Joyologist Seeks A Cosy Bedside

Joyologist Seeks A Cosy Bedside

The Joyologist Pat Armitstead is looking for a bedside at which to hold the monthly Auckland happiness club. A bedside? Yes, a bedside and here's why! The Happiness Club movement was founded by Lionel Ketchian http://www.happinessclub.com/and There are now some 50 or more hapiness clubs arpund the world with 2 in NZ, one in Auckland and one in Thames. What is the Happiness Club? It is an organization with the mission to promote the benefits of being happy through meetings, newsletters, and an informative web site - to the people in your community, and around the world. Meetings are free or very low charge and are held monthly usually for 1-2 hours.

The impetus for taking the club to the bedside or into people’s homes came from communication from the late Norman Cousins daughter, Sarah Shaapiro. Sarah Shapiro is the daughter of Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990) who was an American political journalist, the author of many books, a professor, and a world peace advocate. Norman was well know for his book: Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient.

Sarah Shapiro is the author of many books including her newest one, A Gift Passed Along, A woman looks at the world around her. There are many words to describe Sarah Shapiro's writing: literature of the highest order, refreshing, intriguing, insightful, moving, funny, touching. We could go on - but the only way to truly appreciate her is to read her

Pat says "I was so inspired by the humanity and compassion expressed by Sarah and would like to do the same here in Auckland"

Sarah Shaapiro started the new Marcie's Happiness Club and has begun having meetings in Jerusalem, Israel. This is the third club in Israel.

Having heard Rabbi Pliskin's oft-expressed wish that more Happiness Clubs be started around Jerusalem (and around the world), Sarah recently decided to go ahead and have one in her home. But when she told Rabbi Pliskin about it, he suggested that the Club be held at the bedside of Marcie Alter. Marcie is a young woman who has been a quadriplegic for the past four years, ever since a failed operation for a blood clot left her paralyzed in all but three of her fingers, and unable to speak. Marcie lives in a hospice fairly near Jaffa Gate. Almost everyone else there has terminal illnesses, Marcie does not. She needs total health care due to her condition. Although Marcie can't talk, she radiates a positive way of being. Her mind was unaffected and her ability to maintain an inner equilibrium and a capacity for joy is a thing of wonder.

At Sarah's first meeting last week, she asked Marcie what thoughts enable her to go on, and she replied (she spells out words by pointing to letters on an alphabet board)

1) that she doesn't think about what she's missing
2) that it could be worse,
and
3) that she is not alone.

Pat says we dont know what gifts and what joy we can bring bring another simply by being present and bringing goodwill to humanity.
Readers are invited to be in touch with Pat if they know of a person or place that would like to be the location of the monthly one hour event.
joyologist@humour-resources.com.

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“Art, or at least art as I define it is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person. How and where you do that art is a cultural choice in the moment.” Seth Godin Linchpin

Pat Armitstead
Speaker, Author, Radio and Film Producer

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