Laughter is the best medicine. When was the last time you had a knee slapping, crying good time?
We humans love to laugh, chuckle, snort and tee-hee. We giggle from our baby cribs to our death beds. There are even therapy camps for healing laughter, so it’s serious business.
Laughter is the best medicine because:
- It is free
- It is healthy
- It makes you feel good
- Anyone can do it
- It comes in all languages
The world gets it when you laugh or even smile. Try it, right now – feel foolish – good – smile and permit yourself to laugh. Laughing at ourselves is the best medicine and is the path to enjoying life. Laughing at myself is as much fun as shopping. Sure, being alone is tough and lonely. We all know that this is not the life we chose. But for me, laughing helped my broken heart heal.
We live in a hard world, my friends. Sometimes it’s hard to be human and we especially struggle as widows. There are times when there is no light in our lives, but what if you are the light?
What can you do right now, to be the light? How we behave matters because within society everything is contagious – sadness and anger, but also patience, generosity and laughter.
No matter who you are, where you are in life, or how tough your situation, I believe you can light up your world with a little laughter.
It’s a well known fact that laughter eases tension by reducing the stress hormone cortisol. To boost the energy levels that laughter brings us, watch funny movies or play games with family and friends.
To Our Shared Journey,
Mary Francis is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, Certified Law of Attraction Facilitator
Early Intervention Field Traumatology (EIFT) and Author/Founder of “The Sisterhood of Widows”
Yvonne Meyler
I find I can’t laugh at all, I’m nearly 15 months in this hell without him. How does anyone survive this. I never feel him ,I never get a message from him, all the things I was told would happen when he died first.