Hakuna Matata.... No Worries!

There is only one key to keeping your heart healthy and strong. Just laugh! That’s right…laugh. Hakuna Matata! No Worries! Just be happy! Sometimes life isn’t just right and there’s not much you can do to change it, so you might as well laugh it off!

Laughter is said to be the best medicine. It is sad that as we age we tend to forget what made childhood so magical. One study showed that by the time you reach kindergarten, you laugh about 300 times a day. In contrast, the typical adult laughs a wimpy seventeen times a day. No wonder children are so much happier! Why are we so serious? Maybe it’s because we’ve been taught that laughing too much is childish. To quote the great Jedi
Master, Yoda, “You must unlearn what you have learned. “We must learn to laugh again.

Laughter helps us cope with the difficulties of life by de-stressing and relaxing us. Laughter has also been shown to promote good health and speedy healing. I’ve heard several accounts of people who healed themselves from their serious sickness through heavy doses of laughing therapy. Laughter can also help heal injured relationships. As entertainer Victor Borge put it, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

If you’re not laughing much, I suggest developing your own ‘humour collection’, a collection of books, cartoons, videos, ideas –whatever is funny to you. Then whenever you’re feeling down or taking yourself too seriously, visit your collection just to lighten up. For example-my friend has this huge collection of Warner Brother cartoons, and she claims that these cartoons have kept her from going insane during high stress periods.

Learn to laugh at yourself when strange or stupid things happen to you, because they will. As entertainer Adam Sandler once said,” One of the best things people can have up their sleeves is a good funny bone.”