Still on my monthly habit building, last month I completed #jokeadayJuly. I committed to share a joke (at least one, sometimes more) every day for 31 days. I shared it on my Facebook page (Dr.Melissa Carr) and told it to various people around me throughout the day.
It’s harder than you might think to find 31 decent (with both meanings of “not dirty” and also “okay”) jokes. But it was fun to search for jokes, and even to laugh at the ones that were truly bad (again, in both senses of the word). And, my favourite part was that friends also shared their jokes with me.
Purposefully seeking humour every day is a powerful medicine, even if it only produces a small smile or groaning giggle. Trying to tickle your funny bone means you are intentionally bringing positive into your life, and that bounces into the lives of others around you, and continuously comes back to you. It’s kind of like that paddle ball on an elastic band that you might have played with when you were a kid–but with the plus of not actually whacking you in the face when you miss.
Laughter has been shown to:
- Reduce feelings of stress
- Stimulate your heart, lungs, and muscles
- Burn calories
- Stimulate blood circulation
- Relax tight muscles
- Ease pain
- Improve immune function
- Boost mood (duh)
- Release endorphins
* Acupuncture does a lot of these too, by the way.
No joke, look up laughter on PubMed (a reputable source of research), and you’ll find a number of articles citing the value of laughter as medicine.
These are some of what I thought were my best jokes of the month. Send me your best jokes!
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him…(oh, man, this is so bad, it’s good)…a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
What’s Orange and sounds like a Parrot? ……………..A Carrot.
Why did the hipster burn his mouth on a slice of pizza? He ate it before it was cool.
and lastly…
Two bass drums and a cymbal roll down a hill. Ba dum tssh.
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