As we consider the muse, music as a vehicle, and we often mix humor into our message, all the more to draw the audience. In Greece, humor was a term used by the physician/priest as definitive of a person's nature and essence, In ancient Greek medicine, the four humors were bodily fluids that were believed to cause certain illnesses and personality traits when in excess:
Blood: Represented cheer and courage
Phlegm: Represented apathy and unemotional temperament
Yellow bile: Represented anger
Black bile: Represented melancholy
I find this an interesting historical "fact", especially when you hear the phrase laughter is the best medicine, while, Hippocrates, who taught the humor's said let food be thy medicine. Well I guess a great person, with the pronoun's he, him and we?*, can say more than one memorable phrase. With this admonition of ancient truth, wisdom, with the healing power's of music, singing, dancing, touching and laughing. Good intention and theme for the day. Dance your walk today, maybe using comedy, as you dos e doe a friend, try a ministry of sill walk's dance, and if you don't hurt yourself, get a laugh with it. Hum or sing now and then. And tune in to some music on this theme on today's podcast.
*The Corpus, or body of the works of Hippocrates, is a testament to a "golden ages" level of advancement and wisdom in the practice of medicine and the diagnosis of disease. Some historian's believe that this work, and the name represented a whole host of Hippocrates' who contributed, just like the many member's of a big band, It would make you dizzy to imagine Dizzy alone on stage, or the Count with his tuxedo, just waving into the wind. Most hold Hippocrates to be one man. .
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