How to Make Use of Laughter to Live a Joyful Life
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. — Fred Allen.
Humans are the most stressed species on Earth.
Every other species eats and protects itself from threatening environments. But humans are struggling to gather everything. With worries about the future and regrets of the past, you run on the hamster wheel.
Nomadic human life has turned into millennia. ‘Stress’ has hijacked the peace. Wearing many hats at once, it feels life is pulling you apart.
What happened to the once giggling child you were? What happened to the others with whom you loved playing and laughing?
In stress, you forget to live a life of joy. Amusement is waiting for you to find it. But your mind is so engrossed in solving turmoil that it often gets overlooked.
A Child Laughs Effortlessly, Whereas Chaos Sucks Your Laughter As You Grow Up
The fast-paced life engulfs you into the black hole of endless stress. The frowns and worry became a new normal. The silliness still surrounds. But with serious glasses, you cannot experience the joy in small things.
The stress made its way in, and liveliness went out. The life that was once blissful turns into a stressful event. Scientific studies establish stress is a triggering factor for many diseases.
Some people are afraid to lose their decency and can’t afford to laugh hysterically. The fear of tarnishing their well-maintained image grips them. A leak of small chuckles might happen now and then. But a belly full of laughter still eludes them.
Mayo clinic confirms that laughter is no joke. It stimulates organs, increases immunity and overall health.
Life is a roller coaster ride of joy and misery. The trouble in life never goes away. There is no perfect life — only a life well-lived.
Do not miss the liveliness. Amusing situations are always around the corner. Leave your civilized behavior. It has already caused enough tensions within the body and mind. Instead, express the giggle, laughter, or smile often.
Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy. — C. R. Fenwick
Be Courageous Enough to Choose Light Hearted Moments and Enjoy Life
Becoming similar to others in the rat race is easy. But getting hold of your life and living authentically takes courage.
Be the one in this rare category of daring people.
Both light and grim situations are happening simultaneously. But society programmed your mind to worry about problems.
University Health News explains how stress drains energy. Attention span gets depleted. Sometimes even slight friction causes frustration.
Life becomes what you focus on — either it is light-heartedness or distress. When you appreciate small things and take things lightly, laughter happens. But when you focus on stressful events, life appears dark and hopeless.
Cultivate a light-heartedness towards life. It not only helps you live a joyful life. But also to your near ones whom you gift this joyfulness.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. — Sydney J. Harris
Don’t Postpone Your Happiness — Joyful Living Is Possible Right Now
Problems in life never end. In the maze of uncertainties, delaying your happiness is futile.
Instead, look at the brighter side of life. Appreciate the surrounding people, situations, and things. At some point, you wished for them. Be grateful.
Loosen up your seriousness. Be open to life’s twists and turns. Be like a child who perceives everything as a surprise. Don’t hide your crazy laughter.
I howl like a lunatic. Sometimes funny topic takes a backseat and people laugh at my weird laugh. It is not embarrassing but joyful.
The movement of the belly, with a voice full of glee, is healing and cathartic.
Yale Scientific Magazine confirms the therapeutic benefits of laughter. It releases dopamine and endorphins (happy hormones) and also the cardioprotective nitric oxide in the brain. Laughter was also found to reduce blood glucose in Type — 2 diabetes.
Give yourself a gift of healing laughter brings with it. Don't let others' judgment stop you from living a life from the heart.
We don’t laugh because we are happy, we’re happy because we laugh. — William James
Connect With Your Crazy Group Of Friends
I noticed the pain in my cheeks as I talked to my old friend yesterday. It was because of nonstop laughter. She bizarrely twisted every sentence.
This craziness is intimate. She can not showcase her inner thoughts as openly as she does with me.
You lose touch with friends as life gets busy. The stupidity gets lost. A dull but civil society awaits for you to get stuck like them. Gradually, the environment engulfs your carefree attitude.
Connect with your close friends. They know your true self. No masks and shades are necessary. Spend time in pure laughter and enjoyment.
Psychologists claim a sense of connection between people who laugh together. Non-verbal communication regulates social relations. A robust interpersonal bond is helpful for the overall sense of well-being.
In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. — Khalil Gibran
Support Your Inner Child — Embrace Your Awkward Silliness
Years of the practice of serious living can not go overnight. Like a new routine, it takes effort to regain the forgotten burst of laughter.
Be aware of any suppression of laughter. It may take some time to overcome the habit of curbing a chuckle.
Start from personal space. Laugh out loud with your family, kids, friends, and relatives. Leave all the image consciousness. Embrace your laughing self.
Give yourself space and time. Spend time with kids and pets. They know how to live fully in the moment.
With nothing to hide, children expose their authentic vibrational selves. They heal the mind and thoughts. Their every action is full of love and life. Watch and laugh with them. Rediscover your inner child in their company.
Children laugh at an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh at an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do. — Heather King
Takeaways
Life is not a serious affair. It is a joy to be alive. Don’t behave like the dead. Live, laugh, and delve into life as much as you can.
Life is not in achievements. But in small moments of life and enjoyment. Don't waste your life living a life of pretense. Spend time with children and pets.
Reconnect with your close friends. Share your weirdness without any pretense.
Explore the lightness in life. Enjoy and share your exuberance throbbing inside you. Your laughter is precious time — don’t let it go to waste.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn. Play with abandon. Choose with no regret. Laugh! Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.” — Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey
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