I wrote this post awhile back, but Beliefnet featured it as a gallery recently, and the art can't help make you smile.
To get to the gallery, click here.
Of all my tools to combat stress-especially the stress of dealing with my illness or someone else's--humor is by far the most fun. And just like mastering the craft of writing, I'm finding that the longer I practice laughing at life (especially at its frustrations) the better I become at it, and the more situations and conversations and complications I can place into that category named "silly."
G. K. Chesterton once wrote: "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." And Proverbs 17:22 says that "a happy heart is good medicine." I'd add that human beings and their caretakers can heal and find joy again if they learn how to laugh. Here are just a few ways a dose of humor might transform something ugly and stressful to slightly entertaining, and, well, a tad less catastrophic.
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Enjoyed the gallery, the photos and the advice, and was particularly amused by the typo (or was it a joke? or a Freudian slip?) in the section "Humor Reduces Pain." As written:
"After surgery, patients were told one-liners prior to administration of potentially painful medication. The patients exposed to humor perceived less pun as compared to patients who didn't receive humor stimuli."
Did they perceive less "pun" or less "pain"?
Or is it me who's not getting the "pun"?
LOL Carolyn! I laughed at that, too.
And it was good to laugh.
Thanks, Therese.
I think a bunch of BBers (especially in the forum) need a bit of humor therapy.
In othe words, all that work time at the computer spent reading and forwarding jokes is actually NOT counterproductive? Somehow I fear few employers would buy into that defense.
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