Do you no longer remember when was the last time you let out a liberating laugh or are you one of those who laugh every day? The sense of humor is as important in our day to day as the other 5 senses, although sometimes we do not pay it the attention it deserves. Do you have any reason to laugh? For sure yes. Start by learning to laugh at yourself and you will see how you find a thousand reasons to laugh every day.
Benefits of laughing at yourself
- You wake up in a bad mood because the alarm clock is neither a way nor a time to wake up anyone. You go to the bathroom, you stand in front of the mirror and you despair over the dark circles that will accompany you throughout the week. Worse for you if you dare to get on the scale because the fries you ate yesterday have stuck to your hip and are not going to go away just like that. To add insult to injury it’s raining…
- And you can continue regretting because surely you will have a thousand reasons. Your salary doesn’t reach you, you have to go to the doctor next week and things aren’t very good with your partner. Also the work… off. But wait a minute, what if you turn those thousand reasons to regret into a thousand reasons to laugh? We guarantee that you will be happier, because learning to laugh at yourself has many benefits.
Improves self-esteem
- Laughing at yourself, making jokes in front of the mirror about your supposed physical defects and sparking your emotional weaknesses improves your self-knowledge, that is, the perception you have of yourself. It is useless to beat yourself up for being the way you are, better to learn to love yourself as is.
- The ability to laugh at yourself improves your self-esteem because you relativize all those complexes you have and at the same time it gives you tools to deal with your relationship with others. You can take advantage of being shy, being clueless, your extra or less kilos and a lot of things that initially bother you if you take them with humor.
Your problems stop having power over you
A sense of humor applied to oneself also makes you see your problems in a different way. They won’t fix themselves because you laugh at them, it’s true, but they will stop having power over you. If your problems can be solved, seeing them from a humorous perspective can help you find the solution much sooner. And if they can’t be solved…why are you going to torture yourself with them? Laugh at them in their face.
Negative reviews affect you less
Many people take criticism or humorous comments about them badly, especially when their self-esteem is in low shape. And it is true that laughing, for example, at the physical appearance of a person is in bad taste, rude and the resource of those who do not have enough wit, but there are people who do it and you can be the center of criticism.
That you have learned to laugh at yourself makes you immune to criticism from others. And if someone criticizes you with bad intentions, rest assured that you will leave them without resources if you follow up their criticism with a joke.
Do you feel better
Laughter therapy is not a way to keep some patients entertained, it is a medical treatment that can help them recover their health more quickly. Because laughing starts a series of functions in the body that make you feel better, it also releases endorphins that make you feel happy and also works as an analgesic.
You create a good atmosphere around you
A sense of humor can help yourself and other people as well. People will feel more comfortable with you if you’re not continually complaining or bemoaning your bad luck. You have bad luck? Well, take it as a surreal time in your life and laugh at it.
With your laughter the negative energy around you is eliminated. Toxic people are allergic to a sense of humor and you won’t have to bother to identify and reject them, they alone will move away from a person who takes life with joy and optimism.