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5 ways to find humor in everyday life

If you think your life is too boring to be funny, joke’s on you: humor is all around us.

Cultivating more humor in your everyday life is “one of the fastest and most powerful ways to increase overall health and well-being,” says Steven M. Sultanoff, a clinical psychologist and professor at Pepperdine University who studies how people can benefit from the healing powers of humor. “The experience of humor and distressing emotions can’t occupy

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