Healing with humour: Taking better care of ourselves  =>;-))
http://www.hknet.org.nz/healthNhumour.html
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Laughter Therapy - its no joke:
http://www.healthlibrary.com/reading/yod/march98/news.htm

        So Lord Caitanya is known as the one:

 - hasya-kari  &  hasya-yuk  ==> who laughs & jokes

 - hasya-priya  ==> who is fond of joking

 - hasya-nagara ==> who is the hero of those expert in speaking joking words

 - hasya-grami  &  hasya-kara  ==> is expert at joking

 - pushpa-hasa  ==> whose smile & laugh are as charminng as flowers.

Lord Gauranga's smiling & laughing qualities ki...

                                                ys Radhe Govinda dasa

P.S. One of the qualities of Srimati Radharani is that she is very expert in the art of joking.

SOME FACTS ABOUT HUMOUR

"With devotion steeped in love and affection, the yogi should meditate within the core of his heart upon the laughter of Lord Vishnu. The laughter of Vishnu is so captivating that it can be easily meditated upon. When the Supreme Lord is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi no longer desires to see anything else." ~ S.P., Srimad-Bhagavatam 3-23-33 "Kapila's Instructions on Devotional Service"

SCIENCE - After surgery but prior to the administration of pain medication, patients were told one-liner jokes. Those patients who were exposed to the humor experienced less pain in comparison to the other surgery patients who didn't get a dose of humor as part of their therapy. ~ Summary from study published in  ' Journal of Holistic Nursing'

Medical experts (Dr. Derk & Dr. Wiilliiamsburg) reveal that a powerful laugh will relax tensed muscles, brings more oxygen into the system and more quickly, lowers blood pressure, and offers a free, overall health benefits on many levels! And its free!. (If the FDA could manufacture a medicine like this, they'd charge a bundle.)

Loma Linda University Cali study by Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan showed that physiological responses that were produced from belly laughter, were the opposite of what is seen in classical stress, thereby offering yet more evidence that laughing produces healthy or positive emotions.

Results of research by Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan (Loma Linda U of Ca) indicated that after a good belly laugh, there is a general increase in activity within the immune system, such as: increased number and activity level of natural killer cells that attack viral infected cells and some types of cancer and tumor cells.

If it tickles your funny bone then chances are it will reduce the stress in your life and leave your immune system to do its part. This premise has been supported by both the field of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. A recent publication with research data appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Skin welt sizes were compared in patients suffering from severe allergies after one group watched a video featuring Charlie Chaplin and the other group listened to a documentary on weather. Needless to say, the Japanese study confirmed a reduction in skin welt size in the group watching the famed comedian. [FROM CNN.COM]  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, February 13, 2001:

MORE SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS ABOUT LAUGHTER

* Laughter stimulates physical healing.
* Laughter enhances our individual creativity.
* Laughter is rejuvenating and regenerating.
* Laughter is good for relationships (that includes friendships).
* Laughter opens the heart.
* Laughter gives us a glimpse of freedom from the mind. (In other words, helpful for getting off the mental platform!)

~~ Articles by N. Lehrman in Archives of Internal Medicine, April 26,1993; Lee Berk, Dr. P.H. in Loma Linda University School of Medicine News, March 11,1999; N.Silver in American Health, November 1986; J. McCormick in Lancet, August 1994.

"We are less likely to succcummb to feelings of depression and helplessness if we are able to laugh at what is troubling us. Humor gives us a sense of perspective on our problems. Laughter provides an opportunity for the release of those uncomfortable emotions which, if held inside, may create biochemical changes that are harmful to the body." Patty Wooten, author of 'Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Guidelines to Success'

SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS - Controlled studies have given evidence that a good belly laugh has lowered serum cortisol levels, increased amounts of activated T lymphocytes, increased number and activity of natural killer cells, and increased the number of T cells that have helper/ suppresser receptors. Or to sum it up: laughter off-sets the immunosuppressive effects of stress and is therefore significantly improves the health of the immune system. - Discoveries by Dr. Berk and Dr. Tan, Loma Linda University.

