Christmas Shopping Stress Got You Down? Here are Five Last Minute Funny and Inspiring Gift Ideas for the Holidays
If you are among the many last minute holiday shoppers dreading a trip to your local big box store, and facing long lines is at the top of your must miss Christmas list, here’s some fun items you might want to consider:
1. Ash Grey “You Rock” T-Shirt is the perfect holiday gift for anyone you hold dear. $17.99
2. Wassamatta U Hooded Sweatshirt is the perfect seasonal gift for a college bound senior or any academic type who could use a laugh. $36.99
3. If you or your friends are worried about how to survive the holidays, Comedy Kings offers endless hours of old-fashioned, side-splitting healing laughs with 50 classic comedy films digitally remastered in a 12 double-sided DVD set! Revisit timeless comedy legends Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Carole Lombard, Charlie Chaplin, Jimmy Durante and many more! Films include such treasures as The Inspector General, Life With Father, Nothing Sacred, Perils Of Pauline, The Kid, and Road To Bali. It’s an instant library of timeless fun! $20 at Betty’s Attic. This has to be one of the best buys in comedy DVD’s.
4. Because Santa doesn’t have mapquest, this funny pillow makes a humorous gift that will become part of Christmas celebrations each year. $32 at Belmont Home Decor.
5. According to Jerry Seinfeld, Born Standing Up is one of the best books about comedy and being a comedian ever written. Steve’s memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time. If you’re looking for serious laughs during the Christmas holidays, get this book. $13.50 at Borders.
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Stressed? Oprah’s Resident Skeptic Investigates Laughter Yoga Club.
Is Laughter Yoga one of Oprah’s favorites?
Oprah dispatches her makeup artist and designated skeptic, Reggie, to check out a local Laughter Yoga club. See what her stressed out “resident complainer” has to say. And then, maybe, try it out for yourself.
Memorable Quotes:
Oprah,”you did feel better?”
Skeptic Reggie, “stress lifted from my soul; it lifted from my body. I felt so much better”.
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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
In Cooking & Living: It’s Not So Much What You Cook But How You Cook It.
In the 2007 film, “How To Cook Your Life”, the German film maker Dorris Dorie follows Zen chef, and author Ed Espe Brown as he uses the metaphor of cooking to teach us that our attitude will effect our life and our relationships. Brown reminds us that life and food is precious and says that “if the cook is joyful, the food tastes better”.
Just remember to practice joyfulness and everything is better.
And enjoy the experience of life, every moment is unique and precious, so make something special out of your life, even if it’s “just” dinner. You’ll feel better for it.
This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.
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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
Here is a link to Ed Espe Brown’s site:
http://www.peacefulseasangha.com/
Here are a couple of links to an interesting 2008 interview with Doris Dorrie, if you speak German:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJM5Vh3Eg90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpkWOko09rc
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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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
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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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
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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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
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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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
How Does Comedienne Detoxify Family Genetics? With Humor.
My genes are poisoned, and I know that for a fact.
My sister Laura is the family historian, you know, and she found out — we’re Russian and Polish, ya know, Jews — she found out that the village that our great-great-great-grandmother came from in Russia was raped and pillaged by — and I don’t even know what pillaged means, but definitely raped — by Mongolians.
So I’m, I am part Mongolian rapist. And I will be totally honest with you: I love it.
I just feel like it gives me street cred or something, like it’s so… and I also feel like, even back then, even while my great-great-great-grandmother was being raped, even then I think she knew, ya know, this is gonna be funny someday.
The edgy comedy of Sarah Silverman.
For an interesting introduction to epigenetics by Bruce Lipton go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Vyh_sBMcs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Hh7b3Nxxc
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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
In Overwhelm? A Happy Jig That Will Jog Your Reasons To Be Grateful.
Sometimes no matter how stressful life can be, we’ve just got to move to shake loose our gratitude – and our bodies.
Brad & Matty remind us to ask ourselves, what are we grateful for today?
For me it’s the rain and cooler weather. Here’s some more fun, play and dance for you, – that anyone can do. Wherever you are in the world – let’s dance together!
PS This Gratitude Dance is offered by Roger Senders
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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
Work stress? Master Happiness Practitioners Make It Look Easy.
Have you ever felt like physical work or daily chores can be a drudge and oh, so dreary? Worried about your job? Suffering from work stress, job stress? In the military? Ever dreamed of escaping to a better life? Things could be worse …
Well, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, with musical accompaniment by Mr. Iggy Pop, teach you how to have fun and play every day – especially when you’re supposed to be working and doing the same old chores. They teach you how to feel better and make the best of being exactly where you are in the moment. – whether in jail or in the horse trough.
And just watch Laurel’s knees. Boy, does he know how to move his body!
This is Dr. Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. reminding you that your laughter heals.
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PS To watch other inspirational comedy video clips go to http://www.ComediesThatHeal.com
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