Feeling Low? A Good Laugh May Be Just What You Need
You deserve to laugh until you cry and your stomach hurts. There’s so much bad stuff happening around us that sometimes we need a good laugh. And seriously, laughing’s good for your mental and physical health.
With so much happening around us, it's crucial to our health to find our way to laughter as often as possible. Here are the mental and physical benefits of doing so.
Laughter offers brief moments of relief from whatever is weighing us down, making it one of the most accessible tools in our mental health kits. It can help reduce stress by lowering cortisol and adrenaline levels, and feel-good hormones are released when you laugh, making if the perfect mood booster.
There are even more benefits to consider.
When we laugh with our loved ones, we strengthen social connections by building trust and reducing feelings of isolation. Research also shows that laughter can help lessen feelings of anxiety and depression, leading to more emotional balance over time.
Laughter can help physically, too.
Laughter strengthens the immune system and gives a nice boost to infection-fighting antibodies. It can also improve heart health because it encourages blood circulation and lowers blood pressure.
Sometimes, even when ain't nothing funny, especially with all the anti-Black attacks on our spirits, we must find a way to laugh. We all deserve laughter’s goodness.
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