...Norman Cousins research on laughing therapy In a book called “Anatomy of Illness”, Cousins shares his successive fight against crippling diseases and how a body mobilizes its healing power when there is positive attitude towards the problem. Cousins throughout his life he had challenging life. Right in younger days he was struck with tuberculosis and later he had paralysis. Whenever, he had a disease he came up with responsibility of curing it naturally, within. He describes how a body can produce required medicine within the body through love, hope, faith and laughter. Always used to trust that nature is such a beautiful thing it creates problems to bring up a new inventions and discoveries for better living. Many credits to cousins, as...
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...101 SIMPLE THINGS WHY I LOVE MY BOYFRIEND ♥ •I love his eyes. •I love his smile. •I love the way he laughs. •I love moments when we can finish each other’s sentences. •I love it when he holds my hand. •I love it when we look into each other’s eyes and the rest of the world disappears. •I love it when he looks at me, talks about me and touches me as if every part of me is precious. •I love the fact that we dream of a grand adventure together. •I love the fact that he values my opinion. •I love it when he kisses me on my forehead; it is the deepest feeling of love and peace. •I love the fact that though we have tough times together, he still chooses to be with me. •I love that he loves taking stolen pictures of me. •I still look beautiful in his eyes no matter how bad I think I look. •I love when he said he’d still love me even I get SO FAT! •I love that he gets jealous with other guys. •I love that I am his reason why he wake up so early. •I am myself when I am with him. •I don’t need to clean the house before he comes over. •I can tell him every little thing about me. •I can ask him a dumb question without feeling dumb. •I love the fact that when I’m around him, I can be myself and not worry about what he may think of me because I know he loves me for who I am. •He is very patient even when I’m yelling. •He is overflowing with confidence. •He can handle adversity and come out stronger. •He is Intelligent. •I feel so secured and loved when he hugs me tight...
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...nformative speechINFORMATIVE SPEECH Speech Title: Laughter is the best medicine. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the benefits of laughter. Central Idea/ Thesis statement: There are several benefits of laughter in terms of physical, mental and social. Introduction 1. Attention Material How we can improve our health without having a drug or doing an exercise every day? While it hears seem impossible, I'd like to let all of you know about this fact. Based on your knowledge, what is laughter? According to undated article on How Laughter Works by Marshall Brain defined that laughter is not the same as humor but laughter is one of the physiological responses to humor. Laughter consists of two parts which are a set of gestures and the production of a sound. When we laugh, the brain pressures us to conduct both those activities simultaneously. When we laugh, changes may occur in many parts of the body which effects on arm, leg and muscles. 2. Tie To Audience/ Relevancy Statement/ Reveal Your Topic You may be thinking whether it is true or not, right? Laughter is a great thing that is why usually we heard that people saying, "Laughter is the best medicine." This statements shows strong evidence that laugh every day can make a big difference to our health. Laughter means you feel happy and when you are happy you tend to be healthier. It is a regular series of short sounds like "hahaha," “huhuhu,” “heeheehee” or “hohoho." These sounds...
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...but there is a way that you can cure 60% of weekly stresses by not spending money on medications, consolers or alcohol. It’s a supper convenient trick that doesn’t require you to leave your room nor house for it. Today I am going to be informing you about laughing yoga. I’m going to tell you what it is. The benefits of it. And how you can use it on our everyday life. In the mid-1990s laughter yoga was practiced in the early mornings, primarily by groups of older men in open parks. Later, a more formalized version was created and popularized as “laughter clubs” by physician MADAN KATARIA. Kataria`s first laughter yoga club began on march 13th 1995 in Mumbai, India, Beginning with five people in public local park. The concept has rapidly spread worldwide. as of 2011, there are more than 8000 laughter clubs in 65 countries Each club has its own laugh captain and operates as an independent cell. He started laughing yoga to shed ambitious and build self confidence In other words laughter cures today According to kataria laughing yoga leaves you feeling fresh for the day and prove that laughter helps decrease the negative affects of stress and also gives a boost to your ammune system Show a video So laughing yoga...
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...Ophelia is just an ordinary girl. She’s blends in at school amongst all her peers and goes noticed by only the group of friends she feels secure around. She tends to keep to herself because the thought of new people terrifies her. There are secrets she keeps, deeper than an underwater trench. One distance day will her eyes finally be opened, and it’ll be revealed to her the way others truly see her. Ophelia sits in her room. The walls are painted nothing but the plain shades of white and black. It may come off as the stereotypical room of a teenage girl with only a glint of herself shining through. Her friend Josephina lies on the bed snug as can be as Ophelia talks. Ophelia’s delicate hands slowly unfold like blooming Easter lilies as she whispers the stories of her covered up past. Her beige lips moved as she would stop and start, hesitant to finally reveal the secrets she’s kept so far away. This is the exact moment that Josephina finally realizes one thing quietly inside herself. This is the exact moment that they aren’t just friends hanging out for the first time outside of work, but they’re now best friends. It was from this exact moment that Josephina began to think of Ophelia in a new, inexperienced way. She enjoyed listening to her friend’s rich, full voice that left her ears ringing. When Ophelia would begin to laugh faintly, trying not to wake her parents, at one of her corny jokes, Josephina would hear it like grand music that only gets stuck in your head. The...
