Laughter Is The Best Medicine!!!

 

“LAUGHTER IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST FORM OF THERAPY”

-         Audrey Hepburn

(British Actress)

So why is it said that laughter is the best medicine?

Modern life has become way too complicated and its believed that stress is the chief obstacle to laughter. Laughter is the physical expression of happiness, humour and joy that has countless protective qualities. Laughter is one of the best ways to relieve your stress and also plays an important role in developing resilience and improving psychological sturdiness as it has a strong connection with happiness. If we talk from the biological perspective then Laughter plays a key role in reducing the blood sugar level, restoring the memory, stimulate organs, improves immune system etc...(Psychiataric times)

Laughing your heart out enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air which stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles (Mayo clinic). Cherry on top, laughing increases your hormone named “endorphins” that are released by your brain.

So the best way to bring laughter and absurdity to your life is to follow these simple steps:

     SMILE – The best way to start laughing is to first learn how to smile heart fully leaving your false ego behind. Smiling is contagious so the small curves at the end of our lips change the world.

     SPENDING TIME WITH WISECRACK PEOPLE – These are the people who laugh easily at themselves and their life's absurdities. So hanging out with such people might help one to laugh out loud

     BRINGING HUMOROUS SITUATIONS IN A RANDOM CONVERSATIONS – One can ask what was the funniest thing that has happened in their life till now and can also share a few funny events from our side too.

     LAUGHING AT OURSELF – Remembering some of the embarrassing and ludicrous events can bring happy moments in one’s life.

     ATTEMPTING TO LAUGH AT SOME EASE SITUATIONS THAN BEMOAN OR COMPLAINING ABOUT THEM.

     PAYING HEED TO CHILDREN AND EMULATING THEM.

30 minutes of laughing exercise for 21 days might be hard at first but will eventually become a habit from the 22^nd day…

 “Habit is not by birth, it has to be cultivated”.

Let me end this topic with a shaggy-dog story...

Once an old man went to a barber, having only 10 hair on his head. He was being ignored by the barber for a long time now. The old man went near the barber to ask him for a favor. The barber questioned the old man angrily “should I cut it or count it?”. The old man laughed hard and said “color it”.

Life is there to enjoy not to complain. Always remember these words of Charlie Chaplin…

             “A Day Without Laugh Is A Day Wasted”

 

 

Aiana…