Making Lifestyle Changes
Laughter is the best medicine
Laughter is the best medicine; along with your consistent exercise routine.
The benefits of a belly laugh
No matter why you are giggling, studies have shown that a laugh will do you good. Laughter helps you deal with a variety of maladies including the stress of daily life. The benefit of laughter on your health is no joke. A sense of humor can't cure all ailments, but data is mounting about the things that laughter can do.
Short-term benefits
A good laugh has great short-term effects. When you start to laugh, it doesn't just lighten your load mentally, it actually induces physical changes in your body, beginning with your face.
Laughter can:
Stimulate your organs. Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air, stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain.
Activate your stress response. A rollicking laugh fires up and then cools down your stress response, and increases your heart rate and blood pressure. The result? A good, relaxed feeling.
Soothe tension and tummy aches. Laughter can ease digestion and stimulate circulation which helps reduce some of the physical symptoms of stress.
Long-term effects
Laughter isn't only good for a quick pick-me-up, it's also good for you over the long haul.
Laughter may:
Improve your immune system. Negative thoughts manifest into chemical reactions that can affect your body by bringing more stress into your system and by decreasing your immunity. In contrast, positive thoughts actually release neuropeptides that help fight stress and potentially more serious illnesses.
Relieve pain. Resear*****reasingly shows that laughter may ease pain by causing the body to produce its own natural pain killers.
Increase personal satisfaction. Laughter can also make difficult situations a little bit easier.
How to have or gain a sense of humor
Are you afraid you have an underdeveloped or nonexistent funny bone? Developing or refining your own particular sense of humor may be easier than you think.
Put humor on your horizon. Find a few simple items, such as photos or comic strips that elicit a chuckle from you or others. Then hang them at home, in your office or even on the visor of your car.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Develop a sense of humor about your own situation, and watch your stress begin to fade away.
Think positive. Look for the positive or the humorous in every situation, and surround yourself with others who do the same.
Knock-knock. Browse through your local bookstore or library's selection of joke books to get a few rib-ticklers in your repertoire that you can share with friends.
Laughter is the best medicine
Go ahead and try it. Turn the corners of your mouth up into a smile and then give a laugh, even if it feels a little forced. Once you've had your hearty chuckle, take stock of how you feel. Are your muscles a little less tense? Do you feel more relaxed or buoyant? That's the natural wonder of laughter at work.
Source: mayoclinic.com
The benefits of a belly laugh
No matter why you are giggling, studies have shown that a laugh will do you good. Laughter helps you deal with a variety of maladies including the stress of daily life. The benefit of laughter on your health is no joke. A sense of humor can't cure all ailments, but data is mounting about the things that laughter can do.
Short-term benefits
A good laugh has great short-term effects. When you start to laugh, it doesn't just lighten your load mentally, it actually induces physical changes in your body, beginning with your face.
Laughter can:
Stimulate your organs. Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air, stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain.
Activate your stress response. A rollicking laugh fires up and then cools down your stress response, and increases your heart rate and blood pressure. The result? A good, relaxed feeling.
Soothe tension and tummy aches. Laughter can ease digestion and stimulate circulation which helps reduce some of the physical symptoms of stress.
Long-term effects
Laughter isn't only good for a quick pick-me-up, it's also good for you over the long haul.
Laughter may:
Improve your immune system. Negative thoughts manifest into chemical reactions that can affect your body by bringing more stress into your system and by decreasing your immunity. In contrast, positive thoughts actually release neuropeptides that help fight stress and potentially more serious illnesses.
Relieve pain. Resear*****reasingly shows that laughter may ease pain by causing the body to produce its own natural pain killers.
Increase personal satisfaction. Laughter can also make difficult situations a little bit easier.
How to have or gain a sense of humor
Are you afraid you have an underdeveloped or nonexistent funny bone? Developing or refining your own particular sense of humor may be easier than you think.
Put humor on your horizon. Find a few simple items, such as photos or comic strips that elicit a chuckle from you or others. Then hang them at home, in your office or even on the visor of your car.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Develop a sense of humor about your own situation, and watch your stress begin to fade away.
Think positive. Look for the positive or the humorous in every situation, and surround yourself with others who do the same.
Knock-knock. Browse through your local bookstore or library's selection of joke books to get a few rib-ticklers in your repertoire that you can share with friends.
Laughter is the best medicine
Go ahead and try it. Turn the corners of your mouth up into a smile and then give a laugh, even if it feels a little forced. Once you've had your hearty chuckle, take stock of how you feel. Are your muscles a little less tense? Do you feel more relaxed or buoyant? That's the natural wonder of laughter at work.
Source: mayoclinic.com
Women are angels.
...and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly...on a broomstick.
We are flexible.
Darlene
...and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly...on a broomstick.
We are flexible.
Darlene
OK DARLENE
MAKE ME LAUGH... BOY DO I NEED IT.
I HAVE DAUGHTER WITH MS AND A KIDNEY STONE, A HOUSE THAT THE LIVING ROOM BY THE FIRE PLACE TO THE TV HAS FLOODED FROM THE RAIN STORM AND IN THE FRONT BEDROOM AND THE CARPET IS SOAKED AND THE HOUSE SMELLS LIKE MUSTY MILDEW... I MISSED THE DR.'S CALL YESTERDAY AND THEY WANT ME TO CALL THEM AGAIN AND THEY ARE NOT IN TODAY. EVERYTIME THIS GASTRO DR. CALLS IT'T NOT GOOD NEWS. UMMM LETS SEE IF I HADN'T ALREADY HAD MY BY PASS I WOULD BE ELIGIABLE FOR ONE AGAIN. ALL I WANT TO DO IS CRY. ALL 3 BOARDERS ARE OUT OF WORK... WELL BUTTER MY ASS AND CALL ME A BISQUIT. A LOT OF GOOD OUT OF WORK BORDERS DO. I WILL STOP WITH THE PITTY PARTY NOW, I COULD GO ON ALL DAY.
MAKE ME LAUGH
HUGS
JODI
The Dieter's Prayer
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My appetite is my shepherd, I always want. It maketh me to sit down and stuff myself. It leadeth me to my refrigerator repeatedly, Sometimes during the night. It leadeth me in the path of Burger King for a Whopper. It destroyeth my shape. Yea, though I knoweth I gain I will not stop eating, For the food tasteth so good. The ice cream and the cookies, they comfort me. When the table is spread before me, it exciteth me. For I knoweth that I soon shall dig in. As I filleth my plate continuously, My clothes runneth smaller. Surely bulges and flabbiness shall follow me All the days of my life. And I shall be "pleasingly plump" forever. Let's eat! |
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Terri
ObesityHelp Support Group Leader
www.wlsterrib.com
