Is laughter the best medicine? Well, it depends. If you have been suffering from pneumonia or bronchitis, laughter is just painful - though it does lift the spirit no matter what condition a person is in.
Big laughs of the guffaw variety are very healing in a general sense, because they squeeze and empty all the large lymph glands in the trunk of the body. A big sobbing cry will do the same thing, though is hardly as much fun.
Like cursing or screaming, a big laugh forcefully moves energy out of the body; it is a very cleansing activity. Laughing is a lot more fun than cursing or screaming, at least it is for me.
Giggling and even chuckling are polite forms of laughter, rather too demure to be physically healing, but every kind of laugh, from a titter to a roar, cheers the heart and raises the spirit.
The next time you feel laughter rising, bubbling, expanding within your body and soul, don't hold back. Those of us who laugh are so much the better for it!
Shalom.
3 comments:
About that mild cold? I laughed it out last night at dinner with a good friend. I did, believe me!
Yay on the cold - that's fabulous!
I love it when an audio book makes me howl in my car - I get the double bonus of a good healing laugh AND having people wonder what the heck I'm up to - ha!
Dana, it's good for those people, it is.
Love the wedding picture Michael posted - 2 of you in a car, laughing out loud. A beautiful pic.
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