Cheerfulness as a Life Power
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Orison Swett Marden
El Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) fue un autor inspirador estadounidense que escribió sobre cómo lograr el éxito en la vida. A menudo se le considera como el padre de los discursos y escritos inspiradores de la actualidad, y sus palabras tienen sentido incluso hasta el día de hoy. En sus libros, habló de los principios y virtudes del sentido común que contribuyen a una vida completa y exitosa. A la edad de siete años ya era huérfano. Durante su adolescencia, Marden descubrió un libro titulado Ayúdate del autor escocés Samuel Smiles. El libro marcó un punto de inflexión en su vida, inspirándolo a superarse a sí mismo y a sus circunstancias. A los treinta años, había obtenido sus títulos académicos en ciencias, artes, medicina y derecho. Durante sus años universitarios se mantuvo trabajando en un hotel y luego convirtiéndose en propietario de varios hoteles. Luego, a los 44 años, Marden cambió su carrera a la autoría profesional. Su primer libro, Siempre Adelante (1894), se convirtió instantáneamente en un éxito de ventas en muchos idiomas. Más tarde publicó cincuenta o más libros y folletos, con un promedio de dos títulos por año. Marden creía que nuestros pensamientos influyen en nuestras vidas y nuestras circunstancias de vida. Dijo: "La oportunidad de oro que estás buscando está en ti mismo. No está en tu entorno; no es la suerte o el azar, o la ayuda de otros; está solo en ti mismo".
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Cheerfulness as a Life Power - Orison Swett Marden
CHEERFULNESS
AS A LIFE POWER
by Orison Swett Marden
Published 2019 by Blackmore Dennett
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.
II. THE CURE FOR AMERICANITIS.
III. OILING YOUR BUSINESS MACHINERY.
IV. TAKING YOUR FUN EVERY DAY AS YOU DO YOUR WORK.
V. FINDING WHAT YOU DO NOT SEEK.
VI. LOOKING PLEASANT
- SOMETHING TO BE WORKED FROM THE INSIDE.
VII. THE SUNSHINE-MAN.
I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS.
William K. Vanderbilt, when he last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the city at the time, to give a private recital on board his yacht, lying in the Bosphorus. Coquelin spoke three of his monologues. A few days afterwards Coquelin received the following memorandum from the millionaire:-
"You have brought tears to our eyes and laughter to our hearts. Since all philosophers are agreed that laughing is preferable to weeping, your account with me stands thus:-
"For tears, six times $600
"For laughter, twelve times 2,400
- - - -
$3,000
Kindly acknowledge receipt of enclosed check.
I find nonsense singularly refreshing,
said Talleyrand. There is good philosophy in the saying, Laugh and grow fat.
If everybody knew the power of laughter as a health tonic and life prolonger the tinge of sadness which now clouds the American face would largely disappear, and many physicians would find their occupation gone.
The power of laughter was given us to serve a wise purpose in our economy. It is Nature’s device for exercising the internal organs and giving us pleasure at the same time.
Laughter begins in the lungs and diaphragm, setting the liver, stomach, and other internal organs into a quick, jelly-like vibration, which gives a pleasant sensation and exercise, almost equal to that of horseback riding. During digestion, the movements of the stomach are similar to churning. Every time you take a full breath, or when you cachinnate well, the diaphragm descends and gives the stomach an extra squeeze and shakes it. Frequent laughing sets the stomach to dancing, hurrying up the digestive process. The heart beats faster, and sends the blood bounding through the body. There is not,
says Dr. Green, one remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions occasioned by a good hearty laugh.
In medical terms, it stimulates the vasomotor centers, and the spasmodic contraction of the blood-vessels causes the blood to flow quickly. Laughter accelerates the respiration, and gives warmth and glow to the whole system. It brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used lung cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health, which results from the harmonious action of all the functions of the body. This delicate poise, which may be destroyed by a sleepless night, a piece of bad news, by grief or anxiety, is often wholly restored by a good hearty laugh.
There is, therefore, sound sense in the caption,- Cheerfulness as a Life Power,
- relating as it does to the physical life, as well as the mental and moral; and what we may call
THE LAUGH CURE
is based upon principles recognized as sound by the medical profession- so literally true is the Hebrew proverb that a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
Mirth is God’s medicine,
said Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,- all the rust of life,- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
Elsewhere he says: If you are making choice of a physician be sure you get one with a cheerful and serene countenance.
Is not a jolly physician of greater service than his pills? Dr. Marshall Hall frequently prescribed cheerfulness
for his patients, saying that it is better than anything to be obtained at the apothecary’s.
In Western New York, Dr. Burdick was known as the Laughing Doctor.
He always presented the happiest kind of a face; and his good humor was contagious. He dealt sparingly in drugs, yet was very successful.
The London Lancet,
the most eminent medical journal in the world, gives the following scientific testimony to the value of jovialty:-
This power of ‘good spirits’ is a matter of high moment to the sick and weakly. To the former, it may mean the ability to survive; to the latter, the possibility of outliving, or living in spite of, a disease. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to cultivate the highest and most buoyant frame of mind which the conditions will admit. The same energy which takes the form of mental activity is vital to the work of the organism. Mental influences affect the system; and a joyous spirit not only relieves pain, but increases the momentum of life in the body.
Dr. Ray, superintendent of Butler Hospital for the Insane, says in one of his reports, A hearty laugh is more desirable for mental health than any exercise of the reasoning faculties.
Grief, anxiety, and fear are great enemies of human life. A depressed, sour, melancholy soul, a life which has ceased to believe in its own sacredness, its own power, its own mission, a life which sinks into querulous egotism or vegetating aimlessness, has become crippled and useless. We should fight against every influence which tends to depress the mind, as we would against a temptation to crime. It is undoubtedly true that, as a rule, the mind has power to lengthen the period of youthful and mature strength and beauty, preserving and renewing