seven things you should know about your sense of humor
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IT CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE YOURSELF AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU. Your sense of humor is a perspective that has the power to transform your life. It makes everything more interesting, even in times of stress and boredom. It helps re-frame problems that feel like dead-ends and turns them into something you can work with. Your sense of humor won’t solve your problems, but it can help you handle them. Like any tool, you can learn to use your sense of humor more skillfully. As you learn to work with it, you will find that you will want to use it more often. Your sense of humor always feels good—always. But it isn’t just something that makes you feel good—it is a powerful expression of your inner wisdom that reminds you of what you love in life, and what you want to share. IT IMPROVES RELATIONSHIPS. Your sense of humor makes relationships work. It is the one thing everyone is looking for in a relationship. All successful relationships have one thing in common: they depend on their sense of humor. Surveys and extensive interviews of married couples and on-line dating communities Identify a sense of humor as the most important thing to look for when making a commitment. You know someone understands the real you when they understand your sense of humor. That’s why most people only laugh deeply when they are with good friends—it’s an unguarded moment; it’s the real you, with nothing faked. Love and humor are similar in a very special way—both are meant to be shared. 4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS RECOMMEND IT. Your sense of humor is good for your health. It can help you manage and release chronic stresses at the root of disease and symptoms such as headaches, high blood pressure, heart attacks and ulcers. It boosts the immune system—laughter and cheerfulness have been shown to raise Immune System Lymphocytes, Immunoglobulin, Natural Killer Cells and Gamma Interferon. Unrelieved stress raises levels of destructive hormones such as cortisol and epiphrine. Your sense of humor can help to lower them. Your sense of humor works directly on the anger and hurt feelings that result from taking yourself too seriously. It doesn’t make problems disappear, but it makes them much less stressful. MOODS CHANGE, YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR DOESN’T. Your sense of humor is not a mood. Moods can enhance or disturb your ability to access your sense of humor; but moods come and go, your sense of humor is always with you, even if you aren’t aware of it. Emotions and misfortunes can temporarily cover it over, but your sense of humor can’t be erased. Your sense of humor can help you take command of a bad mood—many times, a bad mood is simply a refusal to listen to your own sense of humor. One thing you can always count on: your sense of humor will never make you feel bad. It is a unique perspective that will always work for you. It’s a way of seeing and experiencing the delight in world that belongs to you even in hard times.TRANSCRIPT
7THINGSYOU SHOULDKNOW ABOUT
YOUR SENSE
HUMORof
Your sense of humor is an enlightened perspective. It has the power to transform your life. It makes everything more interesting, even in times of stress and boredom.
It can re-frame a problem that feels like a dead-end and turn it into something you can work with.
IT CAN CHANGE THE WAYYOU SEE YOURSELF ANDTHE WORLD AROUND YOU.
You know someone
understands the real you when
they understand your sense of
humor.
IT IMPROVES RELATIONSHIPS. YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR MAKES RELATIONSHIPS WORK.
Your sense of humor always feels good. It
will never make you feel
bad.
All great relationships have one thing in common: they depend on their sense of humor.
Extensive interviews of married couples and surveys of on-line dating communities identify a sense of
humor as one of the most important things to look for in a relationship.
Love and humor are similar in a very special way—both are meant to be shared.
4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS RECOMMEND IT. YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH.
Stress raises levels of destructive hormones such as cortisol and epiphrine; your sense of humor can
help to lower them.
It boosts the immune system—laughter and cheerfulness have been shown to raise Immune System Lymphocytes, Natural Killer Cells and Gamma Interferon.
It can help release chronic stress at the root of disease and symptoms such as head-aches, high blood pressure, heart attacks and ulcers.
MOODS CHANGE, YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR DOESN’T. YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR IS NOT A MOOD.
Moods come and go, but your sense of humor is always with you, even when you aren’t aware of it.
A bad mood can temporarily cover it over, but your sense of humor can’t be erased. Your sense of humor can help you take command of a bad mood—many times, a bad mood is simply a refusal to listen to your own sense of humor.
Your sense of humor is a way of seeing and
experiencing the delight in the world that belongs to
you even in hard times.
EVERYONE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR
Sometimes it is said that a person lacks a sense of humor, but this is
fundamentally wrong: everyone has a sense of humor. Chances are that
another person’s sense of humor is different from yours, but that doesn’t
mean they don’t have one.
Your sense of humor is a faculty of perception as essential as the physical
senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight.
When we say that someone doesn’t have a sense of humor, we are really saying that we don’t feel connected to them.
IT IS A WELCOME MAT FOR SOLUTIONS TO YOUR PROBLEMS.
You will always �ind it relaxing because it is just you
being you. Like sex, if you have to fake it, it isn’t
relaxing.
Your sense of humor is a profound force of attraction. Whatever you already have and whatever want—none of it is enjoyable without a sense of humor.
It’s like the flavor in food—it’s the deliciousness in life. It transforms fear of the unknown into enthusiasm for what lies ahead.
IT IS THE REAL YOU. YOUR TRUE SENSE OF HUMOR CAN’T BE FAKED. Have you ever felt like you couldn’t be yourself in a certain situation? That usually means you were in a situation where you didn’t feel comfortable sharing your sense of humor.
Ultimately your sense of humor is about trust, especially the ability to trust yourself. When you trust yourself you don’t have to take yourself too seriously—and you can really enjoy your sense of humor.
Our sense of humor expresses our capacity to give and
receive, to take in and let go, and to enjoy whatever life
brings us.
WE ALL BEGAN LAUGHING WHEN WE WERE
ONLY A FEW MONTHS OLD,BEFORE WE COULD EVEN TALK.
DON’T EVER STOP.
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Sources:eHarmony (700,000+ members surveyed)
People Media Inc.http://www.humorworks.com/index.php
Written by Bennett Johnston, founder at Laflife
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