The Author
Jerry Keith is a passionate advocate for the science of well-being, blending laughter, positive stress (eustress), and cutting-edge research to help people lead healthier, happier lives.
Traveling to countless prestigious medical seminars with one of the world’s leading medical researcher while serving as his business manager, Mr. Keith has learned a great deal of the process to make advancements within the health care industry. With his previous 30 plus years working in the government with a background in technology, offered him an unusual view to see the absurdity of our health care system.
Mr. Keith has dedicated years to exploring how our thoughts shape our biology and how simple shifts—like laughter—can transform our health. He is also the author of Stop the Injustice; A story about the shameful way the seriously mentally ill are treated within the complex behavioral health care system.
Beyond writing, Mr. Keith shares insights on how to harness stress for growth rather than burnout. When not researching the mind-body connection, he is enjoying raising his sons and walking through life with his wife of 49 years.
Do your thoughts truly affect your health?
Psychoneuroimmunology is the study regarding thoughts can, in fact, change chemistry.
SEEING THE WORLD WITH EUSTRESS GLASSES
"Sneak Peek” Feature
Children have an amazing ability to see the world in a unique perspective as only a child can. In their day-to-day routines, children laugh approximately 300 times a day. As adults, somehow we change our view of the world and begin to take life more seriously. The average adult will only get about 15 laughs during a normal day. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lost not only our sense of humor and wonder, but we have also lost our balance. Not your senses of balance, as in you are going to tip over when you walk! But balance in your life. An Equilibrium. Balancing the good with the bad.
Somehow children are far more apt to take the negative things in their life and balance them with the positives. They have an extraordinary ability to create or use their incredible imagination to create positives to help them achieve balance.
As adults, it seems like we use our imagination more to create adverse consequences rather than for positive creation like children. Adults spend more time thinking about the consequences of not paying the rent, or getting a work project competed on time rather than using our imagination to have fun and being creative. Adults are so good at dreaming up consequences so severe or expectations so great; our only emergency relief valve is stress. To enter into the fight or flight mode. To escape a perceived threat. To put it simply, the average adult suffers from a “humor deficient personality disorder.”
What happened to our childlike laughter? Our sense of wonder and imagination? Is it a fact of nature or physics that we lose these traits in the transformation from childhood to adulthood? Could it be that our parents or perhaps our schools are teaching us to be solemn or sedate unknowingly? And why don’t schools offer a class in comic relieve?
The fact is; “Stress kills, laughter heals.” So what do I do now to regain my 300 laughs a day that I lost from my childhood?
Empowering Impact
As you read about the scientific findings of this fascinating research work, you will be fully prepared to accept, appreciate, and be enlightened by common sense in a comical manner to see the absurdity of the world and the way we have allowed it to be structured. You will begin to question the “norm” and ask why. Better still, you will begin to make changes to the normal way of life and move toward the eustress paradigm.
There can be no greater joy or an act nobler than touching the heart and soul of another.
Could it be, in the end, all that matters are the times when we have touched the soul of another?
