These days, there is so much to worry about. Most people I speak to are affected; some feel depressed, and others feel anxious. Our worries are about real issues – about the future of our country, our soldiers, the evacuees, and .
Certainly, exercise, hobbies, meditation, and yoga can help us cope with the situation. But another way we can help ourselves deal with stress is to laugh. Laughter can calm our worries and heal our emotional wounds.
Matan Peretz, one of Israel’s most popular comedians, was quoted in the (March 16, 2024) after serving in the army reserves during the war. It was very tough to think of returning to the stage and doing his stand-up comedy during this difficult time. “I didn’t want to perform, but people were begging for us to come back.
They needed a distraction, to feel like things are kind of back to normal,” he said. I think that sums it up quite well. Laughter is our way of forgetting, even so briefly, all the tragedies we are feeling as Israelis.
Theodor Reik, a disciple of Sigmund Freud who settled in New York in the 1920s, once remarked that life is often tragic and sad. By joking about it, we succeed in transcending the tragic character of an event and bringing it under our control. “By using humor, the lament often turns into laughter,” remarked Reik ( , New York, 1962).
Laughter is a momentary way of taking back some control in your life. I can rid myself of some of the emotional pain through laughter. So when I heard that was g.
