We have all heard the saying, “Laughter is the best medicine”. While laughter alone will not adequately treat something like a heart attack, it can play an important role in recovery and long-term well-being following the event.

In fact, laughter can be considered a form of medicine because it helps improve well-being. Health includes physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease, and research shows that laughter positively affects all three aspects of our health.

Having a sense of humour helps us cope, because living on this planet can be very stressful. There is much anger, hostility, violence and injustice, and traditional and social media expose us to much of this negativity.