Some people say that laughter is the best medicine. Scientists are beginning to agree with this. They are studying laughter seriously and are finding that is really good for us.
So what happens when we laugh? We use fifteen different muscles in our face,and laughing is good for every organ in our body. When we laugh, we breathe quickly and exercise the face,shoulders,and chest. Our blood pressure goes down,and our circulation gets better Our heartbeat is lower, and our brain makes a natural painkiller called a beta-endorphin.
Every minute we laugh is the same as forty-five minutes of relaxation. Many doctors around the world believe that laughter helps us get better when we are sick.
Today,there are laughter clubs around the world. They try to improve people’s health with laughter. The laughter clubs started in India. Now they are all around the world. There are more than 450 laughter clubs just in India. All kind of people join al laughter club. They go once a day for 20 minutes and start to laugh. There are no jokes. People laugh as a kind of exercise,and everyone feels better after wards. Some people pay a lot of money to join a laughter club and just laugh.
Of course there are many kinds of laughter. We may change change the way we laugh different situations. But we all have a laugh that is special to us.
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1 Şubat 2010 Pazartesi
Choosing a Name for a Baby
Choosing a Name for a Baby
About one billion people live in India. Most of these people are Hindu. The Hindu religion is also a way of life. In the Hindu religion,there are special ceremonies for important times in a person’s life.There are sixteen ceremonies in all. For each ceremony there is a special fire,and priests say prayers and read from a special book. One of these ceremonies is choosing a name for the baby.
The birth of a baby is a happy time in a Hindu family. Soon after the baby is born,the parents wash the baby and write the word in honey with a pen of gold. Om is special word in the Hindu religion.Hindus says this word over and over again when they are praying.
Twelve days after the baby is born,a priest visits the family to name the baby. The priest makes a horoscope fort he baby. To make this horoscope,the priests writes down where the stars and planets were at the time baby was born.From this,he reads the baby’s future and suggests a good name for the baby. Many children have names of Hindu gods and goddesses or have names with other religious meanings.
At the ceremony,there are guests. The mother holds the baby. The father is on one side. In front of them,there is a plate with rice on it. The father uses a long,thin piece of gold to write the name of the family god,the baby’s name, and date of birth in the rice. Then he says the baby’s name in the baby’s right ear. The priest then blesses the baby. He also blesses the candies and food and then passes them to the guests. This ends the ceremony of giving a name to a baby.
About one billion people live in India. Most of these people are Hindu. The Hindu religion is also a way of life. In the Hindu religion,there are special ceremonies for important times in a person’s life.There are sixteen ceremonies in all. For each ceremony there is a special fire,and priests say prayers and read from a special book. One of these ceremonies is choosing a name for the baby.
The birth of a baby is a happy time in a Hindu family. Soon after the baby is born,the parents wash the baby and write the word in honey with a pen of gold. Om is special word in the Hindu religion.Hindus says this word over and over again when they are praying.
Twelve days after the baby is born,a priest visits the family to name the baby. The priest makes a horoscope fort he baby. To make this horoscope,the priests writes down where the stars and planets were at the time baby was born.From this,he reads the baby’s future and suggests a good name for the baby. Many children have names of Hindu gods and goddesses or have names with other religious meanings.
At the ceremony,there are guests. The mother holds the baby. The father is on one side. In front of them,there is a plate with rice on it. The father uses a long,thin piece of gold to write the name of the family god,the baby’s name, and date of birth in the rice. Then he says the baby’s name in the baby’s right ear. The priest then blesses the baby. He also blesses the candies and food and then passes them to the guests. This ends the ceremony of giving a name to a baby.
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