Bayonne Health Online: Humor Improves Relationships "When you're being dragged, let go of the leash."
Bayonne Health Online, as a free community service, broadcasts health information to many thousands of local residents to help improve quality of life and to provide assistance when having to make important healthcare decisions. Michael J. Acanfora, D.C. | Editor www.bayonnehealth.org ------------------- Featuring: 1. Light & Easy: More Mr. Moms 2. Did You Know: 36.3 Million Join Local Health Clubs 3. Community Calendar: Wazzup 'Round Town 4. Feature Article: Use Humor to Improve Relationships 5. Healthy Scoop: Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News 6. Health Department Updates ------------------- 1. Light & Easy: More Mr. Moms! http://www.bayonnehealth.org/health_dept_details.cfm?id=1610 ApplesForHealth.com ------------------- 2. Did You Know? 36.3 Million Join Local Health Clubs - Up 7.5% Between January 2002 and January 2003, the number of health club members in the U.S. increased by 7.5%, climbing from 33.8 million to 36.3 million people. Today, 13.9% of all Americans over the age of six are club members. John McCarthy International Health, Racquet and Sports Club Association Let children choose portion size, study says AJCN - May 2003;77:1164-70. http://www.ajcn.org Obesity has reached epidemic proportions among children in the US, leading to long-term health problems. Researchers suggest that large portion sizes significantly contribute to this trend. Fortunately, a new study shows that allowing pre-schoolers to select their own portion sizes leads to smaller bite sizes and 25% less consumption. ------------------- 3. Community Calendar: Wazzup 'round town http://www.bayonnehealth.org/cgi-bin/calendar.pl If you have an upcoming event that others should know about, just e-mail all the particulars, and we will gladly post it. ------------------- 4. The Doctor's Office - Michael J. Acanfora, D.C. | Editor http://www.bayonnehealth.org/doctors_office.cfm How to Use Humor to Improve Your Relationships Mike Moore Humor has long been considered one of the most effective tools to judge the quality of any relationship. If there is laughter present you can assume that the relationship is a healthy one. When the laughter ceases you can be quite certain that the relationship is on the down slide. This laughter barometer can be applied to any relationship at home, at work and at play. Laughter means that you're having fun and fun means that things are going well.. Take a look at the relationships around you. Do the couples laugh a lot together? Has the laughter stopped in some of your relationships? Here are a few ideas you can use to make certain that laughter remains as ever present reality in your relationships thus ensuring their quality and endurance. Remember introducing humor to previously humorless relationships might take time but the results will be worth the effort. Start slowly by working on your own fun loving, cheery disposition. Laughter and humor are contagious so it won't be long before others catch the bug. 1. Remember that a sense of humor is learned, not inherited. 2. Commit to becoming a humor hound. Look for humor everywhere. When something strikes you funny enjoy it. Let the laughter flow. After the funny event has passed recall it and enjoy it and laugh again. 3. Begin to cultivate an atmosphere of humor and laughter in your relationships. Try to enjoy and share humor as often as you can. 4. If you don't laugh as much as you used to and want to correct the situation start associating with humorous, fun loving people and avoid the downers. 5. Learn to laugh at yourself. If you don't, you leave the job to others. 6. Look for funny items in your newspaper and cut them out and share them. I recall reading the want ads one night and discovered this gem : " The successful applicant should have 203 years experience." Obviously the writer meant to say 2 or 3 years experience. I immediately cut it out and placed it in my collection for future use. 7. Encourage others to share their humor. Listen and appreciate it when they do. When someone sees that you have enjoyed their humorous contribution they will be eager to continue sharing. 8. In my full day humor workshops I always ask the participants to break up into groups and begin sharing the funniest thing that has ever happened to them. The laughter that this simple activity generates is a joy to behold. Try this will your friends sometime. 9. Collect cartoons and jokes and put them on display on the fridge or the bulletin board. Make sure to avoid racist, sexist or filthy humor. There is plenty of good clean humor to go around without resorting to these. Remember that there is a difference between dirty and earthy humor. I personally like earthy humor. I don't appreciate dirty material. 10. Watch comedy movies and television programs as often a possible. 11. Use humor to neutralize conflict in your relationships. When things get tense use self deprecating humor to lighten things up. I remember one evening having an argument with my wife, Carol. In the heat of the moment she said something totally out of character. She said something hurtful. In my surprise I looked at her and said, " Carol, when you say things like that you stoop to my level." She started to laugh and so did I. It wasn't long before things were back to normal. Good luck on your journey to Ha-Ha Land. Mike Moore is an international speaker/ writer/ cartoonist on humor and human potential. Visit him at http://www.motivationalplus.com & http://www.motivationalplus.com/cartoons.html ------------------- 5. Healthy Scoop: Check out late-breaking health & fitness news http://www.bayonnehealth.org/healthy_scoop.cfm ------------------- 6. 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