How Laughter Can Be The Best Medicine

The Wellness Scoop

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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With the world feeling increasingly uncertain and scary, finding the humour in life can often be a struggle but in this week's episode, Ella talks to author Naomi Bagdonas about why it's more important than ever. Despite seeming like a frivolous thing, they explore how humour has the power to actually connect us more as humans as well as the science on why it can impact our physical and mental health and ultimately our wellbeing. Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas: Humour, Seriously See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.6	Hi and welcome to the deliciously Ella podcast with me, Ella Mills. So today we're talking to Naomi
1:29.8	Bagdonas about the importance of laughter, of finding lightness and joy in the everyday, which to
1:35.3	be honest, although in some ways feels a bit silly with how much is going on in the world and how
1:40.1	serious and heavy that is, it doesn't away feel more important than ever to find that bit of joy
1:45.5	and laughter and try and find the good stuff with so many humongous issues and those terrifying
1:50.9	new cycles that are happening at the moment and of course so much uncertainty. Naomi teaches a
1:55.7	course at Stanford University on humour and she's co-written a book on the subject which just came
2:00.7	out and is really interesting. Her and her co-author orchestrated a study of 1.5 million people to
2:06.8	get more answers on how humour deeply connects us and the huge physical and mental benefits of
2:12.2	having a good time. And it's just absolutely fascinating. It's just not something you would have
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