How to bring more laughter into your life<br />Laughter is your birthright, a natural part of life that is innate and inborn. Infants begin smiling during the first weeks of life and laugh out loud within months of being born. Even if you did not grow up in a household where laughter was a common sound, you can learn to laugh at any stage of life.<br /><br />Begin by setting aside special times to seek out humor and laughter, as you might with working out, and build from there. Eventually, you’ll want to incorporate humor and laughter into the fabric of your life, finding it naturally in everything you do.<br /><br />Here are some ways to start:<br /><br />Smile. Smiling is the beginning of laughter and like laughter, it’s contagious. When you look at someone or see something even mildly pleasing, practice smiling. Instead of looking down at your phone, look up and smile at people you pass in the street, the person serving you a morning coffee, or the co-workers you share an elevator with. Notice the effect this has on others.<br /><br />Count your blessings. Literally make a list. The simple act of considering the good things in your life will distance you from negative thoughts that are a barrier to humor and laughter. When you’re in a state of sadness, you have further to travel to get to humor and laughter.<br /><br />When you hear laughter, move toward it. Sometimes humor and laughter are private, a shared joke among a small group, but usually not. More often, people are very happy to share something funny because it gives them an opportunity to laugh again and feed off the humor you find in it. When you hear laughter, seek it out and ask, “What’s funny?”<br /><br />fueled by ramen, we are young, fun., music video, official, lyrics, some nights, fbr, ournameisfun, fun, letter j, alternative, carry on, our name is fun, nate ruess, balloon bot, pencil life hacks, 5 awesome experiments, 5 magic tricks, 5 simpe life hacks, fun life hacks, 3 simple, experiment, way, test, trick, life hack, experiments, ways, tests, tricks, life