Your body has a built-in stress weapon, and all it takes to use it is a 30-second video on YouTube or a shared laugh with

If you can find a reason to laugh every day, you'll find that your mood will improve, your relationships with others will seem more meaningful and effortless, and life's hurdles won't seem so daunting.

For more GPS Guides, click here. Author L. M. Montgomery wrote, "Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." Laughter

By Sam Ferrigno for HooplaHa.com It relieves the stress of more serious emotions. When your heart breaks, you want to be

Energy comes from humor. However, each of us, even the crotchety, must locate our sense of what's funny, raucous or wry. Although jokes often elude me, I really respond to the spontaneous comedy of life itself.

This year made me realize that I've accumulated a whole arsenal of wonderfully powerful tools and techniques that can help me through difficult times if I choose to use them. Things like prayer and faith, meditation and yoga, music, vitamins, love, persistence, honesty, communication, and trust.

If health and wellness are your goals, skip irony, bypass sarcasm and make the conscious choice to add more joyous laughter into to your day.

Fun is often thought of as superfluous, extra, something to get to when you have time and a tool not to be used in serious situations. But fun can be, and has been, a powerful tool for transformation when tapped appropriately.

The ability and pressing need to laugh will never change.