How to Meditate on a rock with Lion Kitten
Stressed out in a fast paced world? Try “Meditation on a rock”. This video features little Lion kitten. He’s one of our 11 week old wild kittens, born under the lavender bushes, next to our bedroom window.
Join little “Lion” kitten as he teaches us how to meditate in the midst of his rambunctious siblings. He certainly makes my heart sing! How about you?
posted Dr Susan Lange OMD, L.Ac
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How Laughter and Humor helped Dina with her Brain Cancer
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
Release Stress, Have Fun, Prevent Humor-rhoids with Your Daily Laughsitive from Swami Beyondananda
To help you release stress, loosen up and lighten up, Swami Beyondananda has very generously donated his Daily Laughsitive to us for FREE.
He hopes that regular exposure to his daily laughsitives will help prevent all kinds of disorders
Let us know what moves you?
Our thanks go to Steve Bhaerman for his generous contribution because as we all know a happy digestion creates happy thoughts.
PS Watch out for Steve’s groundshaking new book with Bruce Lipton Ph.D “Spontaneous Evolution”
Posted by Dr Susan Lange, OMD., L.Ac www.ComediesThatHeal.com
Because Your Laughter Heals!
Need some exercise? Try Ping Pong!
Exceptional Exhibition Play!
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Heart Problems? Laughter Proven to Help Your Blood Vessels Expand
Using laughter-provoking movies to gauge the effect of emotions on cardiovascular health, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have shown for the first time that laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels. Laughter appears to cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow.The results of the study, conducted at the University of Maryland Medical Center, were presented at the Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology on March 7, 2005, in Orlando, Florida. Continue Reading »
In A Funk? Physical Comedy Feels Good If Too Sedentary.
In “Jour de Fete” (1949) French comic Jacques Tati dances funny as a small town postman inspired by his sense of patriotism to emulate the hyper efficient US Postal Service. Enjoy this sweet vignette of Tati’s classy style of physical comedy.
Doesn’t his improvised Jitterbuging Lindy Fox Hopscotch Trot (or what ever it is) look like fun? It kind of feels good doesn’t it? He’s charming and a pleasure to watch. Maybe he stirs up that innocent spirit of fun that made us run, jump, and skip when we were kids, just because we felt like it.
My wife, Susan Lange, reminds me that fun and play is a good thing because it puts us into a pleasure state. Can you remember back to a time when you were so happy that you couldn’t physically contain it? A time when your happiness just bubbled up and you “did” something physically with your body? Maybe you “jumped for joy.”
This is the question: when was it that you last jumped for joy? If it’s been a while, then it’s probably been too long and now’s just as good a time as any for you to spring to your feet and jump as high as you can with a loud YIPPEE!
Doesn’t that feel good?
The reason it feels good is that you can lead your mind to joy by going through the physical motions of joy. Physical play will make you happier. Maybe you don’t feel like it right now. Maybe you are saying to yourself that you aren’t in the mood to jump around and play. I’d suggest that you not listen to that voice and just pretend that you are “in the mood”, even if it feels silly. Try it and you’ll find that even the gloomiest funk can be turned on it’s head with regular fun and play. Even exercise (the “mature” way to play) works to improve our mood.
Isn’t it true that you do some things, “just for the fun of it”. Maybe now’s a good time to start doing more just for fun.
My advice is to practice fun and practice play. With practice you’ll get real good at it, maybe even become a virtuoso of fun. And, by the way, isn’t there kind of a spiritual ring to that word “practice?”
Could a spiritual realization be found in fun and play? Hmm….
So what do you do for the fun of it?
Let me tell you what I have been doing.
I bought myself a skate board for my 51st. birthday. I haven’t been on one of those for 40 years. It’s a blast, and I love it, even if my friends and family fear for the health of my bones.
I’m teaching myself to juggle. I have no idea if I’ll ever perfect this art of levity but it’s fun anyways.
Once I wrote a 15 minute comedy skit for me and some reluctant friends to perform in front of a real live audience. You know what? It actually worked. People really laughed and we were all so buzzed afterward.
