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Submitted by Patricia S on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 4:52pm.

Lauren you brought up one of the most important elements of my life – humor.  Thank you for mentioning “watching funny videos”.  I think when we take ourselves too seriously for too long we risk our health; mental and physical.  I recently saw this website, which I found very interesting:  www.happiness.co.uk.  It features Dr. Robert Holden and the “Happiness Project”.  He says that instead of anti-depressants doctors should be prescribing laughter.  Laughter also brings about positive physiological changes, such as releasing endorphins and lowering blood pressure.

 

One other thing you brought up that is something I also struggle with - negative “self-talk”.  The more strategies you have in place, like you do, the more likely you are to be successful in stopping the self-talk. It has always amazed and shocked me that I would say things to myself that I would never tolerate someone else saying.  Actually, that realization helped me to change the habit of negative self-talk.

 

After reading quite a few of the class postings, it seems a fair number of us are dancing around in our kitchens and living-rooms.  (We’re talking to ourselves and dancing by ourselves – good candidates for therapists…..)


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