How Can Humor Play a Role?
This phenomenon is where humor and lightness play the biggest role in helping you with your anxiety attacks. Over the years of my medical practice, my Fun Commandment, Expect the Unexpected, has been a boon to sufferers of anxiety attacks. I know it can work just as well for you if you take some time to practice its application. How does Expecting the Unexpected help you defuse your anxiety attacks? Let me start by asking you a question: If you had a choice, which would you prefer – a life where everything was predictable and happened “by the book”, or a life full of surprises. Be careful…it’s a trick question. Of course, the choice doesn’t really exist. Like it or not, life is one surprise after another. The unexpected is the rule, not the exception. Your anxiety attacks make your acceptance of this fact paramount; your only choice in life, in fact, is whether you welcome the unexpected or resist it. Even though you logically know this to be true, you are usually stunned whenever un
