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There may well be a biological reason for a person’s need for love. You see, people today are not simply happy with material stuff like money, cars and nice houses. They want to be appreciated by others.

Parents usually provide unconditional love to their kids. This is very important because it is a known fact that kids who receive as lot of love at a tender age grow up to be more capable and confident to tackle real life.

To receive love from others, we have to give love first. It is a very ironic karma. The people who are always complaining about not being able to find live also seem to never give love to others either. I guess one could say that as humans, we are essentially very selfish but this would be taking a very extreme negative point of view.

People seek out others who can provide value to them. This is the nature of human beings. We constantly want to align with people who can provide value and in return, we are willing to provide value to them.

It is a shame that most adults do not take a long honest look at their most basic needs and realise that a lot of the things that they are doing on a daily basis is to receive love from others. Love is very high on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and indirectly, we are all making an effort to receive it.

It is important to not try and hold onto something that you love. The more you try and hold on to it, the more it will seem to slip away. Just appreciate things for what they are and enjoy them in the moment.

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Self hypnosis is a practice that essentially concentrates the mind on certain topics of your choice. If you are scheduled for breast surgery (biopsy, lumpectomy or mastectomy) or you are undergoing post-surgical breast cancer treatment, hypnosis is an excellent complementary therapy that can enhance the positive effects of various therapies.

On the other hand hypnotherapy is a great way to unlock the potential of the subconscious mind and can be taught to use alone, at will and without complicated procedure. With “Ericksonian Hypnosis,” we use little stories, called metaphors, to present suggestions and ideas to the unconscious mind. And with “Traditional Hypnosis,” we simply make direct suggestions to the unconscious mind.

Hypnosis has been defined as an altered state of consciousness where the mind is fully alert but chooses not to react. Keeping unrelated problems separate in your mind by thinking of them as being stored in separate boxes can ease the sense of being unable to cope. It is important to keep in mind that hypnosis is like any other therapeutic treatment: it is of major benefit to some patients with certain problems, and it is helpful with many other patients, but it can fail, just like any other clinical method.

On the other hand listening to self hypnosis cds can be like the experience of the passenger in the car. With regard to the use of subliminal influence in self hypnosis cds, it is used for positive and beneficial purposes.

With a Hypnosis CD or MP3 on the other hand the quality of them is consistent. Where a good public speaking hypnosis cd can help is in using the power of the imagination for and not against, the person. All of this means that the quality of a therapy session will vary dramatically.

A change of how you view your situation when you have more than one problem is the first thing to do if you feel overwhelmed. Often the biggest problem is the person’s ability to think and imagine the worse possible outcome of their speech. Some people unwittingly fall into the trap of doing things for other people.

With the Embedded Command technique, the hypnotist tells an interesting story that engages and distracts the conscious mind. For example: While the client is in hypnosis, he might hear the hypnotist say something like: I’m going to tell you a story about. And when you are listing to this story he will begin working on you.

“Going into trance” is something that we learn and we are taught when a hypnotist talks to us, and talks us down from the stress of the thoughts that fly here, there and everywhere, into a relaxed state of clarity, and peace, where your body is at ease and mind healing can finally begin. And this is as easy as sitting down in a chair, putting on the headphones and letting the hypnotist do their job.

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His mind sees things differently than most of us, to our amazement and amusement.  

Here are some of his gems:

1 - I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists — They don’t expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend…..but she left me before we met.

12 - OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

18 - Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

19 - I intend to live forever……so far, so good.

20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, ‘I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.’

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

25 - If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.

32 - The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don’t have film.

34 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

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Were you raised by a mother who always sent cards for every noteworthy occasion? Some of us feel the same desire, but we are not very industrious. Sending cards in the mail takes too much effort, and besides that, they are becoming outrageously expensive. Plus, it is so hard to find a card that says what you want to say. Most are either hokey or lame. Either they rhyme irritatingly, they make the recipient sound like a candidate for sainthood, or they tell the same lame jokes birthday cards have been making since the birthday was invented.

