Posts tagged Having Fun
Maintaining a Positive Mood – Laugh As Much As You Can!
Sep 15th
Studies have shown that laughter is able to kill emotional and physical pain. Studies have shown that it can reduce pain sensitivity.
Studies have also shown that people who are in good humour are less likely to be annoyed by something or someone. We can say that humor is usually protecting us from someone else’ s malicious behavior.
There are people who have a great sense of humor. They do not have to try to be funny or to make other people laugh! i There are also people who need to look outside themselves in order to find something that could make them laugh.
If you are not the type of person who was born with a sense of humour, you should think about things that could help you laugh! We are going to give you some tips that should help you find some ways to bring laughter into your own life:
*spend as much time as you can with friends who have a good sense of humour.
*do not watch TV! or if you do, avoid the serious things and try to watch things which are lighthearted or even silly.
*watch funny movies – you can watch them repeatedly and think that this is a therapy!
*go to places where people are having fun, where they are laughing!
*buy a joke book! it can be really useful.
*go out with your friends as much as you can.
We have all met people who are always laughing and feeling good. Why shouldn’t we try to do it in order to make our own lives more beautiful?
48 Fun Exercise Ideas
Jan 28th
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A couple of 5th graders named Michelle and Casen recently asked me: What advice would you give us when we know we should exercise, but we just don’t feel up for it? My answer to them is what I’d tell anyone, child or adult: Don’t look at it as exercise — instead, play games and sports and have a ton of fun! The main thing is just to get outside every day and do something you think is fun. |
You can play games like freeze tag or ride a bike or do running races with your friends or family. You can go on hikes with your family or go swimming or paddling. Do lots of different things, and again, focus on having fun, and doing it often.
Michelle and Casen’s class, which has created the excellent Kids Read and Ride program, took this advice to heart and came up with 48 Fun Ways to Exercise. This is a good list for anyone:
- Aerobics
- Ballet
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Biking
- Boating
- Bowling
- Boxing
- Canoeing
- Dance Revolution
- Dancing
- Double Dutch
- Field Hockey
- Football
- Frisbee
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hiking
- Hockey
- Hopscotch
- Horseback Riding
- Hula hooping
- Ice Skating
- Jogging
- Juggling
- Jump rope
- Laser tag
- Paintball
- Ping-Pong
- Playing catch
- Rock Climbing
- Roller Blading
- Roller Skating
- Running
- Skateboarding
- Skiing
- Soccer
- Softball
- Swimming
- Tae Kwon Do
- Tennis
- Trampoline
- Treadmill
- Unicycling
- Volleyball
- Walking
- Weightlifting
- Wii sports games
My recommendation is to choose one of these activities, most days of the week (4-5 days perhaps). If you go out, have fun, enjoy the activity, it won’t feel like “exercise” … but you’ll be getting fit and healthy in the meantime.
Make the workout the reward.
