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Serious Laughter: Live a Happier, Healthier, More Productive Life

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This book has given me a new insight into what humor is all about.For the longest time I was always feeling sorry for myself. Since reading this book I realize it's just all the way you look at it. This book helped me see that being funny and humorous is not a denial of sadness it is a way to view things. I've seen that with my kids. Everything is just the way you see it. If you can let things roll off and just laugh about them - see them from a different point of view, you can get through it easier. I sing when I vaccume to make my three year old laugh - she gets the biggeset kick about it. It just makes everything better. Life is just better.

Puts a ray of sunshine in sometimes a dismal world. Serious Laughter is the book anyone should read if they are looking for a lift..if they are going through a difficult time...if they just want to laugh.. just what I was looking for.

I bought this book because a friend of mine suggested it. I was very depressed at the time and life just wasn't going my way. I needed to be able to step back and get a different perspective and be able to make a plan for a brighter future. This book was the best thing that ever happened to me. It really makes you think about the choices you make. Also some of the stories in this book really do make you laugh and think about life differently. I recommend this book to anyone who thinks life isn't going the way it should because it's like a life - manual. Since reading it I look at life entirely differently. I'm happier.

I am a health educator and often refer my clients to this book since it's so full of joy and the light-heartedness that nurtures our spirit and promotes health!!
I highly recommend it!

This is a great book to read because you can pick it up and read any part of it you don't have to start at the beginning and read through to the end. It's full of wonderful ideas to use with my family and friends of how to add a little light heartedness to my day. I really did get a few belly laughs too from the stories she has chapter nine. Also Chapter six, Finding your Funny Bone has the best information I've ever seen of how to write comedy and find the funny side of life!I really did enjoy it cover to cover!

I was introduced to Serious Laughter as a required text book for a Scriptwriting class. When I started reading it, I couldn't put it down! I found the stories that Yvonne wrote about her family and life experiences to be so refreshingly funny. The facts used about the effects of humor in work, and in life, are something that everyone should become aware of. The exercises and quizes made me take a better look into my own life and how important humor is in it. The book gave me the motivation to use those Humor Tools in life and realize the things I had to add to my Joy List. I never thought a required text book for a class could have such a powerful effect on my personal life, but Serious Laughter is a definate keeper! I have recommended the book to several friends as a must read!

I took this book with me on a trip I took to Europe last summer. I had it read in less than two days. It was very entertaining and kept my attention but more than that I found it to be very insightful. The stories she has in there about her family really crack me up because they could be my family too. At times I laughed out loud reading them. I am a college student right now and would recommend this book to college students to help them cope with the stress that comes with attending college. I think anyone could benefit from using a little more laughter in life. After all laughter really is the best medicine. I was not aware of how instrumental laughter is to our health. Read this book and find great ways to add laughter to your days.

I read this manual last year while undergoing treatment for breast cancer. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot of things I hadn't thought about before.

This book takes second place only to attending one of the author's seminars or workshops in person. Even in literary format, Yvonne Conte empowers her audience with the ability to identify and use tools freely available to each of us to boost our level of joy, in spite of the challenges that life inevitably brings. If you are ready to discover the value of daily laughter, add another dimension of fun in your life, and put your worries on hold, you are ready to read this book. If you are still enjoying your misery, this could be a dangerous read.

Ms. Conte is a "community college" graduate; it reflects in her book. To follow this dismal paperback with a book concerning a child and the 9/11 experience is appauling and reflects her uneducated hubris.