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...Good Evening! For those of you who don't know me, I am Kineta, the very proud Best Friend of our glamorous Bride. I want to start by congratulating the bride and groom, and thanking all of you for coming here today. When I look at the bride and groom, I feel such a whirlwind of emotions? I know that Jessica has found her true match and I know that theirs will be a marriage of long standing.. I know you have a wonderful adventure ahead of you, and with God's blessing your marriage will last for decades to come. I never knew Robert before he dated JC, so I can't tell you horrible stories about him, but I can tell you that I think he is perfect for her!? He's easy going, interesting, easy to talk to, and he has a great sense of humor! We are very happy to welcome Robert into our family. We know he's made for us, and we hope we're made for him! Jessica, I want to note how beautiful you look today, and to tell you that this has truly been a special day for me. Thank you for giving true meaning to the word sister/best friend and for sharing the last 20+ years with me. My family and I have just loved this girl from the time we met in the 3rd grade. We've cried with her, enjoyed her, and laughed with her. I know how much joy she has brought into my life, and I know that she'll bring that joy into Robert’s life as well. As children, J and I were pretty much inseparable, and we always managed to keep each other laughing. When I think back on our adventures in childhood, I have nothing...
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...Joe Brunner MWF Essay #1 A Loving Co-Worker Its 11:30 on a quiet Saturday morning at Mexican Village when Tawnya Jenner, a 34 year old busser/dishwasher with a slight mental disability, comes in through the back door. As the loud, obnoxious, and loving woman comes in she does her routine of greering all of the cooks working, giving some of them hugs and asking how their morning has been. As she moves on to the office where she will put her jacket and anything else that she has with her, that is in the front of the restaurant she passes all of the servers and hosts, talks to them just how she does to the cooks. After she clocks in, she walks back to the kitchen and then brings a couple cooks a drink without even having them ask her. She remembers what they get to drink because she always goes back to the kitchen and asks everyone if they want something so if you ask her for it then she will get it for you any other time she sees you back there, It’s just what she does. Then once the day goes on she is either bussing tables or washing dishes in the back. No matter where she is you can either hear her by her incredibly loud snort when she laughs or just by the way she talks, she is just so loud. Tawnya has been doing this same routine for over 15 years and she still loves every second of it no matter what. Everyone who has ever worked with Tawnya at some point had to have loved her. As annoying as she can get there is still a lot of times when she is very nice, loving,...
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...being depressed. You forget about why you’re even sad. It’s like a dead, dry spirit of sadness being lifted from your body. You can think of laughing as an outlet for you’re bottled up emotions. Stress and tension are magically erased from your mind. Such as drama at school, issues at home all seem to vanish at the moment like time stopping just for you to enjoy the day just once. Even the world’s greatest procrastinator or droopy soul can be fixed with a some old fashion hooting and hollering. Health fanatics should give laughing a try. Indeed a healthy source of fun and a great addition to your diet. A good chortle exercises certain muscles and the diaphragm. It also brings about the feeling of relaxation like a cozy spa on a rainy day. Laughter practically gives you a mini work out. No wonder sides of the body feel sort of achy and the stomach like a deflated balloon after laughing too much. In addition to it being healthy for you, it protects the heart. You are least likely to have a heart attack or disease if you laugh regularly. I suggest that people grab a funny movie and just cackle away. Who needs a pain relievers like morphine when the giggles can relieve pain. It distracts the brain...
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...1.I'm Job Malikchan. 2. I'm 14 years old. 3.I live in Saytan,Pugo,La Union . 4.I love playing computer games. 5.My favorite game is "League of Legends". 6.I love watching animes. 7.My favorite color is white. 8. My favorite foods are "Sweet Foods". 9.My favorite band is Silent Sanctuary. 10.I'm a shy person.......... My Summer Vacation The last thing most kids want to think about during summer vacation is school. But add some music, creativity and raucous fun, and many children actually wind up begging their parents to take them to summer school. We will be taking part in vacation Bible, an increasingly common summertime activity. Dozens of local churches hold these weeklong events for school-age kids and teens. Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from the bag...
