way to boost your heart rate and it also burns calories. Ten to fifteen minutes of laughter burns 50 calories. However to lose one pound you will need to laugh for twelve consecutive hours (Maciej Buchowski, researcher from Vanderbilt University). Children laugh hundreds of times a day but adults can go through an entire day without laughing. This may be because children don't carry the anxiety and stress adults do.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart
Laughter is the body's natural feel-good chemical. It helps dissipate anger, sadness and any other negative emotion. Laughter helps reduce stress so we are able to relax and focus. It brings a general sense of well-being. Even knowing you will be involved in a positive event days in advance lowers your stress and aids in relaxation. Laughter allows you to be more realistic and look at a situation in an optimistic way.
Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins
Laughter helps our physical health in many different ways; relieves pain and discomfort, works out your muscles, and stimulates blood flow. When you laugh, you breathe faster. This sends more oxygen to your tissues and brain. A good hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after laughter has subsided (helpguide.org). Laughter gives you an internal workout. It exercises your diaphragm, contracts the ab muscles and works out your shoulders. Laughing 100 times is the equivalent to 10 minutes on the rowing machine or 15 minutes on the exercise bike (helpguide.org).
Laughter lets me relax. It's the equivalent of taking a deep breath, letting it out, and saying, "This too, will pass." - Odette Pollar
Laughter is said to be the best medicine and there is much evidence that laughter does a lot of good things for us. It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort. It reduces blood sugar levels, stimulates the heart and lungs, relaxes muscles and improve mental functions and overall attitude. Laughter does so much more for us than any other medication can. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free and easy to use (helpguide.org). So what do you think? Is laughter the best medicine?
Have a laugh!!!
Did you know it's illegal in the State of Ohio to...
- Get a fish drunk
- Fish for whales on Sunday
- Sell beer while wearing a Santa Claus suit, even if you are a dog
- Walk a cow down Lake Road in Bay Village
- Throw rice at weddings in Chillicothe
- Honk your horn "excessively" in Fairview Park
Mishaps in church bulletins:
- Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.
- The sermon this morning is "Jesus walks on water." The sermon tonight is "Searching for Jesus."
- Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some older ones.
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