Good morning lovely people!
I’m back at the hospital for my bone treatment. It’s great that now I almost forget between treatments that I have cancer. Mentally I am in a really great place, the dark days are becoming less and less frequent and my trip to India seems to have cemented my mindfulness and being present so I am really not worrying about anything that might or could happen. It’s as if a switch has been flipped and I can really let things go. I always tried before, I’d read the books and attended the webinars and although I knew a lot about it and believed I was practicing it, I am so much closer than I have ever been ? and it feels good.
We did have a very sad event last week. Our tiny terrorist cat Munchie had been such a trooper coping with his diabetes for the last few years and latterly pancreatitis. We were testing and injecting him twice a day and he got to a place where he wasn’t going out much and it seemed that he wasn’t having any fun anymore when he had more down days than up days we had to make the decision to let him go. It was sad, really sad, he gave us so much, we’ll even miss the endless supply of headless rabbits that he so generously and regularly brought us. We love you loads Munchie ❤️
Focussing on the present, I am now looking for volunteers to practice my laughter yoga with. Face to face is best and groups are even better but if you’d like to join me on Skype that could be done too… just let me know if you’re interested and I’ll see what I can set up!
Before you sign up…. here are 3 reasons to do it:
- To get the scientifically proven health benefits of laughter, we need to laugh almost continually for 10 to 15 minutes. As we do laughter as an exercise in Laughter Yoga we can prolong our laughter for as long as we want, if we rely on ‘natural laughter’ we may have a long wait! Natural laughter generally comes in 2 to 5 second bursts and on average we laugh 10 to 15 times a day (children laugh significantly more 300 to 400 times a day ?)
- To really reap the health benefits of laughter, it has to be loud and deep, coming from the diaphragm. Laughter Yoga gives you a safe environment where you can laugh heartily without any social implications.
- Natural laughter in adults comes from conditions and reasons, Laughter Yoga is unconditional laughter so we are not leaving it to chance. By practicing laughter we’re making sure we get the health benefits.
I’ll tell you more about the health benefits next time! My treatment is now complete for another 4 weeks… which is after Christmas eek! ?
Talk to you soon
Lots of love Mand xxx