If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
~ Martin Luther
It takes a community to raise consciousness. In this time of wondering, worrying, wandering, and warrioring for a new sensibility about home and place in challenging times, we can use, quiet spaces to take a breather – little refuges from the intense winds of calamity, where we ponder more reflective questions.
Questions like: ”What could possibly bring a smile to my lips?”
The ability to smile holds the key to healing humour, this is key to healing humour, the kind of humour attitude Susan has dedicated herself to archiving, cultivating, elevating, and instilling in herself and all those she comes into contact with. A humour attitude can include multiple sorts: of humour: Exaggeration, irony, verbal, visual, auditory, physical, healing, you-had-to-be-there, and magic? Which does she prefer? Those who know her, know her response – “All of them please, all of them, from a subtle smile to a belly laugh – that-brings-tears-to-my eyes-and a snort-to-my-nose!!”
Who is Susan Sneath? (aka the Halloween Lemur)
As you know by now, Susan Sneath is really very quiet and subdued…when she sleeps! When she’s awake she takes the business of humour very seriously – she loves to laugh. A Healing Humour Attitude is the kind she devotes herself to, because it helps us all remember that life is never quite as serious as we might suppose and yet more precious than we ever dare take for granted for an instant.
Points covered in this episode – seriously!
How putting a humor attitude to work in our lives can mean to…
1 – Be open-minded, playful, and/or to create an atmosphere that brings a smile to your lips and releases tension
2 – Make someone’s day
3 – Be a productive, resourceful leader, present for yourself and others
4 – Proactively choose your attitude and style of communication
As the saying goes: “Remember If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it.”
The humor is cathartic. We could say that it is a way of saying what cannot be said by lightening it with laughter.
Humor is first of all freedom: so it is first of all having the courage to highlight one’s own and social contradictions without hypocrisy.
If it is put in place to free from the excessive weight that we give to the mask of exteriority, to the concept of normality and it is put into being to learn to play with one’s own and others’ limits to go beyond, to stop sometime always taking oneself too seriously, especially on the workplace, it is not a mask, there is never malice, but liberation.
Those who criticize humor and see malice where there is genuine hilarity are in the disguised service of their own ego or the still too bloated social ego to be able to reflect and accept the joke of a bona fide brat who tries just to point out that breaking the chains of excessive seriousness is not a lack of respect but a liberating act.
I understand the point and fully agree. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find humor in the world we live in.