Evidence (from EEG) revealed that when a joke is just about to be told, the initial anticipation results in  the brains cortex's left hemisphere starting the function of analyzing of word processing. Next, most brain activity moved to the frontal lobe (the center of emotions). After that, the right hemisphere's synthesis mix with the left's processing to look for and locate the pattern or to be able to "get" the joke. Very quickly following, though just prior to the persons had quite enough time to laugh, brain waves increase and spread to   the occipital lobe which is the sensory processing areas of the brain. There was an increase in fluctuations of delta waves which reached a crescendo of activity and crested as the brain 'got' the joke followed by the recipient beginning of laughter. So here you have 'scientific' knowledge how laughter works, integrating the brain and getting it to all function together, thanks to Dr. Derk & Dr. Williamsburg. Now, stop analyzing and start laughing! :-) You have facts that it's actually beneficial for a variety of health issues, so don't minimize its importance and start giving yourself permission to take out time each day to laugh.  Like a vitamin or even a meal, it's a necessity!

Courtesy of mother Pritaa ACBSP's site http://www.geocities.com/priitaa108/humor.htm

Laugh Yoga with Bir Krishna Goswami

Laugh Yoga during a picnic in Helsinki
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2932828682381191751

Laugh Yoga with Master Laugh Therapist BK Goswami - Laugh Yoga at It's Best In Split Croatia - 1 hr 41 min 49 sec - Aug 30, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5224249030279265816

This is a MUST READ =>;-Q
http://www.digitalsawdust.com

Four Wives parable:
http://www.hknet.org.nz/4wives.pps

The sound of one hand clapping !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muy8XHN52I

sent in by Jayasri mataji - Auckland

 Click on this link to see how really short life is.
http://www.sastradana.com/video/lifeisshort.wmv

sent in by Shyamasundar prabhu ACBSP

Angry mouths flip out at a Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9hMtpk9d4

12 days of Xmas Indian style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owK5tHjL0aE

.....if I were a terrorist:
http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies1972.html

Complex Karmas video clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc

Sardar's theory : Moon is more impt than Sun, coz it gives light at
night when light is needed & Sun gives light during  the day when light is not needed!!!

Sardar is in a dissection class of cockroach. He cuts its 1 leg, and says, "chalo", it walks.

He cuts 2nd and 3rd legs and said, "chalo" , it walks.
He cuts all the legs and said, "chalo...."

Finally he wrote the conclusion......
........ "after all the legs of a cockroach are cut - it becomes deaf......"

Two sardarjis looking at Egyptian mummy.
Sar 1 : Look so many bandages, pakka lorry accident case eh.
Sar 2 : Aaho, lorry's registration plate number is also written...BC 1760!!!....

Interviewar: what's ur qualification?
Sardarji : Sir I am Ph.d.
Interviewar : what do u mean by Ph.d?

Sardarji : (smiling) PASSED HIGHSCHOOL with DIFFICULTY....

Santa : I am a Proud Sardar, My son is in Medical College.
Banta : Really, what is he studying,
Santa : No he is not studying, they are Studying him.

What is Common between : Krishna, Ram, Gandhiji & Jesus..?
Sardar ji Replied : All are Born on Government Holidays.

 The original name for Canada, dreamed up by a parliamentary committee in London, was "Cold North Dominion," but that was too long.
They abbreviated it C.N.D.
       The King's Royal Governor presented the new
name to the inhabitants, and they didn't say a word.  Just looked at  him.  "Well, what do you think?" asked the Royal Governor?
       "C, eh?" said the first fellow, and just looked at the Governor.
       "N, eh?" says the second guy.
       "D, eh?" says a third one.  Then silence.
       "Hey!" says the Governor.  "I like that.  It's a helluva lot easier to pronounce when you spell it that way."
       That's how Canada got its name.

Little known facts about the Catholic Church in Las Vegas: There are more churches in Las Vegas than casinos. During Sunday services at the offertory, some worshippers contribute casino chips as opposed to cash.

