Laughter

LAUGHTER © ARC November 2013
I love to laugh.
I’m great to tell a joke to…slow to get, easy to forget.
So, you can probably repeat in a month or so, get the same reaction.
I’m not comfortable at all with scatology laughter: crude/adolescent.

I love good jokes/routines
like Victor Borge’s History of the Piano: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=You+Tube+Victor+Borge+piano&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=6289BBC9E7BB3EE56BED6289BBC9E7BB3EE56BED

I heard about Norman Cousins decades ago; his story of self-healing through laughter made a tremendous impression on me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2154152/ https://www.google.com/#q=Norman+Cousins+books http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Illness-Perceived-Twentieth-Anniversary/dp/0393326845 http://www.joeyguse.com/2007/07/how-marx-brothers-brought-norman.html

Throughout the years I have observed within myself that the faster I can get myself to `turn a negative situation’ to positive, the better off I am.
One psychology class had an experiment.
The instructions were to start the day with a hundred pennies in one pocket, transfer one to another when a negative thought occurred.
Most all of us had emptied the one pocket.

There is a duality in us like a pendulum swing that swings back and forth from negative to positive.
I’ve thought most of my life that I’m like a Surviving Scarlet versus a Metaphysical Melanie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)
Laughing at myself/human condition makes struggle easier, life seasons triumphant.
http://laughterheals.org/ http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm
God Bless, ARC