Three Women Empower Each Other To Be Completely Outrageous.
In “The Sweetest Thing”, Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair conjure up a friendship that twinkles with fun, love, and outrageous behavior. I think that this movie has the power to make over just about any mood you’d care to alter.
A friend of ours told us about this film, she thinks that it’s so much fun and I agree. I’d love to have 24 minutes, let alone 24 hours, with these three because they are the alchemy of an instant party.
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Winter Blues, Frozen Economy? Stay Jamaican Cool In The Great White North.
Here’s a winter sports story that will inspire you if you’re facing a problem with impossible odds, unfriendly locals, and a totally new environment.
“Cool Runnings” is based on the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team to try to make it into the winter Olympics. After being disgraced for cheating in the winter Olympics bobsledding event Irving Blitzer (John Candy) moves to Jamaica to start over. Several years later a young sprinter dreams of going to the games. But after he fails to qualify he runs into Irving and decides going as a bobsledder would be just as great. He and a group of young Jamaicans make it to the games where they are laughed at and must ultimately prove that they deserve to be there.
Memorable Quotes:
Sanka Coffie: What I am saying to you, is that you are the kind of club-toting, raw-meat-eating, Me-Tarzan-You-Jane-ing big bald bubblehead that can only count to ten if he’s barefoot or wearing sandals.
Irwin Blitzer: Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing. Man: Yeah, so’s a toilet!
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Want To Feel Better? James Brown Shows Us How.
Here’s James Brown feeling good and look at those people, they’re into it and feeling good with him. This was the fifties when we white folk had to learn how to feel good with our whole body. He passed away two years ago this month and was one of our greatest teachers.
Can you dig how James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul”, was a “Feel Good” force of nature.
Check it out. Doesn’t he make you feel good?
“I feel good!”
This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.
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Mumbai Doc Teaches “Happy Chemicals” of Laughter To Comedian John Cleese.
In this week following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, let’s not forget that Mumbai is also the home of Laughter Yoga. The people of this city have been demonstrating that they will not be intimidated, by going about their lives in as normal a way as possible.
Perhaps for some of them the influence of Mumbai’s Dr. Madan Kataria’s innovative Laughter Yoga therapy will have made it possible for them to deal with at least part of the trauma of this experience. Watch this video to learn more about Laughter Yoga.
We want to acknowledge Dr. Kataria’s pioneering contributions to the field of laughter therapy and his popularization of the health benefits of laughter. In this video he tells Monty Python alumnus, John Cleese, that all of the health benefits of laughter can be achieved by simply laughing on purpose which he sums up with the slogan: “fake it, fake it, until you make it”. He says that laughter, whether real or “fake”, makes the body produce what he calls “happy chemicals” that combat the negative effects of stress and trauma and boost the body’s immune system.
And, yes it seems a little weird, at first, to just laugh for no reason but what’s fantastic is that after a little bit of time something seems to kick in and it begins to feel like there is truly something funny going on that keeps you laughing. It’s fun! Especially with a group of people. And after tragedies like last week there can also be healing.
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Cancer? How Humor Helped Dina Heal Her Tumor.
Dina With Her Life Partner Jim
I (Susan) recently interviewed Dina Ferreira, a very attractive woman in her forties from Brazil, for my upcoming Inspirational Comedy book which explores the healing benefits of humor, laughter, fun and play. She was diagnosed with an extremely serious form of brain cancer and went to many different medical experts who all gave her the same diagnosis and a very short time to live – six months to be exact. But she never gave up and finally she met a doc at UCLA, Dr Cloughsey, who was willing to support her in her conviction that she could survive and heal from her brain tumor.
And now over three and a half years later, she is not just surviving, she is thriving! She has set up a website to help and inspire others, linked to a UCLA website, which is listed below. She is so much more than a cancer survivor! She is involved in a cancer support group and she has set up a fund to help cancer research.
I asked her what she attributes her success to, and how she healed from her brain cancer and she cited several very important factors that helped her dramatically. We will be going into those in more depth next time. But she did give me her favorite funny movies to tell you. The movies that helped inspire her and made her laugh. They will be going into my upcoming book “Cheer Up! Laugh Your Way to Health With Inspirational Comedy 101″. You will also find them in an upcoming post
Her current favorite inspirational comedies are: “Mama Mia” and “Wall E”.
Dina’s website is: http://www.ugbf.org Go online and check it out. You will find it very interesting. She is involved in fundraising for UCLA and research into brain tumors - brain cancer research to find enhanced cancer treatments.
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Financial Issues? It Takes More Than Baby Talk To Make Money In Stock Market.
Financial issues? It seems like it takes more than baby talk to make money in the stock market after all. Oh, if it were all only this easy. Is it tme for this E Trade baby commercial on stress free trading to have it’s diaper changed?
This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.
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Post Surgical Laughter Cure.
Dr. Julian Preparing For Surgery.
Here I am (Julian) preparing for surgery on September 1st, 2005.
While hurricane Katrina wrought havoc on poor New Orleans I underwent a hernia surgery in Santa Monica, California.
A television at the hospital was tuned to CNN and I watched the carnage before they gurnied me through the big door.
The staff, between the TV and the surgeon being 40 minutes late, was a little jumpy. Two nurses quarreled and my blood was spilled on the floor.
I managed to remained calm, I knew that I had to, and so much so, that when Dr. Childs rushed in snapping her gloves and apologizing I put my hand on her shoulder and reassured her that all would be fine. This, just before I began the long descent into the all enveloping folds of total anesthesia.
Later that night, when the first pain killers wore off I discovered an entirely new dimension of pain and you bet I took the Lorcet she had insisted that I use but only twice because it was just so darn strong.
It knocked me out for hours and I’d come to with a numb butt and drool all over my face. (Do people really take that stuff for fun?)
It took a week before I was able to walk any further then my bathroom because the pain would bite, hard, with any wrong move and most any move was wrong.
In the middle of all this I watched some DVDs with my laptop balanced on the bed. Of course some of these had to be comedies which I enjoyed immensely but there was a catch, it really hurt to laugh.
“American Pie” totally cracked me up and also brought tears to my eyes because of the pain I’d get from laughing so hard.
But you know what, I just couldn’t stop myself. I was having so much fun and was caught up in the misadventures of those teenagers driven to extremes by their raging hormones.
I think the laughter helped me feel better, recover faster, and my intuition said “just go with it”, that it was helping my big incision heal faster.
Who knows really but if I were in the same situation again, I’d definitely go for the laughter benefits.
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Will Relationship Survive Issue Of Girlfriend’s Celebrity Status?
Relationship Issues? Learn how these two negotiate big obstacles
In “Notting Hill”, William Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns a travel bookstore in the quaint London borough of Notting Hill. His life is quiet and predictable, until he runs into (literally) the most famous female movie star in the world, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts).
They become friends, and as he introduces her to more aspects of a simple life, they begin to fall in love. The media and rumors threaten to tear them apart and unfortunately succeed in some situations.
William and Anna must choose if their relationship is worth fighting for.
This romantic comedy has been recomended by our friends Chelsea & Ed Turville.
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Marriage Stress Provoked By Head Strong Dear Departed.
In the director, David Lean’s, 1945 classic comedy, “Blithe Spirit”, Noel Coward provides a witty perspective on the domestic complications that arise (from the dead) when widower and newlywed Rex Harrison’s passed spouse just wont accept that it’s over.
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