How Do You Ease Anxiety And Stress With Laughter?
Laughter became very important to me after my husband lost his job. Just watching the news became a constant reminder that companies were failing, foreclosures were on the rise, and 2009 was going to be a difficult year to pay the bills and get back on our feet. When times get tough, I think of Norman Cousins, the late political journalist, author and professor. When he was diagnosed with heart disease, his tools for fighting it included staying positive, taking major doses of Vitamin C and watching Marx Brothers films. “I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep,” he said. “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.” The more I thought about it, the more I realized that laughing a lot is something that you work at. Here are some steps toward laugh
