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smile or laugh? How did you express your inner child and give your multiple personal- ity a chance to experience and enjoy life and share your joy with others? First let me say the person who helped me most this month was Willie Nelson. While I was feeling some gnawing unrest Willie came on the XM radio singing, “Blue skies shining at me, nothing but blue skies do I see. Blue days all of them gone, nothing but blue skies from now on.” The song has become my mantra and helps me get through the day. So what have you done for some- one else and why would you act kind or be compassionate? Did you hold a door open? Make a donation? Stop to change a tire? Risk your life to pull someone from a house fire or burning car? As a physician I have stopped for many accidents and given mouth to mouth resuscitation to people I didn’t know. I can remember doing it once in the hospital to someone who I knew had tuberculosis and when the nurses asked how I could do that I told them I was acting out of love and knew I wouldn’t get sick doing it because both the lover and the beloved benefit from the act. But beyond that think about the actions
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of so many people on 9/11 who risked and lost their lives in an attempt to rescue strang- ers. Why do we do this and what do we need to learn from it? When we respond to the suffering that is not ours or of our con- cern we see everything as part of the whole
e know the benefits of laughter to health so what did you do this week that made someone else
and that there is no separation between living creatures. Forgive me if I appear to be getting too philosophical but until we accept that we are all one, this planet is in for big trouble. It may well be when our mutual place of residence is threatened we will become one family and rescue all peoples who inhabit it. On a lighter level I truly enjoy going to
the Amity Post Office. Of course when they ask how are you or how may I help you, I discuss my depression and that I am out of my anti-depressants and how my therapist feels about my progress. That gets everyone sharing their troubles and therapy begins for all those in line. If you go there on a day when you need a lift ask for Fred. He always has a joke to share and I truly go home feel- ing better. I have no ideas where he gets his material or how he remembers them all but he is a terrific therapist. I was listening to my favorite country western station when a song came on and the lyrics were: “Being crazy keeps me sane.” I thought that is exactly what I experi- ence in my life. What helps me get through the day is just being nuts and behaving like a kid who feels and responds and doesn’t think or worry about what others think of him and what he is doing. Don’t grow up,
by Bernie Siegel, MD Have You Made Someone Smile?
grow down. Don’t tell me to grow old along with me the best is yet to be. I want to grow young along with you and then the best will truly be. Our kids, when adults, have always thanked me for being abnormal and embarrassing them because when they do something crazy they do not get punished but hear people say, “Well you know who his father is.”
Bernie holds a support group in Simsbury
at Wisdom of the Ages the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9pm. Wisdom of the Ages, a special place to nurture your spiritual side. It's filled with items to calm the mind, heal the body & empower your spirit. They also provide massages & monthly medita- tion classes. Wisdom of the Ages is owned by Bernie's son & daughter- in-law, Keith & Jane Siegel. Located at 1408 Hopmeadow St. Simsbury. Please call for info or to register for Bernie's group. (860) 651-1172, www.wis-
domoftheages.biz,
berniesiegelmd.com. See ad on page 42. Bernie also runs a Woodbridge Support
Group which meets the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each month at Coach- man's Square, Bradley Road, Woodbridge, CT. Contact: Lucille Ranciato at 203-288- 2839 or email her at
lranciato@yahoo.com.
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