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...that enable us to reduce stress, to spread happiness, and to combat fear. Body I. Main Point: One benefit of humor is that humor reduces stress A. People who laughs enormously on a regular basis can have lower standing blood pressure than the average person. When people have a good laugh, the blood pressure increases but then returns back to normal. When watching TV, a movie, or even a comedian, there is comedy that excites people to burst out laughter. B. Health and wellness. Integral Research Center, from http://thinkexist.com/quotation/laughter_is_the_best/164086.html quotes “Laughter is the best medicine.” When laughter is shared, it brings people together and increases happiness. This free medicine is easy to use and uses excitement. II. Main Point: Another benefit of humor is that humor spreads happiness. A. Humor changes one’s perspective of happiness. Humor brings balance. Laughter creates distance, between what you fear. B. The key to being happy is by having happy people around you. When coping with people, they have a sense of humor, and they encourage other people to be happy. III. Main Point: The last benefit of humor is that humor combats fear A. People are scared of their bodies. By using...
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...Laughter Is the Best Medicine All people have at one point in their lives felt some type of pain either emotionally or physically. Perhaps it was you breaking a bone, or maybe your grandmother passing. And I’m sure all of you have found something that makes those times a little easier to deal with. I personally have always found it easier to cope when you are inflicted by pain to find some humor in the situation to make the situation a little more tolerable. Whether faced with the pain of injury or being hurt emotionally, I have always found that just a bit of laughter can make the situation one hundred times better. When I lived in Alaska, my family and I faced some of the harshest winters on record. Moving from Maryland where it was odd if we even accumulated a foot of snow during the winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to...
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...Cat or Mouse Along the novel the symbolic figures of the cat and the mouse, are named constantly. The cat mainly represents the persecutor, the repressor, while the mouse represents the victim. The cat in the novel represents, for instance, the Nazis and the mouse, the occupied and humiliated Poland. Pilenz and Mahlke also represent both animals: Pilenz the cat as direct or indirectly contributes to Mahlke's destruction, and then again the love and hate relationship that he feels towards Mahlke creates in him such dependence that later turns him into the mouse. Mahlke is the mouse. An animal which is also represented by Mahlke's apple of his throat because he is eternaly humiliated even though he keeps trying to be accepted by the Nazi society all the time, making all kind of feats to pay people's attention. Mahlke is also a cat because of the feelings of dependence and of inferiority that he awakes in Pilenz. The reader is not expected to share Pilenz admiration for Mahlke', due to the way Pilenz tells Mahlke's story. One may have a feeling that, when reading Pilenz's words, Mahlke's attitude is sometimes irritable, egocentric, and so on, despite often the fact that Pilenz wants to deny those feelings which we perceive that he shows. Many times the group of friend’s joke and laugh at Mahlke, including Pilenz: “We laughed as, bluish and shivering, he crossed himself with his waterlogged fingertips, attempted to move his lips in prayer and produced a bit of Latin between chattering...
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...Can women do a man’s job? Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are two major characters in Glaspell’s Trifles. We enter a story where the women are following the men into the kitchen of the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright. Hale’s wife speaks about Minnie’s (John’s wife) alienation from her nearest neighbors because of John’s stingy and unfriendly ways. She is being accused of being his murderer and Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters make observations of things that Minnie has left undone or unfinished around the house. This story is during an era where women were seen as incompetent to do a “man’s job”, yet these women were more observant and resourceful when trying to solve this crime. The women begin prodding around the kitchen and taking notice to things Minnie has just left untidy in the kitchen. The women had been sent to grab some belongings for Minnie, so they proceeded in doing so. The women then begin conversating about whether or not they believe Minnie is innocent. They move around the house and notice the quilt that was being pieced. They then notice simple clues of things being out of place in the house, but things that only a woman would take notice to. As the women are speaking about the quilt the sheriff enters and mocks the women. “They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it!” [The men laugh and the women look abashed] (897). The men leave and the women sit at a table and resume in further noticing more evidence. “Mrs. Peters, look...
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...asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “YES”. The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. “Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - God, family, children, health, friends, and favorite passions. Things, that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car. The sand is everything else -- the small stuff.” he said. “If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “There is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you...” he told them. “So... pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness...
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...take your discipline too seriously. When you try to hurt me, I laugh — and the laughter knows no pain. I appreciate your joys wherever I find them; your sorrows neither frighten nor discourage me, for there is laughter in my soul. “Temporary defeat does not make me sad. I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song. Your tears are not for me, for I like laughter much better, and because I like it, I use it as a substitute for grief and sorrow and pain and disappointment. “Life, you are a fickle trickster — don’t deny it. You slipped the emotion of love into my heart so that you might use it as a thorn with which to prick my soul — but I learned to dodge your trap with laughter. You tried to lure me with the desire for gold, but I have fooled you by following the trail which leads to knowledge instead. You induced me to build beautiful friendships — then converted my friends to enemies so you may harden my heart, but I sidestepped your figure on this by laughing off your attempts and selecting new friends in my own way. “You caused men to cheat me at trade so I will become distrustful, but I won again because I possess one precious asset which no man can steal — it is the power to think my own thoughts and to be myself. You threaten me with death, but to me death is nothing worse than a long peaceful sleep, and sleep is the sweetest of human experiences — excepting laughter. You build a fire of hope in my heart, then sprinkle water on the flames, but...
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