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The best medicine ever is laughter. Don’t believe me? Try it!

The last two weeks have been full of the best kind of medicine!

Getting caught in the daily grind of life, day after day, week after week, and you forget sometimes what it is like to have fun and be silly with your friends. I know that I was caught in that rut not so long ago. I felt life slipping into a negative pattern and everything was suffering for it. I was spinning a negative vibe out into the world. The vacation I took with my amazing husband was the prescription I needed.

Spending a few days in New York, we visited all the hit locations that many movies were made from. Saw the bright, almost seizure inducing, larger than life TV screens in Times Square as we watched selfie stick tourists taking all the shots. Visited Central Park on a Pedicab and heard all the stories about the movies shot there and the actors and famous people who lived in the buildings surrounding it. Watched as a group protested the carriage people, shouting chants and dancing with signs.  We visited Wall Street after a quick Ferry ride from Stanten Island, past the Statue of Liberty, and into the southern port of Manhattan. Walked Battery Park and visited the memorial there, then a quick ride back on the same ferry.

Then there was the somber visit of the 911 memorial museum. Walking through and listening to the devastation that occurred 15 years ago now and looking over the pool of names where the water falls into the black hole at the center of it all.  We were saddened. Nothing like seeing thousands of photographs, names etched in steel and all the other relics of a time not so long ago to really make you grateful for the life you have now.

China Town, subway rides, taxi craziness and all the people trying to make that living in so many ways. so many different languages being spoken in every direction you turn, you have New York in a nutshell.

Fast forward to Washington DC. After a quick plane ride, and resting for a night, we spent a day wandering through all the memorials, museums, gardens and historic sites. The grandness and the cleanliness was welcoming.

Then, at once, we filtered into the bar and there they were! Some friendly faces and some new faces for me were welcoming and inviting. They were laughing and telling stories, making fun of one another and sharing the love. You could help but smile when you walked to this table.

We had found our way home. Home to the hearts that were there that already loved him and instantly showed me the same love. I felt any and all hints of stress melt away as I listened to the banter and watched the interactions. I was able to relax.

Later that evening when the remainder of the group showed up, I was surrounded in true love! Even those that weren’t as close as others had open hearts and tons of laughter. You could tell that even though they had been apart for ages, some of them 20 years or longer, they still fell right back into place with one another. The energy was high and the happiness felt all around.

The rest of the weekend was filled with reminiscing and laughing and oh too many good stories. There aren’t too many times in life that you can feel so at peace with a pain in your side from laughing so much. It was truly a fantastic experience.

I am so very fortunate in my life to have as many great people in my life as I do. My husband is my love and my rock. My strength and my core. After that comes all the other people I am thankful to call friends! I am able to laugh and be silly, like going to the high school football game with a portable super loud, speaker and watch my friend make all the high school kids laugh, or cracking me up while I am sitting in salon getting my nails done.

Or the few friends I have made over the years that I have been fortunate enough to learn with and laugh with. The ones who I can talk to for an hour about the oddities of the world and know that they are sending me love through the phone.

I am also blessed to have the important friends that I have had for a lifetime and have laughed and cried with me, hugged me and sheltered me, cared for me and been there for me.

If you are in a bad spot mentally, shake it up. Go visit those friends you know will make you laugh. See the people who will change your vibration to match the happy, carefree version of you. The one that cuts loose, cracks up with laughter and has no worries at all. Amazing things happen when you change the frequency you are putting out in the world.

I choose happy, carefree laughter for my medicine. Maybe I can show up for you and make you laugh with me!