May 8

”If you can learn to laugh in spite of the circumstances that surround you, you will enrich others, enrich yourself, and more than that, you will last.” Barbara Johnson

Laughter is part of the healing process. Life is too short to take everything so seriously. I need to remind myself that I am allowed to enjoy the world around me. Laughter is also a way to diffuse my grandiose thinking and bring me back to reality. Sure, I can chose to keep it all in, bury all the emotions, good and bad, within me. And I can well imagine the person I would become over the years, hunched over, grouchy, alone, critical, moody, and simply not much fun to be around. It would be a way to endure, but I am not sure what the quality of life would be. Rather I want to lead a life where I can express my feelings, be in touch with nature, make connections and develop relationships. Working my program is part of a path of enriching my own life rather than depleting it. And in following he steps I am gaining a new capacity to share and thus enrich the lives of others. Laughter is just one of those aspects that is returning to its rightful place in my myriad of positive behaviours and actions.

Affirmation I can laugh, for a good reason or none at all. Laughter is medicine to help with my affliction as much as any other tool of recovery.