55: 5 Ways to Add More Fun into Your Summer
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It’s easy to get caught up in our to-do lists. When we’re constantly striving to be productive, we often forget about the importance of having fun and the impact it can have on our mental and physical health. Having fun and laughing is proven to reduce stress, ease physical pain, boost your immune system, increase endorphins, and so much more. It’s obvious that prioritizing play should be on the top of our to-do lists, so why don’t we?
In today's episode, members of The Balanced Life team join Robin and share ways that they’ve learned to integrate fun into their daily lives. Tune into this episode for playful advice and tips to bring more fun into your summer.
Show Highlights:
- Robin discusses the proven benefits of laughter and having fun
- Jackie shares ways she’s prioritizing fun over constant productivity
- Ways Susan is trying to have more fun with her kids this summer
- Jen talks about how her family has always emphasized and prioritized fun
- How to navigate finding activities that everyone in your family enjoys
- Jordin shares how she pushed herself to stop sitting on the sidelines
- The team discusses their favorite games to play during the summer
- Ways Robin and her husband have committed to having more fun together this year
- The team shares little things in their lives that bring them joy and laughter in their day
- Robin and the team share games and tips to have fun this summer
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:12.8 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:21.8 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create |
| 0:27.9 | your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi there. Welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is going to boost your mood and |
| 0:42.1 | inspire you to have a little more fun in your day-to-day life. At least that's my hope and |
| 0:48.1 | intention. Our mission in the balanced life sisterhood for the month of July, which every month we |
| 0:53.3 | have a what we call an |
| 0:54.4 | off the mat mission. So this is one area of health and wellness that we focus on off of the |
| 0:59.8 | mat. So not related to exercise, but definitely related to health and well-being. So every summer, |
| 1:05.9 | we have a mission that is dedicated to play, fun, and laughter. |
| 1:15.2 | So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about how to have more fun. |
| 1:20.4 | It is actually something that we need to do to take care of our health and well-being. |
| 1:30.3 | Healthcare professionals and studies and research agree that laughter and play can help to reduce stress, ease physical pain, |
| 1:37.2 | boost our moods, improve our immune system, and send more oxygen to our organs and our brain, all things to help us feel better. It also reduces stress. So it lowers our cortisol level, |
| 1:42.1 | which helps us to feel better as we go |
| 1:44.7 | throughout our days. So play, laughter, fun is essential to living a healthy, balanced life. |
| 1:51.6 | And I don't know about you. It's one of the things that can get put on the back burner |
| 1:55.1 | because I'm so focused on being productive or doing, you know, the things I need to do to take care of myself. |
| 2:02.4 | Like, okay, I have to drink water, exercise, get good sleep, but I also have to go to work. |
| 2:06.0 | I have these responsibilities. |
| 2:07.2 | I've got to take care of kids. |
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