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NEWS and CONTEST
February-March 2001
"The most wasted day of all is that
in which we have not laughed." Sebastian R.N. Chamfort
FROM THE HUMOR FOR YOUR HEALTH OFFICE
Welcome to the new Millennium! Let's make 2001 a Humor filled Year!
The Humor for your Health intention is to universally help educate and empower people on how effective and essential Humor is to our well-being!
Thanks for your continued support as we are having fun expanding and enjoying our solid growth curve!
CHEERS FOR SOME OF OUR NEW CLIENTS
SOME UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS FOR HUMOR FOR YOUR HEALTH
February/March:
Humor is one of the healthiest and most powerful methods to help provide perspective on life's difficult experiences, and it is frequently shared during periods of crisis. However, during a crisis humor is often experienced and perceived by individuals immersed in the crisis as insensitive and even hurtful. What then, differentiates healthful and harmful humor in a crisis?
We know that, in general, humor aimed at oneself is well received by others. When we are the targets of our own humor, others share our humor but are not threatened or injured by it.
Humor aimed at situations is also generally appreciated by others, since it, too, has a target other than another person or group of people. Humor aimed at other individuals or groups may be harmful and not well received as it often is used to put down, insult, or degrade another.
If humor aimed at situations is generally safe, then what is it that causes some humor in crisis situations to be experienced negatively by those in crisis? The answer lies in the psychology of the human response to crisis. Psychologically during a crisis those individuals closest to the crisis are likely to integrate the crisis into their internal emotional being. That is to say, psychologically, they merge the crisis experience with their own inner emotional state. Essentially, they are unable to separate their inner emotional self from the emotional experience of the crisis. On the other hand, individuals with some distance from the crisis are less likely to experience this merging of self and crisis. Those with some distance, therefore, may be aided by humor because it reinforces perspective and creates a safe distance from the crisis. Those immersed in the crisis experience humor aimed at the crisis as directed at themselves and therefore, as insensitive.
Thank you for all the wonderful real life stories of how Humor has really enhanced your Health and life! Please continue to email, fax and write in your great experiences to us. We will now start each month picking the most inspiring story and send you an Autographed 'Humor for your Health Guidebook' and a 'Humor Me'' T-Shirt. In January 2002 we will award a 2001 Grand Prize winner to receive a Live 75 Minute Keynote speech from Dan about the “Humor for your Health” Message. All stories chosen will be reproduced and appear in this section. Please see official rules for more information. All rights reserved.
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