Blog #145 Are You Choosing to Laugh or Cry?

Laughter is such an incredible healing tool! We need it now more than ever.

Every time we are in a stressful situation, worried or mad about something, and someone tells a joke, we all laugh and it lightens everyone up and releases the energy to flow more easily.

A good cry helps relieve some of the emotional hurt and pain too, but getting back to the joy of life is key, Allow ourselves to laugh, lightens the load and things begin to look and feel freer!

Amusement is so important when we are releasing and working on making changes in our lives. Being too serious and in effort, our mood becomes heavy and our outlook down or depressed. It may feel like we are walking through mud, and just getting more stuck. To stay focused on love, peace and joy and what you are creating for your life is our spiritual path.

Keeping things light and laughing keeps you in the flow and the body releases endorphins that help you feel calmer and happier. Laughter allows us to experience energy at a higher vibration, and then energy moves and can change.
For example, sadness or anger has a much lower vibration where joy and laughter have one of the highest vibrations in nature. That is why we can heal ourselves and most situations just by lightening up and finding something to laugh at in every situation, even if it is just laughing at ourselves.

When we are working on a problem looking for the solution; such as paying bills, relationship conflicts or a serious illness, at these times it is difficult to laugh and not be solemn and serious. But getting into a little amusement frees our feelings and energy to see things from a new and clearer perspective. Even finding amusement in how serious we are being in that moment can make us smile.

Laughter is a magic key to change: negative emotions, stuck energy and
static thoughts. 

                 Laughter = Energy Movement = Change = Freedom!

 Consider the experience of Norman Cousins, a famous author who cured himself of cancer by watching “Three Stooges” movies eight hours a day for weeks; he knew intuitively that the power of laughter was perfect medicine for him and it worked.

If you bring in a little amusement into your everyday, the energy shifts immediately. This is the power of amusement!

An exercise to lighten up!

Find a quiet place to sit, close your eyes and smile, relax and give yourself a few deep breaths. First just ground yourself from the first chakra to the center of the Earth and release whatever is causing you any concern. Be nice and centered and think of the person you have had a conflict with and with whom you would like to heal the relationship. For a moment, visualize them in a funny outfit. Allow yourself to smile and laugh and be in a little amusement about them. Create and visualize a beautiful three-dimensional pink rose one foot out in front of you. Let this rose be a vacuum rose and collect up all the serious energy in your body and in your aura (see it as little red dots) getting absorbed into a rose and picture the rose getting bigger and full of the red dots. Visualize lighting a firecracker under the rose and explode it -Boom. Feel the energy neutralize into pure light. Create a big beautiful Gold Sun above your head. Call back to yourself like a magnet all your life force energy into this Sun and then bring it in through the top of your head and fill up your body and aura with your liquid gold energy. Feel the calm healing awareness and energy flowing through your body.  Notice the difference in how you feel; the freedom and release of stress and tension. Breathe and smile!

 Take a moment to remember in detail, a wonderful personal example of a humorous experience and then think of a word that goes with that experience to touch your funny bone. Let this word be your personal “Laugh Word”: Hippo, Umbrella, Lipstick, Red Skelton, Jimmy Fallon or the Three Stooges or whatever word you choose.

I have shared before the word I like to use is Popcorn, because it reminds me of an experience when my brother and I were young and at the drive-in movies with our parents. He had a mouth full of popcorn, I made a joke and he laughed and the popcorn went all over the car. We were all laughing so much we were crying. That memory always makes me laugh out loud.

Take one day and count how many times you laugh, they say a healthy number is to laugh at least 15 times a day, so use your “Laugh Word” to allow yourself to laugh more.

 Let laughter be the gift you give yourself!  Laughter is a choice in every moment!

Photo of my dear friend & roommate from college Alita & I enjoying a good laugh!