Law of Attraction Magazine Holiday Issue (Nov./Dec., 2018 | Page 20

An Easy Way t o GROW You n ger
By Featur ed Colum nist Ellen Wood
Laugh. Yes, laugh. Laughing is possibly the
most underrated aspect of staying youthful.
Laughing rejuvenates your cells. In fact, a
regular 20-minute laughter session can
profoundly influence your health and
wellbeing. When you laugh, your body
releases hormones and chemicals that have
startling positive effects on your mind and
body. Not only that ? a smile takes fewer
muscles than a frown, so what could be
better for your face?
Laughter is really strong medicine. It lifts
your mood, boosts your immune system,
diminishes pain and helps protect you from
the damaging effects of harmful stress.
When you were a kid, you used to laugh
hundreds of times a day, but how often do
you laugh now? Do you tend to be more
serious and laugh less frequently? Sure, the
news is depressing, so take a break from it,
watch some funny cat videos and laugh!
That?s because laughing relieves physical
tension and experts say your muscles can stay
relaxed for up to 45 minutes after a good,
hearty laugh.
In fact, laughing or doing something silly or
fun or spontaneous on a regular basis will
make you grow younger, feel healthier, and
prolong your life.
Fourteen years ago, I had been sliding
ungracefully into old age, experiencing
symptoms of Alzheimer?s, the
person-snatching disease that had claimed
my mother (I have the Alzheimer?s gene:
APO-e4). Then one fateful day I decided to
not just stop the aging process but to actually
grow younger.
I developed a program of daily practices
that proved so successful, I wrote a book
about it and began giving talks to share my
life-changing techniques. My message over
the past few years has expanded from
Your whole body relaxes when you laugh.
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