Humor and Laughter Heals


Remember those times when you were sitting around with your friends and
the jokes were making the rounds one by one everyone trying to out do the other. The
common thing was the laughter and smiles that took place. It seemed
to get your mind off things that may have been bothering you at the time.


The Benefits of Laughter
Bedtime is a good time to laugh. Try reading a book full of jokes and humor next time. It can help you go to sleep and possibly give you a better night's rest from wearing yourself out before the lights go out. Have your ever laughed so hard you become tired and sleepy?

Have you forgotten how to laugh? Turn the channel next time from the serious dramatic real life stories and watch programs that are humorous. Next time your at the mall go to the eateries and enjoy a healthy refreshment and just sit and observe other people and you will be able to recognize those that are sad, serious, shy and funny. Which one are you?

Laughter - enjoy it because it gives you a moment of joy, good feelings linger after a good laugh. How many times have we said "been there - done that" and we enjoy observing someone else experiencing what you have graduated from already.

Laughter can begin when one realizes that life is just crazy sometimes and just rack it up as experience and be ready for it next time it confronts you head on. How many bumper stickers tell us this everyday as we go down the road of life?

Laughter helps relieve stress from emotions trapped inside us along with anger and frustrations. Laughter leads to a cathartic release of emotion, can help to release pent-up feelings of anger and frustration in a socially acceptable way, and is often followed by a state of relaxation and a feeling of reduced tension. Aside from the psychological benefits, laughter affects the body in a number of positive ways as well.

Laughter releases endorphins – natural chemicals in your body that have a pain relieving effect and create a feeling of pleasure.

Laughter brings people together by helping to break the ice that people have when they meet for the first time. This is why some public speakers start out with something humorous to help relax them and the audience.

Laughter causes us to expand our lungs. This helps release exhausted air from the lungs. Laughter relaxes our body and redirects our attention from stress.

Establish a time of day for you or the family for just some "silly time". This can help the whole family that might be feeding each other's stress and obstacles of everyday life. Caution - young kids can really get silly and may soon become annoying, but its "silly time" so work through it.

Laughter on the job can be helpful during a break. If you break alone, the bookstores have a section full of humor. Buy one and take it to work instead of that serious pulp fiction. Laugh off that job stress. It can help the rest of your day especially if things aren't going well or you have reached mental block.

Lighten up and get loose by placing yourself among people and friends that you know has a sense of humor and never seem to have a worry in the world. You may remember Alfred E. Newman's motto "What me worry", a MAD magazine that most of us probably read once or twice in our life. It was full of humorous parities of life.

In the following cartoons let us make fun of ourselves and maybe you too:

Ok, doctors. What seems to be the problem?
 
Aren't you glad its not our boat!
 
Probably one of the first exercise gadgets on record..
 
Charlie, bring me the paper...
Now this "good dog" is going
Good dog! to check my e-mail.
 
...............OR team preparing for surgery
     

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Don't walk and brag at the same time...
One man says, "I just bought a new hearing aid.
It cost me four thousand dollars, but it's state of the art. It's
perfect."
"Really," answered the second man. "What kind is it?"
"Twelve thirty."
The third man says, "Windy, isn't it?"
First one says, "No, its Thursday!"
Second one says, "So am I. Enough walkin'...let's go get a beer."

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Hospital Charts
These are actual writings from various hospital charts:

1. The patient refused an autopsy.

2. The patient has no previous history of suicides.

3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.

4. She has no rigours or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.

5. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

6. On the second day, the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.

7. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.

8. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.

9. Discharge status: Alive but without permission.

10. Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.

12. She is numb from her toes down.

13. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated, and sent home.

14. The skin was moist and dry.

15 Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.

16. Patient was alert and unresponsive.

17. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid. (My personal favorite.....)

18. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.

19. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.

20. Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.

21. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.

22. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

23. Skin: somewhat pale but present.

24. The pelvis exam will be done later on the floor.

25. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.

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An elderly man... had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, 'Your hearing is perfect.. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again.'
The gentleman replied, 'Oh, I haven't told my family yet.
I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times already!'

Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement center were sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the other and says: 'Slim, I'm 83 years old now and I'm just full of aches and pains. I know you're about my age. How do you feel?'
Slim says, 'I feel just like a newborn baby.'
'Really!? Like a newborn baby!?'
'Yep. No hair, no teeth, no sex and I think I just wet my pants.'

An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, 'Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great... I would recommend it very highly.'
The other man said, 'What is the name of the restaurant?'
The first man thought and thought and finally said, 'What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love?
You know... The one that's red and has thorns.'
'Do you mean a rose?'
'Yes, that's the one,' replied the man. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, 'Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to last night?'

Hospital Rules!
Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.'

Couple in their nineties are both having problems remembering things. During a checkup, the doctor tells them that they're physically okay, but they might want to start writing things down to help them remember…
Later that night, while watching TV, the old man gets up from his chair. 'Want anything while I'm in the kitchen?' he asks.
'Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?'
'Sure..'
'Don't you think you should write it down so you can remember it?' she asks.
'No, I can remember it.'
'Well, I'd like some strawberries on top, too. Maybe you should write it down, so as not to forget it?'
He says, 'I can remember that. You want a bowl of ice cream with strawberries.'
'I'd also like whipped cream. I'm certain you'll forget that, write it down?' she asks.
Irritated, he says, 'I don't need to write it down, I can remember it! Ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream - I got it, for goodness sake!'
Then he toddles into the kitchen. After about 20 minutes, The old man returns from the kitchen and hands his wife a plate of bacon and eggs.. She stares at the plate for a moment.
'Where's my toast ?'

A senior citizen said to his eighty-year old buddy:
'So I hear you're getting married?'
'Yep!'
'Do I know her?'
'Nope!'
'This woman, is she good looking?'
'Not really.'
'Is she a good cook?'
'Naw, she can't cook too well.'
'Does she have lots of money?'
'Nope! Poor as a church mouse.'
'Why in the world do you want to marry her then?'
'Because she can still drive!'

Three old guys are out walking.
First one says, 'Windy, isn't it?'
Second one says, 'No, it's Thursday!'
Third one says, 'So am I. Let's go get a beer.'

A man was telling his neighbor, 'I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it's state of the art.. It's perfect.'
'Really,' answered the neighbor . 'What kind is it?'
'Twelve thirty..'

Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor to get a physical.
A few days later, the doctor saw Morris walking down the street with a gorgeous young woman on his arm.
A couple of days later, the doctor spoke to Morris and said, 'You're really doing great, aren't you?'
Morris replied, 'Just doing what you said, Doc: 'Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.''
The doctor said, 'I didn't say that.. I said, 'You've got a heart murmur; be careful.'

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Here is a link for the Baby Boomers to laugh at:
http://dalesdesigns.net/rock-on.htm

 


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