Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 113 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

Laughter is the Best Medicine (2)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 113 of our Trek. Yesterday we discovered the abundant health benefits of laughter. If you missed these life changing health facts, please listen to Day 112.  Today we want to expand on those benefits so that you can bring more humor into your life by developing a solid and continual habit of humor. Just like any habit, good or bad, it is learned over time by continual practice of particular behavior.  Humor is no different.

 

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We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Today we were able to attend and worship at our home church here in Charlotte. It was good to see many friends and fellowship together. We will be heading back to The Big House this coming Friday, so this will be the only Sunday this month that we are able to attend church here. We do appreciate being able to worship with Christ followers wherever we happen to be any particular week.

The remainder of today was spent relaxing and doing a little bit of light work. It has always been difficult for me to completely relax without any working on Sunday, but it is certainly a goal I desire to establish. Many Sunday’s we are traveling, but that is not quite the same as an unplugged day of relaxation.

For today, it is time to head back out on our humor trail and discover some interesting ways to establish the habit of humor in our lives. You will find that as you implement these humor nuggets into your life you will become a funnier and happier person in all that you do. You will be better able to enjoy the rich and satisfying life that you were meant to have.

1. Bring more humor and laughter into your life.

We are all born with the ability and desire to laugh. Laughter is your birthright, a natural part of life that is innate and inborn. Infants begin smiling during the first weeks of life and laugh out loud within months of being born. Even if you did not grow up in a household where laughter was a common sound, you can relearn to laugh at any stage of life. It is truly a habit that you can re-form in your life.

Begin by setting aside special times to seek out humor and laughter, as you might with working out and build from there. Eventually, you’ll want to incorporate humor and laughter into the fabric of your life, finding it naturally in everything you do.

Here are some ways to start to weave humor into the fabric of who you are:

Smile. Smiling is the beginning of laughter. Like laughter, it’s contagious. Pioneers in “laugh therapy,” find it’s possible to laugh without even experiencing a funny event. The same holds true for smiling. When you look at someone or see something even mildly pleasing, practice smiling.

Count your blessings. Literally make a list. The simple act of considering the good things in your life will distance you from negative thoughts that are a barrier to humor and laughter. When you’re in a state of sadness, you have further to travel to get to humor and laughter.

When you hear laughter, move toward it. Sometimes humor and laughter are private, a shared joke among a small group, but usually not. More often, people are very happy to share something funny because it gives them an opportunity to laugh again and feed off the humor you find in it. When you hear laughter, seek it out and ask, “What’s funny?