MINDFULNESS MONDAY
This week I am going to share an activity that is centered around your health with ‘Humor Therapy’. Laughter may be the best medicine after all. Laughing is found to lower blood pressure, reduce stress, boost function in the immune system, it triggers the release if endorphins, increases pain tolerance and promotes general well-being.
A suggestion for this week: Ensuring a healthy amount of laughter every day is a great way to increase your quality of life. Simply search out whatever makes you laugh- a joke, a funny anecdote, a comedy movie or sit-com, etc.
However, if you find yourself in a stressful situation where you are unable to see the humor in the situation and you really need the benefit of laughing you can actually ‘fake it ‘til you make it’ with this meditation on humor.
· Stretch generally to loosen up any physical tension that might be holding you back. Be sure to get your arms, shoulders, back, chest and legs.
· Next, as silly as it seems, begin fake laughing. Go through the motions of a good belly laugh. Soon the contagiousness of the act of laughter alone will have you genuinely and spontaneously laughing. Throw your head back and laugh from the heart.
· Do this for at least 5 minutes or for as long as the laughter takes to help you in your situation.
Go out there and have a good laugh- for your health!