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Humour Can Be Serious

I thought we’d turn our attention to something a little lighter today. The study of humour. Serious study, of course. You know me. I never allow any levity to creep into my articles. Levity means laughter, and laughter induces loose morals. Need I go on?

But never dismiss humour. It’s a mistake. Under dictatorships, comedians are seen as a threat and humour’s always been banned. Now why should this be? A laughing population’s a happy population, surely? Ah, but how many dictators have you seen who laugh? Unless they’re wiping out a few million people, and even then it’s pretty grim laughter.

No, as far as monsters like this are concerned, humour’s banned because it shines the light of truth in all the dark corners, it breaks the shackles of narrow thinking and makes the self-important, figures of fun.

Neurolinguistic programming techniques comprise various exercises that should help individuals reconsider issues differently in order to reach more rapidly the optimal solution. Meta mirrors represent a very popular NLP strategy. Robert Dilts launched this technique in 1988 as he noticed that different perspectives of the same issue determine practitioners to detach themselves and to experience gradually four essential perceptional positions. This way, individuals realize that personal approaches cannot change the situations but reorient the emphasis towards the self and quite often, the real problem is closely related personal issues. The transition through perceptual positions (Meta mirrors) will be detailed below:

-I or Self perception

This primary perceptual position encourages the practitioner to explore his inner side without being restricted by social limits. Sincere assertions are the basic goals of this initial exercise and are characterized by a profound personal touch.

-somebody else’s perception