Did you know that one way you can cope better with pain is by laughing? I actually recommended that a client attend laughter yoga recently. Then I heard Dr. Steven Sultanoff say on the news today that "tolerance to pain isincreased with deep, heartfelt laughter." This doctor is a laughter therapist. That's funny all by itself! He went on to indicate that "humor activates wit" which changes your perspective and "shifts the way we think and we know that thinking is directly related to pain."
So what can you do? You can read or tell jokes, watch funny movies or even remember a time when you laughed so hard that you cried. Doing any of these things shifts your mindset and can help reduce pain. This just reinforces how important it is to pay attention to what you think. So watch this clip of the song "I love to laugh" from Mary Poppins. I hope it makes you laugh.
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