Remember humor

OK - so I am spelling humor for a broader North American audience - up here in the "Great White North" (GWN) a.k.a. Canada it is spelled, humour. My computer tells me that is a mis-spelling.

Why "humor"? When we laugh we release toxins from our bodies. It's a natural high - ask anyone who's tried Laughter Yoga. We've tried it and it's a hoot. At first we felt like we were forcing it - we were! But it didn't take long to realize that so is everyone else - there's a great deal of humor in that realization. Here we were - a bunch of adults with a few teeens all laughing and giggling at nothing in particular. That's fun, and laughing isn't the only sign of humor in our lives. Just look at the humor in how we spell words differently in different places.

Humor is in just about everything we do once you begin to see it. It's humorous that we say we want to expand our lives yet we stay stuck in our fears. We can't expand if we give power to fear and stay stuck where we are. I study with The Wonders. On many occasions they've seen that I'm stuck - my energy isn't flowing and I'm in a form of reduction. Fear over money is one of my big triggers that often gets me there. To free up my energy so that flow can occur they suggest that I go play. I'm an adult who truly doesn't just play - I'm way too serious. Yet when I do take their advice, go out and do something that I enjoy, good things happen. I'll come back from my "play", even if it's fairly structured play, and something new and good has happened. There will be more work from clients, there will be another proposal opportunity. Someone will be asking for advice. I'll be invited to speak somewhere. The play is fun and releases energy. The humor is in the dichotomy - I want to expand but I contract through my choices.

You might not think of that as humor, but if it were a script in a movie you'd probably find it humorous, even funny in the right circumstances. We do tend to laugh at ourselves, or at least at others when we see them in situations. The more of a hand they had in creating it, the more funny it can be. A great deal of our "humor" is self-deprecating and degrading in some way. Notice how that is pointing out the funny side of the human condition to us. We tend to reduce ourselves while professing to expand.

Humor is everywhere. Observe it. We tend to take ourselves way too seriously. I don't recall where I first heard this, but the advice is sound, "never get too personally involved in your own life". See the humor in what you do. The incongruities between what you say you want and what you create in your life. There is humor in that. Stop being so serious - it only takes you down the path of reduction. If you want to expand, release the energy. Let it work for you rather than bottling it up.

I used to keep my spirituality to myself. I rarely talked about it and I wouldn't bring it up in business situations. That took at lot of energy. And look at the humor - I wanted to be a more spiritual person / being, but I was hiding it. How un-spiritual is that?

Let go. See the humor. There are lessons in it for us all.