Some are sharing their winnings - some are hoping to win. Since they get chips from so many different casinos, and they are worth money, the Catholic churches are required to send all the chips into the diocese for sorting.

Once sorted into the respective casino chips, one junior priest takes the chips and makes the rounds to the casinos turning chips into cash.
And he, of course, is known as The Chip Monk.

My doctor said I was paranoid... well, he didn't actually say it,
but I could tell he was thinking it.

Audi 4 Sale: requires some rewiring and a bit of body work - would suit d.i.y. 'enthusiast'.  Any offers?

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sent in by Gary Kearns who was not the driver
 

THREE LITTLE PIGS

This is a true story, proving how fascinating the mind of a six year old is. They think so logically.

A teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where first pig was trying to gather the building materials for his home. She read . 'and so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said: 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?'

The teacher paused then asked the class:

'And what do you think the man said?'

One little boy raised his hand and said very matter-of-factly ...'I think the man would have said - 'Well, I'll be damned!  A talking pig!'

The teacher had to leave the room and couldn't resume teaching for half an hour.
 

Mo, heard her husband, Nate, come back into the house not too long after he had left.

Mo said, "Hon, I thought you were going to your lodge meeting."

"It was postponed." Nate replied.

"The wife of the Grand Exalted Invincible Supreme Potentate wouldn't let him go out tonight."

A guide is showing a Texan the Niagara Falls. "I'll bet you don't have anything like that in Texas!"

"Nope, I reckon we don't," said the Texan. "But we've got plumbers who could fix it."

The Broken Lawn Mower

 Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is usually the husband.

 When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed.  But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first: the truck, the car, email, fishing, always something more important to me.

 Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.
When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.

 I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house I was gone only a few minutes.
When I came out again I handed her a toothbrush.  "When you finish cutting the grass," I said, "you might as well sweep the driveway."

 The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.

  Did you ever wonder? 

as seen on a T shirt

They say the mind is like a parachute, it works better once it is open.

Just to show how there are different minds with different people they are here represented by parachutes, check out this video clip:
http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies2542.html

I'm reading a murder mystery where they bury this guy in cornstarch.  I'm just getting to the part where the plot thickens.

Clairvoyants meeting canceled due to unforeseen events.

If you built a time machine with all new parts, when you Went back would the parts you use disappear because they Didn't exist then?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make A sound?

The man couldn't stand his curiosity. He approached the man walking with the dog, "I am so sorry for your loss, and I know now is a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this with so many of you walking in single line. Whose funeral is it?"

The man replied, "Well, that first coffin is for my wife." The inquisitive man asked, "What happened to her?"
The man replied, "My dog attacked and killed her."
He inquired further, "Well, who is in the second coffin?"
The man answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog attacked and killed her also."

A thoughtful moment of silence passes between the two men. Then the first one asks in excitement "Can I borrow the dog?"

The man replied "Please join the queue."

sent in by Jai Simman R. Rangasamy - Singapore

The irate customer, calling the newspaper offices, loudly demanded to know where her Sunday edition was.

"Ma'am," said the employee, "Today is Saturday. The Sunday paper ins not delivered until Sunday."

There was quite a pause on the other end of the phone, followed by a ray of recognition.

"So that's why no one was at church today."

The great Indian Railways proverb:

"You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!"

A judge working a double-homicide case tells the defendant, "You're charged with beating your wife to death with a hammer."

"You scoundral!" yells a voice from the back of the courtroom.

"You're also charged with killing your mother-in-law with a hammer," says the judge.

"You rascal!" the same person yells.

The judge addresses the man sitting in the back of the courtroom."Sir, one more outburst and I'll charge you with contempt."

"I'm sorry, Your Honor," says the man. "But I've been this person's neighbour for 10 years,
and every time I asked to borrow a hammer, he said he didn't have one."

For people who like peace and quiet - a phoneless cord.

A man who suffered from impotence went to see a doctor. The doctor gave him a revolutionary new injection made from monkey glands, which worked perfectly. Nine months and two weeks later, his wife had a baby.

