Humor functions as a healing and regulating component in Deep Listening practice
Evidence
There is considerable research demonstrating that humor is healing and otherwise good for health, and the reader can look forward to encountering humor throughout. … Humor needs to be kept in bounds, of course, but so should seriousness. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 29
Categorization
- SEED: Could frame an essay on why rigorous listening practices deliberately incorporate levity as a protective mechanism against the seriousness of their own discipline.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 29
- XREF: connects to: Humor’s timing depends on silence marking the rupture of expected order — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 260
Broader Connections
- Humor’s timing depends on silence marking the rupture of expected order
#expands(0.72) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 260