WELCOME TO
LAUGHING LIFE COACH
JANUARY NEWSLETTER 2005
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“The laugh you save may be your own.”
-- Swami Beyondananda
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
-- The Dalai Lama
"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)
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Humor brings Laughter, Laughter brings Breath, Breath brings Essence……
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JUST A THOUGHT
LAUGHTER IMPROVES REALITY!
Swami Beyondananda
“………. laughter is one of the most potent medicines for improving reality instantly. We many not notice it because it isn’t sold over the counter (although some drug stores are beginning to sell canned laughter, but by prescription only). But leading humorologists say that the amount of comedy found in the average one-liner……..can heal up to a megahurt of emotional pain! And this isn’t surprising because when we let the bells of laughter ring, we are pealing away layers of fear and frustrations. No doubt about it, levity lightens us up and helps us lose weightiness.
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Humor is emotional chaos
remembered in tranquility.
--James Thurber
It‘s not the mountain we conquer,
but ourselves…..
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WHAT “JUST A THOUGHT ” CAN DO
R. BUCKMINISTER FULLER
R. Buckminister Fuller at the age of 32 was a failure. He was on the verge of bankruptcy, had been thrown out of Harvard, and failed at every business he tried. Lake Michigan looked better and better for ending his life. But suddenly, from out of the blue (could it have been the waters of Lake Michigan?) he hit upon a wild idea. Instead of ending his life, he would chose to live his life as an “experiment”, donating his life to science.
That one thought changed his entire life. For more than 50 years, his contributions of innovative thinking, inventions, and visions have radiated out birthing products and projects that have assisted in creating a more functional and loving world.
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment'
is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast:
the chicken was 'involved' –
the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown
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JUST ANOTHER THOUGHT
CHANGE THE DREAM
Lynne Twist “The Soul of Money”
Lynne Twist has been working with the Achuar tribe to create the Pachamama Alliance (pachamama means “mother earth” in the local language) to help the Achuar choose how to encounter the modern world while preserving the rain forest and “exporting” indigenous wisdom. And that wisdom, coming as it does from a dream culture is simple: “CHANGE THE DREAM”
The Achuar tell us that it is difficult to change daily actions if the old dream is in place. But if we consciously change the dream and tell our vision of the new dream, we can wake up from the current nightmare of mindless fighting over man-made boundaries and unnecessarily scarce resources, and live to cultivate an abundant garden together – each with our own “pachamama” earth to care for.
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Laughter sets the spirit free to move through
even the most tragic of circumstances.
It helps us shake our heads clear,
get our feet back under us, restoring
our sense of balance and purpose.
Humor is integral to our peace of mind and
to our ability to go beyond survival.
--Captain Gerald Coffee POW in Vietnam for seven years
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AND JUST ONE MORE THOUGHT
CYMATICS
A Study of Wave Phenomena
By Hans Jenny
Cymatics, the study of wave phenomena, is a science pioneered by Swiss medical doctor and natural scientist, Hans Jenny (1904-1972). For 14 years he conducted experiments animating inert powders, pastes, and liquids into life-like, flowing forms, which mirrored patterns found throughout nature, art and architecture. What's more, all of these patterns were created using simple sine wave vibrations (pure tones) within the audible range. So what you see is a physical representation of vibration, or how sound manifests into form through the medium of various materials.
Dr. Jenny's methodology was meticulous, well documented, and totally repeatable. His fascinating body of work offers profound insights into both the physical sciences and esoteric philosophies. It illustrates the very principles which inspired the ancient Greek philosophers Heraclitus, Pythagoras and Plato, on down to Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler, the fathers of modern astronomy. "In the beginning was the word..." takes on a whole new meaning while looking at these experiments!
These cymatic images are truly awe-inspiring, not only for their visual beauty in portraying the inherent responsiveness of matter to sound, but also because they inspire a deep recognition that we, too, are part and parcel of this same complex and intricate vibrational matrix.
Prepare to expand the way you look at your world. As the ancient Hindu scriptures stated: Nada Brahma, the world is Sound!
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"Argue for your limitations,
and sure enough they're yours."
- Richard Bach
When you gaze long into the abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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Listen to the voice in your heart ~ Find your wings
~ Go For It All in this New Year ~
Laugh a little and see what changes it makes in your life …….hehehehehehehe…….….Helene, Laughing Life Coach…
