Vol. 4 Issue 7: Is laughter actually good for you?

All too often, our news, social media feeds, and even our conversations with friends and family are centered around anxiety-filling and rage-inducing content. It can be so difficult to believe good things happen every day when the things reported or shared are examples of the worst humanity has to offer.

That’s why we started Real Positive Vibes. We wanted to create a haven inside your inbox to share some good news with you. We hope that while you read our newsletter, you can recharge and feel refreshed.

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The mission of Real Positive Vibes, RPV, is to help society move toward goodness, finding it within themselves by seeing it in others. RPV is a service of Church Builders Bible Training Center whose mission is to help each person discover their vision for life, find their passion, and focus their purpose. Our beliefs are interdenominational. We are unapologetic about our non-religious Christ-centeredness. Find out more: bibletc.com/vision

Laughter is actually good medicine

A new year means new goals, and for many of us, getting healthier tends to top the list. So here's one quick hack to healthier life [I've always wanted to say that, 😅]. But seriously, we've all heard the saying that laughter is the best medicine. And it turn out it isn't just empty words. Laughter can improve every aspect of your health; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

Physically, it improves cardiovascular health, lowers blood pressure, and lessens aches and pains.
Mentally and emotionally, laughter improves health by reducing stress hormones and releasing happy hormones.
Spiritually, laughter can renew hope for the future and give a brighter perspective on a difficult situation.

Don't just take my word for it, even doctors agree. We live too much of our lives at the razor's edge of a stress fight or flight response. Which isn't good for us, and laughter, even in small doses, free us from those cycles and helps reset and destress.

So take your medicine and laugh a little every day, your future self will thank you.

Email us and let us know how it goes. We may feature you in a future issue.

Outreach

Missions Trip

I am very excited to share this news with all of you. This March, I have the opportunity to travel abroad and teach at Covenant College South Africa. I am looking forward to sharing my experiences and insights during this journey with all of you! For more information on the trip or if you want to help support me, click here

My Sister's Closet

My Sister’s Closet of West Michigan, is a service of Church Builders Bible Training Center to survivors of domestic violence, former incarceration, or other devastating tragedy to meet the need of one of the three basic needs of survival, clothing. Find out more and how to volunteer here.

Florida Boy Cries Tears Of Joy At Seeing Mom In Wedding Dress

A little boy saw his mother in her wedding dress for the first time, and sobbed with happiness.

Mekhi Sheffield, 11, had a big role in his mother Sommer Jean's Jan. 8 wedding: to walk her down the aisle with his grandmother.

Before the ceremony kicked off in downtown St. Augustine, Florida, Jean realized there wasn’t enough time for her to see her son in his suit and to show him what she looked like in her wedding dress.

A bottle floating in a Mississippi River with a 40-year-old handwritten note stuffed inside sent a retired teacher-turned-treasure hunter on a mystery quest

A retired Mississippi teacher set out to find the owner of a 40-year-old message in a bottle that he found floating in the Pearl River in Mississippi on Monday.

Jeremy Weir, a retired middle school principal, is a self-described treasure hunter. Weir said that he is "always hunting treasure (and by treasure I mean old bottles, old wood, sea glass, fossils, etc)," in a Facebook post on Monday.

"Well while hunting this afternoon I found an old Grolsch bottle with a ceramic top in a big drift on the Pearl River," Weir wrote in the post. "I brought it home and started to clean it up and noticed something in it. I opened it and found a plastic bag with a note in it."

Restaurant Goes From Having Hardly Any Customers To Sold Out After Keith Lee TikTok Review

A Las Vegas pizzeria has been blessed with a boon of business thanks to a TikToker on the rise.

On Jan. 3, TikTok food reviewer Keith Lee shared a video to his many millions of followers that would change the fate of Frankensons, a Las Vegas restaurant that serves pizza, chicken wings and more. In the video, he recounts a story about how he came in one day and had a heartwarming experience with the owner, Frank Steele.

"It's been a blessing," said Steele. "This restaurant has been a dream of mine for 30 years."

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