Just as forgiving oneself and others is curative medicine and cause for celebration, healthy laughter activates the chemistry for the will to live. It often reflects joy and insight, attracts friends and lovers, breaks tension in uncomfortable social situations and seemingly increases the capacity to fight against disease. By expanding the chest and increasing respiration, laughter relaxes the body and helps stimulate good health. Laughter also releases the capacity to enjoy other people, because the universal ability to play, to create, and to have fun is liberating.

One of the signs of good mental health is the capacity to laugh at yourself. A healthy laugh is not a laugh of ridicule. It can be a laugh of insight when the cause or the solution to a problem is suddenly clear. It can be like the laugh of pleased parents who are enjoying the first steps of a child. It can be a laugh of delight between friends or an invitation between lovers.

What people laugh at differs from century to century, from culture to culture, and even from one stage of life to another. And, part of being human is accepting the fact that what is funny to one person is often not funny to another. Yet healthy, open-minded laughter is contagious, and healthy laughter celebrates the right to happiness.

Do you remember a time when you watched a funny movie or read a funny story? Do you remember how good your body felt after a deep laugh? Do you remember how clearly you experienced yourself and the rest of the world at that time?

These experiences are easy to reproduce. You can choose to laugh. Even if nothing is funny, you can laugh and your body will feel more relaxed. When you laugh, you will feel less emotional tension. You can laugh at all the absurdities of life—even at yourself. A good new Parent will encourage you in healthy laughter.

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