{"id":860,"date":"2013-03-13T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redshoezone.ca\/?p=860"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:46:05","slug":"laughter-is-best-anti-aging-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohmywordjournal.com\/redshoezone\/laughter-is-best-anti-aging-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"laughter is best anti-aging strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a statistic for you. Our laughter rate drops from 400 a day as toddlers to the grown up average of 15. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Retain youthfulness&#8230;.laugh!<\/p>\n<p>I Love to laugh. Big laughs, belly laughs, chuckles, giggles, chortles, snickers, snorts, guffaws&#8230;.I do them all. I find a lot of things funny. Luckily, so does everyone in my family and all my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Laughs are so distinct I love how each one is different \u2013 unique to the laugh-er. I\u2019ve always thought of humour as a gift. It opens the heart, erases fear, unites people and heals.<\/p>\n<p>Norman Cousin\u2019s book, Anatomy of an Illness, illustrates the powerful effect of laughter and humour on the cells of the body and how they can be transformed from diseased to healthy. In Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin writes, &#8220;laughter is poison to fear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Until a clever\u00a0someone comes up with a way to bottle laughter we <em>can<\/em> choose to look at things from a funny, lopsided or slightly askew perspective.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another strategy to keep fear and worry at bay and put a little song in the heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Laughter is carbonated holiness.&#8221; <\/em>Anne Lamont<\/p>\n<h2><b>reACTION [to change in the response to stimulus]: Day 28 &#8211; laugh<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Just for fun&#8230;take an issue, problem or obstacle you are facing and apply a funny solution.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one of mine. When my daughter Kelly was in university she lived a pressure cooker existence. She was a good student, spent a lot of time studying and the rest training\u00a0 and playing as a member of a highly competitive NCAA Div 1 sports team. She set high expectations of herself. Sometimes, when I talked to her she felt heavy and wasn\u2019t laughing\u00a0which was not\u00a0a good sign for a girl who had the humourous, quirky perspective on almost\u00a0everything. Since we were\u00a0separated by 1000km\u00a0I came up with the idea of taking funny\u00a0pictures of her dog (who of course was now \u2018my\u2019 dog). I dressed Tip (the dog) for every event and holiday&#8230;all in an effort to keep her spirit light and make her laugh! It was a silly project that went on for 3 years and it garnered laughs&#8230;lots of them. Whenever I felt heaviness in her it was time to dress the dog&#8230;.and dress the dog I did&#8230; 3 years and 30 costumes worth!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/394135404859210958\/\">Tip\u2019s tribute<\/a> to graduation day.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a statistic for you. Our laughter rate drops from 400 a day as toddlers to the grown up average of 15. Ugh. Retain youthfulness&#8230;.laugh! I Love to laugh. Big laughs, belly laughs, chuckles, giggles, chortles, snickers, snorts, guffaws&#8230;.I do them all. I find a lot of things funny. 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