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Ho-Ho, Ha-Ha-Ha
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HOW THE WORLD HAPPINESS CENTRE CAME INTO EXISTENCE
The idea of world peace is not new but seems to be getting more and more unattainable. The strife on this planet seems to be on the rise as also the illiteracy, poverty, (widening wealth gap), ill-health (epidemics of obesity, stress, hypertension, diabetes etc.) and other negative indicators of an unhappy humanity. The responsibility of making people happier seems to fall on no one other than the people themselves and they are noting deterioration of things in their struggle for happiness. The myth that a better standard of living (becoming rich and have all the high tech tools at disposal) would make people happier is clearly counter productive. More and more people feel being controlled by their cellular phones and pagers.
While reading a short abstract in August 2004 issue of Readers Digest the idea that wealth, beauty, status, youth are not reliable determinants of happiness and that it largely an inherited trait although somewhat distressing gave Dr. Brown the idea that merely having a better insight into the business of being happy would help people become happier and more stable. The fact that those who are born to be outgoing, optimistic happy are able to and obliged to help out the unfortunate introvert and pessimistic people who are otherwise doomed to suffer an entire life of unhappiness. The fact that the happy people are helping, honest and healthy was a strong positive indicator. The idea to join together these happy half and share their stories of altruism which would include the task of lifting the morale and the happiness level of the unfortunate half was only a natural extension of the observation. Writing down the words. happier, healthier, helpful, honest, humble and honest human-beings led to the picking up of a name for the group HaHeHoHuHoHu. The fact that Dr. Brown herself belonged to the unhappy group and was benefiting from the association with Dr. Verma who is incurable optimist led to the observation that it was possible to help out the sad people.
Further observing that the idea would work on a global basis as shown by the remarkable success with the laughter therapy achieved by Dr. Kataria who had someone stand in the middle of the circle of attendees and tell jokes. Then considering the benefit of everyone laughing together at the jokes and later without jokes quickly let to the assimilation of his principles of global need of happiness and the inclusion of minimalistic interventions to accomplish remarkable and gigantic results gave birth to the concept of WORLD HAPPINESS SITE (WHS)
WHS would adopt the doctrine of laughter therapy practiced by many including Dr. Kataria. Just as most people were skeptical and shy or inhibited and unwilling to laugh for no reason, WHS doctrine holds that it is going to be possible to make people happy merely by making them think happy and laugh for no reason. The three of them working together came up with the following plan into action.
"Start with the few originating members and spread the word among the already existing network of laughter groups that are scattered all over the globe. There was no doubt in the mind of any of these three that the idea would spread very rapidly. The group started enrolling members within a week. The hope of making this group bigger and better was not a hurdle at all. The observation that when people start to look at each other and laughed and it becomes contagious it seemed very possible that the behaviors of honesty, humility and honorable living could also be similarly cross infused from one human to the other. That is something that the police and courts have failed to do. Just as in laughter yoga the members would raise hands up towards the sky and laugh we propose to spread the message of happiness honesty, humility and honorable living by making people exchange their views with each other through emails, telephones and other means of communication. Laughter clubs and the laughter therapy would become one of the five tools that we would implement and it is hoped that the two sister groups would assimilate into one. The observation that it facilitated the infection of happiness through laughter, we plan to inoculate people with enduring happiness with laughter therapy plus communications via email, phone, letters, faxes and other means.
When a large number of people would learn and profess the benefits of honesty, humility and Honourable living there is no doubt that just like the laughter yoga this community psychotherapy like intervention would work out for the benefit and happiness of all and reduce the inter-human bickering, domestic disputes, divorces and other forms of ill-will conduct and eventually curb the threat of terrorism which is a behaviour that is clearly and anti-thesis of altruism although the suicide bombers do look superficially altruistic but on a narrow scale. We promote the idea of immense tolerance and acceptance and reject only the evil acts or evil behaviour not the person committing the evil. Since everyone can easily participate in this process, everyone would feel a part of this global community which seems to be the only realistic hope of the seemingly unattainable goal of WORLD HAPPINESS"
