Heart Touching Story #182 - Laughter is The Best Medicine

Laughter is The Best Medicine

Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as “terminally ill”. He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was 1 in 500.

He could see the worry, depression and anger in his life contributed to, and perhaps helped cause, his disease. He wondered, “If illness can be caused by negativity, can wellness be created by positivity?”

He decided to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the funny movies he could find – Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. (This was before VCRs, so he had to rent the actual films.) He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something funny.

What is a perfect relationship

What is a perfect relationship?

Experts all over the world have conducted studies as to what constitutes a perfect relationship? Is it just plain love? Probably not

An ideal relationship

Even though all couples are different, Science has predicted these 11 traits that are needed to make a relationship successful. Have a look.

Less fights

Successful couples don't fight that much after a certain point of time - they used to do it at one point and a lot of it, but they don't do that any more.

Household chores

If both partners contribute equally to the household chores , the marriage is bound to be successful.

Strengthen Yourself - Inner Peace

Hanuman Chalisa: The Hanuman Chalisa is a Hindu devotional hymn addressed to Hanuman. It includes forty chaupais or verses on Hanuman that’s why the word chalisa comes which means chalis or forty. The Hanuman Chalisa invokes something within — they are vibrations.The reader just needs to know that he is repeating something that will clean up his mind.The Hanuman Chalisa removes obstacles. Hanuman is strong and powerful and invokes power within. So have belief and faith that something good will happen. It’s a devotional practice, different from listening to songs. As you continue chanting, your heart starts to open. Science cannot explain the effects of chanting.The proof is that billions have benefitted down the ages. Things don’t stick around for so long, if they are not based on true knowledge.

Gayatri Mantra: Mantra is a path to purification of mind.You can begin the mental purification by practising a very powerful mantra known as Gayatri Mantra.This mantra is known for its cleansing effects on the mind.The Gayatri Mantra must be pursued with great reverence and devotion.The mantra is: Aum bhuur bhuvah svah Tat savitur varennyam Bhargo devasya dhimahi Dhiyo yo naha pracodayaat The mantra provides the practitioner with an opportunity to connect with the spirit and stay on the path of realising the Divine light. Practise this mantra each morning after conducting your purification ritual for the body. Gayatri Mantra brings the mind to a very calm place, and when the mind is calm, it breaks down all illusions, so it does not think, ‘I need this, or that, or do this or that’.At that moment, you can talk to the spirit or god within. Everybody is spiritual, but we allow the mind to take over.

Top 10 Greatest ODI Captains of all Time

10. Imran Khan (Pakistan) – 75 wins

Imran Khan is seen as one of the best all-rounders to have played cricket ever. But there is more to him than just being one of the best players to have come out from Pakistan. He was equally proficient as a leader and hopes to thousands of Pakistan cricket fans. He was like an emperor, his leadership was paternal. He was a father like figure to every member in the Pakistan team. He had a vision and set his eyes on the prestigious World Cup. In 1992, in the World Cup jointly held in New Zealand and Australia he accomplished the dream. He led from the front and brought home their first ever World Cup trophy. Imran Khan goes down in the history as one of the best captains in one day internationals. He has 75 wins from 139 matches as captain at a win percent of 53.96%. He is no.10 in the list of Top 10 Greatest ODI Captains of all Time.

9. Sourav Ganguly (India) – 76 wins

Some of the greatest examples of presence of mind

What are some of the greatest examples of presence of mind?

At the Ruparel college (Mumbai), the science lecture hall has benches placed such that the front benches are on the ground, the next 2 rows are placed on an elevated platform and so on. Pretty standard arrangement so that all the students can see the professor and the chalk-board.

Once, the back-benchers sent small glass marbles down these steps. The bouncing sound and the resulting laughter right in the middle of a lecture annoyed the professors to no end, and it was near impossible to locate the students playing this mischief.

The very next lecture was by the famous Prof. Bhide, who used to teach chemistry. In the middle of the lecture, this rolling of marbles happened - but as soon as the initial laughter died down, the professor remarked: "Looks like somebody has lost his property!"

Thunderous laughter followed and thereafter the marbles were never rolled down.

Submitted by:- Rajiv Bhagwat, Software developer for too long!