THOUGHTS ABOUT HUMOUR

by Mike Moore

1. It is impossible to worry while you're laughing.

2. Humour cuts stress levels in half.

3. Laughing helps you to stay happy and healthy and helps you return to good health when ill.

4. Laughter increases, by 20%, the activity of killer cells within the body which serve to destroy viruses and tumour cells.

5. Train yourself to look for the comedy in your chaos.

6. A sense of humour is the number one survival skill.

7. George Bernard Shaw once said, "When you find something funny search it for hidden truth."

8. "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire

9. Humour helps us cope, conquer, and carry on.

10. A good laugh is not only the result of humour, it is often also the cause.

11. The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy.

12. The best exercise is jumping for joy.

13. "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis

14. We begin to solve our problems when we begin to see the humour in them.

15. "Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods." Japanese proverb

16. When we feel like laughing the least , we need it most.

17. If it feels good to laugh, then laugh to feel good.

18. A sense of humour is not inherited, it is learned.

This material is an excerpt from the book Light Up With Laughter, copyright © 2000 Mike Moore. You are welcome to reproduce it for one-time, non-commercial personal or instructional use, providing you include this credit and copyright information on each page.

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