Childhood is often referred to as carefree and playful time, without any thought of responsibility. However, a more accurate look at the average youth experience shows that children experience quite a lot of emotional and sometimes physical pain. Many children who live in such a stressful childhood achieve humor as a coping mechanism.
A group of researchers from Texas A & M found that humor can significantly increase hope, and this hope helps people cope with stress in everyday life, including illness. Professor Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, demonstrated in a medical setting that humor helps both patients and doctors cope. This is true, laughter is often the best medicine.
"Laughter gives us distance, it allows us to retreat from the event, deal with it, and then move on." - Bob Newhart
Many people who had a painless childhood, became masters of humor. Watch most of the interviews of James Lipton with the actor in Bravo's Inside The Actors Studio and you will learn the common thread of talented actors who have turned to their craft to cope with difficult childhood. It is often believed that comics and comedians used humor to deal with stressful situations in childhood, especially with a parental conflict or a distant mother.
"No one became an actor because he had a good childhood." - William H. Macy
Rodney Dangerfield, was one of the funniest comics and actors that his mother brought up. Having grown up with a painful childhood, he discovered that he had escaped because of humor. As a child, comedian George Lopez never felt it was great to be part of the family. When he first performed, at the age of 18, he laughed. It seemed to him that he was flying. It was the first time he ever felt full confession and love.
Jim Carrey knew like a child. His mother was often sick, and Jim spent many hours near his bed, spontaneously performing fun procedures to make her laugh, make her feel better. Chris Rock founded his show “Everybody Hates Chris” in his painful childhood memories, growing as the only black student in a completely white school in New York. After the comic and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, her parents divorced, she helped her mother cope with depression by laughing at her. A surprising number of comic books face difficulties like children, but thanks to laughter they managed to find their personal salvation. They continue to cope with childhood memories and provide our entertainment, making us laugh. Often this laughter helps us to meet our own painful memories.
"I found that I could make her happy, and she would no longer cry." When you are a child, you usually do not have such control over your parent, but I could change her emotions, and it was amazing, "- Ellen De Ronès
"Life can be a debris, full of pain, pain and sadness." This is part of it, and it is important for the future. - Ellen DeGeneres
We express laughter through the body, through the emotions and with our spirit. Laughter causes an internal flow confirming life. According to a study from the University of Maryland, heart laughter can improve blood flow. When you enjoy a good laugh, your body relaxes and causes endorphins, which contribute to a general sense of well-being and can even cure pain temporarily. Laughter also helps break down stress hormones and accumulate hormones associated with happiness. Therefore, if you have a day when your frustrated, stressful, anxious or just stuck, watch some funny YouTube videos, go to the Comedy Club or spend time with people and things that make you laugh! Avoid blood flow, your heart beats and returns to rhythm and flow, which is the essence of the playful creative spirit.
Through laughter you can transform painful situations. If you can find humor in everything, even in poverty, you can survive. - Bill Cosby
Copyright (c) 2009 Valery Satterwuit
