Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.
Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.
In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.
If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.