Her first "career" was as an artist.
Her first commission came at such a young age (13) she couldn't even be legally paid for it.

Working in oil, acrylic and watercolor, Annette's accomplished "life" as an artist spanned slightly more than two decades. The inherent loneliness of that world decided an inherently gregarious person to break back into this world. It began in 1970 with peer counseling and workshops in cathartic laughter and continues today as she coaches, guides, instructs and lectures on the positive benefits of laughter.

Annette Goodheart is one of life's rewarding "un-conventionals".
She lived on board her own sailboat in Santa Barbara harbor for thirteen years (whose construction she directed and which she christened the "TeeHee"). A motorcycle enthusiast and rider for fifteen years, she remains a first class scuba diver and gardener.

Her latest adventure has her moving lock, stock and computer, south to the country of Mexico and the old colonial city of San Miguel de Allende. There she plans to continue all her therapy, coaching, teaching (both laughter classes & art) with the large population of ex-patriots and the wonderful natives of San Miguel while continuing to travel the world doing Laughter Coach training.

While her proudest accomplishment is her own self-sufficiency, the most important thing to her is "connection"; connection with herself, with others and with the world in which she lives. The words she feels that best describe her most important personal qualities are "empathy" and "outrageousness".

With her two felines - Pauline and cross-eyed Shirley, & a six pound canine (a Maltese named Barbra) traveling companion-she looks ahead to a second book (on laughter and spirituality), seeing her first book ("Laughter Therapy: How to Laugh About Everything in Your Life That Isn't Really Funny") translated into Spanish, Dutch, Danish, German & Swedish (it's already out in Japanese), returning to art (with a focus on portraiture), and continuing to laugh her way around the globe.

Relaxed, convivial and a barely dormant (usually active) volcano of laughter Annette reflects, and wholeheartedly embraces, the joys of laughter which she preaches. For Annette Goodheart laughter isn't locked away in a folder marked "For Professional Use Only".it's always there and it's always ready to be shared.

Laugh Your Way to Health

Abused as children so that we have trouble touching people.
Are you alone? .. No, I am by myself.
She took a teddy bear, Charley, with her to a restaurant.
In an elevator, Charley became a topic of conversation.
Everyone needs an excuse to laugh, to be outrageous and playful.
The teddy encouraged/allowed others to join in.
Hugging Charlie put many people into an altered state.

Have you laughed so hard, you cried?
If you laugh with something in your mouth, it may come out your nose.
A person may laugh so hard they fall off a chair.
You may laugh so hard that you wet your pants.

Reasons why we Don't laugh:
1. Belief Systems:
   We must have a Reason ..
   What's so funny, why are you laughing .. Challenged to explain .. deadens.)
   Laughter is neither reasonable nor rational.
   If we are waiting for a reason to laugh, we won't laugh much.
   People rarely ask a baby why it is laughing.
   As soon as you ask WHY, you stop yourself and others from laughing.

2. Myths:
   You have tobe happy to laugh.
   Am I really happy enough to laugh here?
   With all that is happening around us, how can we be happy?
   We ARE happy because we laugh.
   We feel better afterwards, not before.
   We assume laughing people are happy.

3. Laughter Starvation:
   Sense of Humor = Laughter
   Intellectual Process .. no agreement on what makes people laugh or is funny.
   Yet, is Universal, it activates every organ system.
   Laugh with anyone, even with an animal.

4. Won't laugh until Science proves it is Healthy.
   When we are sad, we cry.
   We have lost touch with what makes us feel better.
   Laughter is cathartic/purging/moving/eliminating ---
   lack of control, moves you like a laxative, culture is constipated,
   ..... dreams are the excrement of the mind;
   ..... feces are the excrement of the body;
   ..... laughter is the excrement of the soul.

Status Quo locations NOT to laugh include the Main Street of many towns and cities, the waiting room of a doctor's office, ...

Kids are cathartic all the time ... crying, stress, pain, laughter ...

Churches based upon FEAR and GUILT are undermined by laughter.
We put something in babies mouths and jiggle them to stop them/divert them or drug them to deny pain. Pain is a friend. Catharsis handles pain.

What happens when you laugh?

• Moving: lose muscle control
• Open mouth
• Close eyes
• Breath deeply
• Tense/relax abdomen
• Rosy complexion (cardovascular dilates)
• Relaxation
• Connection between people (cosmic juice)
• Tear ducts activated
• NO talking
• Blood pressure lowers
• Heart rate goes up, down after.

Ridicule pushes people apart/divides them/makes you feel worse.
Laughter makes you feel better about yourself, if respected.
6 to 8 hours of meditation can be replaced with 15 min of laughter.

She lives on a sailboat, named, TeeHee.
"Ahoy, TeeHee"
4-yr-olds laugh 500 times daily.
Laughter oxygenates the blood.
Laughter encourages the body systems to work in harmony, synchronicity.

All cathartic activities are contagious.
If afraid of some Controlling factor, we will stop.

Indicators of catharsis include:
• Holding one's stomach
• Hiccups
• Sobing
• Coughing
• Throwing up

These actions jogs the internal organs, massages hem, and keeps them from drying up and shriveling.

Fake it till you make it, if necessary.
Reptilian mind doesn't know any different.

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