Humour

9 Lifelong Secrets From A 90-Year-Old Veteran

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Activist Post February 16 2013

Grandpa is a good soul who overcame tremendous hardship and is alive and well to this day despite some recent medical issues he’s happily recovering from. We’ll call him Fred. We’ve studied him forever to figure out the secrets to his long happy life. Some will sound like common sense; and some you may never have heard of or correlated with longer life.

Singing – For real? Grandpa is a lover not a fighter who always enjoyed music, especially theater. But that doesn’t have to be you to apply. How many of us sing in our car or hum while we work? He sang his whole life and was the leading man in numerous plays, always ready to lend a hand to community entertainment. It turns out – singing is good for the heart, mind and soul. Singing is seen as a symptom of happiness.

Sense of Humor – it must be Fred’s sense of humor that brought him through hardships. Let’s just say he joined WW2 to escape his home life. He made it through the Great Depression as well. But he never takes himself too seriously. He doesn’t fear the eccentricity label – he doesn’t seem to fear anything. Embrace humor if you want to cope with what lies ahead.

When his heart recently stopped, he had been in the middle of singing with his seniors follies choir that appears at nursing homes, many of the residents of which are much younger than him. One hospital visit and pacemaker later, he’s sitting up in bed laughing, saying: “So much for that singing health study you sent me – look where it’s landed me!” He was joking and serenading the nurses and back at home in no time. A sense of humor must mean something if it can change our entire physiology in seconds.

When a thyroid surgery changed his voice, we were afraid he couldn’t sing anymore. “Oh but hey!” he exclaimed. “I can start singing like Johnny Cash! He talks a lot when he sings anyways.” You can’t keep a humorous man down – you can’t hold anything over his head – he laughs in the face of his troubles. He was clear into his 80s before significant health problems arose – that’s a life many of us envy and aren’t granted.

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Have You Had Your Laughter Today?

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Inspire Me Today | September 23 2012

When you laugh with others you can’t help but bounce a little joy back into your own heart. ~ John Dealey

If you want to feel better, here’s a suggestion for you that has worked well for many others: Do more, be more . . . and LAUGH more!

Laughing is healthy.

It helps the body’s immune system, it keeps you healthier, it cures depression, it reduces stress, it induces sleep, it’s invigorating, it’s rejuvenating, it has no unpleasant side effects and laughing is nothing less than a miracle drug!

Laughing is all natural.

It is organic, naturally sweet, and is 100 percent wholesome. Laughter has no pesticides, no preservatives, and absolutely no artificial ingredients.

There are no movable parts, no batteries to wear out, no periodic check-ups required. Laughter has low energy consumption, and yet has a very high energy yield.

Laughing is inflation proof, non-fattening, has no monthly payments, no insurance requirements, it’s theft-proof, non-taxable, non-polluting and, of course, fully returnable.

Laughing is practically perfect.

When you laugh with others you can’t help but bounce a little joy back into your own heart. So, think about your own “daily laughter rate” and make a decision to increase it.

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Creativity

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Eckart Tolle | Eckart Tolle
 November 18 2011

There’s a particular dimension where creativity arises. It’s a little bit like the wick burning the flame, and its sustenance is the oil – it’s in an oil lamp, and you are the flame. All the analogies, by the way, are very deficient, but it’s just a distant approximation to get you into a sense of what that place is. So you are the flame, and you feel your way into the very source – down the wick into where the oil is, inside yourself. That’s the place, the source, so if anything is new, creative, then it has a fragrance of the source.

Somehow, humans, even humans who are still very much identified with their mind, many of them are touched by when they see or hear or whatever – come into contact with – something that came out of that deeper level, whether it’s a work of art, or a piece of music, or it could just be somebody talking. And the words come from that deeper level. It could just be somebody who has a good sense of humor – even that is already a form of creativity. Spontaneous humor is to suddenly see something that one wouldn’t normally see – a connection between two seemingly unconnected things, and suddenly you connect them and everybody laughs. Some people have that. Some people have one small area in which they can be creative, and that can be enough to provide you with fulfillment and an income, for the rest of your life – and to contribute that gift to others.

Great stand up comedians, for example, have that gift. Of course, not everything they say is spontaneous, but when they prepare their stuff, they have to be creative. Now I don’t know if anybody here has tried to be a standup comedian, but it’s difficult. Many people try. It’s hard to be funny. But some have it, and it’s amazing – those few that have that gift. And there too, the sense of humor is spontaneously something arises, and there it comes. It’s being in touch with that. It’s wonderful to be able to be in touch with that, and feel the power that flows from there, out into this world. Now for that, of course you need some kind of vehicle, because the power needs to flow into some kind of form.

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