Add some humor and laughter into your life.

When you are unhappy or stressed, you experience anxiety. Using humor and laughter could distance yourself from your emotional uneasiness because they bring positive emotions.

Jokes, cartoons, comedies are the most common form of humor. Laughing at anything funny and amusing communicate to others your positive outward expressions.

Humor and laughter tips you can practice each day.

• Watch comedies.

Movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Tootsie for example, are hilariously amazing and entertaining. The amusement from the roles, expressions and characters will evoke you to chuckle and burst with positive energy.

• Spend an evening at a comedy club.

Stand-up comedians have ways to interpret almost any issue that is common and normal to something hilarious. Spending an evening listening and watching them increases your endorphin levels, relaxes your mind, and thus changes your mood.

• Include joke books and comics as reading materials.

You read the newspapers daily. Add jokes and comics as additional reading materials to entertain and bring the smile. Having one handy is a good tool to use whenever you need to alter your states of mind from negative to more upbeat.

• Laugh with someone.

Regardless of whether you are at work, at home or in a social gathering, laughing together creates a better bond in relationships. Families and lovers who enjoy good laughs together enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

• Laugh at yourself.

More importantly, humor lightens up you life and gives you an inner coping strength. Being able to laugh at yourself allows you to take yourself less seriously when things do not work out as you have expected.

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