Calm Your Daily Stress - Stress Relief for the Busy Midlife Woman
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the demands of your busy life?
Are you concerned about your health, anxiety and stress levels?
Do you want to find ways to manage and reduce stress or anxiety, not just for yourself but for the sake of your loved ones as well?
If so, you are in the right place!
Calm Your Daily Stress Podcast – Stress Relief for the Busy Woman is a podcast dedicated entirely to YOU – the ambitious woman seeking to find balance amidst chaos.
Enjoy deep-dive interviews with incredible guests as they spill their secrets on stress-reducing techniques, golden nuggets of wisdom, and game-changing practices that they've tried and tested. Consider this your roadmap to more peace, more clarity, less stress and a life where overwhelm doesn’t call the shots.
Here’s to finding your calm amidst the storm!
Calm Your Daily Stress - Stress Relief for the Busy Midlife Woman
E227 Unlocking Your Laughter Intelligence with Marla Simlett
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Marla Simlett, or as many know her, Marvelous Marla is a speaker, emcee, and registered clinical counsellor who helps people learn and laugh their way to becoming their greatest self.
In this episode:
- Marla explains that she started combining her therapeutic counseling practice with humor because laughter helps open people up, lower resistance, and makes them open to learning and improving.
- She shares that stress is really tough on our bodies, raising stress hormones and putting us into a fight or flight state where we can't make good decisions.
- Marla explains that laughter is the quick antidote to stress because it does the exact opposite—it lowers those stress hormones and releases feel-good hormones and endorphins.
- She talks about how laughter helps you focus your brain on positive things, because what you focus on tends to expand in your life.
- She suggests three intentional ways to bring laughter into your life: first, make a "laughter checklist" of things that make you laugh; second, find external "go-tos" like a funny friend or comedian for stressful days; and third, intentionally practice bringing up the feeling of laughter inside your own body.
- Marla explains the practice of Laughter Meditation, which came from Laughter Yoga, where you purposely laugh out loud because your brain can't tell the difference between real and auto-generated laughter—you get the benefits either way.
- She shares that nervous laughter still gives you all the physical benefits of regular laughter and is actually a learned coping mechanism you use to protect yourself or lighten a situation.
- Marla's final words of wisdom are to laugh more, suggesting listeners check out her laughter intelligence assessment to find intentional ways to leverage laughter in their lives.
Note: Meditation starts at 11:44
Contacting Marla:
On Social:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlasimlett/
https://www.youtube.com/@marlasimlett8548
Blogpost: https://therelaxationlounge.info/unlocking-your-laughter-intelligence
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