Laughter can be great medicine. It's a good abdominal and heart workout, and regular laughter can help boost your immune system. In our busy, serious lives, however, laughter may be the exception rather than the rule. If you want to live a happy, healthy life filled with joy, you should learn to laugh. Let laughter into your life! If you don't know how to do it, the tips below are just for you.

Steps

Look for humor

1. Smile more. Studies have shown that it is much easier to laugh with a straw in your mouth than with a straw between your lips. It will be much easier for you to laugh if you are used to smiling. And all because our body subconsciously reacts to a smile, and it is assumed that laughter will follow.

   • A common facial expression for many people is a frown. Learn to smile while working, jogging, and even while reading. Make smiling your usual expression.
   • When you arrive at work, try smiling at every co-worker. This is a good way to prepare yourself for laughter, especially as it is a courtesy.

2. Surround yourself with cheerful people. You are about to spend a wonderful evening with your friends when your friend's friend starts complaining about his job. If you get frustrated when your problems are blamed on you and you are not very easy to laugh, it will be even worse if you surround yourself with such depressive people. Instead of spending time with such people, hang out with your daredevil friends who make you laugh.

   • Control "bad" conversations. If you find yourself in a circle of people who constantly complain, try to change the subject of the conversation. If everyone is talking about what they don't like, talk about what you like. People tend to repeat and follow the example, so one person can cause collective laughter, and this will not be difficult. Ask a stupid question or tell a funny story and you'll see how easy it is.
   • You should not get rid of unhappy friends, but try to find new ones who make you laugh and are ready to laugh. Next to them, you will also laugh.
   • Send jokes and funny videos to your friends. It will probably make them laugh and they will laugh back at you.

3. Watch comedies and funny TV programs. Even if you prefer dramas or horror films, take a break from your habits and watch a comedy, for example, with Jim Carrey. Find something that makes you laugh uncontrollably and spend your time that way rather than thinking hard about the plot and getting upset because of the melodrama.

   • If you don't like modern comedies, watch some of the classics. Perhaps you will be inspired by something from the comedies of the last century.
   • It doesn't matter how old you are: Tom and Jerry is always fun. Stock up on a bowl of sugary cereal and treat yourself to a childhood Sunday morning.

4. Turn off the news. It is very difficult to laugh when every morning you are told about the cruelty in the world and economic inequality. Instead, listen to comedy podcasts or comedy radio programs, and check out the news online later in the day.

   • If you can't do without the news, try to find a program that describes them in a positive way. You will be up to date, but the form of submitting these news will be much easier.
   • If you can't live without a morning paper, start your day with some fun news and a column of life stories. And then move on to more serious news. Switch from the first to the second to keep a good mood. And don't overdo the bad news.

   Learn to relax

   1. Laugh at yourself. The ability to laugh at yourself is one of the main differences between happy and depressed people. If you can turn awkward moments, mistakes, and flaws into opportunities to laugh at yourself, they won't affect you.

      • Laughing at yourself helps you differentiate between who you are and what you do. Everyone can screw something up at some point, but that doesn't define you as a person. And laughing at yourself tells both you and those around you that this is not the end of the world.

   2. Don't worry about how your laugh sounds. Everyone has their own unique laugh, so if your laugh is polite and expresses genuine amusement, you don't have to worry about having a "terrible" laugh. After all, there is no such thing.

      • If you're worried about your laughter and constantly worrying about what people will think of you, then it's hard for you to relax and have fun. If you hang out with people who make fun of someone out of laughter, it's worth finding new friends.
      • Most often, people do not respond to strange laughter. A reaction is more likely when someone says something really funny.

   3. Make time for yourself. You are probably a busy person, but if you learn to make time for yourself and spend it being yourself, your mood will improve significantly, you will be calm and always ready to laugh. Ambition and work are undoubtedly good things, but when it is in moderation. Therefore, learn to balance your goals and aspirations to be the best with the willingness to laugh at yourself and the ability to enjoy life.

