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One of the most enjoyable ways to enhance your life, your health and well being is to have a good laugh. To let yoursef go and laugh, is probably one of the most therapeutic things you can do for yourself and others.

Laughter has the ability to instantly release all your tension. It also has an almost magical effect of inducing laughter in others. Laughter is such a powerful medicine that there are actually laughter clinics in existance.

This may be hard to take on board when you are feeling really low and down in the dumps. Equally it’s difficult to see the funny side of things when in an extremely tense situation.

There is a very simple solution though, it comes back once again to your subconscious mind . The subconscious mind is like a child, it really cannot tell the difference between reality and pretense.

So all you need to do is to play ‘let’s pretend’, and pretend to laugh. Try it now, not just once or twice, but keep it up. Try to make it as realistic as possible, you could pretend that you are auditioning , or pretend that you are finding something funny. You could even conjure up an image of somebody in the most ridiculous situation that you can think of. How about a past incident that you found side splitting funny? When was the last time something made you laugh uncontrollably ?

Why don’t you start adding a little genuine fun and laughter into your life? Watch a funny film, a comedy, a silly ‘old hat’ television program, read a humorous book. Challenge yourself, see how many ways you can find to lighten up your life.

It’s all very well to be told to change our thoughts, change our behaviour, but sometimes it’s easier said than done.

Sure, you’d like to be able to switch off those negative thoughts in an instant. Sure, you’d like to feel more confident, more cheerful. But what do you do if you don’t know how to?

Well just hold on for a moment, just give a thought to how you would prefer to feel. Ask yourself how you would behave if you really were more confident, more cheerful.

Think about it. How would you breath? What expression would you have on your face? How would you talk? How would you talk? What would you think?

Ok. Now let’s pretend, just for a moment, allow yourself to pretend you are more confident, pretend you are happy. Go on, smile, lift your head up high – act as if – you are more confident – act as if – you are happy.

Remember when you were a child, did you ever play the game ‘let’s pretend’? You didn’t think twice about it did you? it was easy, it was fun. Believe me, it is easy, it is fun, and it works. Try it, smile.

Remember, your subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between pretend and reality, it will obediently act upon the ‘pretend’ and help make it become a reality for you.