Humor Therapy
Another (briefer) letter from our medical director:
Is laughter really the best medicine? What if it hurts to laugh? What the heck is humor therapy anyway? Are you prescribing “laughing pills” or administering laughing gas? What gives????
These are all valid questions. I don’t know the answers. I don’t even know all of the questions. But I know that without a good (and sometimes slightly twisted) sense of humor, I would not have been able to heal myself the way I did.
Have you ever noticed that some of your problems seem to go away, even if only for a little while, when you can put a smile on your face, or the face of a loved one? What if there were ways to keep that good sensation of “suspension of suffering” for a longer and longer duration of time? Maybe a good laugh is nice for a few brief seconds, but a transformative experience in positivity can possibly penetrate the pain in perpetuity. (See what I did there? No, it wasn’t funny, but it twisted your tongue up a bit and for that fleeting moment your pain, stress, or other illness just vanished, right?
Unless your pain is from bad tongue blisters, in which case I just made it about 10 times worse. You’re welcome).I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
Whether it’s a session of amusing youtube video fails, truly tasteless one-liners, mildly humorous anecdotes, piano-playing cats, or just watching me laugh at my own jokes, sometimes a shared experience that lifts the spirits in a funny way can have lasting effects. Schedule an enjoyment session today, where we don’t look at labs or numbers or diseases, and instead just try to create some genuine smiles – I promise not to just sit there telling knock-knock jokes.
(What’s that? You say every session with the doctor should be filled with humor and smiles and laughter far and wide? Ugh. OK, fine. You win. No need to gloat about it)