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The most important time to be able to laugh is when things look worst. The economic recession may be quite dark when you try to stretch a fixed income or watch the hard earned money as investments fade. But this is not really the time to remember how to laugh. The humor can be extremely therapeutic. Before going further, it is an important distinction to make about the kind of humor that I advocate here. The only person you should make fun of yourself. At your weaknesses, your flaws, your situation. It's all fodder for jokes if you're the only one to do. However, laughing at others is not therapeutic. Words. As minor and short on the creative genius. All great comedians know, but you do not have to stand to benefit from this vision. Laugh with others. Laugh at yourself - even if you're looking to bankruptcy, foreclosure, or having to live with your brother incredibly disorderly young people because of this pesky economic downturn. Why? Because laughter really is good medicine. Norman Cousins was confronted with an incurable spine when he chose this strategy. Instead of staying in the hospital, he moved to the hotel and after a dose of humor to himself every day as a comedy film classics. He wrote about the experience gained in Anatomy of an illness, the statement that if he laughed for three hours in the morning, it would pain the rest of the day. Laughter can be more effectively with the emotional pain. So find ways to laugh. Martha Beck devotes an entire chapter to laugh at the Joy Diet - and his writing is certainly laughter therapy. As an option, it suggests stupidity. I am very happy. I've been a fan of personal stupidity in my entire life, but he gets a very bad rap. The stupidity in this culture is interpreted as inconsistency, naivety and a lack of appreciation of the seriousness of the situation. What a waste of a good tool. Stupidity can do more to help you let go of the emotions than anything else you can do standing. Stupidity requires that you waive your problem, at least temporarily, to the point of ridiculous. Therefore, my brothers spent their time in the waiting room while Dad had the quadruple bypass invent a card game with rules of goofy impossible. That's why I cross my eyes when I can draw the attention of a friend in the midst of a lengthy presentation. Silly is not just for kids. It is your right and responsibility. Do something silly today and make the world a better place. One way to be ridiculous when times are tight is with games that are fun than cutting. At one point when my husband and I were facing an economic gap, we launched a contest to see who could use both their paper lunch bag more. At right, the idea is being able to throw when you have finished your meal. But how much fun is that? He won - I think it all the way to the fourth week, something like 21 consecutive meals out of that bag. Mine developed a terminal tear on Day 16. Dang. There are benefits beyond the pleasure in this kind of stupidity. Have you noticed that "going green" and save money often involve the same behavior? "Use it up. Wear it. Recycle it. "Is good for the environment and the wallet. And if you can find fun ways to do so, it is also good for your sense of well-being. If you're ready to work, you can learn to laugh at anything. Just "Ha ha" to the therapeutic value it offers. There are clubs that meet to do this. Really. I have not progressed to that point. Even when I try to just laugh, I finally think of something funny and laugh louder. You have your own style on this, for sure. But only if you put a little effort into its development. "Style" requires action. Refining and polishing your sense of humor is an ideal stage of action for a slowdown. Defenders Beck laughs at least thirty one days and recommended a hundred. (Did that make you laugh?) When things seem terrible, find a way to laugh. It can change your mood in the blink of an eye, only the costs of energy it takes to do so, and has no negative side effects. Maybe we should make our first treatment for all - even before a bandage. Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd

Mahalia Jackson grew up singing gospel music. So it is no wonder that the rest of her life revolved around them also. Mahalia Jackson was on 26 Born in October 1911 by John A. Jackson and Charity Clark in New Orleans. Her father was a minister and a hairdresser. When Mahalia was just four years old, she began to sing her father's Plymouth Rock Baptist Church. When her mother passed away soon after Mahalia was sent to live with her religious aunt named Paul Mahalia. Aunt Mahalia Gospel music may only be sung or played in their home. This rule was fine with her niece, because she heard singing religious songs could be around the house. When Mahalia turned 16 years old, she moved to Chicago. There she was a housekeeper in order to earn a living to. And she kept on singing! She joined the Greater Salem Baptist Church. And it up with a gospel singing group that toured from town to town hooked. Between the church and the group, Mahalia soon found enough to keep her schedule full of singing concerts. Her first big break came when she sang with the Prince Johnson Singers. At that time, Mahalia recordings for Decca Records began. The year was 1937th Then songs with Apollo Records. Finally, in 1954, was Mahalia's sonorous voice her a contract with Columbia Records. (She stayed with them until 1967.) Mahalia was also the host of his own radio show on CBS that same year. Some of her most popular songs include: Nobody knows the Trouble I've Seen, like me over there in the upper room, his eye on the Sparrow, He is the whole world in his hand Got Got, and the Lord's Prayer. The woman from New Orleans, had found only an eighth grade education, including its place in the spotlight as the greatest gospel singers in America. They now filled busy schedule singing on the radio, on television shows like Ed Sullivan Show, and in concert halls across America. Mahalia even had the great honor of singing at John F. Kennedy 's inaugural ball in 1960. Not to forget their African-American roots, Mahalia was time to sing every chance she could to Dr. Martin Luther King's rallies. She was a strong supporter of civil rights. Mahalia was finally out the heart, and she died on 27 January 1972 in Chicago. When Providence Memorial Park in Metairie, Louisiana was buried. But their legacy is gospel in the hearts of many. She was posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 6th May 1997 included.