The kids in our family love it when we do puppet shows for them. We love doing this for them and then watch the shows they do for us in return.
And..
My wife Susan; she skips. She jumps up and down, spontaneously, and claps her hands with a huge grin on her face. After all these years she still amazes me and my heart fills with love for her when she does this. This feels extra good.
A friend of mine takes the warm freshly dried laundry from the dryer and envelops his little kids with it for a long cozy cuddle with their Daddy. It’s a love fest and they all bond.
If you ask me, this is the memorable stuff of life.
Leave me a comment. I would really like to know what you do for fun and how it makes you feel?
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This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.
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Depression? Play is New Cure, Revealed from Grow Your Green Business
“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!”
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What’s So Funny About That?
Laughing with you or laughing at you? Check this out and…
… 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.
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Taking Life Too Seriously? Try More Laughter Today with Tips from Laughter Coach, Dr Annette Goodheart
We take life way too seriously, if the following quote from laughter coach Annette Goodheart is true. So why not try more laughter now by taking her advice?
“The average 5 year old in the U.S. laughs 400 times per day. The average adult laughs 15 times.”
In a recent interview for her upcoming book: “Cheer Up! Laugh Your Way to Health with Inspirational Comedy 101″ Dr Susan Lange OMD, L.Ac of the Meridian Center for Holistic Medicine in Santa Monica, California interviewed Dr. Annette Goodheart, a laughter coach with forty years of experience in the field.
Here are a few gems from the interview on the healing power of laughter:
- One thing our family did every night at dinner was laugh. We laughed so hard we spit out our food, fell off our chairs and wet our pants.
- Catharsis is nature or God’s way of resolving the imbalance in our chemistry because our emotions are chemical. If we do not re-balance them, and our culture teaches us us not to, then that inbalance stores and eventually becomes dis-ease. Infants and children expertly resolve this imbalance and return to a state of homeostasis. I believe this is the missing link in science, psycho-neuro-immunology and other emerging mind-body fields because we have so many myths and beliefs that are untrue, not just about laughter, but crying and most other emotional expressions as well. Remember that there’s no such thing as a bad emotion. All emotions are painful and need to be moved out through catharsis.
- As a general rule, in Western culture, (only) women are allowed to lose control, but men have to be in control and it’s very frightening for many of them to lose it. It’s an actual loss of physical control. Most of us have laughed until we cried or fallen out of our chairs. You literally lose muscle control.
- For people starting out on their laughing path, I suggest going into the bathroom by yourself, looking yourself in the eye in the mirror, and with your most serious face, saying “tee-hee” and see what happens. Spend time with friends who laugh a lot and laugh along with them. Don’t wait to find out why they’re laughing. You never have to have a reason to laugh.
- The only thing that I would not recommend is laughing at ridicule or put down. Central Michigan University conducted a study that showed that people who use put downs or ridicule are sick more frequently and spend more time in hospitals than people who are witty. If a friend uses put down humor, I would not spend time laughing with them. Other than that, take every opportunity you can to laugh.
- I used to and still do carry a red rubber nose in my car. When I drove to Los Angeles, I would put it on during rush hour traffic. I had more fun with the other cars. Half of them thought I was crazy and the other half were delighted and gave me the thumbs up.
- I have a book called Laughter Therapy: How to Laugh About Everything in Your Life That is Not Really Funny. Everyone usually knows what they think is funny or can laugh at. But I help people laugh about things that aren’t funny and support them in re-balancing and resolving their pain. I’ve worked successfully with depression, AIDS, cancer, sexual abuse and other emotional and physical challenges. In addition to the book, I have CD’s, DVD’s, video tapes and cassettes available at my two websites, laughtercoach.com or teehee.com. And to sample a free laughter coaching demonstration, write Annette at teehee@teehee.com.
