This club is an experimental concept derived from the famous writers like Norman cousins, Dr Hans Seyle and Dr. B M Hegde.
Dr. Hans Seyle is famous writer and endocrinologist. Norman Cousins was inspired by Dr. Hans Seyle’s books like ‘From Dreams to discovery’ and ‘The Stress of life’. Dr. B M Hegde is ex vice-chancellor of Manipal University and Medical college. His life mission is to decode life in a very surprising and pleasant way.
Norman cousins describes his life experiment in a best selling book ‘Anatomy of illness’. He was on crippling condition soon after returning on a diplomatic mission from Russia to his home in US. Within few weeks he was not able to move and was in crippling pain. Even his jaw was locked. Immediately he was moved to hospital and with extensive tests he was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondilytis which is spine and joints degenerative disorder. Soon doctors declared that he will not survive more than six months. He was on tons of pain killers and other antibiotics. So to say he was popping 16 aspirins a day besides other medicines.
One day he happened to watch a movie with his dear ones and laughed a lot. Dramatically this reduced his crippling pain a bit and was able to move his hand slightly. This gave him a pleasant surprise and he shared this incident with his close doctor friend Dr. Hitiz. They discussed in detail and made a plan. He even wanted to move out from the sickening atmosphere of the hospital and give it a try. In a way he is not going to survive not more than six months, so might as well try something differently. With doctor friend’s help he moved out of the hospital and stayed in a Hotel to be treated with lot of laughter and positive vibes and other non conventional medicines like ascorbic acid therapy etc... Within six months he recovered considerably and started doing things on his own. Later he fully recovered and lived longer to spread the good message of laughter therapy.
Inspired by the great people, the idea of a laughter filled coffee club starts...here.
This coffee club is a unique combination of good coffee with feel good surroundings.
This place will have good aromatic coffee with light fresh snacks and feel light sitting arrangements. The ambience would be close to nature as much as possible.
Occasionally there will be happy music, especially on demand to elevate to mood of the people to all new heights.
Those who really liked the ambience and coffee can come to the front desk and press a buzzer which will produce sound of forest natural habitats. Roar of a lion or tiger, music of our flying friends, water fall of mystical streams..etc. Every time you will press the buzzer, you will hear different sounds close to nature. This will be delight to the ears of children and adult alike.
One area of the shop will be promoting good books, which will have common connected theme of Social connect and well being. There could be a promotional themes on reading Good books, like if you are reading good books regularly and propagating..there will be a free coffee or a free ticket to the laughter show.
One area of the shop will be promoting the good food, basically what is good for your body and mind. How to avoid the social connivance of the food industry.
One side of the wall will be promoting the natural medicines which is time tested. And this area could be a nice place where you can keep things what you really like and recommend to the visitors. Visitors can buy these items if they find appealing. Over a period of time even good visitors can recommend items which they found really appealing and out of the box in nature.
Periodically there will be laughter shows conducted from popular comedians or otherwise. In these shows special preference will be given to physically and mentally ‘not keeping well’ persons. They will be accompanied by their family members. They will be encouraged to come to the shows and laugh full heartedly. This would improve the bondage between the family members and with the self.
There will be tie ups with nature lover societies. With the help of these societies there will be nature trips to wild life sanctuaries and forests. Laughter shows could be an attractive event on these trips too.
The surroundings of the coffee shop will be promoting natural green environment with some live examples of Miyawaki forest and other flowery gardens.
Every festival has a reason to celebrate. Its a combination of good food, customs and emotions. So the laughter coffee club will celebrate every possible festival with tasty customary food, topped with some real good emotions. In these occasions those who feel lonely and disconnected from social surroundings and would love to celebrate can come and connect with the nature surroundings here and can occasionally volunteer in club activities to feel connected.
Those who were got bored with the Einsteinian equations in the school days and left behind, can come here and understand the theory of relativity, which is Energy is equal to Mass and some other times Mass is equal to Energy (E = MC2). So with the bigger picture in mind you may appreciate that every thing is related and every thing is relative.....except the ultimate reality. You didn't understand it clearly....oh.. never mind.....
The great scientist J J Thomson got the Nobel prize for discovering that the electrons are particles. Thirty years later his son J G Thomson discovered that electrons are waves, he also got the Nobel prize. And the great Australian scientist Erwin Schroedinger discovers that the electrons are waves and particles at different times, he also gets Nobel prize. So never mind...
Here comes good aromatic coffee with love laughter and compassion...:-)
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