Humor as a healing tool
There may be two people who have been dealt the same cards in life. Two individuals with all the same life circumstances. One is miserable, stressed out, and looks twenty years older than he is. The other is the happiest guy you could ever meet and looks twenty years younger than he is. How can this be?
The answer is that it is not our life circumstances that make life difficult, rather it is the attitude that we view our lives with. Those who are capable of seeing the humor in life and take life lightly will be able to do their best in the circumstances they have been given.
We don't all have the same sense of humor, as I discovered from an early age. The kind of humor that is at the cost of others always escaped me. Never could I understand why watching videos of others who fall and hurt themselves along the way could be perceived as humor.
There is this way of laughing at the expense of someone, making fun of in a group. Humor is something very personal as well as part of a group dynamic. To me, the best way is to be able to laugh at myself, not take myself too seriously.
This enables me to deal with situations and challenges in a more heart-lightened way as well. Making jokes about serious events to create different, more lightening energy. During all the turmoil life presents at times, it has helped me to maintain my inner balance as well.
Over the years, a sense of humor develops or evolves so to speak into a different type of energy. The lessons along the path of our life, are also coloring our way to perceive and through them adjusting it as well. It will also be part of the lesson, you have to be careful about the way you speak out your feelings.
For one, it will be acceptable, for another, it will be confronting. Actually, it says a lot about the way we are handling any type of situation. The more we can receive as well as give from the heart, the more softening our humor will be as well. Consideration is one pillar, and confronting is another one. Using humor as a statement or as a weapon will alter the energy as well,l as the way the message will be perceived.
When it is part of our family upbringing, we adapt to the way humor is presented to us. Sometimes it is more down to earth, other times it is to create an uncomfortable situation for someone. In the way, humor is being used as a weapon to harm someone, even groups for that matter, to ridicule so to speak, the energy shifts.
There is also another element present within the way people use humor. It is about denigrating someone to get the majority alongside. Making fun of someone, being hurtful in words, group mentality is also part of the equation. It is layering upon layer, sometimes the way humor works in favor or in a way to bring someone down.
Many professional artists use humor to address issues of social character. The way this is been done is always an expression of the way people perceive the topic at hand. So we can use our sense of humor to uplift, conform, catalyze, or trigger actions or emotions.
The way we perceive ourselves, to choose which way we are going to express ourselves, is making a difference. So instead of using it as a kind of weapon, we can choose to be part of the healing spectrum. To uplift our own inner feelings about the way we can act at times, it is helpful to do this with the use of humor.
I love the way how humor lightens up the energy and the laughter is broadening the hearts of all that are touched by it at the moment. Laughing about yourself is an amazingly powerful instrument. It will assist you in the more difficult moments to see the relativity as well as the perception of that situation.
It is also about healing because that is what joy and laughter bring. Using it like the Clinic Clowns for instance, or the Clowns in a circus, it also connects people heart to heart. What better way than to be able to connect this in positive action. Not making fun of someone, just laugh and smile together, showing you are bigger than that.
May we all share much laughter together, pulling each other up from difficult moments. Let the tears of pure joy enrich your relationships with the love that is part of it. Humor is a tool of love and will bring up the best in each one of us.
If we want to change a different outcome of our present lifetime, humor is a tool and a force of healing you might not have been thinking of. Love the way we can uplift each other, and we can create magical moments and life-changing events.
And so it will be done
High Self @RheaDopmeijer (c)
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