Good morning everyone. Today's article was published in Illumination. It's a very big sub-publication of medium.com The topic is this is how I learned about four types of human and the sub topic is human can hurt us or give us hope. I practice a few rituals in the morning that help me integrate, live my Ben model, body, emotions and mind model.
One such ritual is saying affirmations. I have observed that by saying affirmations loudly in front of the mirror. I get to see myself, hear my voice, watch my body language and feel my feelings. To me, it serves as a perfect coordination of how I'm physically showing up, emotionally feeling and mentally present to what I am affirming.
I started saying affirmations several years back when I lost my job and embraced self-employment as a blessing in disguise. Saying these affirmations have tremendously helped me move through major life transformations from mother to emptiness to mother-in-law to grandmother smoothly. In the professional arena, saying affirmations have helped me be determined with grit and gratitude when expectations are not met. In the following article, I shared how saying an affirmation from Louisa's book, Meditations to Heal Your Life, describing the word healing, help me heal myself and a sick person by saying it on behalf of her.
And the title of that article is, When I Use This Technique, I Heal and Help Heal The Sick. So I give the link to the article here in this. Go ahead and in the description box in this episode, you will see the link to my article and when you click that, you can see the links inside. Today, as I was flipping through the pages of the book, my eyes and fingers combined stopped on the page titled Human.
With sheer curiosity to know what words have been woven to create an affirmation for this word by Louisa. As I'm doing the affirmation by typing, I invite you to read. Okay? Read the following affirmation aloud.
In front of the mirror is more effective. Okay? And check in to see what thoughts, what feelings, what sensations come up for you. Let's start reading the affirmation together.
Human. I love to love. I use my humor wisely. The subconscious mind has no sense of humor.
If I make a joke about myself or put myself down and just think, oh, it doesn't mean anything. I am only kidding myself. My subconscious mind accepts it as true and creates accordingly. If I tell put downs or ethnic slurry jokes about others, I am still under the law of what I give out will come back to me.
So I have learned to use my humor lovingly and wisely. There is so much humor in life that it is not necessary to denigrate another person or another group. Even in humor, we are working to help make the world a more loving and more safer place to live. So whatever I read just now is affirmation for the word humor in the book, Meditations Regular Life by Louisa.
I was like, I was like, I'm on the link to her website. Don't get me wrong. I do watch stand up comedy shows and enjoy them. Some of them, they are intelligently, intelligently created, you know.
So what thoughts and feelings came up for me after reading the about affirmation? I must be careful of what I say about myself to myself as I am the first person to hear it and internalize it. As I expected, saying phrases like, Oh, I'm unlucky. I'm stupid.
Would be on autopilot. After reading and understanding the power of subconscious mind right now and in the future, I am choosing the key word is choosing. I am choosing to stop saying these words to myself and others. I'm also conscious that humor need not be something to put down another person or a group to become popular.
As I understand from an article, the four styles of humor in psychology today, I've also given the link to that article. So you guys have to read this article in addition to listening to the episode so that you can, you know, click those links and then get more information, get, you know, you will process the information that I have written in your own way with your intelligence, with your experience, right? Because you're a unique listener. Okay.
So the four styles of humor, that's the topic in psychology today. So as I understand from the article, the four styles of humor in psychology today, I can choose to use affiliative, affiliative humor. Telling jokes in the bracket of it, telling jokes that everyone might feel funny to create fellowship and well being. Does that make sense?
Telling jokes that everyone might feel funny to create fellowship and well being. Think about it. Let's say like all of us are serious citizens, like I am over 16 now. So, you know, we take life seriously, we start thinking about future, what future hasn't stored for us, how will it be healthy, we have the money and all these things, right?
And we'll have memory be good enough, you know, all sorts of things, health, memory, money and all these things come, right? So if among us, among us, if we say some jokes, which creates some comradeire or fellowship and well being, that's probably, that's what is called affiliative humor. I'm learning this with you guys, okay? Okay.
So I can choose to use affiliative humor and explain what it is, right? And self enhancing humor. So in bracket, I said, instead of saying I'm stupid, use the words, maybe I don't understand and I will make an effort to understand. And in another episode about understanding, you know, Louis says, affirmation on the word understanding, I realize that understanding means being patient with myself, loving myself, not in a very bad way, or me, me, not that way, just that inner, inner, pure, innocent child, when you were born, right?
Absolutely unadulterated. Okay. Phew. That is what I mean saying that loving that self, love that self.
So instead of saying that, I'm stupid. Once again, guys, maybe I don't understand. Maybe I have to be patient and loving myself to understand and I will make an effort to understand. Okay.
Instead of the other two types are aggressive humor and self defeating humor. You can imagine. So one is towards affiliative, well being, you know, creating inclusive behavior. And the second one is, you know, it's something like self enhancing self enhancing.
And the opposite of is choose. You make a choice. Don't go into the aggressive humor, hurting others, or maybe even you will hurt yourself unknowingly self consciously. And self defeating humor, saying I'm stupid.
I don't know. I'm all such a thing, right? Replace. Okay.
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