What Impact Does Humor Have On Your Psychological Wealth

Filed under: Psychological Wealth — July 15, 2007 @ 8:14 pm

Everyone enjoys a good laugh. Humor is a mighty emotional medicine that has the ability to lower stress, disband anger and unite families in difficult times. One impact that humor has on your psychological wealth is its impact on your mood. Striving to find humor in difficult and frustrating situations elevates your disposition. By laughing at the circumstances and ourselves helps reveal that small things are not the earth-shaking events they sometimes seem to be. Often, looking at a difficulty from another viewpoint can make it seem less daunting and provide opportunities for greater insight and objectivity and. Humor also helps us avoid aloneness by relating with others who are attracted to authentic happiness. And the good feeling that we get when we laugh can remain with us as an internal experience even after the laughter subsides.

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
Demetri Martin

I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack.
Demetri Martin

Another of humor on your psychological wealth, according to mental health professionals, is that humor can also teach perspective by helping patients to see reality rather than the distortion that supports their worry. Humor alters the ways in which we think, and distress is greatly associated with the way we think. It is not situations that produce our stress, it is the meaning we place on the situations. Humor shifts the implication of an experience so that it is not so overpowering.

Here are some added things we can do to enhance our frame of mind, enjoyment of life and psychological wealth.

  • Use energizing laughter to release pent-up thoughts of anger and disappointment in socially acceptable ways.
  • Lower anxiety by visualizing a funny situation to replace the view of an anxiety-producing circumstances.
  • Try to laugh at situations rather than complain about them – this helps improve our temperament and the nature of those around us.
  • Laugh as a means of reducing stress because laughter is often followed by a condition of relaxation.


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