      • Make sure you do what you love every day. Relax by turning on your favorite music, drink your favorite drink. Control your mood.
      • Set aside about 15 minutes a day to watch a funny video or funny photo online. If possible, try to do this after the busiest part of the day.

   Practice laughter

   1. Force yourself to laugh. When you're alone at home or on your way to work, try laughing a few times as realistically as possible. Very often, our body needs something like a push to get into the mood for laughter. Even if you have nothing to laugh at, just force yourself - this is the first step towards laughter, which benefits health.

      • Start with three short "ha"s and make yourself laugh a few times. You'd be surprised how quickly a "special" laugh can turn into a real one.
      • Think of something funny that you have laughed at in the past. Replay this moment in your mind while laughing to stimulate it.

   2. Pay attention to the physical sensations when you laugh. Regular laughter boosts immunity, oxygenates the blood, strengthens the abdominal muscles, and releases healthy chemicals in the brain that are responsible for a good mood. Put your hand on your diaphragm while you laugh and feel what happens. When you practice laughter in the future, make sure it comes from within.

      • Laughter as an exercise will help strengthen your muscles. Many doctors recommend that their patients with heart disease and cancer patients, in combination with treatments such as chemotherapy, laugh more often as part of a holistic approach to treatment. Practice laughter with a big smile and a deep laugh. You will immediately feel better.

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      Tips

      • Develop your own sense of humor. Come up with your own joke, something that is really funny to you.
      • Although the laughter of a live person is best, you can search for funny videos, pictures, stories and jokes on the Internet.
      • Make sure your laughter is accepted by those around you. (If it's ok, it's ok, if it's not, work on it.)
      • Many people dislike their laughter because of the way they look when they laugh, not because of the sound itself. If this is you, don't forget that you can just cover your mouth with your hand when you laugh.
      • Make faces in front of the mirror, in the end it will make you smile and laugh.
      • Tell funny jokes.
      • Remember something funny. This will make it easier for you to laugh.
      • Picture in your mind ridiculously insane pictures and events. For example, imagine a rat chasing a bull.
      • Eat right - this will help you stay more energetic and in a good mood.

So you've decided to change your laughter. Maybe you just don't like the way it sounds, or maybe your laughter annoys the people around you. Try to figure out what is "wrong" with your laugh: is it too loud, too funny, or too sinister? Listen to other types of laughter that may suit you and try to reproduce the one that you enjoy the most.

Steps

Part 1

Choose a new laugh style. If you don't already have a specific way to laugh, start actively looking for ways to laugh that you might enjoy. Try to look for inspiration wherever people laugh: listen to the laughter of those you meet, the laughter of movie characters or television workers. Hear how loved ones and strangers laugh. Always be on the lookout for good types of laughter.

• A good source of recordings of people's speech is YouTube, like the rest of the Internet.
• Think about why you enjoy certain types of laughter. Perhaps they attract you with their depth and sincerity, or perhaps they sound very contagious, making you laugh too.

1. Try to imitate the laughter you like. When you hear an uplifting laugh, try memorizing or writing it down. Left alone, find a mirror and try to imitate the laughter you like. Imitation can be quite natural if you spend a lot of time with people who have an infectious laugh. But this process can also be made more meaningful by purposefully choosing a specific laugh for yourself.

   • Know that if you candidly copy the laugh of a famous television worker or a character from a movie, others may notice it. Decide for yourself whether you want it or not.

2. Think about why you want to change your laughter. There may be something in particular that you don't like about your laugh: it might be too loud, too funny, or too sinister. Try to consciously avoid these undesirable features while laughing. If you consciously seek to change certain aspects of your laughter, in the end, the problem may be solved.

   • If you laugh too loudly, try to laugh softly. If your laugh is too funny and you're giggling quickly at high tones, try laughing slower and with a deeper tone of voice.

