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Dear Friends:

If you want to learn how to use cosmic comedy to evoke healing laughter in just about any situation, Steve Bhaerman’s four-week Course In Laughter teleclass begins this coming Tuesday, August 10th. We are also doing a two-hour interactive intensive, Writing Your Laugh Story, on Wednesday, August 25th. Why write your Laugh Story? Well, you know the old saying … laugh at yourself, and the whole world will laugh at you too!

Still trying to make up your mind? Perhaps these FAQ’s will help:

Q. Does laughter really heal?

A. Absolutely. Studies show that just one Youngman of laughter – the comedy contained in just one one-liner – can heal up to a megahurt of emotional pain.

Q. Will taking either of these classes make me funnier?

A. God says we’re all funnier than we could ever imagine. Taking this class will help you see funnier, and see how funny we all are. In other words, life is a comedy of situations and we’re just having an episode.

Q. My co-worker is a jerk. Will I be able to learn a snappy comeback next time he acts jerky?

A. Better than that. You will learn to take full responsibility for everything in your life. That way, next time he bothers you, you can say to him, “Why did I create a jerk like you in my life?”

Q. Will I learn the secret to successful joke-telling?

A. That, we will give you for free. The secret? The punch line goes at the end.

Q. Will this class help me deal with my financial challenges?

A. It certainly will. To paraphrase the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, laughter will get us through times of no money better than money will get us through times of no laughter.

Q. Will you double my money back if I don’t like the class?

A. Being a Swami allows me to go one better: If not completely satisfied, I will double your karma back! People must love this class, because so far I have had no takers.

Seriously, don’t miss this opportunity to achieve your humorin’ potential.

Here are the details:

For those of you who want to take humor more seriously … and seriousness more humorously … here is your chance to do just that, and even do it in your pajamas if you like.

If you’ve wondered how to activate your own comic sensibilities, and bring the healing power of laughter to your inner and outer world, this will be a chance to spend four informative and highly-entertaining hours with Steve Bhaerman, the man behind Swami Beyondananda. The class will consist of four Tuesday evening sessions, running from Tuesday, August 10th through Tuesday, August 31st from 5 to 6 pm PT, 8 to 9 pm ET.

* Session 1. The Cosmic Joke, and the Fool’s Journey.
* Session 2. The Elements of Humor.
* Session 3. Humoring Yourself and Others.
* Session 4. Transforming the Trance.

You will learn about comedy from the inside out, and find out how even a non-comedian can practice “situational comedy” in almost any situation. As part of your registration fee, you will get:

– The Wake Up Laughing e-book free (or, you will get a $15 discount if you already own the e-book)

– The 32 page Course In Laughter “play book.”

– A chance to have your e-mailed questions addressed during the teleclass.

The cost is $69 for the four week session, $54 if you have already purchased the e-book.

Can’t make all four sessions? You’ll be able to listen to any session you’ve missed, as well as any other session as many times as you like during the course of the course, at no extra charge.

Don’t want a four-week class? Then register for a highly-interactive two hour intensive, Creating Your Laugh Story, scheduled for Wednesday, August 25th, from 5 to 7 p.m. PT, 8 to 10 pm PT. This class is limited to 12 participants, and the cost is $119. This class is perfect for anyone with a specific humor project they are working on, and includes a private 30 minute consultation (a $50 value). Participants will get a 25% discount for any additional one-on-one consultations they book during 2010.

To register for the A Course in Laughter and/or the Writing Your Laugh Story Teleclasses, please go here: https://www.wakeuplaughing.com/epistore/index.php?category=Misc

And invite your friends too because when it comes to laughter, the more the merrier. You’ll laugh while you learn, and learn while you laugh!

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Posted by Drs Julian and Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac. Holistic Health Mentors www.ComediesThatHeal.com Tel: 310-395-9525 (USA)

posted Dr Susan Lange OMD, L.Ac
www.comediesthatheal.com

We celebrate the life of Dina “Ubaldina” Ferreira who used laughter and humor, along with her wonderful doctors to prolong her life  – way beyond all the odds.

Our hearts go to her husband, Jim and to her family and friends. She will be much missed, – especially for her loving gentle spirit.

A video tribute to one very courageous and inspirational woman

For donations to the UCLA  Glioblastoma Fund set up by Dina go to www.UGBF.org

Interview by Dr Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac  www.ComediesThatHeal.com

When he was younger he used to play jokes on me, (Susan).
If he thought I was spending too many hours on the computer he would thump loudly up and down the stairs to try and drag me away from the computer to play with him – tried to get me to lighten up and play.  I miss him because he kept me laughing. Then he matured into a buddha cat.
Do you have any clown animals or healer animals in your menagerie?  We’d love to hear from you  because animals heal … they keep us de-stressed as you know!

We hope you enjoy this SIMPLE video of one very cool cat. By the way he was filmed by another cool cat.

posted by Dr Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac   www.ComediesThatHeal.com

Orginal Source: YouTube

Contributed By Graeme Dinnen  – Imagine The Possibilities

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PS  To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to   http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com

I ask myself: “what would I do if I ever found myself in this situation?”

I can imagine it:  there am I riding the subway to work in my usual urban way, minding my own business, maybe doing the crossword, when there is a disturbance in the car.  “What a nerve.” I think to my self.  “Who is that loud guy and what’s he laughing at?” “Nothing, and he won’t even stop his laughter either, even though everyone is trying to ignore him.” “Hrmph!”

But I have to admire his courage, or… Is it joy?  In which case, I really have to admit (only to myself, of course) that I envy his lightheartedness.

My lesson:  to instantly overcome my habit of indignation, because, I suspect that this laughing man doesn’t come around too often.  And his message:  to lighten up, (as in enlightenment).  Maybe even, just a little bit.

