{"id":532,"date":"2016-04-01T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T02:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masterkey.betterdayskc.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2016-04-01T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T02:04:16","slug":"532-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journeyofaday.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Week 24 – Celebrating Change with Laughter!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conclusion of the Master Key Experience course, beginning of a new course in self-direction, and I’m setting course toward my future self, the woman I want to be!\u00a0 This has been an amazing experience, and like my classmates, I am so grateful for the support staff, for the gifts the course founders chose to give us … themselves, and for the many classmates, some whom I actually got to meet and hug.\u00a0 What a loving, giving bunch of people I have come to know.\u00a0 I’m one lucky girl<\/a>!!<\/p>\n

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That’s Virginia, me, Wes and David meeting for the first time in Minnesota.\u00a0 What fun it was to meet my new friends!!<\/p>\n

There’s one more thing I would love to share with everyone, even those who haven’t been through the course yet … the gift of laughter, and the importance of using it!\u00a0 Once our instructors shared that children laugh 400 times a day and adults only 15 or so, I was surprised.\u00a0 I know how incredible I feel on those days when I laugh a lot, but I never realized how important, healthy, and well, just plain awesome it is to laugh.\u00a0 I shared that amazing fact with some friends who had not attended the class, and we made it our mission over the weekend to “catch up”.\u00a0 Here’s a view on the background research:\u00a0 Psychology Today article.<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s just one of probably a million videos out there that can get you started:<\/p>\n