Healthy Happy Loving Life: Beat Stress With Laughs

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© 2022 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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One of the funniest and most endearing videos rippling around the Internet currently is a tiny movie about the tiniest black pig (“Kingsford the Piglet Goes for a Swim”).  The piglet is smaller than a woman’s foot, jet black, eager, and passionate to be included with his humans.  Watch this video once, and you’ll feel so charmed, you’ll have to watch it again.  The piglet’s antics make you laugh.  Another video is YouTube’s “Dancing Bulldog”, in which a small bulldog is evidently boogeying to some fun music.  Of all the videos I have seen in recent months, I laughed the hardest at “Silent Monks Hallelujah Chorus”, in which cards are held up to encourage the audience to sing along.  Impish variations surprise and make you laugh.  What videos or movies have made you laugh?

-Image by megapixl

Laughter feels good!  It makes you relax, from your muscles to your skin to your attitude. Laughing very hard can cause you to clutch your spasming abdomen, gasp for breath, drool a bit, and wipe your teary eyes.  A good, hearty laugh can make you feel refreshed, even totally rested.  And there are medical benefits: higher DHEA, improved immune function (fewer allergies and illnesses with regular laughter) and better blood vessel function leading to better blood pressure than when you are stressed.  However, researchers say the medical benefits are hard to measure.  Rather, it is easier to observe the social benefits of laughter: it is both symptomatic of happy relationships and contagious, creating more social connection and happiness (Robert Provine, Laughter:  A Scientific Investigation, Penguin Books, 2001).  Women laugh about a quarter more than men.  Those who say they laugh a lot also tend to be in good health.  Laughter therapy is used for cancer patients, who find it helps their quality of life.  Laughter can increase the release of endorphins, the anti-stress brain chemicals that can lessen pain and stiffness.

Laughter is a part of our makeup.  Babies start laughing when they are as young as 10 weeks.  And adults are immediately drawn in, trying to see what they can do to get the baby to laugh again.  Watch a normally calm parent of a 3-month-old, making faces and tickling the baby, producing any noise or gesture that will make the little one laugh.  The urge to get a laugh is right up there with the urge to laugh.

Yet there can be a poignant edge to humor—a place where discomfort can be portrayed in a way that makes us laugh and discharge that discomfort.  A popular expression is, “You have to laugh to keep from crying!” Folk wisdom advises us to shrug off or laugh off our troubles.  Comedienne Ellen Degeneres made her early career describing uncomfortable events from everyday life, in a comical way, with a mournful look.  She delivered her vignettes in ways that made people laugh, and laugh, and laugh.  In recent years, she has had a top-rated television show, Ellen, many endorsements and guest host opportunities, and an estimated income of $45 million per year.  People can relate to her humor.  She makes them laugh, and this has built her success.  People need to laugh at their troubles.

Not long ago, Dr. Phil McGraw ran a show about comedians who transformed terrible personal pain into comedy.  The episode of Dr. Phil highlighted two comedians, Darrell Hammond and Chris Titus.  Each overcame horrific backgrounds to become well-known and successful in comedy.  Darrell Hammond is now the author of a book, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F***ed.  His humor has helped many to laugh at their troubles and take a lighter view.   Chris Titus knows humor can literally be lifesaving:  a fan who was about to kill himself accidentally sat on his TV controller, and the TV popped on to a Chris Titus performance.  The fan began to laugh and changed his mind about killing himself.

What makes you laugh until you cry?  Do that more! And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

Books by Kebba Buckley Button

 

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Wordless Wednesday Amazing Skies

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© Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.  

To study the skies is to witness the miracles of Nature.  And whenever we witness miracles, we are transformed.  These are all unedited images captured by me.  The daytime photo looks almost upside down, as if we are looking at rippling water.  The mystic crescent Moon is unusual in the sharpness of the image.  The night sky with cloud puffs is a rare view.  Then, we have the Full Moon peering out from between trees.  Enjoy!

                                         

Fall in love with the skies and you will see many miracles.  And seeing miracles will lift your vibration and enliven you!  Then that will move you more and more into being Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!  And that is what I want for you!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a 30-year natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

Books by Kebba Buckley Button

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Wordless Wednesday Superlative Skies

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Beat stress, Dealing with stress, Healthy Happy Loving Life, Kebba Buckley Button, LifeTools, skies, stress, The life you want, UpBeat Living

© Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.  All images © Kebba Buckley Button.

To study the skies is to witness the miracles of Nature.  And whenever we witness miracles, we are transformed.

