We even develop rules about when it's okay to laugh and when it's not. Look around today and you will probably still see parents hushing up their children and seating them down. Actions like these have led to our misconceptions about laughter. It is time we make the effort to reclaim our laughing selves. It's as if we have curbed our playfulness and our laughter as a sacrifice to the serious business of adulthood.
Laughter is an important means of healing and controlling stress.
But somewhere along the line, we decided that laughter, while fun, is trite and unproductive. It doesn't seem like laughing more should require any effort, but it does. We have to actively strive to break free from controls on our laughter that have unconsciously developed since childhood. We need to laugh till we hold our sides and feel the tears streaming down our cheeks. To do that, we must learn to hear our inner voice telling us to smile and laugh instead of suppressing these joyous emotions.