Health and Humor Reflection

Health and Humor Reflection

Introduction

Every year, there is more evidence that your thoughts, moods, emotions, and belief system have a fundamental impact on the body's basic health and healing mechanisms (Mora-Ripoll, 2010). Whether or not you get sick depends on your body's ability to fight off infection and disease. We now know that building a positive focus in your life plays an important role in supporting the body's ability to do this (Weisenberg, Tepper & Schwarzwald, 2000).

Discussion

Humor may allow a person to feel in control of a situation and make it seem more manageable. It allows people to release ...