So too often we let the birthdays of friends and loved ones come and go without note. How unnecessary, when there are free birthday ecards to be sent! These are short little videos with funny, offbeat message that inspire a true laugh. They take little effort to send, but they really can brighten the recipient’s birthday! Actually, ecards are the answer to a lot of communication dilemmas-birthdays, holidays, Valentine’s Day, and graduations, to name a few.

You can also keep in touch with daily ecards to articulate love and devotion or wish someone a great day in a manner so deliciously twisted the recipient will not be able to help laughing out loud! There are so many fun video ecards that you can keep your friends laughing for weeks straight.

Sending ecards is much simpler than mailing traditional cards. True, you still have to browse through all of the cards, but with ecards this is more fun than work! Just glancing down the list of kinds of cards to send will inspire you to start sending video greetings to people for all occasions. There are even cards for flirting!

E cards let you keep in touch in an easy, highly unique manner. They may not be your Mom?s notion of suitable etiquette, but they sure are fun!

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What do you expect from such simple creatures?

Your last name stays put.

The garage is all yours.

Chocolate is just another snack.

You can’t fall pregnant.

You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
 
You can even wear NO shirt to a water park.

Car mechanics tell you the truth.

The world is your urinal.

You never have to drive to another petrol station restroom because the first one was just too icky.

You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.

Same work, more pay.

Wrinkles add character.

People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.

New shoes don’t cut, blister or mangle your feet.

Same mood all the time!

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

You know stuff about computers.

A week’s holiday only requires one suitcase.

You can open all your own jars.

You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

Your underwear is £4.99 for a pack of three.

Two pairs of shoes are more than enough.

You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.

Everything on your face stays its original colour.

The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

You only have to shave your face and neck.

You can play with toys all your life.

One wallet and one pair of shoes, one colour for all seasons.

You can wear shorts no matter how bad your legs look.

You can “do” your nails with a pocket knife.

You have freedom of choice concerning growing a moustache.

You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.

…  No wonder men are happier.

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Have you tried to express your mood or feelings online? Sometimes it is easier using a smiley or emoticon. With these small icons you can convey new meaning to your forum posts, emails and website content.

A smiley is a great way to make both you, and the person who you are sending the smiley to, feel happy. It is hard to look at a goofy graphic and not feel that tug at the corner of your lips because you just want to smile when you see one!

There are times when words just wont do. A smiley or computer graphic can be the best solution to letting someone know how you feel. Sending hearts or a teddy bear hug graphic is a sure way to let your crush know youre interested.

Another great thing about communicating with emoticons is that you do not risk face to face embarrassment. In the rare case that your crush does not return your feelings (how could she not?), you can save face. If all else fails, you can pretend you hit the wrong button!

There are tons of sites on the Internet that offer smileys and other graphics for free. One of the best places to get these is smileyCentral. They offer over 10,000 different graphics for free. The best part is that these graphics are unique and will not be found anywhere else.

SmileyCentral supports all the popular email and messaging software. You will find specific graphics for use on AIM, MSN IM, Yahoo! IM, ICQ, and Outlook Express. Other places on the web often offer a very small selection of smileys for specific programs; at SmileyCentral there are many to choose from.

SmileyCentral is easy to use. You download a smiley toolbar which is automatically updated with new computer graphics. This way you can search for that special graphic you have been looking for whenever you like.

If you have not tried using a smiley or emoticon, starting is easy and fun. Everyday thousands of new graphics are added at SmileyCentral. Why not begin jazzing up your online communication today; let people know how you feel.

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Tattoos are a never-ending topic of conversation. Here are 10 incredible and surprising quotations from world famous people about this fascinating subject.

From Angelina Jolie: “I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I’m wearing a dagger!”

Anna Nicole Smith: “I got my first tattoo, a Playboy Bunny, because I was young, dumb and drunk!”

“White folks are not going to come see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I’m sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they’re stupid!” Charles Barkley

“Sometimes I bust out and do things permanentlike tattoos and marriage” Drew Barrymore

“For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin” Cher

Nicolas Cage: About his tattoo “it’s kind a show biz lizard. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my sole.”

