Life should be enjoyed... not endured!
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Presentations & 'Workshops' section updated!
This site has been designated a worthy Recipient of the World Laughter Tour's website award!
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This site is an attempt to answer the question "Is Laughter The Best Medicine?", and is taken from the author's research into Humour Therapy and personal experiences.
Here you will (hopefully) find information that's useful, informative and downright funny! (although no guarantees are given folks!)
Don't forget to keep checking this site from time to time as it is constantly being updated!
Please note: this is a non-profit making site - money is not the main goal of the author, his interest is in promoting the use of humour and laughter as a therapeutic tool! If anything on the site makes you feel good, or is beneficial in any way, then the author feels that he has achieved something worthwhile!
About the site's author:
Neil Baxter has performed music and comedy - live and unpaid* (if you hear his material you'll know why!), written poetry and numerous 'funny' stories. He is also employed as a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) and feels that laughter is an important therapeutic tool... this website is also part of his ongoing research in this field.
* He did however get £50 for one gig, but can't for the life of him work out how it happened, nor has he been able to repeat the miracle!
N.B. Although a lot of this site's contents are based on research, any information given is for suggested use only - feel free to try any of the suggestions, but don't take it all as gospel folks!
So that's the introduction - enjoy the site!
NEIL BAXTER, 2008
Last updated 5th May, 2008.
Thanks for visiting this site - and please sign the guestbook!
Thank you to Doctor Hunter ‘Patch’ Adams for his correspondence and words of advice, and for kindly allowing me to reproduce an excerpt from his book 'Gesundheit!' on this site... oh and a thousand thanks for the signed books! A much appreciated and kind gesture.
Thanks to Steve Wilson of 'World Laughter Tour, Inc.' for presenting me with my Website Award!
A big thank you to Lara Hastings and Rob Calderbank for their excellent pieces in the 'Research & Articles' section.
Thank you to Enda Junkins for letting me include her article "The Power Of Laughter" - much appreciated.
Thanks to Donna Grace Troy, Production Coordinator for 'Health Progress' for giving me permission to reproduce the 'Humor's Healing Potential' article by Brian Luke Seaward, PhD. (and of course, thanks to Dr. Seaward himself).
Thank you to Sylvia Mauger for allowing me to reproduce her article 'The Use Of Humour In Stress Management'.
Thanks to Shane Meadows, Jim Bowen, Jimmy Cricket and Mike Harding for their contributions to the 'Laughter Therapists' section - and to my good friend Lanny for sharing info with me (and for some hilarious email correspondences!)
And last but not least thanks to you... yes you out there, for taking the time to look at this site - much appreciated!
Any comments on this site or questions that you may have, please email me at: humourtherapist@hotmail.com
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