                                             

Fall in love with the skies and you will see many miracles.  And that will move you ever more into being Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!  And that is what I want for you!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a 30-year natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

Books by Kebba Buckley Button

Healthy Happy Loving Life: National Stress Month

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                                                     -Image by megapixl

It’s April 2022, and it’s National Stress Month!  If you think life is stressful in the US, in Spring 2022, you are not alone!  If you think it’s more stressful now than in a long time, you are not alone.  If you think we are living in unusual times, you are with the majority.  The American Psychological Association regularly conducts a Stress In America poll, which they began in 2007.  And this year, I was very excited to see the results, because they match what I see in my stress management practice.  The latest APA results were published in March, yes, 35 days ago.  How stressed people feel and what they are stressed about has changed!  Here are some key points from the APA’s press release:

• More adults are stressed about inflation and the invasion of Ukraine that any other issue covered in the 15-year history of this key poll.
• Two thirds of adults reported their lives had been forever changed by the Pandemic.
• People’s main concerns, all reported by 80% or more, are inflation, supply chain issues (will there be toilet paper tomorrow?), Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and potential retaliation from Russia, including cyberattacks.

   The CEO of APA, Arthur C. Evans, Jr., says:

The number of people who say they’re significantly stressed about these most recent events is stunning relative to what we’ve seen since we began the survey in  in 2007…we’re now reaching unprecedented levels of stress that will challenge our ability to cope.                                          

 

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From my longtime energy healing practice, I ask you:  how are YOU dealing with these issues?  And how are you dealing with your relationships, with everyone so stressed out?  Be sure you’re taking care of yourself in the Big Three areas:

1.  Eating healthfully
2.  Exercising
3.  Getting quality sleep

If you want more tips, check out my hundreds of free articles online, through this blog.  Or check out the practices in my books (shown below).  They offer an array of ways to trade in your stress for energy, find and deepen your personal peace, and learn to meditate for deep relaxation and spiritual connection.

And any practices you incorporate as LifeTools^sm will move you ever more into being Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!  And that is what I want for you!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a 30-year natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order:  kebba@kebba.com .  Thank you!

Books by Kebba Buckley Button

Healthy Happy Loving Life: What My Work Does For You

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at choice, Beat stress, Healthy Happy Loving Life, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Kebba Buckley Button, The life you want

© 2021 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM

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Invited to share what I do professionally, I’m delighted to mention a few things.  My overarching passion is to help you turn from a “stresspuppy”, a stress poster person, into a joyful, happy, healthy person.  I call this resulting state:  Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm.  What if you felt at ease with life, and as you walked around, you felt at ease in your body?  What if you had a solid base of internal peace—Peace Within, that you could and did go home to, whenever something offered to stress you out?

What if you had a set of tools and strategies, none of which involved equipment to purchase, but which you could carry around with you and use any time?  What if there was no cost to using these tools and strategies?  My tools are easy, but, like a screwdriver, you need to actually use them.  You can learn my strategies for living happily, from me in individual sessions (Zoom or at my Phoenix office), or with your professional group, when you have me come for a training.

Many busy professionals have been harboring symptoms they don’t realize can be from stress.  These might include:

• headaches
• glum mood
• tight or painful jaw, TMJ
• tooth pain
• dizziness
• tight neck
• chest pain
• anger or sadness
• pain in odd points around the body
• frozen shoulder
• an arm that can’t lift
• twinkling or burning in hands or feet
• gut pain or gurgling
• aching at back base of ribcage
• pain down the backs of legs
• constant cravings for snacks or cigarettes
• trouble sleeping, especially at certain times

Yet all these symptoms, and many others, can be addressed through energy transformation sessions.  In Oriental medicine, it’s understood that different types of stressful thoughts actually lodge in different parts of the body.  So understanding why your pain is where it is—can be very revealing and freeing.  My energy transformation sessions are sourced in Jin Shin Jyutsu®, Healing Touch®, and Divine Healing^sm, together with long years of holistic training.  With the client fully clothed, I listen to 19 metabolic pulses along the wrists, then I ask if they have had certain things going on in life.  They always say yes.  I then hold pairs of points and begin releasing the symptoms.

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If clients are interested, we talk about dietary shifts they can make, to address their symptoms and reach their goals.  We may discuss homeopathic drops they may want to try, or certain minerals and other supplements.  [NOTE:  I do not sell any such items in my office and they are not part of my income stream.]  We are likely to discuss the source of the stressors the client is experiencing and structures and strategies to respond differently, getting more desired results in interactions.   After sessions, clients say they feel lighter, looser, younger, and more optimistic, than when they came in!