“I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate.” Halle Berry

“My skin is my canvas. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. I never wish to shut the door on my past so I carry it all with me.” Dave Navarro

From Megan Fox: “Every time I get a tattoo, it’s a little fuck-you to anyone who tells my not to.”

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.” Jack London (1883)

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Newspaper or Internet cartoons might save your life or build your immune system at least, that is the thinking of many progressive doctors and psychologists.

Dr. Bernie Siegel is but one, but there are so many others whose recommendation is to surround oneself with humor, whether it be cartoons, videos, magazines, or whatever else is available at the moment. Cartoons are usually readily available, especially on the Internet or newspapers. A funny cartoon can release endorphins immediately; the type of immune system-friendly ones that can, allegedly not only make you live longer, but healthier. In my own life, common sense tells me that if I was unable to utilize humor, life would be a bit drab. So would my health. I have recovered from some severe illnesses, a few that doctors said “I might not make it”, I think, only because of my sense of humor. I am certain their own potions helped as well, but without laughter and hope, faith can fade and fade fast.

Londons Times Cartoons was launched in 1997 after my mom died. I did not have a lot to start with, as far as financing, but had a lot of creative ideas, and was fortunate enough to build an illustrative and management team who knew what they were doing. When everything came together, from nothing, and it took a life of its own, and I was humbled and pleasantly surprised as were my colleagues.

It made me realize, maybe for the first time, at age 43, that if the common man or woman puts their mind to something, they can do it, regardless of social status, education, gender or race. It simply takes focus, a plan, and the guts to work the plan. When I say guts, I don’t mean at all that one is a hero for trying it. It is only that I have found in my lifetime, that dreams are “a dime a dozen”. Everyone has a book in them, a huge building, a creative venture, or some other dream. More often than not, it stays with them, in their heads, until the very end. To me, that is a tragedy.

Humans are made to achieve. It is in all of us waiting to come out, and often it takes the help of others. I will give you an example. Over the years, I had written literally thousands of cartoons. Though I could draw fairly well, not well enough to meet the standards of what I wanted in a cartoon. Thanks to the Internet, I found a way to recruit some of the best illustrators of cartoons on the Internet. They were willing to take on this project with me, still in its seed/dream stage, based on the quality of the concepts which would later become my comic collection.

By March of 1998, I had possibly 100 cartoons up on a free sub-domain. I could not even afford my own domain at the time. Pop-up ads ruled the site and visitors usually got angry and left as soon as they arrived. But I persisted. And I use that word because of how important it is. Persistence is probably as important, if not more important, than any other element of a creative project. Obstacles came and went. I developed a “damn the torpedos” philosophy, and kept my eyes on the prize. The number of naysayers far outweighed the supporters. It mattered not. I kept full steam ahead.

Because of my team’s persistence, within ten years, we built Londons Times Cartoons which attracts millions of annual visitors, and built 11 e-stores. We now have over 8000 color cartoons and almost 100,000 licensed image products that sell well. Our main website, Londons Times Cartoon has an eight million person following from Egypt to Canada.

I look back in amazement. I cannot believe it all happened in such a short time-span as a decade. But it did. And it did while I was disabled. I had been employed since age 12 and became disabled in my early forties due to depression and heart disease. During that time I also went back to school and finished three years in business. I am on break now, taking care of other health issues, and then plan to return to finish and work on my masters.

Like I said, think it, plan it, do it, and it is yours. It’s the American dream and it still exists.

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When it comes to humor, what rules? You might be surprised that more people view newspaper and Internet cartoons than all the funny movies, sitcoms, late night shows, and stand-up comedians put together.

In this “rat-race in which we live” which is referred to as planet earth, many simply do not have time to get their “humor fix” within a thirty minute or hour period. If you really think about it, even when listening to a joke, these days, in person, if it goes beyond half a minute, you are out in search of real humor, or at least not paying a lot of attention to someone who finds themselves funny, yet nobody else does.