3. Consider whether you really need to change something. What people often don't know is that when you laugh, your breath changes. For example, many people snore at the same time, because often this is how the body seeks to get more oxygen when a person laughs. Try asking your loved ones what they think of your laughter. This will help clarify the situation. If your laughter irritates others or annoys them in some way, most likely they will tell you about it!

Humor - subjective concept. There is no standard for all criterion of humor. To make others laugh, first of all should be funny to you. If you're having fun, people will be having fun too. They get involved in your humor.

Lower the bar on what you can laugh at

All topics for humor are interesting. You can see everything as funny. Set yourself a low bar for humor. In everything you can see interesting and funny: someone sits down funny, someone says funny, someone writes funny. Everything can make you laugh. Just lower the bar on what you can laugh at.

Some people have very high criteria for what should be funny. Too high bars. Get rid of it. Some people are very hard to make laugh.. They have too high standards for their humor, there are such troubles as: the joke must be very good, I must clearly understand what I am talking about, there must be certain words on one topic, and so on.

Sometimes people are afraid of judgment, what will be thought of them if they laugh hysterically. People can't relax, let go of everything. Most people are afraid of how their voice will sound if they laugh too loudly.. Some do not even know how their voice sounds during hysterical laughter, because they hold themselves back all their lives.

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Learning to laugh

There is one useful exercise.

Laugh always loudly, openly, from the heart everywhere. Do not be afraid to look a little ridiculous, strange and stupid.

Some people want to learn how to laugh beautifully - this is nonsense.

Let the laughter open up and you will open up yourself.

Don't hide or suppress it laugh with real natural laughter, just the way it is.

Nothing will happen, no one will do anything to you.

Open up to the world. Thanks to laughter, you will lose your inner heaviness.

What's stopping you

You are hindered by fears, tightness and high criteria for laughter. Don't aspire to be this brilliant guy whose jokes are all very, very clever and subtle. After all, then you yourself will almost not laugh. Which life is better - laugh more or less? Let go of the bar and laugh heartily! It's better! Why these restrictions - supposedly you have to be a brilliant and smart guy. Get rid of it and learn to laugh at everything!

Your mind will always find excuses not to laugh. It's all ego and limiting beliefs, barriers in the head. Let go of the ego and personality, have fun. You can interpret everything in a funny way. Literally everything! Small children are always cheerful and often laugh; society has not yet introduced seriousness into them. This exercise will help you learn to laugh.

You can watch a lot of videos on how to learn to laugh at everything to your heart's content and never worry again.

Correct perception of humor

The correct perception of humor is how YOU alone see the funny in everything and no one else. See the world with your own eyes. See humor in everything and you will always feel good.

Don't identify with any particular type of person. To define oneself means to limit oneself. Be water, be everything! And then you will have a strong presentation and expression of yourself, which will allow you to resonate with all people.

Have a positive attitude - all jokes work as long as I say it. You love yourself so much that you appreciate what you say and people get involved and love you too With. If you hate yourself, they will hate you too. If you are interesting to yourself, then in the eyes of others you will become interesting.

You don't need external stimulants

You don't need alcohol to develop a good sense of humor.

Alcohol is all external stimulants that give you a temporary state.

If you only have fun with alcohol, then it will pump only your drunk personality, not your sober one.

You understand how to be interesting and how to develop a sense of humor without alcohol. I am an example!

The truth about fun

How you think about fun is all you have learned or seen from someone.

What you now perceive in your head as fun is not an objective perception, that is, it was imposed by others.

These are the pictures in your head.

Everyone perceives humor differently.

If you are having fun and cool now, for someone at the same time you can be boring and uninteresting.

Others may think that you have a great sense of humor because you are a high value guy and they react to you.

The bottom line is that you can’t specifically say: are you having fun now and what is fun.

Even if you are bored now, from the outside someone may perceive you as a great joker and prankster.

Don't underestimate your ability to joke

Instead of evaluating your condition, analyzing how much fun you create around, just let it all go and don't think about it.

