Laughter

Today at the spa there seemed to run a similiar thread throughout the day. Today was great fun and I laughed alot. Every one of my clients laughed alot too. I mean REALLY laughed.

I was the first one to arrive at the spa this morning. I decided that I was going to put some new music in all 5 discs. I hit the repeat button twice like I do to my personal CD player so that all 5 discs will continue to play in turn throughout the day.

Turns out, the first song played over and over again for 90 minutes. My client began to laugh hysterically about 20 minutes into her session. I began to laugh with her because she was laughing so hard. Everytime the song started up again we'd laugh real hard together. Nobody else noticed the song playing over and over again, it was hard to believe it! She was a good sport being a mother of 4 children under the age of 7, she was use to repetition.

My second client started laughing about the time the second song started to play. It sounded like a mexican chant song! She started waving her hands in the air like an orchestra leader! We both started cracking up! Ironically, by the end of the massage she was sound asleep!

My third client was the kicker. After she had settled onto the massage table and I walked in, the first thing she said to me was "Who was that playing on the CD?" I couldn't believe it. I was thinking she must hate this music too! I was thinking to myself I sure picked the winning CD's this morning and I began to laugh out loud. She started laughing too not knowing why and I explained to her that something about the CD's I put in the player this morning has caused alot of chuckles today. She told me she absolutely loved the music and wanted to know who it was and if we had it for sale! She wanted it for her son's engagement party and from there she never stopped talking & laughing throughout her massage.

I don't know what happened to the sound of the music with my last client. It just seemed to disapear into the background. This woman had had a visit with her chiropractor yesterday for an adjustment in her neck and he sent her to his massage therapist who severely bruised both her trapezius muscles. It was awful. She also had lymphodema in her left arm from having had breast cancer 12 years ago and never wore one of those arm braces recommended. I was reluctant to give her a massage but I was glad I did because she had an emotional release during the massage with sighs of smiles and laughter. She had a pleasant smile on her face and said she would definately be coming back in.

I came home and shared this with Steve and he also reminded me that this "music redundancy thing" happened on our vacation as well. We were sitting there eating breakfast while that country song "That's the way love goes babe" played on and on and on. We found it funny then too that nobody else seemed to notice but us two!

It's fun to laugh at silly nothing! It connects people and puts us at ease.

Thank you for the medicine Lord.....! It does our soul good!

Proverbs 17:22 "A cheerful heart is good medicine"