Healing Laughter and One HAPPY Recipe!

B'SD

19 Kislev, 5779

Nobody can guarantee that you'll heal physically. but it's a widely known wisdom that laughter promotes emotional healing. Anger, despair, jealousy, sadness, name the mood and mentality. Laughter often eases inner and outer pain.

One of my friends is going through a very difficult time. I shared with him my "Never fails for me!" solution to leaving negativity behind. It's a 3-part comedy video series, the 2000-Year Old Man by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO04zWdh8_Y

2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIezIhi9JNc

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQWDxrKS1Z4

Be sure to watch all 3 videos. They might leave you smiling, too.

Hanuka is almost here and some people wish they knew 

how to make the jelly donuts so popular at this time. 

Here's a simple recipe that's so much fun
that you can share it with children!
Let them do the mixing and mooshing 
as you, the adult in charge, 
do the more dangerous frying.

2 1/4 TSP yeast

3 TBL Sugar

1 TBL Brandy

1  lemon's worth of zest

1 1/2 TBL Oil

1 egg

1 cup warm water

3 CUPS flour

Moosh-mix in a sealed plastic bag, immerse in VERY warm water 1 hour

Roll out dough on floured board

Cut out donuts with a glass

Let batter rise under a fabric kitchen towel for 30 minutes!

Fry in about 2 inches of oil 1 minute per side

Remove donuts, rest them on a paper-towel covered plate atop the counter. The paper will absorb excess oil.

INSERT KETCHUP CONTAINER/squeeze bottle FILLED WITH JELLY INTO DONUTS, Then SQUEEZE IN THE JELLY.

Powder the donuts and serve.

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Fill your time with solution-oriented activity.

November is RSD/CRPS Month! Let's END the Agony!

B'SD

30 Cheshvan, 5774

Tomorrow will be the first day of the spiritually lit month of Kislev (Chanuka time!). It neatly coincides with November, the RSD/CRPS month. What an opportune time to end a lot of agony.

If you scroll around this blog enough, you'll come upon the story of how I endured and RECOVERED from RSD/CRPS in a shockingly short time. My whole medical team dropped its collective jaw as I practiced what I preach about a healthy sense of humor in

Read this relevant blogpost at Boo-Boo Barbie Laughs Her Way to Better Health.

Sure, I wept in agony before I realized my way out of the problem. The simplicity of it all was key to the recovery.

I'm convinced that RSD/CRPS is 

a defense mechanism. 

I've spoken with orthopedic & OT/PT 

rehab professionals about that. 

They're inclined to agree that 

this is a possibility.

I used humor and self-empowerment

to end RSD/CRPS agony.

Maybe you can, too.

A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To."

 

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How to Lose the Pain, Not Your Life, 1-2-3!

B'SD

26 Av, 5773

Bad news in the pain-killing industry: Painkillers Kill More Americans than Heroin and Cocaine Combined! 

I doubt that things are much better around the world in other industrialized areas.

I've conquered pain with 

1. Laughter, 

2. Dr. John Sarno's book, 

3. EFT 

and other non-chemical methods. 

So have other people. I highly recommend that you try any and all of those methods, to protect your very life. 

Yocheved Golani

Writing Services • Self-Help Coach for Health Issues • Author • Speaker

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Hug Time!

B'SD

Adar 4, 5773

Today's Valentine's Day around the world, though it's not celebrated by Torah-minded Jews. No matter your religion, that doesn't stop some people from feeling wistful about wanting to love someone else, to  be loved or to love yourself on a deep, spiritual level.

The whole concept of love is multifaceted. Wanna take some of the mystery out of it?

Rabbi Noah Weinberg z'l defines love as "The pleasure we experience when we identify someone with their virtues, while accepting them with their faults." (OK, singles and everyone else, heed the life-lesson and end some self-inflicted misery).

Worried that you're at odds with 

someone you're trying to love 

despite hardships between you?

Laugh. The experience can promote a sense of joy that turns the sense of terror and concern in our hearts and minds into harmless stuff. Your fears can melt away with the sense of restored happiness. You can even learn to laugh at them.

Go out and find something to enjoy. Listen to silly comic routines (try The 2000-year Old Man for starters), rejoice over someone's victories (babies have them each time they reach milestones), and coax yourself to be willing to loosen up a bit.

Competent therapists can help you if necessary.

OH - if you need to de-clutter, here are some handy hints to help you: 12 Myths about Cleaning a Mess.

