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Do you want to feel better, do better at work, improve your marriage, grow closer to the ones you love, and have a healthy brain and heart?
Then it’s time to get tickets for opening night of A Hair Away from Disaster this Sunday at 7pm at the Cornservatory (4210 N Lincoln).
How can an improv show do that? Laughter and lots of it. Audiences have described Octavarius as “a hilarious ball of energy.” And now we have to live up to that.
Why does that matter?
According to Psychology Today’s Laughter is the Best Medicine:
Laughter reduces pain, increases job performance, connects people emotionally, and improves the flow of oxygen to the heart and brain.
It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort.
It reduces blood sugar levels, increasing glucose tolerance in diabetics and non-diabetics alike.
It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving complex problems. Its role in intimate relationships is vastly underestimated and it really is the glue of good marriages. It synchronizes the brains of speaker and listener so that they are emotionally attuned.
Dr. Michael Miller, M.D. recommends 30 minutes of exercise and 15 minutes of laughter each day. Perfect. Since A Hair Away from Disaster clocks in around 90 minutes of non-stop hilarity, you’ll have just enough laughter to make it to the next show.
If you haven’t bought tickets online for cheap, make sure to say “medicine” at the box office and your $10 tickets will magically become $7 tickets.
