Golden Years or Golden Tears

By Lone Jensen

Humour is an effective coping strategy and can be used for self care, staff care or patient care. By developing strategies to bring more laughter into your life, you help reduce stress, improve your focus and effectiveness, enhance your communication and creative problem solving, build morale and strengthen your relationships and overall health.

The best evidence that humour boosts the immune system comes from studies where immune system measures are taken before and after a particular humorous event usually a comedy video.

Laughter allows the brain to secrete cerebral endorphins (a pleasure hormone that has a relaxing effect). Several biochemical reactions are set in motion when we laugh. The lungs take in two to three times as much air and approximately 400 million pulmonary vesicles become dilated. Laughing before eating makes the digestive system secrete enzymes that make it easier to digest food. When we laugh, the spleen sends a flow of red blood through the body to strengthen it. The pancreas also increases the secretion of insulin. Laughing even has an impact on the immune system. After someone has laughed, the white blood cell level increases.

How much time do you set aside for laughter in an average day? (By this I mean laughing so hard it hurts!) You may be surprised to learn that only a tiny part of the day (an average of two minutes) is spent laughing, even though laughter is the best antidote for stress!

Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humour lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477124062

Lone Jensen

Lone Jensen worked in the social work field for 23 years. She volunteers with seniors in Calgary, Alberta. Lone is an Energy Medicine Practitioner, certified coach, and has a BA.

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Copyright © 2012 by Lone Jensen.

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Contents

Introduction

Humor at its Best

Why Is Humor So Important?

On Getting Old . . .

A Man Has Reached

You’re Getting Old

Perks of Being Over Sixty and Retired

Q and A

Let’s Laugh . . .

A Frog Goes into a Bank

Man Is Like an Automobile . . .

An Old Woman Was Arrested

Two Elderly Ladies

Three Old Ladies

Two Elderly Women

An Old Fellow

Reporter

Now, Ms. Lyons,

As the Waitress

Little boy

The Older a Man Gets

An Elderly Woman

On Funny Quotes

and What Not . . .

You’re Over the Hill

Money Will Free People

Let’s Laugh Some More . . .

Exercise for Seniors

Great Truths That Adults

Have Learned

Great Truths That Little Grandchildren Have Learned

Great Truths About Growing Old

Buffy, a Blonde

You Start Out Dead

One Sunday Morning

Two Elderly Women

The Phone Rings

Bob, a Seventy-Year-Old

Our Five-Year-Old Grandson

Getting Old Is So Hard At Times

While Riding the Bus

During My Brother’s Wedding

A Woman’s Husband Dies

A Man Was Walking

Bad Medical Advice

I Recently Picked A

My Mom Has a Lead Foot

My Fifty-Something Friend

Grandma Doesn’t Know Everything . . .

After Many Years of Trying

The Old Man

At a Nursing Home

Two Elderly Women

A Dumb Blonde

A Young Man

The Club Duffer

A Seventy-five-year-old Man

Bill Clinton and Al Gore

Jesus and Satan

A Turkey Was Chatting

A French man

This Lady Surprised

From the Desk of the

More Famous Ones . . .

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

—Michael Pritchard

Introduction

As the years go by, the time we spend laughing and