Mr. Cousins recovered sufficiently enough to go back to work and to play tennis and golf. Mr. Cousins is now retired from the Saturday Review, works with the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine. His job is to restore hope, to show patients how they themselves could work with their doctors to relieve pain and enhance recovery through humor and laughter. We all like to laugh. We feel good when we can laugh.
Television can be a good tool for laughter.
Pick a good comedy program to watch. Years ago there was a television series called Mr. Ed. This was a very humorous program. Mr. Ed was a horse that could talk. The idea of this is totally preposterous, absurd, ridiculous.