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PARTY PANTS Loretta LaRoche (2003). Life is Short--Wear Your Party Pants . LaRoche has a BA in Speech Therapy and Communication, and an honorary doctorate for all her work in consulting and lectures/workshops on laughter and positive living. LaRoche provides practical advice for living the good life, citing research and supporting her ideas with entertaining stories from her own life. Some of the best advice (practices): find the source of stress and deal with it celebrate with your party pants/hat/attitude slow down, savor...this moment is life, feel and live it learn and grow from mistakes get inspired by good movies, poetry, books, music, art... accept what is, then try to improve on it be playful, exaggerate a situation until it becomes ridiculous, find the funny and laugh create a hat collection to change things up and elevate your mood turn the volume down and make space for quiet time invite your neighbors to coffee (or tea) at your house, find out about their life, how can you ...
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THE FIELD Lynn McTaggart (2008). The Field:                                                    The Quest for the Secret Force                                                    of the Universe. McTaggart earned a BA in 1973 before becoming a well-known journalist. The book is based on interviews and the books/manuscripts of 75 credible scientists...McTaggart interprets their research as supporting a universal "field of consciousness" that connects everyone and everything...some of the claims are backed by well-accepted science, some are more speculative (e.g., implications of quantum physics for human biological processes). i wish she had an update of the book...as of this writing i...
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CLASSROOM CONSCIOUSNESS Christopher Bache (2024, orig. 2008). The Living Classroom:                                                                              Teaching and  Collective                                                                         Consciousness. Bache (PhD, Brown university in religious studies) has been a professor of religion at a state university of 13k students for 33 years at the time of this writing. He also has been on a spiritual journey most of his life, including a lengthy psychedelic journey which eventually was replaced by a long term meditation practice. ...
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LAUGH! Madan Kataria (2018). Laughter Yoga:                                                Daily Practices for Health and Happiness. Kataria is a medical doctor that began laughter yoga in the park with a handful of people...over time, yoga of laughter has grown into a worldwide organization with live in-person and on-line zoom groups that meet daily/weekly Karatria presents a strong case (with research evidence) for the mental, physiological, and emotional benefits of laughter, and laughtger is free...to receive the full benefits takes 15-20 minutes a day. The key attitudinal shift is expanding our conventional idea of laughter as spontaneous natural laughyer resulting from a humorous stimulus in our everyday life to intentionally choosing to laugh for no particular reason, faking the laughter until it turns into genuine laughter ...several activi...
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LOST MOTHER Susanne O'Leary (2023). The Lost Mother of Ireland. 6th book in the Sandy Cove series set on the Atlantic coast of the village of Kerry in Ireland...story of Laura the nurse who inherits one of the star light cottages in sandy cove from an older patient who she used to take care of...she moves in and fall in love with the village and the baker Gino who lives on the hill overlooking the wild rose bay...the side story is about a painting that Laura inherited from the same patient that died and the mystery of finding the rightful owner which involves the "lost mother of Ireland" some quotes: never mind all that. These are just things (p. 232) we have a saying in our home, "people over things"--no thing is more important than any person have fun girls, and if you can't be good...well, you know. We'll be careful...(75) friend of my Uncle Ves, Larry Bowen, used to say goodbye with the words, "Be good, and if you can't, be careful" onl...
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MAGIC Dean Radin (2025). Science of Magic:                                          How the Mind Weaves the Fabric of Reality Radin has a PhD in psychology and over 300 papers (including original research in peer reviewed journals) and 5 other books. This book provides ample evidence for the reality of magic which include psi (psychic) phenomenon...the effects are "weak" but statistically significant in controlled laboratory settings which over the last 50 years have improved considerably to account for most known methodological issues using double blind studies with valid and reliable measures and often very creative designs...thus, magic is real and can be used for posivite purposes in everyday life. part 4 of the book is the pragmatic part on "doing magic" but only 32 of 275 pages...there are references to other books and websites for those that want to learn m...
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LOST LETTERS Susanne O'Leary (2022). The Lost  Letters of Ireland. This is the 5th book in O'Leary's starlight cottage series set in the coast of modern day Ireland. Edwina, a socialite from Dubline, buys and refurbishes the starlight cottages, with the financial help of her mother Pamela, also a socialite...she gets to know and eventually marry Shane, the local doctor...the lost letters refer to a letter in a bottle that Edwina found on the beach near the cottages from Pearse who is longing for a girl that returned to the states...part, but not all, of their story is revealed. lesson: failure of a big project (the original plans for modern renovations of starlight cottages due to the construction company going bankrupt) turns out to be a blessing, as the new renovations are more modest, more in keeping with the style of the local village, more in line with their budget, and Edwina and Shane are able to buy and live in one of the cottages. practice: how might you downsize y...
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