Quick pill or quick laugh?

If ill take a pill is the drill we all subconsciously follow then a quick visit to the handy corner pharmacy or doctors but could a laugh be a more profound way to start our journey back to wellness? So let's look at the background to our wellness journey. Health visiting as a formal practise didn’t start to around 1862 prior to this first place would be a call to the monastery or church to get prayer and a pile of herbs to make you well, or the local healer in the village. Irrespective on your faith with the holistic healing concepts society is still very sick and getting sicker everyday and many past healing practices are now becoming mainstream such as Dr Edward Bach’s flower water remedies that were totally outlawed, ridiculed and ignored during his lifetime.

Wellbeing joys to wholeness

Mainstream society I believe has started the ‘great awakening’ into the question ‘what does wellness mean to me? And is questioning the pill popping behaviours we are all conditioned with. New healing technology is almost the stuff of magic as the gadgets are more user friendly and affordable than ever before.

Everyday we are all being encouraged to find our voice of healing especially as the NHS and other care systems are struggling to meet high demands.

Big Pharma

Big pharma is a drama that has a shocking past of lies, sickness and cover-ups that the Internet is awash with as more and more revelations on their catchy advertising health slogans become a walking-in sepulchre to many.

Last year I was asked to perform my comedy show ‘Joy on Joy’ and give my JOYtalk for the Salvation Army in Grays for their 140 year anniversary celebrations which in itself is a notable achievement. It got wondering ‘What else happened 140 years ago for this need to be so great?’ When this incredible arm of the Salvation Army and their love and devotion to the wellbeing and service of others was birthed there was much depravation and innovation at the same time. In 1884 the formation of Kodak was founded by John Mason, Greenwich meantime was established as a Universal Time Meridian longitude but in America a new man-made drug hit the shelves called ‘Cocaine’.

This amazing new 'super drug' was great for the practice of anaesthesia but was made into Cocaine cough sweets that actually became very popular. That’s weird yum yum!. So popular some would say 'addictive' to the point where swallowers couldn’t get enough of this ‘miracle suck’ that healed a mundane cough and made them happy. OK, you know where this tragically is going, people in their thousands died of the cough sweet addiction that took America 15 years to outlaw Cocaine as an over the counter remedy such was the power of the drug companies. However this man-made addiction was the birth of America and the world’s drug epidemic as Heroin was designed to fight the cocaine addiction! Yep, sadly things got worse as whole States were nearly wiped out such was the death addiction to these drugs and the world has struggled to contain this super drug ever since.

So what’s that got to do with humour? Our addiction to the modern day healing practice of pills, incredible plastic surgeries, fillers, therapy and many other fast acting solutions to complex emotional, psychological and physical issues could be challenged as we engage to new powers, frequencies and other realms of wellness that often past civilisations adhered to. The Big Baby that ‘Big pharma’ threw out the window many are getting back into the social cot as our complex bodies need to remember the power of built in healing and wellness technology that is available to us. I believe laughter and joy is one of them.

I’m not saying don’t visit the doctor but what I do believe as a society we need to reclaim back our own internal voice of wellness, engage with holistic and alternative wellness concepts and widen the conversations we have.  The quick-fit solutions may not all be all they seem to be and come with their own warnings.

Joy is being well, enjoying our life, living fully in your authentic voice and loving others. Real laughter is a medicine and as we intentionally learn about it and practice it more of our learned belief systems can be challenged and our wellness and happiness established. Soon a quick laugh could be our first port of call and the pill into wellness.

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