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Get a "Thank You" Telegram from Your Heart (After Fifteen Minutes of Humor)
March 14, 2005
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Get a "Thank You" Telegram
from Your Heart
(After Fifteen Minutes of Humor)

By Cliff Kuhn, M.D.
The Laugh Doctor

Do you remember telegrams? (Am I dating
myself?) Before email, when we wanted a
message sent quickly we used a telegram. Did
you ever wonder why Western Union wouldn't
transmit exclamation marks in a telegram? The
original Morse code alphabet provided for
the exclamation mark, so Western Union
could've included them in telegrams. I'll
tell you the reason they didn't in a moment...

Dr. Michael Miller, of the University of
Maryland School of Medicine, announced some
amazing research findings this week which
you should know about. Of course, you are
already devoted to the natural medicine of
humor and my unique Fun Factor prescription
. But
Dr. Miller's research provides yet more
concrete data to back up the amazing natural
medicine of humor - as well as more data to
persuade you to utilize my HA HA HA
Prescription today for your greatest
health
. And I'll tell you about Dr.
Miller's research after I do a quick review
of my HA HA HA Prescription.

Those already intimately familiar with The
Fun Factor
know my HA HA HA Prescription well,
but it bears a quick reiteration here. The
third HA is an acronym for Humor Activity,
the action you take to employ humor as your
ultimate medicinal agent
. Let me stress for
those not as familiar with this prescription,
the most important part of the natural
medicine of humor is your attitude, not your
actions. But Humor Activities are, indeed,
essential as the final piece of the
puzzle for your ultimate health and success
.

You will recall that I advocate a minumum of
fifteen minutes of laughter/humor/fun each
day - although I have my patients perform
thirty minutes a day
(and recommend the same
to you). Fifteen minutes of Humor Activity
requires you to make a commitment to humor,
to move it up in your hierarchy of daily
activities and no longer relegate it to
your "recreation" time. To help you do
this, in The Fun Factor, I provide you with a lengthy
list of simple, easy to implement, Humor
Activity exercises
. For that matter,
you'll find lots of recommended comedy
resources on my website so that you
can easily surround yourself with all the
Humor Activity necessary to get your fifteen
(or thirty) minutes each day
.

Dr. Miller's research team recruited 20
healthy volunteers to watch a segment of a
very funny movie ("King Pin") and a very
stressful movie ("Saving Private Ryan"). I'll
skip the medical terminology and simply tell
you that they found 19 of the 20 subjects
watching a movie that caused laughter,
recieved increased beneficial blood vessel
relaxation
. In contrast, Brachial artery
flow was reduced in 14 of the 20 volunteers
following the movie clips that caused mental
stress. Dr. Miller's team said overall blood
flow increased by 22 percent during laughter

and decreased by 35 percent after mental
stress.

The research findings led Dr. Miller to
advise, as he presented his data to the
Scientific Session of the American College
of Cardiology last week in Orlando, Florida,
a combination of daily exercises with
fifteen minutes of laughter each day for
optimal cardiovascular health. Sound
familiar? I'm glad to have the University
of Maryland School of Medicine join our
team; the data from Dr. Miller's study
reinforces what we have long known. Daily
Humor Activity makes us more healthy, happy,
and resilient
- all the ingredients
necessary for success, by anybody's
definition.

By the way, Western Union abolished
exclamation points to prevent lawsuits,
because it was very easy to cause an error
during the transmission of a message with a
lot of punctuation in it. But even if there
were no technological problem behind it,
exclamation marks would've been still been
shunned. Western Union charged for
punctuation marks as if they were words!

Put an exclamation mark on the amazing
natural medicine of humor. Make sure you
are incorporating a minimum of fifteen
minutes of Humor Activity today
. Play with
your preexisting humor props and utilize my
website
to find some recommended comedy
resources
, your body will thank you for it!

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Some Humor for the Week

"Men who have pierced ears are better
prepared for marraige. They've experienced
pain and bought jewerly."
Rita Rudner

"I went to a wedding...I couldn't believe
the groom was married in rented shoes. You're
making a commitment for a lifetime, and your
shoes have to be back by five-thirty."
Jerry Seinfeld

Please - do your friends a favor! Send them
this newsletter or tell them all about it. Let's
spread the happiness virus together!

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