Mindfulness: Tips To Develop Your Sense of Humor

Developing a good sense of humor is an effective way that leads to better health and better stress management. Apart from the advantage that you laugh more (which is a good advantage), having a good sense of humor means that you can easily connect with other people, which is one of the basic needs of people. Furthermore, it helps you to look at situations in a different way, which helps to relativize unpleasant situations. As a result, you will also be less easily overwhelmed or scared by what happens in your life. Developed in the right way, humor and your relationships keep you strong. What can you do to develop or strengthen your sense of humor? 1. Start with a laugh A smile on your face ensures that your body produces endorphins, which makes you feel better. As a result, you do not only look happy, but you also feel happy. With a (smile) smile on your lips, the laugh comes sooner and your stress will also disappear sooner. 2. Take a step backwards If you are in the middle of an unpleasant situation, you can sometimes feel overwhelmed by it. However, if you take a step back and look from the observer position, you will see what is funny about the situation. Nowadays, there are all kinds of movies like the funniest home videos in which people sometimes experience very unpleasant things. If you look at it as an observer, that is very funny. 3. Appreciate the extremes If your situation seems terribly frustrating, recognize the potential humor in how horribly frustrating and irritating it is. Make the situation in your mind a lot bigger and crazier until you start to find it funny yourself. Imagine if you wait a long time in a row, that you are there for hours and days. That people visit you there in your new 'home' and you celebrate your daughter's birthday party there. Do you understand? 4. Buddy Find a funny companion, friend with whom you can laugh and let that relationship work for you. Share all your frustrations and laugh away the whole process. Because even if your buddy is not there, you can imagine in a bad situation how you will laugh together about the situation. 5. Game You can also just make a game of your irritations. Hold together with your friends eg the most irritating boss contest. Or see if you can count how many times a day you encounter the same frustrations. It is a good tip for predictable and repetitive annoying situations that you have no control over. In one way or another, you will appreciate them in a special way instead of being reared by them. 6. Funny movies, shows and cabaret One of the reasons why some movies, shows and cabarets are so popular is that they just magnify ordinary, universal daily situations in which people experience irritations and they just go a bit further, making the idiotic of the situation recognizable. Being aware of the fact that some universal irritations are actually funny, you can help them to endure them better and with a smile on your face. Even if that laugh is a bit cynical. 7. Funny books Read funny stories and books. You can easily find many entertaining books on Goodreads. There you are able to find humor even in tragic to irritating situations. Each in their own way. Reading someone else's humorous interpretations can help you find your own style and put your life in a different light. 8. Funny websites On www.shortjoke.net you will find a multitude of humorous jokes. You can tap (political), technical, travel, marriage or many short jokes for some extra fun. On just one click, you can vote the jokes and share with the buttons. 9. Laughing meditation I myself have experienced that a laughter meditation or joining another form of common laughter in, a club is a way to laugh. Whether you are serious business or crazy business. Doing a laughter meditation together with others, for example, can help you back on the path of more often giggling and laughing one day.