Laughter Yoga therapy with a smile

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On November 30, 1990. Norman Cousins died in Los Angeles at age 75, eleven
years after the publication of his most famous book, "Anatomy of an
Illness" (1979). Cousins, the legendary editor of "The Saturday Review"
and one of the century's most influential peace activists, was diagnosed
with a painful and life-threatening illness in the early 1970s. After
learning that one of his physicians had said "I'm afraid we're going to
lose Norman," Cousins figured he had nothing to lose and took control over
his own treatment. He began watching Marx Brothers movies and "Candid
Camera" videos every day, discovering that "ten minutes of genuine belly
laughter had an anesthetic effect that would give me at least two hours of
pain-free sleep." He slowly began to improve--greatly surprising his
doctors--and began to view laughter as sedentary aerobic exercise. In a
famous metaphor, he wrote:

"Laughter is inner jogging."

Cousins also stressed the important role of hope in medical recovery,
writing in his best-selling book:

"Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live.
Keep that big gun going."

Cousins, a first-class writer with a provocative mind, authored many other
observations that occupy a special place in my quotation collection:

"History is a vast early warning system."

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be
the delivery room for the birth of ideas."

"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
A human being fashions his consequences
as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling.
Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."



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