Want to drive your energy level through the roof? Try laughter. Real, down to earth belly laughter.
Laughter transforms the way you engage with life, and with other people. It wakes you up inside.
“Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.” — Stella &Blake
I’ve watched Senior men and women get together informally as a group. When humor and laughter is involved, generally through stories from their lives, the energy fills the room. Their minds and bodies are physically activated and energized. Often the laughter is about their own aches and pains, and while they are together, those aches and pains disappear.
“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man’s pocket, because it cut down the doctor’s bills like everything.” — “Tom Sawyer”, by Mark Twain.
There is laughter and energy at the other end of the age spectrum, too. Although my grandkids are older now with three of them in college, I can always remember the joy, laughter and high energy that came from watching and listening to them playing as kids.
Grandkids are high energy people. The joy they get from their interactions with one another would bring out the energy in a mole. And not only the joy they brought to themselves, but the energizing joy and laughter that they brought to the parents, grandparents, and others who watched them in action.
A good belly laugh can affect hormones, relieve stress and energize your body. Your diaphragm contracts and your body chemistry changes. The endorphin rush stimulates your entire system. Your blood and lymph circulation dramatically increase for a time.
“Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.” — Norman Cousins.
So, add laughter to your day. It will energize your mind, body and soul. “Laugh and the World Laughs with You . . . “ We need a lot more of that right now.
Thank you for reading.