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

Reflections: People in our lives

People in our lives teach us different lessons about life. They come in categories. There are conditioners, pass-through, anchors and the distracters. As I grow older, I realize, I've been blessed with so many great people. Each one of them made me who I am today. It truly does take a village to raise a child. Every person that has come in and out of my life has left something special deep in my heart. Good , bad indifferent....life is a journey a lesson to be learned from all who cross our path. It is up to us to decipher   who is making a positive impact and learn from those who are not. 

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