And perhaps I have already overlooked the chance to laugh with the such a mirthful minx at nothing, and maybe on more then one occasion.  Heavens!  What a curdling thought.  That I might have been too judgmental on the occasions when fate offered me a chance to laugh. To laugh infectiously, and just because.

Knowing myself, as I have been, this is probably the case.

So, right now I swear to laugh out loud and seize the gift of mirth when I am next graced with a visit by the spirit of laughter and glee.

What about you?

*****

This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals – you and others.

This was sent to me by my old friend Murray Feldman, founder and director of the Vancouver Homeopathic Academy, a fine homeopath and teacher whom, I’m sure, would be right in there laughing along with this mirthful imp.

*****

To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com

To watch this clip click here:

http://101comedies.com/inspirational/mirthful-laughter-overcomes-indignation-judgmental-attitude

“The opposite of play is depression.”

In an article in Green Money Journal (www.greenmoneyjournal.com), the author made this statement that I thought was powerful:

“For children, if they don’t have enough regular free play time, they get depressed, points out the editor of Green Money Journal.  So what about us grown up kids, especially typical American business people, who work – work – work all the time? We aren’t getting enough play time, either! (After all, who are we if not grown up children?)

So if you feel a little bit depressed (or a lot), consider how much play you are getting in. Of course I don’t mean playing in the sandbox or with your Tinker Toys (although I can enjoy a mean session of Tinker Toys with my niece!).

I mean whatever is play for you, whatever age you are.

And while “depression” can be a clinical term, I mean it here much more loosely, as in feeling a little bit down, a little like “what’s the point,” like there’s just too much to do. Or you keep asking yourself how can you ever get ahead.

As always, the answers are paradoxical. While we have to work to grow our business and change the world, we can’t succeed in our endeavors without enough play, either. Too much work does make Jack a dull boy and Jill a dull girl and just no fun to be around.

Fortunately as we make enough playtime a priority in our life, our perspective on everything changes for the better. The truth is, if you want to be successful at whatever your goals are, you have to play.

So ask yourself, are you getting enough playtime? If not, what is one single activity that is play for you? Is it something you can do today? Then make a decision to do it….Play!”

And by signing in to the box at the top right of this blog http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com you can get our special report teaching you the “Four Vital Questions” you must know on how to have more fun and play!

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This post by Jeff Hutner, Editor, www.newparadigmdigest.com

and Dr Susan Lange. OMD L.Ac   (All bold and italic type added by us)

For more inspirational comedy articles, tips and video clips visit our blog at

http://www.comediesthatheal.com

Smile, today is inauguration day, the 20th of January 2009, a day of change for all of us.  We are going to grow!

Today the United States transitions from the Bush era with it’s journey to “the dark side” to a time of “hope” with Barack Obama guiding us through change and towards a renewed unity between all folk.

Most of the world’s people are enjoying a sense of optimism with this change in the U.S.A. but some are not. Some will be nursing a regret as they witness the demise of an administration that represented a culture of entitlement and consumption.

It seems that a version of the American Dream is coming to an end, the version that encourages us to believe that the earth’s resources are everlasting and for us to use like the equity in our homes.

Over the coming years all of us will have to rethink our priorities and sort out our needs and our wants.

For some this will be a bitter task.

For all of you, who will shed a tear, rend your garments, and gnash your teeth at having to reduce, reuse, and recycle, I am pleased to offer the above item from a prior era.  An era perhaps similar to our own when our forbears had to tighten their belts and dig deep into their character: the great depression.

This familiar tune, sung here by Nat King Cole, was written by the comic genius, Charlie Chaplin with words by Turner and Parsons.

My hope today, is for all of those inclined to gloom on this occasion.  May this song inspire you to cheer up, like it must have for your own parents, grandparents, or great grandparents during their years of challenge and change.

*****

Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.

To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com

To watch this clip click here:

http://www.101comedies.com/comedians/inauguration-day-2009-got-change-got-hope-got-a-smile

… were you laughing?  Were you outraged?  What’s so funny about that?

If you’re asking you probably didn’t get it and that’s okay.  But this made me laugh, I’ll admit it.  Kind of a guilty laughter, here, alone with my P.C., but laughter none the less and I’m here to remind you all that laughter is a good thing for lots of good reasons, one of which is to not take things too seriously.

Especially the things that are really serious, like cancer.

In his memoir, “Cancer On $5 A Day”, comedian, Robert Schimmel describes his experience facing stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and all it’s vicissitudes with humor.  When his oncologist gave him and his parents, both holocaust survivors, the bad news, the first thing out of his mouth was a joke, to which the doc replied “you’re going to be fine”.  “Why do you say that” asked our potential victim, “because”, said the doc, “of your attitude”.

That was close to nine years ago and he’s even had a child since then.

“Going for the laugh was his survival mechanism” and I think it’s safe to say that Robert Schimmel feels great with us laughing at him.  In fact you can do just that by tuning in his new television show, “Life Since Then” on Showtime.

This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.

To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com

To watch this clip click here:

http://www.101comedies.com/laughterandyourbody/whats-so-funny-about-that

So take heart and know that you are not alone!

Here you witness someone in the stammering throws of an existential anxiety attack.  But notice how Herr John J. has turned his discomfort into a cathartic German angst rap.  He may be squirrely but who isn’t in these freaky times when it can seem that all that’s left is the humor.  So if you’re in some similar fix to our rapping friend here maybe now is the time for you to also get creative, and find your own funky way to restore your spirits and your fun.
What could be more healthy then that and after all, could you do any worse than this?

Contributed by:  Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.

To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com

To watch this clip click here:

http://101comedies.com/inspirational/hung-up-on-the-why-me-question-you-are-not-alone/