World Laughter Day is May 3rd

My friend Melanie praqctices laughter yoga. It's not laughing ABOUT things like jokes. It's about the joy, refreshment and mending power of laughter.

This Saturday is World laughter Day. Try it out. You might find it a balm for your brokenness.

Here are information and links that Melanie shared with me. I hope you find them useful.

World Peace Through Laughter.... The World Needs Laughter Now More Than Ever....

For Your Information..... Sunday, May 3, 2009 is World Laughter Day...

There are Events Happening Around the World... Take a Look :-D

http://www.worldlaughterday.org/

Spend some time on May 3rd... laughing in your own unique way...

There are a few options.

1. Go to http://www.laughteryoga.org/ and find a Laughter Yoga Class Near You.

2. Call the Laughter Yoga Phone Line.... http://www.laughteryogausa.com/Laughteronthephone.html . There are 11 Live, Free Daily Calls a Day.

3. Spend Some Time Laughing with Your Loved Ones/Family/Friends, etc....

A Friend Recently Shared a few Hafiz Poems with Me that I will share with you:

Two Giant Fat People

God and I

have become like two giant fat people

living in a tiny boat.

We keep bumping into each other

and Laughing :-D

Hafiz c. 1320-1389

When the Violin

When the Violin can forgive the past-It starts singing

When the Violin can stop worrying about the future-

You will become a drunk laughing Nuisance

that God will then lean down and start combing you into his hair.

When the Violin can forgive every wound caused by others

The heart starts singing.

Hafiz.

What is This ?

What is this precious Love & Laughter

budding in our Hearts?

It is the Glorious Sound

of a Soul Waking Up.

Hafiz.



Wellness Clubhttp://www.wellnessforyoufirst.com/

Live to Laugh...... Laugh to Live :-)))

Love to Laugh..... Laugh to Love :-)))

The story of a heroine who recognizes her brokenness

A book is being published today that seems destined to become a bestseller. It details the story of a woman named Tori Murden McClure who was the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

But that distinction isn't what drew my attention to her story. What got me interested was the fact that Tori was woman enough to recognize her own limitations. She had failed in her first attemp to row across the ocean, and when she neared the end of her successful second attemp she and her boat suffered the onslaught of a storm she feared would drown her...almost within sight of her destination. Here's what she said to the Louisville Courier-Journal reporter who interviewed her:

Before she reached land a storm struck her cabin, causing her to collapse.
She prayed, "I've helped the disabled. I've pulled homeless people out of
Dumpsters. I've comforted individuals in distress. I've put myself out there
time and again. How much more do you want from me? How much more can I
give?"...

Then came her revelation. 'When I looked up from my
prayer,' she writes, 'the storm seemed to shine blue with electrical energy. It
was then that I realized the sublime truth of what I had been missing. I'd
intended to slay the sea monster of my helplessness. But I am, after all, a
woman. We don't slay our dragons; we embrace them...

Helplessness was not something outside me, some malevolent force that I
had to defeat," she states. 'Helplessness was a part of me. I am a human being.
It is our brokenness, our helplessness, which makes us human. I thought I'd been
trying to earn God's forgiveness, but the forgiveness I needed was my own. I had
only to forgive myself.'

The quotes above were taken from an article about Tori that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal on Saturday, April 4, 2009. The article was written by Linda Elisabeth Beattie. Here's a link to the full story:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904040352