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Laughter brightens your day. One of the best things to do if you are in a bad mood, or if you are feeling down, is to laugh. It makes you feel better.
As children, we laughed much more than we do as adults. Unfortunately, we grow up with sayings like:
"life isn't all fun and games",
"life isn't a bowl of cherries", or
"be serious".
Sayings like these seem to erode the childlike attitude we once had towards laughter. As we grow older, we somehow don't see it as appropriate to laugh as much.
Laughter, though, is one of the best medicines we can give ourselves. Studies have shown that laughter actually improves your health. Just like exercising everyday, laughing every day will also improve your health.
· Find ways to take yourself less seriously, like the old saying goes, "don't sweat the small stuff and it is all small stuff.
· Looking for the positive in situations, remember Elbert Hubbard's saying, "Positive anything is better than negative nothing".
· Allow yourself to express your sense of humor. As William James once said, "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
Count how many times you have laughed today. Find ways to laugh more often - watch a comedy on TV, rent a funny movie, read a joke book, watch children playing, the list can go on and on. Find humor in everyday life situations!
"The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that
on which one has not laughed."
Nicolas Chamfort
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