{"id":287,"date":"2016-11-05T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T13:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2016-11-05T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T13:40:04","slug":"laughter-is-good-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Laughter is Good Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>A cheerful heart is a good medicine (Prov 17:22)<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.doctormomx4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"288\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?attachment_id=288#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.doctormomx4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images.jpeg?fit=244%2C206&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"244,206\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"images\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.doctormomx4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images.jpeg?fit=244%2C206&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.doctormomx4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images.jpeg?resize=244%2C206&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"images\" width=\"244\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Every comedian knows that there is power in laughter. \u00a0Every doctor knows this too. \u00a0This is not a new discovery. \u00a0 Proverbs 17 says &#8220;A cheerful heart is a good medicine.&#8221; \u00a0And I say that it is a medicine that is in short supply today. \u00a0In my office, or out of my office, I rarely hear laughter. \u00a0As an experiment, just sit and listen in a restaurant. \u00a0If you can hear anything above the TVs on the wall, it will likely not be a lot of laughter. \u00a0Too bad. \u00a0What can be done to inject back into society a good, old fashioned dose of frivolity?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For starters, \u00a0we can begin to look for the good around us. \u00a0There is plenty of bad but we have some control over where we focus. \u00a0There is a power in positive thinking. \u00a0Even when life seems to be falling apart, there is usually at least something hopeful on which to concentrate. \u00a0If not, then go looking! \u00a0Or decide to provide the good and hopeful yourself! \u00a0If nothing good seems to be happening, then go do a random act of kindness for someone else. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t need to cost you anything other than time and effort. \u00a0A smile is not expensive. \u00a0Yet a smile, medically speaking, leads to a release of helpful endorphins that will lead to your own better health.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ah yes&#8230;..A cheerful heart doeth good like medicine. \u00a0Be that dose of drug for someone today. \u00a0You may end up cheering yourself up in the process.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cheerful heart is a good medicine (Prov 17:22) Every comedian knows that there is power in laughter. \u00a0Every doctor knows this too. \u00a0This is not a new discovery. \u00a0 Proverbs 17 says &#8220;A cheerful heart is a good medicine.&#8221; \u00a0And I say that it is a medicine that is in short supply today. \u00a0In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WySj-4D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}