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Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work
Loretta Laroche
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Release Date: 1998-04-20 |
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"I'm always reminding people that the one constant you can count on is that things happen--and usually when you're not in the mood for them."
It's now a proven medical fact that good humor reduces the negative effects of stress. Over the course of twenty years, millions of people have learned this lesson while being entertained and enlightened by Loretta LaRoche in one of her enormously popular series of lectures given in public seminars; in corporate environments for clients like IBM, Reebok, Fidel-ity Investments, and Blue Cross, Blue Shield; and most recently in nationwide broadcasts on public television. Now she puts her sensible, sensational philosophy on paper--and gives readers the tools they need to laugh themselves to less stress and better health.
"One night I greeted Bob at the door wearing nothing but his wing-tipped shoes. I was laughing hysterically about how I looked. Bob didn't crack a smile. Instead, he bellowed, 'What are the neighbors going to think?'
" 'I don't know,' I replied, 'I haven't shown them yet.' "
Loretta LaRoche has been called "the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"--and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper.
"Buy something silly and wear it. A Groucho Marx nose, mustache, and glasses are my favorite. When the stress seems unbearable, when you've really reached the limits of your endurance, go into a bathroom, look into the mirror, put on your glasses, and ask yourself, 'How serious is this?' "
Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today's ever-increasing stress levels--it is a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter.
"Most of us don't realize what an impact we have on the world around us. A positive energy field is going to affect others in a beneficial way, even if you don't notice it at first. Why not ask for a standing ovation once in a while? When you go in to work, say, 'I came in--it wasn't easy. I could have gone somewhere else. I'd like a standing ovation.' "
In sections like "If You Don't Have to Suffer--Don't Practice," "My Mother the CEO," and "I'm Not Afraid of Heights, Just Widths," LaRoche dismantles our American predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives using the healing power of the absurd.
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her heart's in the right place...........2006-05-12
...but I couldn't wait for this book to be over. Her blanket statements in each chapter really got on my nerves, i.e. "Food has almost become poison in our society. We never come home to great smells simmering on the stove anymore." How does she know this? Or, "now it's always the phone or the answering machine. People get home and head right for the machine." Um, maybe it's because we want to hear who called? Loretta says she "finally realized that trying to be thin is at odds with my Sicilian roots.". Hm...sounds like she just doesn't want to cut back her food portions and exercise more. Her life seems to have been really messed up, and it seems like she overcame her obstacles with her brand of "humor", but her writing did not inspire me, and her "hilarious" stories didn't make me laugh. One star.
Insightfully Funny.......2003-06-25
I checked this book out of the library to help me during a depression. I'd already watched Loretta's video, "The Joy of Stress" during treadmill workouts and laughed myself silly. Periodically bursting out laughing while reading "Relax--You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left" I decided to buy the book. Loretta's wit and humor are excellent tools to help reframe a negative focus, and to look at things in a more positive light even by accepting the absurdity around us. While Loretta's insights are remarkably simple they are also profound, particularly in the way they inspire change within us. With Loretta's help I've found that laughing is way more fun than whining!
A Bore.......2002-01-20
Loretta is very funny and worth watching on TV. The tapes just don't make it. I have yet (6 mos after purchase) to get through the second one.
Hilarious!.......2001-06-15
I have the audio cassettes and pop them into my car stereo every few months. Loretta Laroche cracks me up! Her sense of humor is wonderful. It's a great thing to listen to when you're stressed out from work, stuck in traffic, or just feeling down. I recommended the book/tapes to all of my friends!
WOW -- Hillarious.......2001-02-28
I never thought to use humor to reduce my stress, especially at work. Her stories of her family and personal events helped me to see all of the funny things that really stressed me out that would fall into the category of "the little stuff." I really enjoyed the anticdotes as well. There was a drawback, there are a few things that she doesn't discuss in detial therefore making it hard to try them, but over all this is a very good book for all of you who are stressed to the max.
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Using the Power of Humor
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Using the Power of Humor to Improve Your Life
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Forrest Wheeler, Author Educator and Clown open new doors to better your life using the power of humor.
Imagine yourself in Afghanistan delivering and protecting emergency human supplies while wearing a colorful clown costume, bright makeup highlighted prominently by a red rubber nose, all of which brings a smile to hostile, armed-to-the teeth soldiers.
In his new book, Using the Power of Humor, he provides the reader with an easy to understand and usable definition of humor. It clearly separates humor from comedy. It demonstrates in simple language the appropriate from inappropriate uses of humor and comedy. It offers the reader new perspectives on humor, giving people permission to take humor seriously.
This book opens up a whole new category of humor which when combined with rational and physical humor improves our understanding of clowns. It broadens the potential role of these laugh makers.
Using the Power of Humor, in an easy-to-read narrative, offers practical application of humor in every day life. The author presents new and exciting ways to empower the reader by connecting humor to: health and healing, education and learning, as well as enjoying increased productivity. He also demonstrates in simple terms how humor is the natural activator to help us develop positive attitudes, make lasting relationships, reduce pain in body and soul.
Humor defeats the terrorist and protects our nation.
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Practical humor.......2007-07-20
The author gives a number of helpful practical methods for the development of humor in every day life. So many times we read of the importance of humor but seldom any exercises or practices we can put to use. This was a very helpful resource for me while researching my article.
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How have society's values and attitudes toward sexuality and morality changed over the centuries? Why and how has the state sought to criminalize certain forms of sexual behavior and to control reproduction? How have churches tried to influence the state in its regulation of sexuality?
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