Thanks to Heidi Heyns for posting this clip on YouTube; it is a "Laughter Yoga" group at Audubon Park, New Orleans:
What if a public space could be infected with laughter at a peak time of day for passers-through? Now that would be a Joyist act.
May 31, 2008
May 24, 2008
Research sources on Joy Fear and Love
I'm revisiting some email exchanges from the start of my inquiry earlier this year (2008). My inquiries led me to Dr Bonnie O'Conner, of Brown University Faculty Development in Pediatrics and she provided me with several leads, for which I am very grateful.
Here follows her email to me and I have added the links where possible to help you start your own threads:
===========March 12, 2008===============
Hi Phil -
Thanks for your inquiry, and good for you for pursuing this work! The first person that comes to mind in this regard is Candace Pert, whose book Molecules of Emotion will lay out the thoughts of an NIH scientist on the physiology and biochemistry of emotional states and responses. The place to go within the further medical literature, if you want to see their take on this is to the field of psychoneuroimmunology (try it on PubMed). As you may imagine, this is a controversial field, but gaining steadily in acceptance and getting more attention; again a good focus on physiologic models and explanations.
Herbert Benson’s work, and that of others in Mind-Body medicine, will be important, as will Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work on mindfulness-based stress reduction. The whole “alternative” field of energy medicine will be a good place to browse – see works of Tiffany Field and Janet Quinn on Therapeutic Touch and Touch therapies in general, and check out the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine.
Also some of the following:
• Dreher & Domar, Self Nurture
• Dreher H: “A challenge to the mind-body health movement.” Advances in Mind-Body Medicine #17, 2001: 147-150
• Diener, Suh & Oishi, “Recent findings on subjective well-being.” Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 1997
• Anatovsky A. Health, Stress and Coping: New Perspectives on mental and physical well-being. Anatovsky coined the term “salutogenesis” (1979), used and explained in this book. (This concept has been taken up by the Samueli Institute, q.v.)
•Smith DF, “Functional salutogenic mechanisms of the brain.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine #45(3), 2002:319-328.
• Coleman, D (ed.) Healing Emotions (published 1997 by the Mind and Life Institute, q.v. also) - a record of the 1991 Mind and Life conference which brought together the Dalai Lama, physicians, psychologists, and meditation teachers and started an ongoing collaboration)
I would also recommend works such as Paul Farmer’s Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (1999) for perspectives on social factors and particularly entrenched social inequalities on health and well-being.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Bonnie O’C
===============
My footnotes:
Candace Pert has a wonderful podcast called The Physics of Emotion. She has also Published another book called "Everything You Need to Know to feel Go(o)d", which is premised on that we are "hard wired for bliss". She has also written many other books.
Here follows her email to me and I have added the links where possible to help you start your own threads:
===========March 12, 2008===============
Hi Phil -
Thanks for your inquiry, and good for you for pursuing this work! The first person that comes to mind in this regard is Candace Pert, whose book Molecules of Emotion will lay out the thoughts of an NIH scientist on the physiology and biochemistry of emotional states and responses. The place to go within the further medical literature, if you want to see their take on this is to the field of psychoneuroimmunology (try it on PubMed). As you may imagine, this is a controversial field, but gaining steadily in acceptance and getting more attention; again a good focus on physiologic models and explanations.
Herbert Benson’s work, and that of others in Mind-Body medicine, will be important, as will Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work on mindfulness-based stress reduction. The whole “alternative” field of energy medicine will be a good place to browse – see works of Tiffany Field and Janet Quinn on Therapeutic Touch and Touch therapies in general, and check out the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine.
Also some of the following:
• Dreher & Domar, Self Nurture
• Dreher H: “A challenge to the mind-body health movement.” Advances in Mind-Body Medicine #17, 2001: 147-150
• Diener, Suh & Oishi, “Recent findings on subjective well-being.” Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 1997
• Anatovsky A. Health, Stress and Coping: New Perspectives on mental and physical well-being. Anatovsky coined the term “salutogenesis” (1979), used and explained in this book. (This concept has been taken up by the Samueli Institute, q.v.)
•Smith DF, “Functional salutogenic mechanisms of the brain.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine #45(3), 2002:319-328.
• Coleman, D (ed.) Healing Emotions (published 1997 by the Mind and Life Institute, q.v. also) - a record of the 1991 Mind and Life conference which brought together the Dalai Lama, physicians, psychologists, and meditation teachers and started an ongoing collaboration)
I would also recommend works such as Paul Farmer’s Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (1999) for perspectives on social factors and particularly entrenched social inequalities on health and well-being.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Bonnie O’C
===============
My footnotes:
Candace Pert has a wonderful podcast called The Physics of Emotion. She has also Published another book called "Everything You Need to Know to feel Go(o)d", which is premised on that we are "hard wired for bliss". She has also written many other books.
May 22, 2008
Let's Chat in the news
On April 24th the local media got interested. I spent most of my 2+ hours in the park accompanied by CBC Radio One's arts reporter, John Spittal, and then by Global Television News' Gil Tucker and his cameraman. Since that time, more people are approaching me as a result.
My friend, Derek Heck (thanks) sent me this Global TV clip to share with you
and here is the CBC broadcast (Real Audiuo stream), which was aired on the Calgary Eyeopener, May 5th 2008. Shorter clips also appeared in other local news items.
Thrilling! People are approaching me for a chat just because they were exposed to the reports. John and Gil; THANK YOU very much, for the exposure and opportunity for bigger impact (whatever that might turn out to be).
Phil
My friend, Derek Heck (thanks) sent me this Global TV clip to share with you
and here is the CBC broadcast (Real Audiuo stream), which was aired on the Calgary Eyeopener, May 5th 2008. Shorter clips also appeared in other local news items.
Thrilling! People are approaching me for a chat just because they were exposed to the reports. John and Gil; THANK YOU very much, for the exposure and opportunity for bigger impact (whatever that might turn out to be).
Phil
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