Go ahead and laugh – at yourself.  When you have enough self-confidence that you can laugh at something you have done, you know you have tamed your ego.  Finding humor in events or actions that you have performed in light of the frustration with the fact that things did not go the way that you have planned, is a great way to “soften” yourself.

When others are laughing at you, when you are not finding it funny, that may be a clue, to “soften.”  You may have fallen down while trying to paint a wall, or slipped on the ice dropping a cake.  You might have some pain shooting down your leg from the “event.”  However, when your friends are all laughing, you may find that if you can learn to laugh as well, the pain lessens.  The trauma is released.  You are okay, and you gave the world a gift.  A gift of laughter.

Sometimes, we tend to take ourselves and our lives too seriously.  When we can demonstrate to others how we can laugh at ourselves, we are showing them a strong, secure personality.  When we only laugh at other’s misfortunes and then possibly get angry when someone laughs at us, we are not in balance.   It’s okay to laugh at others, only when you also laugh at yourself!

Maybe you slipped on the ice, dropping the cake, because you are taking life too seriously.  Maybe those around you needed to slip out of their “reality” for a while and enter the world of laughter and “make-believe.”  After all, it’s not every day you might witness such a humorous event, and it could be a long time before you see such a thing again.

The universe has ways of helping people “lighten up” and to enjoy the world around them, even though they may have broken the expensive vase in the process.  The universe has ways of “reeling” people “back in” to the world for which they enjoy.   When life becomes serious – humorous events can help, unless you refuse to let it.

An indicator of when we become too serious might be when you do something “stupid” and your friends are laughing, but you get angry at the people who are laughing.  Stop, and think.  You just gave your friends the gift of laughter, why not partake with them?  Many people who have very serious things going on in their life, with terminal illness, are able to laugh, and to even laugh at themselves.  Why can’t you do the same?

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When you are able to swallow your pride, and set aside the ego, and truly laugh at yourself, you know that you are secure in your life and are able to accomplish anything you put your energy into.

Written, Tue Feb 25, 2014, 7:34 – 7:44 AM MT