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On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your

On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

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Strong, Laughter, Health

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

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Happiness, Laughter, Humans
Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

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Happiness, Laughter, Block

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

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Happiness, Laughter, Moving
Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

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Laughter, Healthy, Essentials

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

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Positive, Laughter, Powerful

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

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Pain, Laughter, Sleep
Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.11, Open Road Media

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

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Laughter, Healthy, Jogging
Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.34, Open Road Media

Laughter is inner jogging.

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Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

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Laughter, Humor, Exercise
Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.60, Open Road Media

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

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Laughter, May, Panic

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