Cartoons tell the whole story fast, and a good cartoon tells it faster and funnier than a bad one. and, it may take a few more seconds for the reader to “get it”, based on their own “laughter quotient”, but it can be quite satisfying, and does the trick. Even modern medicine agrees that surrounding oneself with good cartoon humor can boost the immune system, as laughter releases endorphins that help protect it.

I am not saying to quit viewing the greats such as Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, old sitcoms on Nickelodeon, or reruns of Frazier or Seinfeld. They are all very funny, to me, and many others, and I have to see a film in the genre of “Being There”, “Analyze That” or even a Michael Myers delicacy every so often. But one must plan time for that. Not so with a good newspaper or Internet cartoon.

We live in a society with both joys and disappointments daily, it is nice, no pertinent to have a quick humor fix. No other venue can do that like a cartoon, specifically a single panel cartoon, which, if not wordy, satiates me in a way I love to have my belly-laugh fix.

Here is my review of some of my favorite single-panel cartoons in the order of which I think they satisfy and/or are the funniest. Of course all humor is subjective, so you may have another take on it. In any case, these are my top 6 choices. Londons Times Cartoons is one you might want to bookmark as there are over 8000 cartoons by Rick London and they are funny. Off TheMark by Mark Parisi also has a large inventory but not quite the size as Londons Times. Londons Times are 99% in color, which makes them even more appealing.

1. Londons Times Cartoons 2. Speed Bump 3. Rubes 4. Off The Mark 5. Dr. Fun 6. Strange Brew

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It was July 16, 1954. I was just washed from exiting my mom’s womb. “Congratulations, Ms. London,” I used to joke that the OB/GYN told my mom, “It’s a Realtor”. My parents owned a very old real estate stable family real estate company and were from a generation where, if and when an offspring arrived, especially a male, they were born to be bred shaped and molded into that genetically-inherited business. I tried it a few years. It was disastrous.

I was born in the tiny hamlet of Hattiesburg, Ms. I was not aware of these southern traditional family values, and, as I became more aware of my environment around me, I was certain I wanted to have something to do with humor as I grew older. How did I know this? It was all common sense. Try working for your conservative Realtor dad for five years. You will know. And you’ll know way before you finally have the nerve to “retire” in that five year period.

I can remember being grounded, in trouble, about to get in trouble, or locked in my room with no going out with friends for some wrong-doing (never violent or terrible); just pulling pranks since I was very small.

Rarely do I remember my parents smiling and being happy around me except when they had friends over on weekends and were playing record albums by such comedy greats as Don Rickles, Tom Lehrer, Jack Benny, and the like. I introduced them to The Smothers Brothers as a teen, thinking I would earn brownie points but again given the pink slip for “developing radical taste in hum

Stand-up in New York City. Keep in mind this was straight off the farm from Mississippi to the Big Apple. I won’t “even go there” as to how awful I was. It was sort of like Dan Quayle in his memorable v.p. debate, but more like me debating, say, Steve Martin and my comparing myself to Lenny Bruce. Steve to me: “Mr. London, Lenny Bruce was a friend of mine, and you, sir, are no Lenny Bruce.” I won’t bore you with the gory details.

Around 1996 or so I became interested in humor writing, and was planning a book but decided on forming a group of artists and creating a cartoon instead. All of us were surprised when Londons Times Cartoons shot to the top of the Internet rating charts.

By the time I reached 50, after a lengthy illness, I decided to start opening stores, selling products with my cartoon images which now amount to over 8500 in number and our counter shows over 8 million visitors since 2005 (though we started in 1997). And to imagine a manufacturer is producing 85,000 of our licensed gifts and collectibles and selling them everywhere from our main superstore site to Ebay to Shop.com. It’s all like a dream. If it can happen to this would-be Realtor, it can happen to any misfit.

Starting a cartoon is not an easy task, but an interesting and educational one. No matter what branch of humor in which one may find their niche, it is a growth experience and a process.

If it is in your blood, you will know it, and no matter what you were “born to be”, will not matter. It will have to come out in some way, shape, or form. Educate yourself, hang out with others who have blazed the trail, learn all you can.and just do it.

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