laughter is the best medicine. how do i introduce more laughter into my life?

Answer 1

When you begin your day in laughter and love, your life gets divinely enlivened. True prayer is laughing in the morning both from outside and from deep inside.

Laughter comes from the centre of our Being, from the core of our heart. Our belly is so full of laughter that the laughter permeates every cell in our body. True laughter is true prayer. When you laugh, the whole of nature laughs with you. It echoes and resounds and makes life worthwhile. When things go all right, everybody can laugh, but when everything falls apart, and yet you laugh, that is evolution and growth.

Nothing in life is more worthy than your laughter. Never lose it. Events come and go. Some are pleasant, and others, unpleasant. There is some area deep in you that is left untouched. Hold on to what is untouched. Then you will be able to keep laughing.

Sometimes you laugh just to avoid thinking or to avoid looking at yourself. But when you see and feel within that life is present and intense every moment, nothing can bother you or touch you. That laughter is authentic. You might have observed babies, six months or one year old. When they laugh, their whole body is jumping and bouncing. Every cell in the body is laughing. That is enlightenment. That laughter is innocent, pure, without inhibitions.

Opinions are the impressions we make on our minds. If we have one experience repeated four or five times, then, for the rest of our lives we tend to see life through those same experiences. We have not learnt how to retain that innocence so that our minds are not imprinted with definite opinions. We need to be able to see things as they are.

When life’s essence blooms from within, there is true laughter akin to godliness. Godliness is a feeling of belonging. We all belong to one another. Laughter opens us up, opens the heart. And anytime we don’t feel up to that innocence, what do we do? “I feel tense, I don’t feel that innocent or free. What do I do?” You can attend to several layers of your own existence. First, the body. See if you have rested, eaten, and had some exercise. Then attend to the breath. Breath has its own rhythm. Every mood of the mind has a definite rhythm in the breath. By attending to the rhythm in the breath, mind and body can be elevated.

Then look at the concepts and opinions that hover in the mind. Good, bad, right, wrong, should do, shouldn’t do, all these could bind you. Observe the thoughts. And then observe the feelings. Every thought is associated with some sensation, some feeling. Observe the sensation and feeling in the body.

Observe the rhythm in emotions. We commit the same old mistakes. I never say, “Don’t make mistakes”. I say, “Make at least some new mistakes”. The pattern, the rhythm in emotion is the same; situations are different. It is like hanging the same coat on different hooks. You have the same pattern of emotions but you hang it on different causes, people, circumstances, situations. The peak of any emotion will lead you ultimately to yourself — to your centre — by helping you take off to space.

Answer 2

Notice how many people are encouraging you to do what makes THEM laugh. It's hard to say if any of this would work for you. You need to get to know yourself better and find out what YOU think is funny. Then indulge in it. But humor is such an individual thing that I don't think anyone can give you hard and fast advice on what specifically you should be laughing at.

For instance, many people are recommending Comedy Central. But I find very little that is funny to me there. The stand-up comics in particular often depress me even more. But then I do enjoy The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

By "indulge yourself," I mean spend some money if you have to. For instance, I loved the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. The author stopped writing it, so I bought the complete set in hardback. I really enjoy Woody Allen's early comedies, and I own most of them. (By the way, don't let anybody tell you what you shouldn't like. I know Woody Allen isn't considered politically correct now, but that doesn't stop his movies from being funny.) I have lots of Bugs Bunny DVDs just because they make me laugh.

Maybe you like slapstick stuff (the Three Stooges). Maybe you like more intellectual humor (Jane Austen or Mark Twain). And above all, don't overlook dark humor. I find lots of things funny that other people just don't get or are put off by. For instance, a lot of people seem to think the old TV show "Twin Peaks" was a thriller; actually, it was a very black comedy. So if I would watch it with my in-laws, for instance, they would be frowning very seriously and looking at me as if I were extremely sick because I was laughing so hard. Other examples of black humor are the movies Dr. Strangelove, Harold and Maude, Catch-22, and Heathers. They aren't laugh a minute, like a sitcom, but they may make you laugh in a very different way sometimes. Right now my favorite show with a lot of humor in it is House. It's basically a medical drama, but I laugh out loud watching it more than any other show. Unless it's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Olbermann's humor is so dry and sarcastic that a lot of people don't even realize he is being funny a lot of times.

One more suggestion: don't be afraid to NOT like or laugh at what other people think is funny. Humor for you is what makes YOU laugh.

Best wishes as you go on this humor odyssey.

Answer 3

I suggest watching SNL, Christmas Vacation, Best In Show, Big Daddy, etc...

and for longterm laughter, get some funny friends

Answer 4

Check out some of the posts and answers in the Jokes & Riddles section of Yahoo Answers, there's usually someting in there that'll have you ROFLMAO or at least put a smile on your face. Then share what you've found with someone else for a chance to brighten their day too (possibly).

Answer 5

Rent funny movies. Buy joke books. Watch Comedy Central.

Answer 6

Whatever you do, dont read the awful jokes on here.

Try doing something different, that is silly & funny!

Might sound stupid, but next time it rains, take your shoes off and run through the puddles like a child (I do this!) its great fun, and a very liberating experience, and surprising how it can cheer you up.

Answer 7

think of which you're a youthful woman status on my own, a guy who you recognize, of eighty yrs of age wheels his chair as much as you and says, "have you ever heard the 2008 humorous tale of the 365 days." You humor him and supply him right here couple of minutes of your existence on the same time as he tells you a humorous tale, "what's the definition of a few thing?" I respond, "what?" He smiles up at me from his wheelchair, takes his oxygen out of his nostril, smiles broader, " 'some thing' is while a guy can placed his palms around his erect penis and nonetheless have 'some thing' left over." I laughed out loud, giggled, and mentioned, "complicated to discover that one!" He placed his oxygen tube back in. We the two chuckled and regarded at one yet another, as though existence became into distinctive, for basically a 2d, we the two observed existence as being laughable, and we smiled at one yet another. existence, brings laughter into existence.

Answer 8

For one thing, try laughing at the things that usually upset you. It'll give you a whole new lease on life. You'll find yourself laughing more easily very soon. You'll also realize that, indeed, you shouldn't sweat the small stuff.

Answer 9

Watch reruns of Frasier, Seinfeld, and/or Roseanne. I always laugh every time I watch these shows.

Answer 10

Hang around positive people, look for the funny side of everything, and laugh even when you don't feel like it.