Laughter is the best medicine

This high vibe activity is so much fun that you will want to do it every day. Laughter is a great way to make it through difficult days. There are so many benefits (documented in various studies) that you would be amazed how it will help you raise your vibration and feel better.

Laughter:

• Eases tension

• Relaxes us

• Helps us find humor in challenges

• Creates a more optimistic outlook to life

• Dissolves anger

• Improves emotional health

• Increases “feel good” hormones (This equates to feeling less stressed.)

• Lowers stress hormones

• Strengthens relationships

• Adds years to your life

• Lowers blood pressure

• Increases muscle tone in heart, abdomen, face and back

• Lowers heart health risks

• Increases the body’s ability to use oxygen

• Allows your mind to be taken off of pain so that you don’t feel as much pain

• Stimulates the brain and enhances learning

• Eases grief and bereavement

• Increases social bonding and social cohesion because it signals that people are like minded, interdependent, and share intimacy

• Increases creative thinking and problem solving

These are a whole lot of benefits. And laughing is free.

How to laugh:

Put a smile on your face. Take a deep breath. Exhale with force. Say ha ha ha ha ha or he he he he he. Repeat multiple times.

This sounds silly, but that is the whole point. Be silly. Pretend that there is something funny and laugh. After all, your mind doesn’t know what is real and what is imagined. It just takes your experiences at face value. This means that what you imagine is just as real to your body as what actually happens. So, you may as well imagine yourself laughing and then put some actions into it.

You can pretend to laugh by yourself or with others. Did you know laughing is contagious? If one or two people start to laugh, others will join them and they might not even know what they are laughing at.

Do something that brings out your laughter. Watch something silly. It doesn’t matter if it’s a stand-up comic, a movie, a play, or even just watching kids play and have fun. The important thing is to put your focus on your desire which, in this case, is to laugh.

My family loves the card games “What Do You Meme?” and “Cards Against Humanity.” They are just silly, and we end up laughing around the table as we play these goofy games. It is also a way that my family connects and talks between rounds.

I’m the first to admit that these games are raunchy. If this isn’t your thing, choose another activity. What matters is to find what works for you.

So, are you willing to laugh? Are you willing to release and let go forever anything that gets in the way of you laughing? What are all the ways you can bring laughter into your daily life?