EndorphinGirl^™ recently watched an episode of the Ellen (DeGeneres) show.  Ellen is a class act. She is funny, beyond comedienne funny, and she has a kind gentle soul. Ellen ends each of her shows with the simple statement, “Be Kind to One Another.”  Ellen is a great example of this, as you can witness on each of her shows where she is always performing a random act of kindness. EndorphinGirl^™ is a big fan of both
Ellen and random acts of kindness. Though taking it one step further, she is also a fan of doing simple acts of kindness. You know like the smile trick. Yes, smile at one person and see how it has a ripple affect on others. Or pay a complement
to someone and see how it makes them feel good and want to do similar for others. Well you get the idea; well you know
this idea already.   So EndorphinGirl^™  can go on about this topic and may choose to in another blog, but for now I bet you are wondering where this blog is going and the relevance to endorphins and Ellen?  Well they are significant, so please
read on!

Frankly, EndorphinGirl^™ knew that one thing would lead to another with the topic of Ellen. So here’s the connection with endorphin-ness. And bear with EndorphinGirl^™ on this one for a minute. Here’s the thing, Ellen makes people laugh. Like really laugh . . . you know that belly-aching laughing, where you are keeled over and can’t stop laughing. And what does laughter do. Well as we know along with its intended benefits it has so many unintended ones too!  For instance, it reduces muscle tension, it increases the amount of oxygen in the blood, it exercises the heart and most importantly it produces happy chemicals in the brain called endorphins.  So I guess you are guessing (yes guessing) that there is something to this.

Since Ellen started her show 10 years ago, on average she makes about 8 million people laugh per show. In one year alone her show runs about 160 times. If you take 8 million people and you multiply it by 160 times you get 1,280,000,000 people who annually view her show. Times that by 10 years, well you ge the idea, this is a staggerig number! And sure - granted there are some duplicate+ viewers during the course of the show viewing but still. The numbers are a big deal. So no doubt you get the magnitude of how many lives she touches in a year, and has in the past decade. EndorphinGirl^™ can go on again and again and again about the ‘acts of kindness’ that Ellen makes contagious through what she does on her shows, but will leave it at that.  Come to think of it, this includes laughter too!

Ellen makes people laugh. And as noted above, laughter is good for so many things.  While there is not enough scientific
research done on this, there is good evidence that it dulls pain for someone who is sick and achy (often the case for EndorphinGirl^™ after the gym :) ), or it can burn some nominal calories (i.e., 15 minutes of laughter on average burns about 50 calories) – for instances!  Okay perhaps these are not significant benefits, but if you magnify them by the amount of people that Ellen touches - well let's just say it is significant in the aggregate.  Pretty cool!  Ellen makes a big difference in the endorphin world.  So to all those viewers, no matter one-time viewer or daily viewer, Ellen is seriously contributing to your well-being through her Laughter Therapy - i.e., making you mildly trimmer by losing a few calories even if you are viewing from the couch, or easing some aches and pains, or even by reminding that we all can do some random acts of kindness no matter who we are.  No doubt random acts of kindness produce endorphns too!  Go Ellen.  EndorphinGirl^™ is a fan for sure!

The point of this blog really is that EndorphinGirl^™ hopes that Laughter Therapy is part of everyone’s lives, and to just say once more that Ellen is just a wonderful role model for
this and that other stuff written above. 



EndorphinGirl^™ wishes she could write more about these topics, and in fact knows there is more to write, but she’s very late getting to press today and she wants to make her deadline, particularly since it’s close to the bewitching hour. So she is calling it a 'wrap'.  (DID SOMEONE SAY RAP?, okay okay let's leave that alone for now - EndorphinGirl knows some of you get that last sentence, you know the rap, haha.)  EndorphinGirl^™ thanks you for reading her quickly pulled together blog!

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This week the EndorphinGirl^™ image is kicking butt exercising at the gym. Snap is courtesy of her son! 



Until next time, keep on endorphing… and as Ellen
says – "be kind to one another".

EndorphinGirl^™

[Countdown: 85 days]

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