Humor is able to defuse a situation or an incipient conflict, give certain strength to resist failures and difficult life situations. Humor makes people more open and friendly and allows them to look at themselves and others without judgment, aggression, or anger.
A person with humor is appreciated by many as a subtle psychologist who can help to see any situation from a completely different angle, calmly and cheerfully talk about what seems to be serious.
A person with a sense of humor is able to quickly raise their own self-esteem with a witty joke and restore peace of mind and balance. It is easier for such people to solve complex problems, they are able to laugh at their own failures and find new, non-standard ways of doing work. They attract the attention of others and affect their emotional state. Many people, speaking in public, try to add jokes, interesting funny stories or funny incidents to their speech, thereby defusing the atmosphere and winning over the audience.
Humor can relax a person and distract him from a difficult situation that has arisen in life. With the help of humor, you can get rid of stress, find a solution and a way out even from desperate situations.
Even Freud said that humor is able to release our secret impulses, while not provoking claims from the "Above I". Perhaps that is why many anecdotes are told on indecent topics or they talk about aggressive desires, prohibitions and fantasies, because with the help of a joke you can tell about what is not accepted openly in society. And Freud also believed that obscene anecdotes that are told to a woman are a sign of veiled sexual desire.
Many jokes and anecdotes can completely remove the ban from such an exciting and mysterious topic as death. And this allows you to look completely differently at what is inevitable for a person.
In addition, with the help of humor, a person creates empathy and the ability to empathize with him. When people are in the same space and laugh at the same thing, it creates a feeling of closeness and similarity of views on life and the surrounding reality.
Humor often invites you to think deeply about your values, feelings, and desires. He is able to bring people together and resolve a conflict situation. It would seem that nothing has changed, but a person has the feeling that the world has become a little different: more calm, balanced, tolerant. It has been noticed that in families where a playful atmosphere reigns, there are rarely quarrels, and marriages practically do not break up.
Experts advise people who joke and laugh a little, who lack a sense of humor in life, to imagine different life situations in a different way.
It is worth fantasizing and imagining that your boss, for example, is in a funny or ridiculous situation that makes you have fun. You can draw a picture or make a small playful collage with photos of your boss or colleagues at work, or maybe relatives or friends with whom you are not in a very good relationship now. And although the effect of such exercises can be very short-lived, there will still be relaxation, after which it will be possible to look at a person or a situation in a completely different way.
