You can decide each day whether you will have a good day or a bad day. You can decide whether you will be happy or sad. You can decide whether you will grimace or whether you will smile. And most importantly you can decide whether you will laugh.
Each day you have that choice. You can choose to see the lighter side and choose to smile. You can choose to allow yourself to laugh.
All too often the pressure of life becomes so intense that we forget just how healing the power of laughter can be. Laughter changes the colour of a grey day. Laughter releases endorphins which are your body’s feel good chemicals. And when this happens your stress hormones decrease dramatically. Even more amazingly the infection fighting antibodies and immune cells increase in your body and with this your ability to fight disease becomes stronger.
Laughter chases away the doom and gloom, it fights off pain and sorrow. When you laugh you start to feel better.
Now that you know this, it is important to seek out those things that will make us smile and that will make us laugh. But it is not sufficient to do this just for ourselves.
We need to remember that there are others who may just need our smile more than we do. There are others who may need to be lifted up with laughter. Once a smile is shared, and laughter spread, everyone’s day will become better and brighter.
So remember to share your laughter with someone else who really needs it.