Humour is Healing

Good humour results in laughter and having a happy heart does us good. It is our best medicine because it reduces heart disease, improves breathing, decreases stress, gives good sleep, is a natural pain killer and those who practice serious and focussed laughter for health benefits, reap the rewards.

Life without laughter is not living. There’s no reason not to laugh – daily – besides it’s free, has no side effects and is available to everyone. It makes you look younger and helps in weight loss. It lightens the mood of everyone within earshot. It’s contagious especially when shared with family, friends and colleagues.

Humour helps us to put things into perspective as the stressors and burdens of life can reach peak crescendo conditions. Laughing diffuses sadness and acts as a release-giving circuit breaker. It can prevent unnecessary arguments and reduces tension in relationships.

Looking for the funny side in every situation needs to become an active habit. Sharing humour and laughter each day is an act of love because it lightens the atmosphere and diffuses powerful negative emotions.

Be humorous even if the ‘dad jokes’ are weak. Making an effort to bring humour and laughter into your life and the life of those around you every day, Having a happy heart is a good habit to acquire and practice.  

Proverbs 17:22 tells us, “A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.”