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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I want to talk to you

about using laughter. Laughter to help you ease your anxiety. And I know you don't

always feel like you're laughing or having a grand old time when you are anxious, when you are experiencing panic, or when you have

heavy stress in your life. But if we can begin to lean toward the laughter and find ways to keep ourselves in tune with that kind of a feeling,

you're going to be able to see that laughter can actually be a medicine. But before I get started with today's conversation

about laughter, I really want to give a very special shout out to our latest Patreon member.

I want to thank you Ruth for jumping right in and supporting the anxiety coaches podcast.

And I want everyone to know that Ruth is someone that I have worked with

over time and she was originally here on my island at one time

and has been traveling all over the planet

and happened to stumble upon us on Patreon and jumped right in to

support the show. So thank you Ruth. Thank you so much for supporting my work to help other people. I really appreciate you. And so now

let's get on with laughter and it's kind of a fun thing to talk about right it makes you smile just to think

about it so what are the benefits of laughter like it's something that people do

children do it even babies giggle and smile, and what are those benefits of laughter?

I'm going to go through a couple of them here.

Laughter actually decreases the stress hormones.

It stimulates your internal organs.

It actually stimulates your heart, your lungs, and your muscles,

and so it's, I I remember I don't remember who said this originally

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