{"id":2751,"date":"2020-01-28T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:17:53","slug":"go-ahead-make-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"Go Ahead, Make Me Laugh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Laughter releases outwardly the expression of your soul, lifts your spirit, and gives life and healing energy to your body. The Bible says in Proverbs 17:22 \u201cA cheerful heart is good medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

What makes you laugh?\u00a0 Is it the giggle of a small child? The punch line of a good joke?\u00a0 A dry sense of humor? \u00a0Maybe even laughing at yourself or everyday life mishaps?<\/p>\n

Did you ever stop to consider what happens when you laugh?\u00a0 Stress hormones decrease; immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies increase improving resistance to disease.\u00a0 It truly is good medicine.<\/p>\n

Laughter is like an electric current that runs through our nervous system.\u00a0 It creates great physical responses.\u00a0 Both hemispheres of the brain are activated–the left side decodes the words and the more creative right hemisphere understands the humor.\u00a0 Our emotional system then releases endorphins (natural feel-good chemicals) that improve our mood and promote happiness. Our abs and facial muscles can even benefit from a good laugh impacting our health.<\/p>\n

Laughter is the social mechanism by which we make friends and connect with others. The next time, you run into an old friend who says \u201cwe need to get together\u201d, do it!\u00a0 Send them a couple choices of dates and places then meet<\/strong>\u2014make it happen!\u00a0 You will no doubt laugh together and leave having experienced all these benefits to your body, soul and spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laughter releases outwardly the expression of your soul, lifts your spirit, and gives life and healing energy to your body. The Bible says in Proverbs 17:22 \u201cA cheerful heart is good medicine.\u201d What makes you laugh?\u00a0 Is it the giggle of a small child? The punch line of a good joke?\u00a0 A dry sense of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}