{"id":394856,"date":"2010-03-05T22:28:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notsalmon.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2010-03-05T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T03:28:21","slug":"bounce-back-tip-laughter-is-contagious-good-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/394856","title":{"rendered":"BOUNCE BACK TIP: Laughter is contagious good health."},"content":{"rendered":"

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When someone shares a good laugh with you, they are spreading not only\u00a0joy but lowering blood pressure, boosting the immune system, improving\u00a0brain functioning, lowering the risk of heart disease, as well as reducing depression, anger, anxiety, and stress. <\/span><\/p>\n

A healthy sense of humor during hard times is especially beneficial not only\u00a0for all these physical healthful benefits, but the psyche benefits as well.<\/p>\n

You know the expression, \u201cIt only hurts when I laugh.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0I like to think, \u201cIt only hurts when I can\u2019t laugh.\u201d<\/strong> For me, humor is a great \u201cenlightening\u201d agent–helping to shed light on an\u00a0event, so it no longer appears as earthshaking.<\/p>\n

I have often quipped that\u00a0comedy is when bad things happen to people who aren\u2019t me. One day I realized this joke of mine was actually very Buddhist.\u00a0By removing my ego, I\u2019m no longer personally connected to a situation\u2019s\u00a0outcome or concerned about humiliation or self-pity. Thus it\u2019s a lot easier to\u00a0see the humor in it. \u00a0When you have a good sense of humor, being able to separate your ego\u00a0from a situation, you are better able to reframe the meaning you give an\u00a0event, so it no longer appears so devastating or shameful. <\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness Assignment<\/strong>:\u00a0Pretend you are Jon Stewart, and put a funny spin a bad event in your life.\u00a0Recognize that a good belly laugh will not only make things feel less over- whelming, it will offer the opportunity for a more objective perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When someone shares a good laugh with you, they are spreading not only\u00a0joy but lowering blood pressure, boosting the immune system, improving\u00a0brain functioning, lowering the risk of heart disease, as well as reducing depression, anger, anxiety, and stress. A healthy sense of humor during hard times is especially beneficial not only\u00a0for all these physical healthful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}