Day
26: About Humor
The Medical Profession Acknowledges the Following Benefits
of Humor
- Boosts immune system
- Stimulates circulation
- Releases endorphins (to reduce
pain and cause a sense of well-being)
- Decreases pulse
and blood pressure
- Stimulates respiration
- Relieves tension
- Decreases anxiety and stress
- Relieves embarrassment
- Enhances memory, learning,
creativity
- Creates feelings of acceptance and teamwork
- Serves
as an outlet for hostility and anger
- Facilitates interaction
and decreases social distance
- Releases tension from
social conflicts
- Relieves the burden of reality
(Summarized from “Therapeutic
Use of Humor” by Linda Schickedanz, BSN, RN DFW
NURSING, August, 1992, pp. 14, 15.)
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Stories for Confident Living
