{"id":6163,"date":"2015-01-20T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2015-01-20T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:30:11","slug":"kick-tush-tuesday-the-skinny-scoop-on-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2015\/01\/kick-tush-tuesday-the-skinny-scoop-on-laughter.html","title":{"rendered":"Kick Tush Tuesday: The Skinny Scoop on Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Your gain is my pain. Contact me.” ~ Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, Artist, Positarian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tushkateers, Devotees of Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a>,\u00a0 I have some incredibly good news for you! Especially for those of us who are not \u201cgym bunnies!\u201d\u00a0 Are you ready?\u00a0 Drum roll, please<\/a>! Laughing 100 times is the equivalent to a ten-minute workout on the rowing machine or a fifteen minute workout on an exercise bike.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Skinny Scoop on Laughter:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laugher is made up of a series of short vowel-like sounds repeated every 210 milliseconds (one thousandth of a second).\u00a0 Laughter almost always occurs during a pause at the end of a phrase or at the end of a sentence.\u00a0 You either laugh in the \u201cho-ho-ho\u201d style or the \u201cha-ha-ha\u201d style, but your laughing mechanism won\u2019t mix the two.<\/p>\n

Humor and laughter are two different things, and up to 80 percent of laughter is not in response to a joke!\u00a0 Women laugh 126 percent more often than me.\u00a0 (You are not surprised, are you?)\u00a0 And there is evidence that laughter is medically beneficial.<\/p>\n

While suffering from a collagen disease Norman Cousins checked into a hotel room and watched one funny movie after the next.\u00a0 He laughed (despite his gender)!\u00a0 Mr. Cousins found that ten minutes of really big laughs gave him two pain-free hours of sleep.\u00a0 And he also found that laughter, in time, cured his disease.\u00a0 How amazing is that?<\/p>\n

Laughter makes us feel good both physiologically and psychologically.<\/p>\n

Laughter:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Reduces levels of certain stress hormones<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Reduces anxiety and tension.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Boosts the immune system by stimulating the thymus gland.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. May lead to hiccuping but will dislodge mucus plugs from the respiratory tract! (How attractive!)<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Gives you a full body, aerobic workout (works the diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory, facial and back muscles).<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Gets those positive endorphins pumping!\u00a0 Laughter invokes feelings of happiness and joy.<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Promotes creative thoughts.<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Stimulates both sides of the brain.<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. Creates bonding with your fellow humans.\u00a0 Robert Provine, a neuroscientist a thte University of Maryland, studied laugher for more than a decade.\u00a0 He found that we laugh thirty times more often in social situations than when hanging solo.\u00a0 Nothing better than a shared laugh!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Laughter is contagious.<\/p>\n

    Spread the laughter (far and wide) \u2026NOT the icing! <\/em><\/p>\n

    Janice<\/em><\/p>\n

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    \nTo join the FACEBOOK\/KITT Club,     click here<\/a>!
    \nFor one-on-one coaching,     contact Janice<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tushkateers, Devotees of Our Lady of Weight Loss,\u00a0 I have some incredibly good news for you! Especially for those of us who are not \u201cgym bunnies!\u201d\u00a0 Are you ready?\u00a0 Drum roll, please! 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