- Determine the nature of your sense of humor.
- Surround yourself with humor you enjoy.
- Watch sit-coms and comedy movies. Look for cartoons in magazines and newspapers. Spend more time with your funny friends and colleagues.
- Be more playful and overcome seriousness. Make a list of things you find fun and try to do them frequently.
- Laugh more heartily and start telling jokes. If you are not a joke telling type, memorize a couple and tell them. Never tell a joke you do not find funny yourself.
- Play with language and other verbal humor.
- Find humor in everyday life. Look for unexpected, incongruous, bizarre, and ridiculous aspects of life.
- Take yourself lightly; laugh at your own mistakes.
- Keep a journal of humorous things that happen to you or to people you know.
- Create an imaginary funny ending to a stressful experience from your past
- Find humor in the midst of stress. Look for humor in every occasion.
- Smile more and laugh out loud periodically.
- Realize that sometimes stressful situations are a choice we made. Try to look at the lighter side of life and elicit a sense of humor to release the burden.
- Realize that stress is part of life. It will not disappear but it can be dealt with, with a positive and perspective attitude. A sense of humor will be helpful in bad situations.
- Start to build your personal humor library with your own comic profile: books, jokes, magazines, movies, and funny de vices, anything you find funny will work.
SHARED FROM:
Yi-Ping Lee, Brian H. Kleiner, (2005),"How to Use Humor for Stress Management", Management Research News, Vol. 28 Iss: 11 pp. 179 – 186
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