Laughter Heals

“The body doesn’t know the difference between real laughter and fake laughter”

Natalie Jeanne Maddy
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readJun 1, 2020

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Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash

How many science fiction writers does it take to change a light bulb?

Two, but it’s actually the same person doing it.
He went back in time and met himself in the doorway and then the first one sat on the other one’s shoulder so that they were able to reach it.
Then a major time paradox occurred and the entire room, light bulb, changer and all was blown out of existence.

If that joke didn’t make you at least slightly giggle, I don’t know what would! HA! I kid, I kid (kind of). But as Madan Kataria states:

the body doesn’t know the difference between real laughter and fake laughter,

so you can at least pretend the joke was funny, even if it didn’t make you actually laugh.

Have you ever laughed so fucking hard that your cheeks and abdomen and maybe even your heart ache, from such the highly activated muscles you just contracted? If not, you’re definitely due for a twenty minute laugh session and soon! Laughter involves the entire body, relaxing it for up to forty-five minutes after the last laugh resounded in the…

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Natalie Jeanne Maddy
Age of Awareness

I try to rouse others to find their truths by writing about my own!💋Yoga, meditation, and aromatherapy teacher. Author of 5 books — thriller, healing, poetry.