Avoiding Interaction With Your "Prophetic Bishop"?

In the late 1800's a bishop of the United Brethren church was interacting with a college professor. The bishop's opinion was that the millennium was at hand. As evidence, he cited the fact that everything about nature had already been discovered and that all useful inventions had already been made. The college professor expressed his belief that man had far to go; he would, for example, one day be able to fly. "What a nonsensical idea," the bishop countered, "Flight is reserved for the birds and the angels!" More on this contentious interaction in a moment...

You have, within your personal chemistry, a pharmacy so powerful that pharmaceutical companies would pay a king's ransom to duplicate it. Your pharmacy is capable of delivering the natural medicine of humor - the most potent and effective pain reliever, stress reducer, creativity enhancer, and mood elevator we've yet to encounter! Engaging your humor, beyond the standard recreational uses, turbo-charges your energy, health, vitality, and success.

With a commitment to act and interact today, you should be prepared for an incredible surge of energy created by the natural medicine of humor you're engaging. Acting and interacting with the people who cross your path today is very important for your health and welfare. So important, in fact, that I've made Act and Interact one of my Fun Commandments - the pillars supporting my unique Fun Factor prescription.

How does acting and interacting with the people you naturally encounter open the floodgates of your natural humor medicine? It allows you to avoid spiritual "flat tires". Spiritual flat tires occur when you sidestep, or avoid, an interaction that is about to naturally occur - you duck into an office to avoid encountering someone in a hallway or you don't answer to the phone because you don't want to talk to the person calling. This type of avoidance drains and deletes your reservoir of insanely powerful energy created by your fully activated sense of humor.

Spiritual flat tires are a result, as are most of the habits which drain and deplete you of your health, vitality, and zest, of your deadly seriousness. Seriousness refers to taking ourselves too seriously; when we make the fatal mistake of taking both our responsibilities and ourselves seriously we are putting our productivity, serenity, peace of mind, and health at great risk. We start taking ourselves too seriously and pretty soon we're dodging a person placed in our path because we think we know best what we need today.

But have you ever noticed that it usually takes you twice as much mental and physical energy to avoid doing a job then it would've taken you to just do it? It also takes twice the energy to avoid acting and interacting with the people you cross paths with because you are, in effect, saying, "I'm going to correct the mistake that nature is making by putting this person in my path and I'm going to be mentally and spiritually negligent so that I can correct nature's mistake." Mental and spiritual negligence have the same effect as physical negligence (isn't it strange how you get tired if you don't exercise?) and if you can afford to allow this much energy to be drained than you have a much bigger reservoir than I!

But spiritual flat tires do more than drain our energy, they are detrimental in at least two additional ways:

1. We miss out on an interaction with a teacher; nature had a lesson for us, otherwise that person we just avoided would not have been placed in our path. You say that the person you just avoided was a negative influence or would've wasted your time? I know there are legitimate emergency situations where I have to get somewhere, but if I am avoiding people based on my prejudgment of them, I'm cutting myself off from my greatest teachers - other people.
   
   And we all learn tolerance from the intolerant, patience from the impulsive, temperance from the gossip, gentleness from the rough, etc. I am supremely grateful for those teachers and the lessons they give me.



2. We create a small, nagging spiritual void of dishonesty, the kind of dishonesty that keeps us from laying our heads down with complete peace of mind each night. Our spiritual flat tire is caused by the pothole our avoidance created; the flat tire is a natural consequence, or symptom, of our spiritual dishonesty. The natural consequences of such avoidance clutter our lives with mental and emotional baggage that further drains us of our energy and vitality.

By deciding to act and interact with the people we encounter today, we fully engage our sense of humor. When our sense of humor is thus engaged our personal medicine cabinet is wide open, flooding our body with the natural medicine of humor. We find resilience and creativity, we have a childlike curiosity for life that results in new solutions to old problems, and we find people being attracted to us personally and professionally without them quite being able to figure out why.

By the way, that bishop from the United Brethren church was named Bishop Wright. Bishop Wright was the father of two budding young inventors named... Orville and Wilbur. True story.

Make sure you employ the invaluable skill of acting and interacting. Visit my website today and let me teach about this, and all, my Fun Commandments - for free.

Cliff Kuhn, M.D.
The Laugh Doctor

The Natural Medicine of Humor
"Discover a unique, FREE, and incredibly powerful prescription created out of desperation by a (formerly) stressed-out Kentucky psychiatrist"

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