Interview by Dr Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac www.MeridianHolistic.com
Edited by Jeff Hutner, www.newparadigmdigest.com
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Reduce Cancer Pain & Fatigue? Research Says Try a Dose of Optimism
Cancer is a feared disease that can cause serious pain and fatigue in many people. A recent US research project on reducing pain and fatigue in cancer patients has revealed that a bright outlook truly does have a tangible benefit. The Monty Python crew, in their hit song in “The Life of Brian”, ask us to “always look on the bright side of life”. They knew!
Cancer – A Feared Disease
There are many aspects of cancer which make it such a frightening disease. For example, it often does not exhibit symptoms until the time when most people think it is “too late” to do anything. This makes it almost a silent killer.
It can make people feel helpless, and cancer sometimes spreads very rapidly. It seems to afflict anyone, anywhere, too.
Then there is the little matter of the pain which cancer brings, in particular during its latter stages, and also for certain types of cancer, such as bone cancer, liver cancer and pancreatic cancer.
The pain and fatigue which cancer patients often suffer from can badly affect their quality of life as well as their ability to function, not just physically, but also mentally.
Many protocols and therapies, both conventional and “alternative” medicine, are used to reduce and manage pain and fatigue caused by cancer. Some of these include pain-killing drugs, foot reflexology, massage and acupuncture.
Now, research conducted by Dr Margot E Kurtz and her team of colleagues from the Michigan State University in East Lansing has found that cancer patients with more optimistic outlooks were better able to manage their cancer pain, while those patients who had a strong sense of mastery, or control over their environment, experienced less severe fatigue on top of being able to better manage their pain.
Details of Study
The study looked at the personality traits, such as dispositional optimism and mastery, of 214 cancer patients who were undergoing chemotherapy, to see how they affect the patients’ ability to manage the severity of their cancer fatigue and pain.
Participants of the study were put through a 10-week symptom control intervention program, with the help of a nurse. They were interviewed three times – at the start of the study, after 10 weeks at the end of the intervention program, and again after 16 weeks, to get a sense of their emotional states.
Findings of Study
The study, which was published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, found that those participants who had higher levels of mastery reported feeling less severe pain as well as lower levels of fatigue.
On top of that, participants who had a more optimistic outlook also experienced less severe pain, although in this case, higher levels of optimism did not translate to less severe fatigue.
These findings were adjusted for other important factors, such as age, gender, cancer location, stage of the disease, and other health issues which may be afflicting the participants.
Additional findings of the study include less severe cancer pain for those patients who were older and those with fewer health issues on top of their cancer diagnosis, while the latter group also reported lower levels of fatigue.
Further, the study team reported not much difference in the degree of optimism and mastery detected between patients whose cancers were detected early and those who were suffering from late stage disease. This is an important point as it rules out, to some degree, the possibility that optimistic attitudes may have been caused by less severe disease and pain, rather than vice versa.
Along similar lines, it was found that the number of additional health issues on top of cancer did not seem to influence the baseline levels of optimism and mastery of the subjects.
What Can Be Done
The study team suggested that clinicians could look out for such traits in cancer patients, and work with them to help them use these traits to better cope with their cancer symptoms.
“These findings underscore the need for physicians and nurses involved in the care of cancer patients to recognize, encourage, promote, and take advantage of these traits in their patients to help them more effectively manage their cancer care, so that they ultimately can achieve a better quality of life during the sequelae of the cancer experience,” the study team concluded.
On a personal level, cancer patients and their loved ones need to do more to help improve the emotional outlooks of cancer sufferers. Read jokes, watch comedies, laugh, hang out with and talk to positive people, pray, meditate, go for counseling – do anything to raise one’s levels of optimism and mastery.
According to the finds of this Michigan study, this can help one deal with cancer pain and fatigue. In addition, much as some factions of conventional medicine may disagree, there are many of us who actually believe that such an outlook can in fact improve one’s chances of defeating the disease.
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Source
From Natural News.com
Patient Optimism and Mastery — Do They Play a Role in Cancer Patients` Management of Pain and Fatigue? (http://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088…)00058-4/abstract)
This post by Jeff Hutner, Editor, www.newparadigmdigest.com
and Dr Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac
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