The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.