Planning on another fun session of laughter yoga, stress reduction and general happiness today.

Fortunately spreading joy and laughter is like a candle. Being used to light other candles doesn't diminish its light actually it makes the room even brighter! So it is with laughter, spreading laughter increase joy in the whole room and takes nothing away!

The question is simple, am I building or destroying? Am I spreading joy or sucking the life out of a room? Builder or Wrecker? Like this poem by an unknown author:

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I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a heave, ho, and a lusty yell
They swung a ram and the side wall fell.

I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled?
Like the men you’d hire if you had to build?"
He laughed as he replied, "No, indeed,
Just common labor is all I need.
I can easily wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken years to do."

I asked myself as I went away
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring my life with a rule and square?
Or am I a wrecker who walks the town
Content with the job of tearing down?

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Makes you think! ttfn

Laughter Yoga -

Had an excellent LAUGHTER YOGA class yesterday at a community center with over eighty participants! We discussed Cancer and how to deal with the issues of cancer treatment and prevention. How does laughter yoga fit into this picture, read the following article and realize that you are in control of your life and health.

My contact information is: akhiljhaveri@yahoo.com, cell phone: 214-934-8855

Laughter Yoga and Cancer

Cancer is the second most common killer after heart disease today. The number of people suffering from cancer is rising constantly. The most common cause of cancer is stress. Extreme physical, mental and emotional stress weakens our immune system.
A weak immune system is a major factor in the development of cancer. Scientific studies have shown that hearty laughter has a powerful and immediate strengthening effect on our immune system.

Laughter quickly increases immunoglobulin levels that help fight infection and increases the number of Natural Killer Cells (NK cells) in the blood. Natural killer cells play a key role in cancer prevention. Dr Berk took blood samples from subjects watching humorous videos and found that natural killer cells increased significantly with laughter. The NK cells in blood samples from laughing subjects quickly killed cancer cells he introduced into the samples.

The Healing Effects of Laughter in Cancer Patients
Cancer is considered a killer disease. When someone is struck with cancer it leads to intense stress and fear.
How can laughter yoga help? Laughter Yoga as a physical intervention leads to real physiological and biochemical changes in our body that have a profound effect on the development of cancer.

Laughter yoga provides a non-intellectual path to laughter.
Cancer patients may be in emotional turmoil and become depressed, making it difficult for them to achieve laughter through intellectual stimuli like humorous videos. Laughter yoga approaches laughter as a body exercise that can easily be done regardless of mood.

Laughter helps counter stress and fear. Hearty laughter causes the brain to release chemicals that reduce stress within minutes. It is typical to measure a 70% reduction in stress indicators after just 10 minutes of laughter.

Laughter promotes a positive outlook. Hearty laughter quickly counters depression and negative outlook, especially when practiced within a group of peers. This is partly due to chemicals released by the brain and partly caused by a powerful emotional response to the group dynamics of laughter yoga.
A positive mental state is very important when a person who is fighting a deadly disease like Cancer.

Laughter helps deal with pain. Hearty laughter causes the brain to release endorphin, a natural morphine that is also responsible for the ‘runner’s high’. A typical laughter yoga session can provide two hours of pain relief without drugs, making it easier for patients to retain full control of their mental abilities and keep their spirits high.


Laughter oxygenates the body. Ten minutes of hearty laughter leaves the body and all major organs super-oxygenated. Ongoing cancer research shows a strong relationship between oxygen in our cells and the development of cancer.

Nobel Prize winner (twice in the field of medicine) Dr Otto Warburg has shown the strong connection of oxygen in the cells to health. He says we fall sick due to lack of oxygen in our body cells. The lack of oxygen is due to poor breathing habits caused by stress and negative mindset. This causes us to breathe shallow, irregular breaths and hold are breath when under stress.

Laughter yoga uses a combination of laughter exercises and yoga breathing to train our diaphragm and abdominal muscles to breathe deeply. This increases the net supply of oxygen to body cells and can play a significant role in preventing cancer by increasing oxygen levels in the body cells.

Laughter strengthens the immune system.

Medical studies around the world have shown that ten minutes of hearty laughter has a sudden and dramatically powerful effect in strengthening the immune system. This is where Laughter Yoga can play an important role in bringing laughter from the body not from the mind. Laughter as a physical exercise helps to bring similar physiological and biochemical changes without involving the mind. This is much easier for most people to do laughter from the body, and still get the similar benefits.

There is no doubt that regular practice of laughter yoga will strongly influence whether a person develops cancer and has a very strong preventative action.

While I would never claim that laughter yoga can cure cancer, I am absolutely certain that it can help cancer patients in many ways and should be combined with other forms of treatment to provide cancer patients with the best quality of life and the best possible chance of survival.

Over the past eleven years many people with cancer have taken up laughter yoga. It has helped them to eliminate their depression and create a positive mental state, and has improved their quality of life. Many of these people beat their cancer thanks to, some believe, due to laughter yoga!

Video

Practice Makes Perfect - This dude has practiced for quite some time.  He is a world champion juggler.  Make you want to pick up some eggs and have some fun!

Check out this video! 

BTW: Why do we say, "It is colder than than hell!"  Isn't it always colder than hell?  Isn't hell supposed to be the hottests place in creation?  You know, lake of fire, brimstones, etc.?

Meeting with Rodger

What a wonderful evening - we all met, talked and realized that we have the same mission: Save the world, one person at a time! There were some wonderful topics discussed, the most entertaining one was how much stress there is at work today, mostly due to misunderstandings.

To that end, check out this video:

Heart broken!

I heard a good sermon at church yesterday. The young preacher was talking to the teenagers about not jumping into relationships too quickly. He made some valid points and it made me think of a poem I heard when I was a young man. This poem by A.E. Houseman summarizes the preaches speech quite well:

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.

"But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;

"Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.

"And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true!"

Laughter Yoga Class

Another Fabulous Laughter Yoga Class! We had 19 participants and three guests. The room was full of joy. Hard to believe we laughed at the cieling for 8 minutes!!

We all discussed how freeing it was to act like children. No inhibitions at all. From the words of Nelson Mandela, "Free at last, free at last. My God, my God, I'm free at last!"

Try freedom. It really works to clear the mind and release your soul.

Akhil...

Quote for the day:
"Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." - Madeline Bridges

You still smoking?

THIS IS A CEILING MURAL IN A SMOKER'S LOUNGE. Keep puffing!!!