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“Perhaps never before [in North American history] has there been such a great need for humor, laughter, and cheerfulness in the classroom… Class clowns can provide sunshine for both the mind and the heart†~William Watson Purkey
“When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.†~Abraham-Hicks
“Anyone can slay a dragon. But try waking up each day and loving the world all over again. That takes a real hero.†~Story People
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." -William Arthur Ward (Sent to us by CAPT Jim Montgomery, U.S. Coast Guard)
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.†~Samuel Johnson
“The point is seeing "that this--the immediate, everyday and present experience--is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe...I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter..." ~Alan Watts (Sent to us by Sarito Sun)
“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.†~Unknown
“Hang in there! In just two days tomorrow will be yesterday.†~Unknown
“He who sits on the heavens laughs.†~Psalm 2:4
“I don’t know what it’s like to be old, but I think it’s living long enough to make a joke of the things that once broke your heart.†~Unknown
“Each of us can decrease the suffering of the world by adding to its joy.†~Dawn Markovait’s like to be old, but I think it’s living long enough to make a joke of the things that once broke your heart.†~Unknown
“Each of us can decrease the suffering of the world by adding to its joy.†~Dawn MarkovaBiblical Times: The benefits of humour makes an appearance in the Bible: The Book Of Proverbs 17:22 states ‘A cheerful heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit makes one sick’.
14th Century: French surgeon Henri de Mondeville wrote "Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness, allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes." His belief was that humour therapy could speed recovery from surgery
16th Century: Martin Luther used a form of humour therapy as part of his pastoral counselling of depressed people. He advised them not to isolate themselves but to surround themselves with friends who could joke and make them laugh.
16th Century: Robert Burton, an English parson and scholar used humour as a cure for melancholy.
17th Century: Herbert Spencer, a sociologist used humour as a way to release excess tension.
18th Century: English physician William Battie regularly used humour in treatment of the sick.
18th Century: Immanuel Kant, Germany philosopher advocated humour as a tool for regaining emotional equilibrium.
20th Century: In the 1930s, when clowns were brought into U.S. hospitals to cheer up children hospitalised with polio. This may well have been the beginning of Laughter Therapy as it is known today.
20th Century - 1972: The Gesundheit Institute is founded by U.S. Doctor Hunter ‘Patch’ Adams: this is a home-based free hospital ‘to bring fun, friendship, and the joy of service back into health care’.
20th Century - 1979: Norman Cousins publishes his book ‘Anatomy of an Illness’ based on his own experiences: he had been suffering from ankylosing spondylitis and decided to use his own brand of ‘humour therapy’ by watching episodes of the television show ‘Candid Camera’ and Marx Brothers films. He claimed that ten minutes of laughter could give him two hours of pain relief.
Norman Cousins was born on June 24, 1915, in Union Hill, New Jersey Norman attended teachers college at Columbia University Norman then went on to become a long time editor of the Saturday Review Cousins fended off a life threatening disease and a massive coronary, both times using his own regimen of nutritional and emotional support systems as opposed to traditional methods of treatment.
Cousins is often described as the man who laughed his way to health, a simplified explanation of the controversial healing method the author/editor employed when he was diagnosed in the mid-1960’s as having ankylosing spondylitis. The degenerative disease causes the breakdown of collagen, the fiberous tissue that binds together the body’s cells. Almost completely paralyzed, given only a few months to live, Cousins ordered himself checked out of the hospital He moved into a hotel room and began taking extremely high doses of vitamin C and also exposed himself to equally high doses of humour.
Slowly Norman regained use of his limbs As his condition steadily improved over the following months, Cousins resumed his busy life, eventually returning to work full-time at the Saturday Review Cousins detailed his journey in “Anatomy of an Illnessâ€.
20th Century 1960's Dr. Steve Wilson
Dr. Steve Wilson, pyshchologist, ctively studies alternative types of group therapy activities . He an even longer personal history with humor, it came as no surprise that a major epiphany occurred for him during a workshop Pam and he attended presented by Joel Goodman in Chicago in 1984. From 1984-1997, I immersed himself in the burgeoning field of therapeutic humor and laughter, learning, speaking, writing, and teaching about it. In 1997, the INDUS Foundation invited me to lecture on my work about "How to Create Positive Working Environments" to emerging businesses in India. That program was an outgrowth of my popular talks, workshops and books about "Putting Humor to Work at Work."BIOFUNNY RAPPER GUY VIDEO 1FUNNY RAPPER GUY VIDEO 2FUNNY RAPPER GUY VIDEO 3FUNNY RAPPER GUY VIDEO 4FUNNY RAPPER GUY VIDEO 5FUNNY RAPPER GUY VIDEO 6F.R.G. CAMEO IN SOULJA BOY SPANISH REMIX