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Learn how to love challenges in life. They make YOU a more valuable person for facing them with increasing courage, humor and good sense. Feel the self-respect grow! It's a emotional hug to reassure you.

 

How to Laugh Your Way to a Healthier YOU

B'SD

28 Elul 5770


Laughter is good for body and soul.

Enjoy a few giggles at this serious time of year. Put some healthy perspective into your mood.

Click on Giggles for YOU.




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How Can the Marx Brothers Make YOU Feel Better?

B'SD


14 Elul 5770

With an apple
and a piano ;^ )

The Marx Brothers had incomparable talent and a knack for making people laugh.

often recommends getting some giggles now and then. Here's one for you, courtesy Harpo and Chico:




Here comes that apple!

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Hanuka Videos to Increase Your Emotional Health!

B'SD

30 Kislev 5770

Laughter and joy do so much for the healing process. Here's a present for the last days of the Hanuka holiday. See 171 Cool Chanukah Videos and enjoy the fun (even if you're not Jewish).

I hope they'll help you to cope with your medical situation.

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I'm heading to a Chanukah party soon.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Extreme Sheepherding for the Humor-Impaired

B'SD

25 Cheshvan 5770

I don't know how you feel, but I'm in the mood for some hilarity as we head to the end of the week. Humor heals. Here we go:




Want more giggles that don't remotely affect animals or use lots of electricity? Put another smile on your face. And even a loved one's.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It's an E-book that'll get your grin back right where it belongs ;^ )

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

The Alternative to Coping is Worse

28 Iyar 5768


Comedian George Burns once responded to a question about how he felt upon reaching his eighties. "The alternative is worse," he grinned.

That attitude can be a life-saver. I get a kick out of turning difficult situations around to my advantage. It's a skill that anyone can master. It takes time, but it's doable.

I persevere instead of letting irritating problems destroy me or my composure. I like to achieve my goals and to leave my tormentors gritting their teeth in frustration. It's the best revenge. I don't strike out at anyone. Troublemakers simply live to regret messing with me or they choose to become my (surprise!) advocates. I treat other problems (such as medical upsets) the same way. I don't get mad (well, actually I do to some extent), I have fun getting even without hurting anyone in the process of meeting my needs. I simply keep on keepin' on, knowing that laughter can bestow more life upon me. It's a skill anyone can learn.

In my book, I describe how I faced the news of my once-imminent death (due to a BENIGN brain tumor) with a determined change of plans for LIVING to the FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE.

Sometimes, I treat stressful situations as a game. I reframe the problem with funny remarks, figure out strategies for achieving my goals and then behave as if things are not all that serious. It takes the sting out of the problem at hand, it reduces my sense of stress (plus that of everyone involved) and it causes laughter whenever I tell people how I accomplished my task. As Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport knew and taught, laughter is a life-saver!

That's part of the story about how I handled my shock in 2005. Friends and I formed tag teams, calling medical specialists around the world. We sought advice for reversing my diagnosis. Sure, we wept at the serious problem I faced. But we refused to surrender to it. I decided to face this phase of my life as a calm, cultured adult instead of as a screaming shrew or as a morose figure of despair. I wanted my dignity to remain intact throughout the ordeal. To reach that goal I also adjusted my vocabulary, calling the medical crisis a "Situation to be Resolved."

Surgeons had a hard time separating the hands of the friends grasping my stretcher as the time arrived to wheel me into surgery. I knew that the blue lines drawn across my face and tracing where the doctors would cut my skull open looked terrifying to my loving, non-medical observers. So, I firmly but sweetly told the women standing behind my head, "Me Amazon Warrior! Going to fight for my life. Be fine!" They were able to let go with trembling smiles. Humor put our situation into perspective, letting us cope with our fears.

Read It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Learn how I coped with my medical crisis. Mimic me and lift your spirits above the horrors at hand. My book can teach you skills for blazing your own brave trail into the future.

We can't control our medical outcomes. But failing, worse REFUSING, to acknowledge our medical messes and to deal with them forthrightly can be dangerously disastrous. Senator Ted Kennedy surely knows that as he heads into surgery today (and I wish him well). The lesson I'm trying to convey is that we can perfect our attitudes. The Kennedys know that, as do I. You can, too. Striving to be a better person is a win-win situation.

~*~*~

Suffering with a Medical Crisis?
Been there, done that, wrote a book about it, and going forward into the future.

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To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life