Seeds for Change Wellness
Laugh Away Stress
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What Laughter Can Do:
• Lowers blood pressure and helps reduce hypertension
• Provides good cardiac conditioning
• Reduces stress hormones
• Cleanses the lungs and body tissues of accumulated stale air as it empties more air than it takes in
• Increases muscle flexibility, relaxation and blood circulation
• Boosts immunity by increasing the production of T-cells
• Relaxes the body, aids in releasing endorphins which induce a more calming physical state
• Helps put things into perspective by creating distance and objectivity
• Helps us take ourselves less seriously
Suggestions for Adding Humor:
• Call a Funny Friend:
We all know that one person who will absolutely put us in stitches laughing, give them
a call and laugh along with them.
• Look for Laughter Every Day:
Be on the lookout for a funny incident, a thought, a billboard, a commercial, whatever
it is that will help you crack up.
• Practice Fake Laughing:
It has been discovered that faking laughter will cause the body to respond as though the
laughter is real. So practice pretend laughing for a few minutes a day, before you know it,
you will be laughing at your attempts to laugh.
• Have a Laughing Contest:
Get together with another person or a group, and have a laughing contest, it won't be long
before everyone is rolling with tears!
• Collect Humorous Material:
Have it sitting around, ready for a good laugh- the comics, a book of jokes or funny sayings.
• Read those Funny Jokes:
And humorous emails your friends send you.
• Do at least one silly, non-conforming thing a day: one day.
I wore two different shoes to work but never realized it until someone pointed it out to me...
it kept me chucking quite a bit at myself that day!
• Rent a comedy or go to a funny movie.
• Wear a smile, it puts you a lot closer to laughing.
• Wave at yourself in the mirror:
Every time you pass a mirror, give yourself a little wave and smile.
• Plan a silly night out with friends
Now Something to Tickle the Funny Bone:
Here is a bit of humor to get you started: A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs.
He gave each child the first half and asked them to come up with the rest:
• Better to be safe than punch a fifth grader.
• Strike while the bug is close.
• It`s always darkest before daylight savings time.
• Never underestimate the power of termites.
• Don`t bite the hand that looks dirty.
• A miss is as good as a Mr.
• You can`t teach an old dog math.
• If you lie down with dogs, you will stink in the morning.
• A penny saved is not much.
• Two is company, three`s The Musketeers.
• If at first you don`t succeed, get new batteries.
• Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry and you have to blow your nose.
• Children should be seen and not spanked or grounded.
• If you can`t stand the heat, get out of the oven.
• When in Rome, do Roman numerals in math.
• Look before you run into a pole.
• A watched pot never disappears.
• A rolling stone makes you flat.
Funny Signs/ Bumper Stickers Ahead:
• Plumber: "We repair what your husband Fixed".
• "Don`t sleep with a drip, call your Plumber."
• Pizza Shop Sign: "7 days without pizza makes one weak."
• At a tire shop in Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout."
• Door of a plastic surgeon`s office: "Hello, can we pick your nose?"
• At a Towing Company: "We don`t charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."
• On an electrician`s truck: "Let us remove your shorts."
• In a Podiatrist`s office: "Time wounds all heels."
• Outside a Hotel: "We need Inn-Experienced People."
Light Bulb Moment:
Adults laugh approximately 15 times per day, while children laugh about 400 times
a day. Now what does that tell us?
• Lowers blood pressure and helps reduce hypertension
• Provides good cardiac conditioning
• Reduces stress hormones
• Cleanses the lungs and body tissues of accumulated stale air as it empties more air than it takes in
• Increases muscle flexibility, relaxation and blood circulation
• Boosts immunity by increasing the production of T-cells
• Relaxes the body, aids in releasing endorphins which induce a more calming physical state
• Helps put things into perspective by creating distance and objectivity
• Helps us take ourselves less seriously
Suggestions for Adding Humor:
• Call a Funny Friend:
We all know that one person who will absolutely put us in stitches laughing, give them
a call and laugh along with them.
• Look for Laughter Every Day:
Be on the lookout for a funny incident, a thought, a billboard, a commercial, whatever
it is that will help you crack up.
• Practice Fake Laughing:
It has been discovered that faking laughter will cause the body to respond as though the
laughter is real. So practice pretend laughing for a few minutes a day, before you know it,
you will be laughing at your attempts to laugh.
• Have a Laughing Contest:
Get together with another person or a group, and have a laughing contest, it won't be long
before everyone is rolling with tears!
• Collect Humorous Material:
Have it sitting around, ready for a good laugh- the comics, a book of jokes or funny sayings.
• Read those Funny Jokes:
And humorous emails your friends send you.
• Do at least one silly, non-conforming thing a day: one day.
I wore two different shoes to work but never realized it until someone pointed it out to me...
it kept me chucking quite a bit at myself that day!
• Rent a comedy or go to a funny movie.
• Wear a smile, it puts you a lot closer to laughing.
• Wave at yourself in the mirror:
Every time you pass a mirror, give yourself a little wave and smile.
• Plan a silly night out with friends
Now Something to Tickle the Funny Bone:
Here is a bit of humor to get you started: A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs.
He gave each child the first half and asked them to come up with the rest:
• Better to be safe than punch a fifth grader.
• Strike while the bug is close.
• It`s always darkest before daylight savings time.
• Never underestimate the power of termites.
• Don`t bite the hand that looks dirty.
• A miss is as good as a Mr.
• You can`t teach an old dog math.
• If you lie down with dogs, you will stink in the morning.
• A penny saved is not much.
• Two is company, three`s The Musketeers.
• If at first you don`t succeed, get new batteries.
• Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry and you have to blow your nose.
• Children should be seen and not spanked or grounded.
• If you can`t stand the heat, get out of the oven.
• When in Rome, do Roman numerals in math.
• Look before you run into a pole.
• A watched pot never disappears.
• A rolling stone makes you flat.
Funny Signs/ Bumper Stickers Ahead:
• Plumber: "We repair what your husband Fixed".
• "Don`t sleep with a drip, call your Plumber."
• Pizza Shop Sign: "7 days without pizza makes one weak."
• At a tire shop in Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout."
• Door of a plastic surgeon`s office: "Hello, can we pick your nose?"
• At a Towing Company: "We don`t charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."
• On an electrician`s truck: "Let us remove your shorts."
• In a Podiatrist`s office: "Time wounds all heels."
• Outside a Hotel: "We need Inn-Experienced People."
Light Bulb Moment:
Adults laugh approximately 15 times per day, while children laugh about 400 times
a day. Now what does that tell us?