When the nurse came out of the delivery room with the news, he asked, "Is it a boy or a girl?"

"We won't know until it comes down off the chandelier."

Prejudice Exposed:

A plane leaves Los Angeles Airport under the control of a Jewish captain. His copilot is Chinese. It's the first time they've flown together and an awkward silence between the two seems to indicate a mutual dislike.

Once they reach cruising altitude, the Jewish captain activates the autopilot, leans back in his seat, and mutters, "I don't like Chinese."

"No rike Chinese?" asks the copilot, "why not?"

"You people bombed Pearl Harbor, that's why!"

"No, no," the copilot protests, "Chinese not bomb Peahl Hahbah! That Japanese, not Chinese."

"Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese ... doesn't matter, you're all alike!"

There's a few minutes of silence.

"No rike Jews!" the copilot suddenly announces.

"Why not?" asks the captain.

"Jews sink Titanic."

"Jews didn't sink the Titanic!" exclaims the captain, "It was an iceberg!"

"Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg, Rosenberg, no mattah ... all da same."

Karmic revenge:

When our four-year-old son opened the birthday gift from his grandmother, he found a water pistol. He squealed with delight, and headed for the nearest sink.
 
I was not so pleased.
 
I turned to Mum and said, "I'm surprised at you! Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with water guns?"
 
My mum simply smiled and then replied, "Oh...... I remember."

The ways of this material world - strange but true

"I had the toughest time of my life. First, I got angina  pectoris and then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering from these, I got tuberculosis, double pneumonia and phthisis. Then they gave me hypodermics. Appendicitis was followed by  tonsillectomy. These gave way to aphasia and hypertrophic  cirrhosis. I completely lost my memory for a while.  I know I had diabetes and acute ingestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis.
I don't know how I pulled through it. It was the hardest spelling test I've ever had."

and where else should such a product be named after?

A blonde is on board a small two- seater plane when suddenly the pilot dies.
Not knowing how to fly a plane she grabs the radio. "Mayday, Mayday! My pilot just died!" she screams.
 
Ground control receives her call for help and answers back:
"Don't worry, madam. I'll talk you down, just do as I say.
 
First, I need you to give me your height and position."

"I'm 5 foot 2 and sitting in the front seat!"

"Mr. Singh, I have reviewed this case very carefully," the divorce court judge said, "and I've decided to give your wife $775 a week."

"That's very generous, your honor," the husband said. "And every now and then I'll try to send her a few bucks myself."

Okie motor home
http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies2564.html

The benefits of big screen TV
http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies2561.html

Boss : am giving u job as a driver. STARTING salary Rs.2000/-, is it o.k
Sardar : U R great sir! Starting salary is o.k.......but??
how much is DRIVING salary...?

Sardar at bar in New York .
Man on his right says "Johny Walker single"
Man on his left says "Peter Scotch single"
Sardar says - "Baljith Singh Married"

Not the yuga dharma

WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh.

Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human for during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the good man said, "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran."
 

Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/devilsdictionary/

.......more optical illusions and paradigm twists here:

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Should you ask me whence this laughter,
Whence this audible big-smiling,
With its labial extension,
With its maxillar distortion
And its diaphragmic rhythmus
Like the billowing of an ocean,
Like the shaking of a carpet,
I should answer, I should tell you:
From the great deeps of the spirit,
From the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soul this laughter welleth
As the fountain, the gug-guggle,
Like the river from the cannon,
To entoken and give warning
That my present mood is sunny.
Should you ask me further question ­
Why the great deeps of the spirit,
Why the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soule extrudes this laughter,
This all audible big-smiling,
I should answer, I should tell you
With a white heart, tumpitumpy,
With a true tongue, honest Injun:
William Bryan, he has Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!

Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep,
Standing silent in the kneedeep
With his wing-tips crossed behind him
And his neck close-reefed before him,
With his bill, his william, buried
In the down upon his bosom,
With his head retracted inly,
While his shoulders overlook it?
Does the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Shiver grayly in the north wind,
Wishing he had died when little,
As the sparrow, the chipchip, does?
No 'tis not the Shankank standing,
Standing in the gray and dismal
Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep.
No, 'tis peerless William Bryan
Realizing that he's Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!

Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/devilsdictionary/

While my friend was working as a receptionist for an eye surgeon, a very angry woman stormed up to her desk.

"Someone stole my wig while I was having surgery yesterday," she complained.

The doctor came out and tried to calm her down. "I assure you that no one on my staff would have done such a thing," he said.
"Why do you think it was taken here?"

"After the operation, I noticed the wig I was wearing was cheap-looking and ugly."

"My dear Ms. I think" explained the surgeon gently, "....that means your cataract operation was a success."

Yeah, they are still throwing things from the bridges of the South Auckland Motorway

Two devotees were talking:

One was explaining to the other how the Lord often compensates for a person's natural deficiencies.

"You see," he said, "If someone is a bit blind he might have a very good sense of hearing, or if his sense of taste has gone, he may have a keen sense of smell."

"I agree with you," said the other. "I've always noticed that if someone has one short leg, the other one is always just that little bit longer."

"A plastic surgeon's office the only place where no one gets offended when you pick your nose!"

A friend of mine was having a bit of marital tension in his household and was trying to figure out just what to do about it.

In the course of our conversation, I happened to mention to him that: "You know, quite often God speaks to us through our wives."

My friend looked at me kind of funny and said, "Wow! I didn't know God used that kind of language!"

A senior devotee in New Vrindaban calls his son in New York and says, “I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing.  Thirty-five years of misery is enough.”

“Pita, what are you talking about?” the son screams.

“We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer and are  tired of the front we have been playing for 2 children we hardly see,” the old man says. “We’re sick of each other, and I’m sick of talking about this.  I’m emptying my bank account and moving in with my girlfriend.  Call your sister in Chicago and tell her.” and he hangs up.

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone, “Like heck they’re getting divorced and giving his money to a tramp,” she shouts, “I’ll take care of this.”

She calls her father immediately and screams at the old man, “You are NOT getting divorced and leaving for some whore! Don’t do a single thing until we get there. I’m calling my brother back, and we’ll both be there tomorrow. Until  then, don’t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and hangs up.

The devotee hangs up the phone and turns to his wife. “Okay,” he says, “They’re coming for Janmastami and paying their own airfares.”

adapted by Madhava Ghosa prabhu

Checking

It's important to check on your neighbors regularly, especially if they're elderly. Just knock on their doors and ask if they're OK.

You: "Hello! Is anyone there?"

Female neighbor (shouting from behind her door): "Whatever you're selling, we don't want any. That includes religion."

You: "I'm not selling anything. I'm your neighbor. Just stopping by to make sure you aren't dead."

Neighbor: "Dead? No, I don't think I'm dead. But I'm not sure about my husband. He hasn't moved from the couch since 1983. Do you think that's abnormal?"

You: "Only if he isn't holding the remote."

from Patricia

The 104-year-old building that had served as the priory and primary student residence of the small Catholic university where I work was about to be demolished. As the wrecker's ball began to strike, I sensed the anxiety and sadness experienced by one of the older monks whose order had founded the college.

"This must be difficult to watch, Father," I said. "The tradition associated with that building, the memories of all the students and monks who lived and worked there. I can't imagine how hard this must be for you."

"It's worse than that," the monk replied. "I think I left my Palm Pilot in there."

When Stumpy's wife ran away he got so depressed that his doctor sent him to see a psychiatrist.
Stumpy told the psychiatrist his troubles and said, "Life isn't worth living."

"Don't be stupid, Stumpy," said the psychiatrist. "Let work be your salvation.
I want you to totally submerge yourself in your work. Now, what do you do for a living?"

"I clean out septic tanks." Stumpy replied.

Cops "on the beat" in London

Please Try our little Colour Test - Right Brain vs Left Brain:
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