Feeling tired or sick? Try laughing more.
Research suggests laughter just might be the best medicine to make you feel better. It gives
you a more positive, upbeat frame of mind, triggers healthy physical and emotional changes,
strengthens the immune system, and is a powerful antidote to stress, pain and conflict.
Laughter literally improves your health. Nothing works faster to bring mind and body
back into balance, lighten burdens, and enhance relationships.
Laughter is universal, no matter the language you speak or the culture you’re from.
Triggered by sensations, thoughts or speech, laughter activates many parts of the body.
Our facial expressions alter comically and we make curious grunts or snorts, something
Encyclopedia Britannica describes as “rhythmic, vocalized, expiratory and involuntary actions.”
As our facial and core muscles contract while in the throes of a sidesplitting har-de-har, the rest
of the body’s muscles become weaker or less coordinated. This is probably why people double
over or have trouble walking straight after a great joke.
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Proverbs 17:22 states: “A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.”
Negative thoughts or emotions can bring about a state of anxiety and “dry up the bones.” In contrast,
laughter evokes a merry heart and harmlessly releases otherwise harmful biochemical changes.
As it turns out, laughter’s “happy state” might indeed be “essential medicine” for thriving health.
It stimulates the heart and lungs, reduces allergies, and boosts the immune system, memory and
digestion. A lively laugh even enhances the intake of oxygen, stimulates circulation, and relieves
discomfort by prompting the body to produce endorphins. These attach to the same receptors as
opiates and act like a painkiller, without the negative side effects.
Proverbs 15:13 (KJV)
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.”
So for a healthier—and more enjoyable—life, just laugh! A Good Laugh
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Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion;
and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy;
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.Isaiah 51:11 (KJV)
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:
therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
