10 Easy Ways to Feel Happier, Be Healthier and Live Longer

Written by Julie Hunt


Let’s just say… first thing when you popped out of bed this morning, you woke up and found a little yellow post-it note stuck onrepparttar bathroom mirror that could transform your life. You smiled, instantly recognizing this very familiar word.

And onrepparttar 122797 back were instructions on how to incorporate more of it in your life so you’d feel less stress, pain and tension… more carefree, fun and energetic.

Even withoutrepparttar 122798 handy-dandy instructions (you think to yourself)… adding a little more is no big thing. After all, you’ve done it every single day of your life without even thinking about it. It comes as natural to you as blinking. It’s as much fun as a long overdue chat with one of your dearest friends, as cheap as an afternoon daydream, as good for you as a 15 minute workout, yet as vital asrepparttar 122799 air you breathe. You glance again… it says L-A-U-G-H-T-E-R.

Laughter isrepparttar 122800 no cost, no effort, super simple, fabulously fun, overnight solution to happier, healthier, better living. American scientific and medical journals have citedrepparttar 122801 medical and psychological benefits of laughter. This is no laughing matter.

Laughter can heal your pain… reduce your stress… help you sleep like a baby… diffuse tense in difficult situations… boost your immunity… foster creativity… multiply your productivity… extend your life… expand your point of view… bond you to others… increase your charm and charisma… make you feel happier… and help you live inrepparttar 122802 moment.

With so much to gain and absolutely nothing to lose, are you ready to take these 10 tips to heart so you can giggle a little, snicker some, chuckle boisterously, cackle raucously, snort unexpectedly and hoot and holler through happy tears of joy? Wrap yourself in a humorous perspective and laugh your way to a seriously healthy, happy and upbeat life!

Here are 10 easy ways to grab more giggles and exercise your funny bone…

1.Get a Funny Buddy. Unite yourself with a laughing partner, friend, buddy or companion that you always know you can turn to for a laugh. Make a laughing agreement and shake on it, then surround yourself with more funny people. Make an effort to be around these lighthearted folks every chance you get.

2.Lose your wits. Be super silly for 10 seconds and let your brilliant foolish kid out to play.

3.Be a Silly Spectator. Stand back and scope outrepparttar 122803 outlandish, outrageous and crazy hilarity of humans. You will thank merepparttar 122804 next time you are trying to ward off feelings of frustration and boredom in line atrepparttar 122805 DMV, out shopping or inrepparttar 122806 waiting room ofrepparttar 122807 doctor’s office. Take it up a notch and bring your entertainment home with you and imitate their quirks, qualities or peculiarities that made you snicker earlier inrepparttar 122808 day.

4.Make Overrepparttar 122809 Ordinary. Recount your everyday experiences in a fun way and relive them! People laugh atrepparttar 122810 stuff they can relate to. It’srepparttar 122811 ordinary, everyday, run ofrepparttar 122812 mill things we find funny. Some ofrepparttar 122813 best sitcoms and funniest comedians (Seinfeld is a perfect example) create material out ofrepparttar 122814 everyday perils of life. It’s their passion and strong point of view that strikes an emotional cord in us and makes us burst out with laughter. Go for it and liven your stories up with attitudes, opinions, voices and dialects. Be spontaneous and let it fly!

5.Give Your Stories a Pay Off! The best stories have a punchy point, a profound lesson or a great big finish. Start withrepparttar 122815 end in mind. Give your friends a payoff for their attention. When you get close torepparttar 122816 end, stop, take a deep breath and giverepparttar 122817 story a moment of silence. Let ‘em dangle in anticipation before you end with a big bang! Adding more energy, impact and volume will give your story meaning, closure and give yourepparttar 122818 rewards of laughter.

Are you lacking Self-Discipline? - Part 1

Written by Carl Cholette


A man does not live until he begins to discipline himself; he merely exists. Like an animal he gratifies his desires and pursues his inclinations just where they may lead him. He is happy as a beast is happy, because he is not conscious of what he is depriving himself; he suffers asrepparttar beast suffers, because he does not knowrepparttar 122796 way out of suffering. He does not intelligently reflect upon life, and lives in a series of sensations, longings, and confused memories which are unrelated to any central idea or principle. A man whose inner life is so ungoverned and chaotic must necessarily manifest this confusion inrepparttar 122797 visible conditions of his outer life inrepparttar 122798 world; and though for a time, running with repparttar 122799 stream of his desires, he may draw to himself a more or less large share ofrepparttar 122800 outer necessities and comforts of life, he never achieves any real success nor accomplishes any real good, and sooner or later wordly failure and disaster are inevitable, asrepparttar 122801 direct result ofrepparttar 122802 inward failure to properly adjust and regulate those mental forces which makerepparttar 122803 outer life.

Before a man accomplish anything of an enduring nature in repparttar 122804 world he must first of all acquire some measure of success inrepparttar 122805 management of his own mind. This is as mathematical a truism as that two and two are four, for, "out ofrepparttar 122806 heart arerepparttar 122807 issues of life." If a man cannot governrepparttar 122808 forces within himself, he cannot hold a firm hand uponrepparttar 122809 outer activities which form his visible life. Onrepparttar 122810 other hand, as a man succeeds, in governing himself he rises to higher and higher levels of power and usefulness and success inrepparttar 122811 world. The only difference betweenrepparttar 122812 life ofrepparttar 122813 beast and that ofrepparttar 122814 undisciplined man is that repparttar 122815 man has a wider variety of desires, and experiences a greater intensity of suffering. It may be said of such a man that he is dead, being truly dead to self-control, chastity, fortitude, and allrepparttar 122816 nobler qualities which constitute life. Inrepparttar 122817 consciousness of such a manrepparttar 122818 crucified Christ ies entombed, awaiting that resurrection which shall revivify repparttar 122819 mortal sufferer, and wake him up to a knowledge of tha realities of his existence.

Withrepparttar 122820 practice of self-discipline a man begins to live, for he then commences to rise aboverepparttar 122821 inward confusion and to adjust his conduct to a steadfast centre within himself. He ceases to follow where inclination leads him, reins inrepparttar 122822 steed of his desires, and lives in accordance withrepparttar 122823 dictates of reason and wisdom. Hitherto his life has been without purpose or meaning, but now he begins to consciously mould his own destiny; he is "clothed and in his right mind."

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