{"id":12594,"date":"2023-10-31T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2023-10-23T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:41:57","slug":"laughter-its-no-laughing-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=12594","title":{"rendered":"Laughter. It’s No Laughing Matter."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Funnily enough, scientists study laughter now. A lot. And one of the key findings is that laughter has a buffering effect on mental and emotional struggles like Burnout and even PTSD!<\/p>\n

In other words, laughter helps you to distance yourself emotionally from the stressful event(s) that just happened. When you step back and find even a glimmer of humor, it lends perspective and basically helps let some of the air out of the balloon.<\/p>\n

Think Of Laughter Like Therapy<\/h3>\n

And actually, it’s almost exactly like therapy. Check this out, in case you haven’t gotten your daily dose of science-speak, here’s some word salad for you:<\/p>\n

“Decentering, a central change strategy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, is\u00a0a process of stepping outside of one’s own mental events leading to an objective and non-judging stance towards the self.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your welcome, LOL.<\/p>\n

Science-To-English Dictionary<\/h3>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

The definition above just describes something called “de-centering”.<\/p>\n

Basically, de-centering is when a person mentally steps back from the swirling, sloshing, stress-mess they find themselves in.<\/p>\n

When they do that, it’s like they can see it all from the outside-in, they can be objective now, and so it doesn’t make them such a stress ball.<\/p>\n

Make sense? Clear as mud?<\/p>\n

The bottom line is (after you wade through all the words) that the fancy “de-centering” concept really does much the same thing as plain laughter.<\/p>\n

Take back control<\/h3>\n

In the end de-centering and laughter are both powerful tools to give you a measure of control. Because when your teenager is making you crazy, and drivers make bone-headed decisions (RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!), and the ref in your game 100% blows it, and your company computer gives you the “spinning wheel of death” yet again … you can feel totally powerless.<\/p>\n

At this point, it honestly doesn’t matter whether you use de-centering or humor. In either case, just get the mental and emotional separation from the series of unfortunate events you just faced, to regain a sense of control as well as your internal peace.<\/p>\n

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If you know someone who needs a little laughter therapy from time to time, pls SHARE this with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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