Sunday, November 28, 2010

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Timothy Giral








   “A person who believes
that they can be truly healthy but not happy isn’t truly happy.”(Timothy Giral)





          With all this medicine out there people rely
on them solely to feel better when getting sick. Is medicine the only thing
that can better the way you feel? I feel that a person’s happiness level can play
an important role in someone’s health. I am not the only person who seems to believe
that when a person has a cold and are exposed to laughter can make a person
feel better than someone who has no reason to laugh. Also how laughter can make
you feel better and forget about your personal problems. Also how fun and
laughter can help a person feel better from the intensity of waiting for a
shot. To someone with cancer living longer because of a happier environment.





     If a person has a
cold or isn’t feeling good it is always good to try to get there mind off their
sickness. Let’s say you have a cold or even a fever if you decide to stay in
your house all the time it may feel depressing. Then doing something, which
will put a smile on your face to get your mind off of being sick. I myself even
tested this out. It was so ironic that when I had to read the laughing guru I got
sick. I remembered what Richard Mulcaster a humanist educator believed. “Laughter
produced warmth throughout the body and was a good antidote for colds, headaches
and bouts of melancholy.” He believed. And I did exactly what he suggested. I watch
my favorite comedy movie of all times “The Hangover” and it didn’t cure my cold
but I defiantly felt much better. Also if you are going through hard or
emotional time laughter can be a big help in getting through it.





    Times when a
person can barely pay the bills because your job let you go. Or when you are
having problems with your girlfriend is getting to the point where it is
affecting the way you feel. If you just simply apply all that negative thoughts
and energy to something positive you will feel much better. For instants “laughing
yoga’’ as described in the laughing guru. It is a form of yoga that you force
yourself to laugh and eventually it will turn to a natural laugh. Which will
make you feel better. Also let’s say you bring your child to a doctor’s office
to get a shot and they know what’s about to happen. Do think the comfort level
of your child would be good if they were just sitting there waiting for the
shots. Or being able to play with toys will allow them to cope with the intensity
of getting a shot by getting their mind off of it? In the pathologies of hope
article by Barbara Ehrenreich states that it is better to have a positive outlook
on things so it can go by better. Also I can have to do with the environment
you are in.





   Lets say you were a
cancer patient and you have no reason to believe that you still have a chance
to live. And you are in a very depressing area why would you want to live. A person
in a hospital with people dying all around them how you would be able to cope
with it when you feel like you’ll be next. Wouldn’t you want to be in a place
where you would want to wake up in everyday? In the movie Patch  Adams , a ex mental patient realizes that a
person if happy is able to overcome a lot of issues while sick. He secretly
opens up his own hospital not only to help them medically but to offer them
hope and happiness while doing so. And this movie is a great source to make
people belive that being happier can make you healthier.





   A person’s
happiness can play a major role in a person’s health. By laughing and thinking
positive it can get you by easier and healthier. Also how doing things to get
your mind of off problems can help you get by. I feel that everyone has the
power to make someone happier.

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