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"A Simple Way to Reduce Stress While Giving Your Fun
Quotient (FQ) a Boost"
(c)Colin G Smith - All Rights reserved
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Have you noticed all the different intelligences we
have
these days?!
Cultural Quotient (CQ)
Curiosity Quotient (CQ)
Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ)
Empathizing Quotient (EQ)
Systemizing Quotient (SQ)
Sentience Quotient (SQ)
Social Intelligence Quotient (SQ)
Spiritual Intelligence Quotient (SQ)
So that's four of them named SQ! Does this enhance
our
lives?
Surely only the FQ really matters!
You know, the simple fact is the more fun and humour we
have
in our lives, the more we reduce the stress caused by
the
modern dis-ease of seriousness.
Personally I think having fun and being playful is
the
natural human condition, it's just that certain
systems/constraints in modern societies can have us
acting
like numb automatons.
I'm inspired by an observation Anthropologist, Colin
Turnball made in his book, "The Forest People", with
regards
to how adult Pygmies laugh:
"When Pygmies laugh it is hard not to be affected; they
hold
on to each other as if for support, slap their sides,
snap
their fingers and go through all manner of physical
contortions. If something strikes them as particularly
funny
they will even roll on the ground..."
Imagine being able to do that...
Of course you probably wouldn't want to act like that
at the
office, right?
But get this; Actually imagine falling down laughing
like a
Pygmie in your office or place of work right now.
Simply doing this in your imagination, enables you to
have
more access to the fun-zones of your mind in that
situation
next time you're there.
Don't take my word for it though, test it out in your
own
experience.
It's part of what I like to call, "The Ridiculous
Behaviour
Generator" from page 60 of "The NLP ToolBox."
Because our minds go in directions, from time to time,
it is
very useful to purposefully re-direct our thought
patterns.
Sending our mind towards more fun and humour is an
excellent
choice because it enables us to have more flexibility of
behaviour and increased resourcefulness, whereas over-
seriousness tends to be a narrow, rigid state.
So go ahead and pick 3 situations now that you want
to
'funify.'
Starting with the one that will be the easiest to
change, go
through the "Ridiculous Behaviour Generator" below:
Ridiculous Behaviour Generator
1. Think of a situation where you want to have more fun.
2. See yourself over there in the situation, like you
are
watching a movie.
3. See yourself having more fun, maybe joking with the
other
people in the movie.
4. Go back to the start of the movie and try out a
different
way of having more fun. Perhaps notice something you
haven't
seen/heard before that makes you chuckle.
5. Now, again from the start, see yourself in the movie
and
do some behaviour(s) that you would never do in reality.
Get
really silly with this one. Do something outrageous that
just makes you crack up laughing.
6. Break state. Think of the situation again and notice
how
you feel better about it and look forward to having even
more fun in the situation in the future.
Great! In step 5 it's best to do something really
outlandish
that you'd never do in reality. You know, like launching
into the room, naked, doing cartwheels or turning up to
that
meeting in a Gimp suit, juggling fire sticks! The point
is,
does it get you laughing because that's the direction
you
want to be going in is it not?
Now run the other 2 situations through the Ridiculous
Behaviour Generator and begin to find yourself looking
forward to a more fun filled future.
When you've practised this technique a few times you
will
be able to do it faster, which will allow you to inject
more
fun quickly and easily into situations before they've
occurred and that's good planning right?
More fun! Less stress. Brighter futures. Better decisions.
O'yeah and a boosted FQ!
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Author Bio:
Colin G Smith is a licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-
Linguistic Programming (NLP) and author of 'The NLP
ToolBox', a personal development book that enables the
reader to master any area of their life with amazing
speed.
Complete information on Colin G Smith's books are
available
at his website, including a FREE personal development mini-
course.
http://www.NLPToolBox.com
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