Laughter: Medicine and Pain Reliever

Laughter is the best medicine and pain reliever around.  It costs nothing and is very beneficial to stress relieving.

“Laughter does good like medicine.”–Proverbs 17:22

In today’s times we have come to the understanding that stress has a negative impact on both our physical and mental health.  However, what is not as commonly understood is that laughter has many positive health benefits, which can counteract the negative affects of the stress related response and any pain involved.

“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”–Charlie Chaplin

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”–Mark Twain

Laughter increases the functioning of the immune system, which helps the body fight off illness and disease. Some studies have demonstrated that laughter causes the increased production of ‘catecholamines’ ( sympathomimetic “fight-or-flight” hormones that are released by the adrenal glands in response to stress) and ‘endorphin’s’.

These chemicals, when released by the brain into the blood stream during laughter, increase feelings of happiness and well-being.

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”–E E Cummings

Laughter is also known to decrease the secretion of cortisol, as well as, the sedimentation rate, and therefore is beneficial in stimulating the body’s immune system.

The flow of Oxygen in the blood also increases during laughter. Arteries tend to relax, heart rate and blood temperature are lowered, circulation increases and the skin temperature rises.  Each of these physical responses have a beneficial effect on both the cardiovascular and respiratory health.

Laughter has the potential to help speed healing from emotional pain, and increase overall health and well-being,  when it’s benefits are fully realized as a part of a stress management plan.

While the average human being laughs approximately 8 to 10 times daily, a stress management plan which includes laughter as a part of the daily program would
include rigorous “laughing” as an exercise to be performed several times throughout the day.

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”–Victor Hugo

Full belly laughter, which is an involuntary response of the human brain, can be triggered by watching comedies, listening to comedians, telling jokes or just allowing oneself to participate in fun and silly activities.

As a result of all these findings, you can understand why Laughter is considered both medicine and pain reliever.  Have you laughed today?

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Called Out in Order to Go Forward!

There will be many times when we are “Called Out in Order to Go Forward!”

We were not put on this earth for sedentary lives.  We were placed here for a purpose; and because of this purpose,  we are called out,  so that we can proceed forward.   Called out of comfort zones and from any place that hinders us from doing the work of God.

Because God is a all about People, we too, must be all about people as well.  Just be careful that you are Called and Sent and not Up and Went.  If you’re called and sent, God will go before you.  However, if you’ve just decided to to go on your own strength (Up and Went); you go alone.

Never  be afraid of the Light of God’s Direction.

Reason being is this:  Wherever God guides, He also provides.

When we walk in the Light of God’s Direction there will be some rules that we need to follow in order to go Forward.

Here are 40 Called Out Orders to Follow After:

1.  Fix your eyes not on what is seen, but the unseen. – 2 Corinthians 4:18

2.  Be in right standing or relationship with our brothers.  -Matthew 5:24

3.  Follow after the rule of Peace.  -Colossians 3:15

4.  Never try to “get even.”  -1 Thessalonians 5:15

5.  Be an Example to others.  -1 Timothy 4:12

6.  Always abounding, steadfast and unmovable.  -1 Corinthians 15:58

7.  Daily renew your mind.  -Romans 12:2

8.  Separate yourselves from unclean things.  - 2 Corinthians 6:17

9.  Be content with what you have.  -Hebrews 13:5

10. Be filled with the Spirit.  -Ephesians 5:18

11.  Have no fear of others.  -Luke 12:4

12. Not to be like the world. (Be in the world, but not of the world) -Romans 12:2

13. Avoid Envy and Greed.  -Hebrews 13:5

14. Be Patient with all people.  -1 Thessalonians 5:19

15. NEVER QUIT! -2 Thessalonians 3:13

16. Be people of Quality.  -Hebrews 6:12

17. Beware of False Prophets.  -Matthew 7:15

18. Avoid all wrong conversation.  -1 Timothy 6:20

19. Never Quench the Spirit.  -1 Thessalonians 5:19

20. Abstain from all lust of the flesh.  -1 Peter 2:11

21. Teach your children about the Lord.  -Ephesians 6:4

22. Avoid all murmuring or disrespecting.  -  Philippians 2:14

23. Give “Thanks” in Everything.  -1 Thessalonians 5:18

24. Give (absolutely) no place to the devil.  -Ephesians 4:27

25. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.  -Ephesians 4:30

26. Honor your Parents.  -Ephesians 6:2; Matthew 19:19

27. Cast your cares upon the Lord.  -1 Peter 5:7

28. Submit  yourselves to God.  -James 4:7

29. Resist the devil.  -James 4:7

30.  Let men see your good works.  -Matthew 5:16

31. Put on the Whole Armour of God .  -Ephesians 6:11

32. Humble yourselves.  -James 4:10

33. Walk in the Spirit.  –Galatians 5:25

34. Casting down vain imaginations.  –2 Corinthians 10:5

35. Come boldly to God.  -Hebrews 4:16

36. Seek God’s Kingdom and Righteousness.  –Matthew 6:33

37. Do not forsake the assembling of yourselves.  -Hebrews 10:25

38. Look to Jesus.  -Hebrews 12:2

39. Always be in Agreement.  -Matthew 18:19

40. Never cause others to stumble.  –Romans 14:13

Sometimes when we are called out, it will be a time of quiet and peace where you will be able to receive guidance and hear much more clearly about “How To Go Forward.”

“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint.”–Isaiah 40:3

This is a part of being “Called Out in Order to Go Forward!  You will able to see much clearer when the time comes for you to move forward with God as a result.

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