Laughter, it is real medicine

DOCTORS' ORDERS
Let go---laugh
some use laughter to manage chronic pain. some might suffered from
ankylosing spondylitis, the same disease that Dr Norman cousins had.
(You
might recall that Dr. Norman Cousins popularized the notion that the
body's
natural pain-killers are released when we laugh: he discovered that if
he
laughed for ten minutes he could sleep without pain for thirty.) some
report
that laughter managed pain, but that mostly it helped to cope
emotionally
with the condition.

Some find that laughter helped their children fall asleep. (They invent
all
sorts of games involving laughter that calmed children down enough to
rest.)
After a few minutes of laughter, children are out till morning (and
everyone
could rest easy).

What a powerful prescription laughter is, and one that can be applied to
so
many situations.

Laughter is free, fun, mood-altering, relaxing, life-changing,
relationship-building, tension-breaking, . But it does not come without
a
price: that of letting go.

You can't hold a grudge when you laugh. In those moments you give into
something more powerful: joy.

What a small price to pay.

This week, is there someone you with whom you could share a laugh?