A Simple Way to Reduce Stress While Giving Your Fun Quotient (FQ) a Boost

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 humor 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 [intlink id="tease-to-please-action" type="post"]laughing[/intlink] like a Pygmies in your office or place of work right now.

Simply doing this in your imagination, enables you to have more access to the [intlink id="774" type="category"]fun[/intlink]-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 humor is an excellent choice because it enables us to have more flexibility of behavior 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 Behavior Generator” below:

Ridiculous Behavior 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 behavior(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 [intlink id="overcome-emotional-overwhelm" type="post"]Behaviour[/intlink] 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!

NLP Tool Box

“How To Create Supreme States Of Mind That Empower You To Make Magnificent Changes…”