Michelle, this is so true! Norman Cousins wrote a book about the effect of laughter in his own healing from a deadly illness: "The Anatomy of Disease". He used to watch the Three Stooges and other similar movies while he recovered in the hospital for several months. This was back in the 60s when there were no DVDs. My family enjoys watching funny movies over and over again. We laugh so loud that we cry each time...In no particular order, my daughter's top 10 choices:
1. Spies Like Us - Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd
2. Blades of Glory - Wil Ferrel and Jon Heder
3. Zoolander - Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
4. Anchorman - Wil Ferrel and Christina Applegate
5. Spinal Tap - Fake documentary about a British Band
6. Fletch - Chevy Chase
7. The Producers - both versions
8. Blues Brothers
9. Airplane 1
10. Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
Laughter Yoga is also very good therapy. Here is the website for an international organization that promotes laughter yoga. http://www.laughteryoga.org/ We have tried this at the Chopra Center when they have their annual gathering. They have a children version too.
I find many excuses to laugh. Just watching the dogs fight or thinking about a funny circumstance in my life. Today my husband was trying a new communication device that works with the blinking of his eyes. But in order to get it working he needed to calibrate the blinking with the software. The computer had a little screen with two white circles that were moving in different directions, once the technician told me that those were my hubby's eyes according to the software interpretation, I started to laugh as they looked like two bouncing white balls. The white balls were not perfectly straight, so one was higher than the other, it caused me to laugh so loud that my husband started laughing too...it was funny (I am laughing as I post this)
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Michelle, this is so true! Norman Cousins wrote a book about the effect of laughter in his own healing from a deadly illness: "The Anatomy of Disease". He used to watch the Three Stooges and other similar movies while he recovered in the hospital for several months. This was back in the 60s when there were no DVDs. My family enjoys watching funny movies over and over again. We laugh so loud that we cry each time...In no particular order, my daughter's top 10 choices:
1. Spies Like Us - Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd
2. Blades of Glory - Wil Ferrel and Jon Heder
3. Zoolander - Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
4. Anchorman - Wil Ferrel and Christina Applegate
5. Spinal Tap - Fake documentary about a British Band
6. Fletch - Chevy Chase
7. The Producers - both versions
8. Blues Brothers
9. Airplane 1
10. Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
Laughter Yoga is also very good therapy. Here is the website for an international organization that promotes laughter yoga. http://www.laughteryoga.org/ We have tried this at the Chopra Center when they have their annual gathering. They have a children version too.
I find many excuses to laugh. Just watching the dogs fight or thinking about a funny circumstance in my life. Today my husband was trying a new communication device that works with the blinking of his eyes. But in order to get it working he needed to calibrate the blinking with the software. The computer had a little screen with two white circles that were moving in different directions, once the technician told me that those were my hubby's eyes according to the software interpretation, I started to laugh as they looked like two bouncing white balls. The white balls were not perfectly straight, so one was higher than the other, it caused me to laugh so loud that my husband started laughing too...it was funny (I am laughing as I post this)
May 4, 2009 - 10:25pmThis Comment
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