…endorphins running it seems you can cure yourself of practically anything. One of the endorphin masters of the western world is Norman Cousins, who used to edit the Saturday review and founded the committee for a sane nuclear policy. When Norman Cousins was…

…western world is Norman Cousins, who used to edit the Saturday review and founded the committee for a sane nuclear policy. When Norman Cousins was adolescent he got tuberculosis and he was put in the tb sanitarium which was common in those days, and he…

…the REST of their lives or until they died. This is an unscientific observation by an untrained adolescent, but that was what Norman Cousins observed in the tb sanitarium. So he became an optimist. He decided: the optimists get out of this place and I…

…paralyzed it kills you. That's one of the most nefarious diseases known to medicine. It has a long name which I don't remember. Cousins wrote a book about this and it's been adopted for a TV show with lou grant, with ed Asner playing cousins, and it's…

…was a misdiagnosis. You see if you get better you didn't have the disease especially if you get better by a method they don't understand. Cousins wrote a book about that which as I say became a TV show and he did a lot of lecturing on the effect of…

…and so on he got a very rare African Disease which is considered 100 fatal. Everybody who's ever gotten that except him, except Norman Cousins has died. When they told him not in the hospital he got the hell out of the hospital the first move towards…

…and so on he got a very rare African Disease which is considered 100 fatal. Everybody who's ever gotten it except him, except Norman Cousins, has died. When they told him not in the hospital he got the hell out of the hospital the first move towards…

…and so on, he got a very rare African Disease which is considered 100 fatal. Everybody who's ever gotten it except him, except Norman Cousins, has died. When they told him down in the hospital he got the hell out of the hospital the first move towards…

…stops feeding into the immune system you lose all your immunities and you get sick very rapidly. If you have a faith like Norman Cousins, that I was meant to live long and be happy that you can get up after one deadly disease after another and walk…

…the neuropeptides of the right sort get flooded all over the body. A classic example of what's probably neuropeptide healing is Norman Cousins. When he was in his teens he got tuberculosis was put in a tuberculosis sanitarium and he noticed the optimists…

…just because they show how much is psychosomatic or neurosomatic. I would like to conclude with the story of Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins used to edit a magazine called the Saturday review, which was an interesting middle brow intellectual magazine.…

…because they show how much is psychosomatic or neurosomatic. I would like to conclude with the story of Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins used to edit a magazine called the Saturday review, which was an interesting middle brow intellectual magazine. He also…

…the Saturday review, which was an interesting middle brow intellectual magazine. He also founded the committee for a sane nuclear policy. Cousins when he was ten years old was diagnosed as having tuberculosis and there was a lot of tb still going around…

…from a peace mission to soviet Russia with a very rare disease that I keep forgetting the name of. If anybody knows the Norman Cousins story and wants to prompt me, it's in my, it's in the first issue no it isn't in trajectories it's in something else…

…you die invariably. Everybody who's ever got this disease has died of it. So the doctors with sad faces and heavy hearts told Norman Cousins: we regret to have to break the news to you but you're not going to get better you're going to get more…

…not going to get better you're going to get more paralyzed every day and then you're going to die within a year. So Norman Cousins checked himself out of the hospital, went to a hotel, got a vcr and looked at laurel and hardy and Marx Brothers comedies…

…there are, they don't want you going out and treating yourself with vitamin c that cuts into their bills. But look at the evidence. Cousins a few years ago had a major heart attack. He recovered from that too. He is now on the staff of the UCLA…