HALL OF HUMOUR

The Twelve Affirmations of Positive Humour

1. I am determined to use my humour for positive, playful, uplifting, healing and loving purposes.
2. I will take myself lightly while I take my work in life seriously.
3. I will not seek to be offended by other's attempts at humour. When in doubt, I will see others as meaning well.
4. I will express my humour physically, using my whole face and (when so moved) with my entire body.
5. I refuse to use my humour to camouflage hostility or prejudice.
6. I understand that the gift of laughter is a treasured gift, so I will laugh generously at other's attempts to be humorous.
7. All teasing and ethnic humour will be by mutual consent and will go both ways or I will not engage in such humour.
8. I will respect the forbidden subject topics of my listeners. I will avoid giving offence with my humour.
9. If I offend another by my use of humour, I will make amends.
10. I will be eternally vigilant for the jokes and absurdities of the universe, and I will share my observations with my companions in life.
11. In the midst of adversity, I will continue to use my humour to cope, to survive, to heal, to grow, and to pass on loving-kindness.
12. On the day of my death I will look back and know that I laughed lovingly, fully and well.