Humor therapy emerging

Did you know that laughter or humor can cure certain ailments especially those related to stress? Yes, it can.

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So if you're stressed by problems like lack of money, tough office work, problematic lovelife, etc., laugh even if the world would stare at you and ask: Why?

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Elizabeth Scott, M.S., in an article ("The Laughing Cure") in the "Healthy Options" magazine, said: "Research has shown health benefits of laughter ranging from strenghtening the immune system to reducing food cravings to increasing one's threshold for pain."

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According to Ms. Scott, "there's even an emerging field known as humor therapy to help people heal more quickly, among other things. Humor also has several important stress relieving benefits."

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Ms. Scott writes: "Laughter is one of my all-time favorite stress management strategies because it's free, convenient, and beneficial in so many ways."

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So much about laughter ... It says here that Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. wants the NBI to watch him well as he sleeps. Poor Andal. He's afraid to wake up dead.

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Prof. Lionel Guerrero said on tv: "Our tourist guides must not only know the right places to bring the tourists to. They must also know how to speak good English."

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Reminds me of a story told to me by a fellow journalist. The story went that a local guide brought a group of American tourists to the Cross of Magellan. The guide told the tourists: "This is the Cross that planted Magellan."

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E-mail from Romulo "Romy" See of Talisay City: "I was listening to this disc jockey of a local radio station one midnight recently. I was amused by his manner of speaking English. He was trying hard to sound American to the point that he sounded funny."

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I recall what a Australian said to me some years ago. After listening to a radio DJ, he said: "Why can't your DJs just be natural? There's nothing wrong with Filipino English as long as the grammar is right."

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