Embarrassing Moments

We have all been mortified at one time or another. However, I really don't understand the feeling of being embarrassed.  We all go through stuff that makes us blush, so why then do we feel weird when something like that happens to us?  Probably because others laugh, huh?  It's true, you fall, we'll laugh.  You say something air-headed, we'll laugh...and of course it is so vice versa.  But that's the beauty of it.

Yesterday I was climbing up a set of stairs and BAM I miscalculated the distance between my foot and the step and tripped.  I almost wiped out had it not been for the cat-like reflexes of my right hand landing on the stair in front of me to provide steady support.  So I'm okay, maybe I screamed a little while my hubby just looked at me shaking his head as he laughed.

What was the first thing I did as I recovered from the incident?  (Well, I actually prolonged the motion because I kinda didn't want it to be the first thing I did, but you guessed it...) I looked around to see if anyone else saw.  What in the world is up with that?  Who cares first of all?  Secondly, I'm sure if anyone did see (which nobody did, by the way *wink) they would have been in the same position themselves at least at ONE point in their lives.

How nuts is it that we care so much about what others think.  Hey, if I do something silly, people will laugh.  I for one am okay with that.  I love it!  Anything I can do to make someone chuckle is fine by me...even if it means me being a little bit of a fool sometimes.  I guess the trick will be in not overdoing it...ha!  Good luck with that one! 

Here's to silliness and laughing at each other!

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Laughter for the Soul

A duck walked into a bar with one shoe on.  The bar tender looked down at the duck's feet and said, "Hey!  You lost a shoe!"  The duck looked back at the bartender perplexed and replied, "Noooo, I FOUND a shoe!" 

Okay, so maybe you thought that joke was funny, maybe not...but I hope you at least chuckled.  Laughter is probably among the best things you can do to increase the state of joy, peace, and completeness in your life. 

"We change physiologically when we laugh. We stretch muscles throughout our face and body, our pulse and blood pressure go up, and we breathe faster, sending more oxygen to our tissues.

People who believe in the benefits of laughter say it can be like a mild workout -- and may offer some of the same advantages as a workout."   ~  WebMD.com

Laughter is a way to get us to consciously change our focus from something negative to something positive.  There truly is no greater gift upon our control than that!  How do you laugh when you're not in the mood, though?  Simple...JUST DO IT!

Just laugh.  Try it now.  Who cares if you look silly, just do it!  Laugh out loud from the belly.  After about 10 seconds you already have endorphins flowing through you like a mad river and you're feeling much better.  The thing that makes laughter so powerful is that it is impossible for a negative thought to sit in your mind at the exact same moment as a positive thought.  The same goes vice versa.  So laugh when you're mad...you'll have to stop being mad by default.

If you're having a tough time with this, makybe this video can get you going:

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Embarrassing Moments...

I remember very vividly being 12 years old on New Years Eve. I lived in a foreign country, so the "fire-crackers" that people buy and use in front of their house were a little different caliber than the ones you can buy here in the States. Our family was shooting them off wayyy before midnight, as were other families all around us.



We finally finished up a round of them, and I pleaded with my dad to do just ONE more..."PUH-LEEEEASE??" I blabbered. Of course a father has a hard time resisting his daughter and he said "okay, get two more from upstairs and we'll light those."


Glee was the the highest emotion in my nervous system at the moment and I couldn't even try containing it. I dashed into our house and headed towards our stairs. There was a door in our entry way which you would think was a closet but it actually opened up into the stairway. So in I went, ran to the container of fire crackers, and after grabbing my two favorite (aka loudest and biggest) I ran right back down stairs with these weapons in my hand.


I took each stair two by two and I jumped off the last few steps as I normally did. While I was mid-air I heard a LOUD, THUNDEROUS "BOOOOOOOOOOOM" and I was knocked out. Next thing I remember I was waking up with my entire family around me trying to figure out if I was okay.


"What happened?" Everyone was uttering.


"The fire crackers went off!"


"What?? Where? Are you kidding?" Their disbelief was very confusing.


"The loud explosion! Didn't you hear it?" How can they act like nothing just happened? Firecrackers just went off in my HAND! Helloooo!


Just then everyone started laughing. Not just a chuckle as if they were relieved to see I was okay, but I gut filled laugh as if they heard the funniest thing of the year (which must have topped the list, considering it was the last day of the year).


Then I realized what just happened. I looked at my hand and it still clutched the two firecrackers I had snatched on my way down stairs. And as I felt the throb in my head I realized as I jumped down the last few steps my head hit the top of the doorway that led out of the stairs. My blood curling scream from the hit scurried everyone in to see what happened.


Needless to say, I was MORTIFIED! Nobody else was. Everyone else just laughed, and laughed. You know what? When I think back on it now, I just Laugh also. Right along with them, way back when as if it were as funny as it must have been to see.



It seems that many times we allow ourselves to be controlled by fear of feeling embarrassed. Think about it? We don't talk to the prospects we need to because we're afraid of what they'd think. We don't tell everyone our goals because we fear they might chuckle at the thought. We certainly don't live up to our potential on a daily basis for the unimaginable feeling of leaving our comfort zone.



The part that makes this all silly is that we end up laughing at oursleves in the end anyway! Save yourself the trouble and let go now. Laugh all along the way. Make every moment a fun one and don't give in to the thoughts of others. Make today count without fear!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPPXHiaiKqs

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