Healing Gift of Laughter Blog #21

Why is laughter such a healing tool?

Every time we are in a stressful situation and someone tells a joke, we all laugh and it lightens everyone up.

Amusement is the key when we are releasing and working on making changes in our life. 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. It is important to focus on what you want, and not what you don’t want!

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

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 using 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 help.

Laughter is a magic key to change:

-Negative emotions

-Stuck energy

-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 we bring in a little amusement into everyday situations, the stuck energy shifts immediately. This is the power of amusement and laughter!

“Angels fly, because laughter lifts their wings.”

An exercise to lighten up!

Find a quiet place to sit, close your eyes and smile, relax and take a few deep breaths.

First just ground yourself 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 in front of you. Let this rose be a vacuum rose and collect up all the serious energy in your body and aura (see it as little red dots) getting absorbed into a rose and picture the rose getting bigger and full of red dots. Visualize lighting a firecracker under it and just explode the rose. Feel the energy neutralize into pure light. Create a big beautiful Gold Sun above your head and 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 this liquid gold. 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 Factor Word”: such as Hippo, Umbrella, Lipstick, Red Skelton, Jimmy Fallon or the Three Stooges or whatever word you choose.

I use the word 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 15 times a day, so use your “Laugh Factor Word” to allow yourself to laugh more.

See your “Laugh Word” as a color as well and wear this color often to remind yourself to take yourself lightly.

Let laughter be the gift you give yourself!  :)

Excerpt from my book:

“Your Soul’s Tool Kit for Living a Miraculous Life”

Tool #4 The Laugh Factor