laughing to good health

Studies say that laughing is good to health. I have found eight health benefits of what laughter can do to the body.

What can laughter do?:

• Lower blood pressure
• Increase vascular blood flow and oxygenation of the blood
• Give a workout to the diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory,facial,leg, and back muscles
• Reduce certain stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline
• Increase the response of tumour and disease killing cells such as Gamma-interferon and T-cells
• defend against respiratory infections even reducing the frequency of colds by immunoglobulon in saliva
• Increase memory and learning;in a study at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, humour during instruction led to increase test scores
• Improve alertness,creativity, and memory

So people please laugh a lot so that you can improve your health.

        

       

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the sound of one hand clapping

There is no such thing as a sound of one hand clapping. Only two hands can make a sound when clapping them, but to really think about it ,one hand can make a sound. It can only make a sound if you slap a person in the face.

You can hear the sound only if you slap the person very hard. Its a small sound but in the end it is a sound and a sound that catches attention very fast.

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Importance of family

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Remember the saying that says you can choose your friends but not your family; it’s true because you can’t pick and choose which family you want. And that sometimes can be the sad part, because there are times when you wish you can trade your family for another family, when things are not running smooth in the household.

Family is important because it builds up a person’s personality and how you behave, and what you become in life is very much dependent on your family life. Psychologists believe that a child learns the most from his or her family life. The way your family members deal with you has a lifelong effect on your personality. Keeping in view all these facts the importance of your family life cannot be denied. Family happens to be the most important part of your life till you grow up.

The life with your family is very important it plays a major role in your development into the person you become. The goals you set for yourself in your life are very much dependent on the life you have with your family. Family life is also important in the sense that it gives you your basic strength as a person. The people who have a smooth and well settled family life are generally less scared of life. Those who are a part of a broken family are generally less confident. These people always expect the worst in life. This is a general state of mind which results in building up of a negative personality. Family life is also important to people as it is the part of our life which has more effect on us compared to any other part of our life. The way a mother treats her kids is actually the deciding factor of what those kids will be like as human beings when they grow up.

not all who wander are lost

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Not all those who wander are lost, but more importantly most who are lost don’t wander. This is a frightening thought but it’s true when one thinks of it. I suspect that life has come to be, through its various manipulations, more like gilded cage than a well worn path. More like a cozy trap than an adventure. Far from the cry that nature is raw in tooth and claw, it seems that human nature is soft in stomach and bum. Sadly most people don’t die by seeking meaning, they die by comfort.

Ok, but some who wander are indeed lost (speaking of bums) and lost wanders are, to many, the scariest kinds of people. These are the utterly unpredictable people who wander across our paths occasionally. Now if we are not wanderers we only cross paths by their adventure, and if we both are lost at least these wanders have the courage to admit it, if not the strength to change it!

In fact they are not quite as unpredictable as we think at first. Certainly from the point of view it’s us, ‘settled’ people, who are unpredictable. We are set in our strange individual ways and we don’t just criticize these wanders but reject them.

I CRY

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This poem is one of my favourite poems by Tupac Shakur. It just speaks to me and I listen with both ears.

The poem: I CRY
Sometimes when I'm alone
I cry,
cause I am on am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form.
I cry because my heart is torn.
I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confiding,
I would cry among my treasured friend,
But who do you know that stops that long,
To help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by,
Then to stop and see what makes one cry,
No painful and sad,
And sometimes...............
I cry
And no one cares about why.

How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?

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Stepping off a 100-feet pole will definitely have different meanings to different people. It can even have different meaning to one person at different stages of his life, there are 2 things for certain: you go up, and then you go down.

For me Stepping off a 100-feet pole means to take a risk. This is when you have to consider about doing something carefully, procrastinating, thinking and deciding and rethinking your options. Stepping off the 100-feet pole means that you finally say GO! to yourself. You do not know the outcome and you might fail or fall and hit the ground hard, but you take that step with courage in your heart.It also means starting over

You literally need to start climbing from the pavement again, step by step.

Youth and HIV/AIDS

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In communication science last week there was a discussion about HIV/AIDS and the lovelife campaign. This topic got me thinking about the youth in my community. They are only concerned about pregnancy and not about contracting the HIV/AIDS virus. The youth uses contraceptives to protect themselves from being pregnant but they forget that those contraceptives only protects them from pregnancy and not from the virus. They don't use condoms and some believe that sleeping with one partner is safe and they won't get the virus.
A girl from my community once said to me, she has one boyfriend and what is the use of being on the contraception pills if she still has to use a condom. I asked her if she and her boyfriend have tested and she replied by saying there's no need because we trust each other. This goes to show that some young people don't think about the HIV/AIDS virus and don't care about knowing their status.

I wish I could help my community by educating the youngsters both girls and boys about the seriousness of the HIV/AIDS virus, but knowing them they would say they are taught enough at school about the virus and there is no need for me to lecture them.