Dr. Bob's Rx for FUN!!!

Fun... one of the best kept secrets of success !!!

Having fun makes one more successful and more relaxed whether it be at home or at work and in one's relationships as well!!

Silly things people think about fun :

Work cannot be fun... people who enjoy their work and see it as fun are generally very successful at their jobs
Having fun is immature and a sign of irresponsibilty...fun is for people of all ages!! and humor is ranked amongst the most healthy and mature ways to deal with things!!
"Real" fun just happens...fun can be found most anywhere...and can be made to happen!!
No pain, no gain...just because it is fun does not mean it can't be profitable or rewarding
You can't have fun in a negative environment...fun can transform the environment... one just has to be more creative in some settings...
I'd have fun if only he or she wouldn't spoil it...it is a common thing to blame another person... it is more fun to take responsibilty for oneself and do what it takes to have enjoyment, pleasure and fun!!

All the parts of self...

Freud had some pretty good ideas!!! His aphorism of work, play and love as the yardsticks for evaluating a person's emotional health is standard teaching in the helping professions, and widely used despite all the fancy "objective" tests used nowadays. His conflict laden metaphor of the mind as a war zone between special interest groups (the superego, the ego and the id) which are constantly lobbying against each other also suggests that there is intrapsychic cooperation, peaceful negotiation, and most importantly, respect and value for all the parts of self! Think of the parental superego as your inner parent, the ego as your inner adult and the id as the inner child. Don't let that inner parent spoil all your fun!! Let the child within come out and play!!!

A few interesting links!!!

Wanna try a fancy test??? Here's a link to the Myers Briggs Personality Test.

Read an Excerpt from Ch. 7 from The Little Prince an archetype of the inner child, here interacting with a person in a parental, "serious" kinda space.

Try some adaptive regression in the service of the EGO!!

51 Children's Stories, Tales of Wonder (?broken link), Full text of Grimm's Fairy Tales and Dr Seuss: readings, games, quizzes, images for children of all ages!!!

Read this and any other page you can link to from here in:

How to plan to be spontaneous!?!

One cannot really plan spontaneity, but I do enjoy silly paradoxes! However, one can make time and plan times to play and have fun. Amusement, enjoyment , pleasure, play and other forms of fun heal the body and the mind. This has to do with beta endorphins produced by the brain during activities that are pleasant. Make a point to bring fun into everything you do... let it permeate your feelings, your activities, your attitudes...this may take some practice, so have fun working at it and poke fun at yourself when you find yourself being oh so serious and intense about things! Love is healing partly because it is so much fun! Start by giving love and before you know it you will be receiving love also!

Ideas for nice things to do for people ...

Send a virtual bouquet or some electronic flowers

Make some new friends on the net!
Cartoon of the day
Animated greeting card page creates a small web site using animated gifs that are quite nice!!
Or choose from this humungous list of Postcard links !!!
Playing with food!
More virtual presents!!!
Do you like hugs???
...we all do!! send a hug by e-mail with the Hug-o-rama or send a hug or Love & Hugs Postcards
Send someone special something to read. . . On Beauty and Love
Say I love you in any language!!!

Here's how NOT to have fun . . .

Put yourself on a smile restriction. NO SMILING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!

Do not daydream, EVER! Stay in "reality" at all times. NO FANTASIES or ILLUSIONS!!!

Be self conscious, dwell on your faults, be negative and pessimistic...cultivate the fine art of thinking ruts unless you prefer to dabble in logical fallacies.

Avoid novelty, new ways of thinking or doing , leave nothing unplanned

Carefully avoid all activities that might turn out to be fun.

Spoil other people's fun...if you can't have any, why should they, right???

Avoid people, especially friends.

Never have sex or even THINK about it!

Be as physically inactive as possible...DON'T MOVE AT ALL if you can help it.

Stay clean...don't get dirty, scuzzy, smelly or sweaty. Excursions in nature are therefore OUT OF THE QUESTION.

Don't listen to music. And if you do, don't move dance sway or tap your foot.

Eat bland tasteless food.

Drink room temperature tap water and never anything else.

A few links, just for fun!

Free Insults ...go ahead, abuse yourself!!!

Shakespearean Insult Page

Rainbow Confusion

Entertainment:Humor, Jokes, and Fun

Humor Archives@

Complaint Generator ...all in fun of course!!!

Slime Page Silly Putty Recipe or make your own slime!

Weird but True fun and silly facts about science

Spock's Quote of the Day

Romance is fun!!!

Romance is not reserved for couples!!! In the links that follow try substituting where appropriate the word "loved one" and that could be a parent, a child , a friend . . .well I think you get the idea!!!