Thursday, October 4, 2018

Ya Gotta Laugh (Why Humour and Laughter?)

I have been writing and speaking on the role of humour and laughter in human health, and relationships for over 18 years now and I am convinced that, as valuable as they are, they are severely under used. We continue to consider humour and laughter as pleasant little add-ons throughout our day rather than indispensable tools in our health and relationship survival kit.

I read, not long ago, that 85% of all people go to the movies to laugh. I think deep down inside we knew this without having to be told. We all like to have fun and having fun involves people gathering to eat, drink, be merry and laugh a lot.

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* The more frightened we are, the more inclined we are to create humour.
* "Humour is another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation." V. Frankl
* Laughter is essential to our emotional health.
* Humour helps us pile sandbags of wit against the flood of misfortune.
* Laughter enriches every aspect of life.
* Improve your lifestyle by improving your laugh style.
* Humour helps us face life with hope.
* Laughter is essential to a healthy workplace.
* Laughter allows us to see life from a different perspective.
* Life isn't all fun and games, but it isn't all fear and suffering either.
* You can't worry when you are laughing.
* In order to heal, the mind needs laughter, the body needs play and the spirit needs joy.
* In our quest to find pleasure and avoid pain, humour and laughter are valuable partners.
* If we fill our lives with humour and laughter we will never get old. We might die at an advanced age, but we will die young.
* It is difficult to hate someone we laugh with. We should tell this to world leaders.
* Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
* I wish universities would grant "Master of Mirth" and "Doctor of Delight" degrees.
* The main business of Life is to enjoy it.
* The more people laugh the easier it is for them to bounce back after life's setbacks.
* Laughter has little to do with the telling of jokes and more to do with responding to the absurdities of life.
* Good health isn't the absence of illness, true health is the presence of joy. "C.S. Lewis once said, " Joy is the serious business of heaven."
* Women laugh 7 more times a day than men and lives seven years longer.
* If there is no laughter in heaven I don't want to go." Martin Luther
* A religion without joy is no religion at all.

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