Laugh Your Way To a Longer, Healthier Life

When you have a good, hearty laugh, your respiratory, glandular, skeletal/muscular, and cardiovascular systems all get exercised. Here's what happens: Cardiovascular system: When you guffaw, both your heart rate and blood pressure go up. When you stop laughing, they dip down below normal. It's very much like aerobic exercise. It's why some researchers call laughing "internal jogging." Respiratory system: After a hearty laugh, you frenquently have to take a big breath of air. Sometimes you cough. Laughing is good for your respiratory system. Skeletal/Muscular system: Sometimes you laugh so hard you can hardly get out of your chair. This happens because when you laugh you relax your muscles. In fact, sometimes you relax your muscles so much that you [wet] your pants! _Allen Klein,self-named "Jollytolgist" and author of The Healing Power of Humor and The Courage To Laugh

Making the time........

I saw a friend had called a very good friend of mine. Someone who I can say has always been there for me. This is a prime example of taking the time ...rather MAKING the time for yourself and friends. We all do it, we all make up some ficticious reason in our mind to get out of something. Just wanting what little time we do have to be our own, to sit and with that little time we find ourselves dwelling on what to do next. Are we so caught up that we forget our true self and the impact others have on us or that we have on them. Remember be around those who make you feel better and that is friends and family. Enjoy a moment to meet up and have a cup of coffee or a hug or just to say THINKING OF YOU. That in itself will make you smile, feel better it only takes making the time, just a little goes a long way.

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