February 17, 2007

Smiling and Laughing is Healthy For You

Another good name for this would be “Smiling and Laughing vs Medicines and drugs.” My reason for saying so is because smiling and laughing is by far a much better way to living healthier. There is plenty of scientific proof out there that you can search that supports this. My all time personal favorite is from the Bible (Amplified) - “A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones - Proverbs 17:22. ” To live in this way is our natural state of being, sadness and despair is not. Of course we all at times get mad at certain events that take place in our lives, but the honest truth is that we were created to be happy all of the time.

Maybe you have heard the saying “food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul.” Very true, so you should begin doing it as soon as you start your day and all throughout the day. I know personally that starting your day by laughing and smiling is the absolute best way to start your day (It’s even more important than breakfast in the morning). Another saying I have heard is that it takes more muscles to frown, than it does to smile. In this case the number of muscles doesn’t really matter as much, whichever one YOU decide to do is really what matters. Whichever state your mind is in is what you are and what you will attract to you. Smart people are always in the happy state of mind so that they can attract even more of the situations and circumstances that match who they are.

I have seen enough people in my life to be able to tell the difference from happy and sad, healthy and sick, cheerful and depressed. It is unlikely that you would find someone who is always smiling and laughing with a cheerful attitude and an unhealthy body. It just doesn’t exist. Every person I’ve known who have consistently dealt with sickness and living unhealthy were not necessarily the most positive people. Nobody is perfect we have all been sick before so don’t take this the wrong way, I am talking more about people who are always sick and unhealthy. If you know you are one of those people then you should begin to smile right now, your medicine is inside you, only you bring it out.

The best advice to give you is to smile and laugh consistently throughout the day. Your smile and laugh should by far outweigh your frowns, or whenever you don’t smile at all (which is a frown). Join in on activities that cause you to smile and laugh.

Here are some ideas.

Go to Youtube.com

Do a Google search for humor, comedy, funny, jokes, laugh, etc.

Play the staring game with someone, and if you don’t have any friends, go into the bathroom and shut the door (important: the door must be shut completely in order to avoid your own embarrassment) then look in the mirror and play the staring game with yourself ;) First one who laughs loses……(or I guess the point of this post would actually be to say that you win,….(you get it))

Go see or rent a funny movie.

Call someone you know while disguising your voice and tell them its you in a way as if everything was normal.

Play some sort of board game with your friends that would set you up for a guaranteed laugh.

When you see someone else who is sad and down, make it your life purpose to not only make them smile :D but make sure they laugh themselves so hard they have a new set of six pack abs!

I just thought of another one, play a game with someone about smiling throughout the day. The first person who is caught “not smiling” loses that round. The person with the most smiles and laughs wins. Play fairly.

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