Humor is able to defuse a situation or a conflict that begins, give certain strengths to withstand failures and difficult life situations. Humor makes people more open and friendly and allows you to look at yourself and others without judgment, aggression or anger.
Many people value a person with humor as a subtle psychologist, who can help to see any situation from a completely different angle, calmly and cheerfully talk about what seems serious.
A person with a sense of humor is able to quickly raise his own self-esteem with the help of a witty joke and restore peace of mind and balance. It is easier for such people to solve complex tasks, 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 relieving the atmosphere and attracting listeners.
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 exit even from hopeless situations.
Even Freud said that humor is able to release our secret impulses, while not causing claims from the “Super I”. Perhaps that is why many jokes are told on indecent topics or they are about aggressive desires, prohibitions and fantasies, because with the help of a joke you can talk about things that are not openly accepted in society. And Freud believed that indecent jokes that tell a woman are a sign of a veiled sexual desire.
Many jokes and jokes can completely remove the ban from such an exciting and mysterious topic as death. And this allows you to look very 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, this creates a feeling of closeness and similarity of views on life and surrounding reality.
Humor often suggests deeply reflecting on 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 have little jokes and laughs, who in life lack a sense of humor, to imagine different life situations in their imagination in a different way.
It is worth fantasizing and imagining that your boss, for example, has fallen into a ridiculous or absurd situation, from which you have fun. You can draw a picture or make a small playful collage with photographs of a manager or work colleagues, or maybe relatives or friends with whom you currently have not very good relations. And although the effect of such activities can be very short-lived, there will still be a discharge after which you can look at a person or a situation in a completely different way.