Submitted by Laura on Fri,
10/07/2011 - 2:30pm
I find humor in everyday
life and I laugh at myself a lot. Laughing is exercise - it burns calories and
tones core muscles, right? Laughter is positive energy. Laughter brings
people together. Studies indicate people who laugh often and have an
active sense of humor have a reduced risk for heart disease, lower stress,
stronger immune systems and less pain due to the release of endorphins.
This makes me wonder why more doctors are not literally prescribing laughter as
part of regular therapy!
At every appointment
with my CF doctor, we find something to laugh about. He spends the same amount
of time catching up on my illness as he does my life. I feel like my doctor
will remember me after he walks out of the room and that I’m not just another
case in the filing cabinet. Laughter creates a bond and a trust between
people, which is just as important between friends and family as it is between
doctor and patient. I feel lucky to have found a caring doctor with my sense of
humor that I can trust to tell everything to; even in the old days when I
wasn’t 100% compliant, the nature to which he approached the situation with
compassion and humor helped me get everything back on track.
Just to finalize my
thoughts on humor and laughter, a few quotes:
- The most wasted of all days is
one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings
- Laughter is an instant
vacation. ~Milton Berle
- Laughter is the shortest
distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
- Laughter gives us
distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and
then move on. ~Bob Newhart
- A man isn't poor if he can
still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock
- Man, when you lose your laugh
you lose your footing. ~Ken Kesey
- Laugh at yourself first, before
anyone else can. ~Elsa Maxwell
- You don’t stop laughing because
you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. ~Michael Pritchard
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