It is pointless to worry and evaluate your sense of humor, whether it is perfect or not..

Otherwise, there will be the opposite effect.

When you stop judging yourself by how funny you are you will never have questions about how to develop a sense of humor and become interesting.

We all got into a situation where you want to, you don’t want to, but you have to laugh at a terrible / incomprehensible joke of a colleague, boss or just a stranger with whom you still have to sit side by side for at least a couple of hours. They think the joke is very funny, or they just say something because of their nerves, but you either do not understand the meaning and are afraid to seem slow-witted, or you just understand that this is complete nonsense. In general, there are many situations in which, for one reason or another, it is necessary to portray fun, and the older you get, the more often you encounter them. The next time your friend or lover tells you something too primitive or exotic, by applying the tips below, you will be able to not lose face and not ruin your relationship with your loved one. So let's learn a little social cheat that will help you make friends and subsequently influence those around you.
Difficulty: moderate.

1. Wait for the climax or ending. As a rule, the narrator highlights him with facial expressions, gestures and intonation, so it will be difficult to miss. Those who understand and appreciate the joke usually start laughing at the last words or immediately after the speaker finishes, so do not forget to take air into your lungs in advance.

When a joke is told, you can usually get a good idea at the very beginning of whether it will be funny. If the person telling the joke is charming and/or charismatic, you usually don't mind laughing anyway, so you should be able to do it fairly sincerely here anyway. But if the narrator mutters and constantly stammers, or says the hackneyed: “Did you hear the joke about the priest, the rabbi and the prostitute?”, - it’s definitely not worth starting to laugh too early (as if you heard something fresh and really enchanting) - from you, probably don't expect such a reaction. Listen carefully to the speaker, keeping that somewhat anticipatory expression on their face as the person plods through the events of the bike. Do not forget to keep your composure and face, no matter how disgusting / incomprehensible you are. The expectation of a surprise is characteristic of the facial expression even when you already know how it will end, it is in human nature. The main thing here is not to show that the joke has set the teeth on edge.

2. Start smiling warmly and lightly. Real laughter never bursts suddenly. It gradually rises from the abdomen. So you need to correctly build your laughter. The first step, which will look natural, is to start smiling slowly. When the narrator gets to the heart of the joke, take the “expecting a surprise” expression off your face and let it fade into a smile.

3. Make some guttural sounds. It can be "hah", "ha", a short grunt through the nose, just a sharp exhalation, similar to a chuckle. Throw out a couple of these sounds along with a blossoming smile as the joke approaches its climax.

4. Decide for yourself whether to start laughing lightly on the last words - as if you almost got the point - or skip half a heartbeat after the end of the joke before starting to laugh loudly and in full force. Some people think that laughing until the end of the joke is not good, so you can make the narrator disappointed in their abilities and in the chosen joke (or offended), but if you do not do this in full force, and only increase the expectation of surprise on your face, this tactic will help you get closer to the narrator, he / she will decide that you understand her / him very well and are generally on the same wavelength.

5. Laugh in your natural manner, no need to try to portray something, because most likely, especially without practice, it will sound strange. It is when you imitate laughter that the trick is to keep your usual style. Many people don't know how they actually "sound" when they laugh because they've never paid much attention to it, so watch yourself. Don't turn up the laughter. Do not forget to include in facial expressions and expression of the eyes, but do not overdo it with either one or the other, or the third. Practice your natural laugh on the midtones, and you'll be able to imitate it at any of the worst, stupidest, most disgusting jokes for the rest of your life. Laugh with all your might only when everyone else around you is doing the same.

Addition: Patting the speaker's elbow or hand can help you imitate laughter. This will distract him/her from the lack of interest in your face and make him think that you find the joke so funny that you just need to express your emotions in some way. As you may have noticed, a lot of people do something similar when they hear something hysterically funny and just can't quickly pull themselves together at the moment.