Planting Humor Seeds
Allen Klien states that humor can be one of our best survival tools to manage pain, release endorphins, and even change brain neuron connections. Humor can plant a seed of hope, leading to smiles, giggles, and laughs (SGL) that become a pod of goodwill feelings. Day in and day out, this pod accumulates “SGL wealth” much like a bank account accumulates financial wealth. Although it’s a time when we need it most, the smile, giggle, and laughter pods are most pierced in times we work hardest to survive, making withdraw from our SGL accounts until we have no SGL left. Like now, it seems easy to forget to smile and laugh during this space we live in. Just watch any newscast, you will likely find any sense of SGL surplus is removed before the first commercial. A google search tells us we laugh less as we get older, we stop smiling, some say we fall off a “humor cliff”. We laugh more on weekends, and like with age, when we live in stress...