Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine?

Happy Wednesday! Superwomen, we have been looking at characteristics that will continue to empower us to be even greater superwomen. Thus far, we have looked at (1) Are we paying attention to the way our internal clocks were designed; (2) Feed our brain and know our brain dominance; and (3) Today... Laughter is really a great RX for you! I looked at several different sites and here is what I found-- the long and the short of it -- you must LAUGH! Even when you feel the stress overload coming... why? Because it is so much more beneficial than what you can ever imagine! Let's take a look!

Look at some of these benefits! WOWZA!

What does laughter do for us? Laughter gives us many short term benefits as well as many long term benefits too!

Short Term Benefits:
(1) It stimulates our organs and gets us going strong for the day! Literally, this means that when we laugh our blood flow is increased meaning we get more oxygen to the brain, and this gets us going stronger! So, circulation improves and our muscles relax!
(2) It activates and relieves our stress response meaning it diminishes the release of cortisol which is our "fight or flight" hormone which was not designed to be used unless we are facing some sort of traumatic event.
(3) It soothes tension, and it serves as an internal workout for our bodies!
(4) Laughter literally releases a cocktail of happy hormones. You know, Superwom@n, it's those hormones that we need to feel good-- that serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin-- all those endorphins we need to tolerate ourselves and for others to tolerate us LOL.

Long Term Benefits:
(1) It improves our immune system and makes it stronger!
(2) It acts as a natural pain reliever.
(3) It increases our personal satisfaction.
(4) It increases our mood.
(5) It improves our blood sugar levels.
(6) The more we laugh, the more we receive the long and short term benefits of laughter! Most importantly, laughing is heart healthy!

Superwom@n, in order to "bring your A-Game" everyday honey child, you gotta LAUGH! I found absolutely nothing that tells us ANY negative benefit of laughing! Now, here's the deal... some of you may say, "Well, I don't have anything to laugh about." To that I say, "Girl, you always have something to laugh about-- you are still here on this earth breathing and you, Superwom@n have a purpose! So, LAUGH!

Just look at all of these benefits of something as simple as laughing! I hope that you are understanding that in order to be a superwom@n, you must first TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF in order to do your best to take care of others!

Promise me that you will laugh today... you know that good belly laugh that makes your eye liner run and you ask your buddy, "Do I have raccoon eyes?"

Terri

Sources:

www.mayoclinic.org

www.huffingtonpost.com

www.laughteronlineuniversity.com

www.webmd.com

Balance Your Brain Superwom@n! It's the Right Thing to Do!

Maybe this visual appeals to you more... I believe a "right brain" thinker created this visual! Remember that knowledge is power in terms of being a superwom@n! Know your brain dominance!

Here's where we are and what we are discussing! Where do you stand? It's important to know to up your game superwom@n!

Calling all superwomen... in our earlier post, we examined just a few things that we can do for ourselves to "up our game" in being the superwom@n that we all strive to be! Yesterday, we looked at paying more attention to our internal clock and working in tune with basically the way that God designed us extraordinary humans! Today, let's look at the second attribute -- that of -- balancing our brain! Here we go!

Obviously, the first that that we superwomen need to look at intensely is that of figuring out our dominant side of the brain and then going with it! There are plenty, plenty of online versions of figuring out your brain dominance. 

So, having said this, I have included a link to a free brain dominance test that will help you gauge where you stand... be honest and be quick in your answers! Have fun!

Here's the link: http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/ 

Also, I wouldn't ask you to do the brain dominance test without having completed it myself so I took a screenshot of myself... I honestly thought my right brain percentage would be a bit higher but oh well... here it is!

So, see where you stand and then let's go from there! When you are presented with a challenge, a problem, a concern, etc. do you immediately begin to try to solve with your brain dominance? If not, you should! Then, if that gets you nowhere, proceed to your next brain dominance and try to come to a conclusion. In other words, if you are solidly left brain dominant (I am really not... the two percentages are somewhat really close), then you would purposely attempt to solve your situation with that dominance. For example, if you are left brain dominant, then you would approach your situation from the who? the what? the where? the why? and the how? You are solving from a logical, sequential mindset. If you see that is doing no good whatsoever, give that side of the brain a rest and focus on solving from your other hemisphere and see what you are able to derive. Honestly, ladies we all know there are situation out there that can't be solved with either dominance and those are the ones that we submit to our belief in the Serenity Prayer right? If not, it should be! There is NOTHING productive in worrying about things in which you can do absolutely nothing about!

This graphic will appeal to some of you; however, the next one is my favorite!

I wanted you to see characteristics of each side of our brain and the dominant characteristics for each! Some of you will benefit by just taking the dominance test and being more aware of your dominance because it affects how you perform in your job/career/profession! Please remember this! Here are some of those info-graphics:

Is this not the coolest? It says so much just looking at the graphic!

This one really helps us and explains the difference well between the two hemispheres of the brain and how we approach things!

Have an awesome Tuesday everyone!

Terri 

Happy Valentine's Day Superwom@n!

Happy Valentine's Day Superwom@an! I hope that your day has been awesome! Have you thought about what, in fact, makes you a superwom@n? I did some investigation (and I plan to do a lot more...) about the characteristics that just flat out make us all superwomen, and some characteristics that we might need to pay more attention too in order to become greater superwomen. Here is the beginning of my investigation:

Happy Valentine's Day Superwom@n!

(1) We must pay great attention to our internal clocks! There are times when we are obviously at our best and then times when we are ready to wilt! (More to come on this... it is really interesting...)

(2) We must balance our brain! Now, what does this entail? More to come... it has a lot to do with serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol!

(3) We can LAUGH! You know that laugh so hard that your eyeliner is running down your face!

(4) We can CRY! Sometimes, heck we need too. There is nothing absolutely nothing healthy about keeping things bottled up inside-- it will cause us to release more cortisol which is bad on our health!

(5) We must learn to prioritize ourselves! Prioritize your day... we will look at this more and use some tools for being able to graphically represent this! I  don't know about you all but I need some of this!

(6) We need to feed our brain with foods that fuel our focus... so what are they? (more on this too!)

(7) We MUST learn to delegate! You can not do it all, and you shouldn't have too!

(8) We must learn to listen carefully! This is an art and unfortunately is sometimes very hard to do!

(9) We must rid our bodies of toxins that harm our focus, our concentration, and out productivity! We will talk more about these toxins!

(10) We must make absolutely sure that we are not our own worst enemy! Examine things... more later!

We will take each of one these statements and expound on them, and see what kind of superwomen we shall become! 

Until tomorrow! We will investigate "tuning into our body clock!"

Happy Valentines Day! 

Terri