If people like to learn new strategies from reading, I offer several guidebooks and three books in my office.  The books are:

• Discover the Secret Energized You: how to trade in your stress for energy
• Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire
• Sacred Meditation: how to meditate, and, if interested, embrace the Divine

Also for those who like to read, I have over 400 articles on attitude, life views, destressing, food strategies, and love: https://kebbabutton.wordpress.com

For those who love quote posters, I have over 400 I created on Pinterest:  https://www.pinterest.com/kebbabutton/_created/     Go and enjoy!

If you are looking for a stress management trainer for your professional or church group, I offer 2-hour trainings and longer.  I can also present workshops at your retreats.  Ask me about labyrinth meditation workshops!

Meanwhile, I do hope you are enjoying my 31 new posts this month, about developing your CALM, keeping your sense of humor, and many other topics.  Stick with me and my resources, and you’ll be more and more Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm! 

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

Books by Kebba Buckley Button

UpBeat Living: Beat Stress With Laughs

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Beat stress, choices, energy, Feeling energized, joy, Laughing, laughing at stress, laughs, stress, Stress Management

© 2012 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Laughter is powerful

One of the funniest and most dear videos rippling around the Internet currently is a tiny movie about the tiniest black pig (YouTube, “Kingsford the Piglet Goes for a Swim”).  The piglet is smaller than a woman’s foot, jet black, eager, and passionate to be included with his humans.  Watch this video once, and you’ll feel so charmed, you’ll have to watch it again.  The piglet’s antics make you laugh.  Another video is YouTube’s “Dancing Bulldog”, in which a small bulldog is evidently boogeying to some fun music.  Of all the videos I have seen in recent months, I laughed the hardest at “Silent Monks Hallelujah Chorus”, in which cards are held up to encourage the audience to sing along.  Impish variations surprise and make you laugh.  What videos or movies have made you laugh?

Laughter feels good!  It makes you relax, from your muscles to your skin to your attitude. Laughing very hard can cause you to clutch your spasming abdomen, gasp for breath, drool a bit, and wipe your teary eyes.  A good, hearty laugh can make you feel refreshed, even totally rested.  And there seem to be medical benefits: improved immune function (fewer allergies and illnesses with regular laughter) and better blood vessel function leading to better blood pressure than when you are stressed.  However, researchers say the medical benefits are hard to measure.  Rather, it is easier to observe the social benefits of laughter: it is both symptomatic of happy relationships and contagious, creating more social connection and happiness (Robert Provine, Laughter:  A Scientific Investigation, Penguin Books, 2001).  Women laugh about a quarter more than men.  Those who say they laugh a lot also tend to be in good health.  Laughter therapy is used for cancer patients, who find it helps their quality of life.  Laughter can increase the release of endorphins, the anti-stress brain chemicals that can lessen pain and stiffness.

Laughter is a part of our makeup.  Babies start laughing when they are as young as 10 weeks.  And adults are immediately drawn in, trying to see what they can do to get the baby to laugh again.  Watch a normally calm parent of a 3-month-old, making faces and tickling the baby, producing any noise or gesture that will make the little one laugh.  The urge to get a laugh is right up there with the urge to laugh.

Yet there can be a poignant edge to humor—a place where discomfort can be portrayed in a way that makes us laugh and discharge that discomfort.  A popular expression is, “You have to laugh to keep from crying!” Folk wisdom advises us to shrug off or laugh off our troubles.  Comedienne Ellen Degeneres made her early career describing uncomfortable events from everyday life, in a comical way, with a look of consternation on her face.  She delivered her vignettes in ways that made people laugh, and laugh, and laugh.  Today, she has a top-rated television show, Ellen, many endorsements and guest host opportunities, and an estimated income of $45 million per year.  People can relate to her humor, she makes them laugh, and this has built her success.  People need to laugh at their troubles.

Recently, Dr. Phil McGraw ran a show about comedians who transformed terrible personal pain into comedy.  The episode of Dr. Phil (http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/1753/) highlighted two comedians, Darrell Hammond and Chris Titus.  Each overcame horrific backgrounds to become well-known and successful in comedy.  Darrell Hammond is now the author of a book, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F***ed.  His humor has helped many to laugh at their troubles and take a lighter view.   Chris Titus knows humor can literally be lifesaving:  a fan who was about to kill himself accidentally sat on his TV controller, and the TV popped on to a Chris Titus performance.  The fan began to laugh and changed his mind about killing himself.

What makes you laugh until you cry?  Do that more!  It’s your life, your health, and your relationships.

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Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .