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 Laugh your blues away...

And so it is said that laughter is the best medicine. At the end of a day filled with routine and mundane tasks, I simply put my feet up and tune into my favourite comedy shows. Mundane day or no, I enjoy a good laugh, giggle or guffaw. Good humour lifts my spirits and puts me in a good mood. I like being around people with a good sense of humour. 

So what is it about laughter that makes it the best medicine? Lord Byron said,   "Always laugh when you can, It is cheap medicine." Laughter may not cure your ailments, as the medication will but it is a great stress buster, improving your cardiovascular health, releasing endorphins and lowering blood pressure. "Laughter is the tonic, the release, the surcease for pain," says Charli Chaplin,  the man who has made generations laugh. Renowned author and political journalist Norman Cousins, who was afflicted with a dreadful disease used laughter to combat the sickness and Chronicled the journey in his book, "Anatomy of the Illness as Perceived by the Patient."

"I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anaesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep," he reported. "When the pain-killing effect of the laughter wore off, we would switch on the motion picture projector again and not infrequently, it would lead to another pain-free interval."^[14] His struggle with that illness and his discovery of laugh therapy^[15] is detailed in his 1979 book Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient.^[13]

• Find humour in your everyday situations or embarrassing😆situations and learn to laugh about them. It may be difficult at first but then you find your stress slowly fading away.  
• Keep a good stock of funny movies, cartoons, books and jokes for down-in-the-dump days. Watch humorous podcasts or join a comedy club. 😝
• Try and be around people who make you laugh and share funny stories and jokes. 😆
• It is rude and hurtful to laugh at the expense of others. Use your judgment to discern a good joke from a bad one. 😆
• Give Laughter Yoga a shot. 😆

“Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter.”
― John Cleese

This post is part of the BlogchatterA2Z 2023 challenge.