“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
-Mark Twain
As I was getting the kids ready for bed last night, I felt a little sluggish and thought, “I don’t think I’ve had a good laugh all day.” I felt the heaviness of that. Then the quote “laughter is the best medicine” popped into my head. Unfortunately this statement has become somewhat of a cliche. The words themselves have lost their meaning. How can laughter be medicine after a serious health diagnosis? Or financial trouble? Or something just annoying like a flat tire? I’ll tell you how: it loosens up the energy.
Here’s a visualization for you:
See the image of yourself, your body, sitting and reading these words. Around your body is your aura, and all the energy fields that you cannot see but are there. Now imagine the dense and heavy energy of stress, anger, resentment, sickness, or fear. Visualize seeing these in your energy field, surrounding you, as actual physical masses. They stick with you wherever you go.
Now think of laughter. Big belly laughter. It’s light, white, healing, and joyful. Visualize this energy as healing white beams of light or sparks around you that can dissolve the negative masses. Because remember – all energy around us in our field and our aura is real and measurable and eventually will show up in our physical realm. Either as an illness, a life event, a person, etc. This is proven by quantum physics.
So how can laughter help? It brings in the higher frequencies to break up the lower frequencies of fear, stress, or dis-ease. The lower frequency, by Law of Attraction, must then transmute into a lighter, higher frequency.
And the funny thing is, all you have to do is think of laughing to benefit. You can start with a fake laugh, and that will begin to trick your mind (it doesn’t know the difference). Your endorphins and dopamine will kick in.
But don’t just listen to me – try it.
Here’s a video of people doing laughter yoga in India. Watch this and try not to laugh with them:
https://youtu.be/QEZkb97rRtI
I love this video! It got me laughing. But then I thought, what about people really dealing with something life threatening? Those dealing with a disease or living in a war zone? Then I found this video of refugees using laughter yoga:
Even in the face of war and being displaced from their homes, these enlightened souls were able to bring in laughter. And it helped.
I brought this subject up to my husband, and he didn’t seem as convinced. What if people suffering from a disease are offended by the suggestion to laugh at it, he asked? Well, the point is not to laugh at you as a soul, as a Divine Being suffering – nobody deserves to be sick, or bankrupt, or depressed – but to take away the power and emotional hold that whatever you are dealing with might have on you. Loosen it’s grip. Because which sounds like the better option: existing immersed in the frequency of heartache, frustration, or fear (imagine all the dark matter in and around you) – or transforming it?
The Universe responds to your thoughts – and responds to your laughter. The “Law of Perpetual Transmution of Energy” states that all energy around us is in motion – which means our thoughts can actually mold and shape the energy if we focus our attention on it. I will say it again and again: thoughts are energy.
So let’s say you’re sick and all day you think: “I’m sick, I have a sore throat. I feel tired. I’m achy.” Guess what? That energy sticks around in your aura and energy field and it is now becoming your best friend. And it manifests again and again into physical form right before your eyes. It’s very simple actually. Sometimes we are so stuck in our thought patterns and tied up in the emotional attachment to our thoughts that we cannot break the cycle. We forget who we are as a Divine Being without these thoughts we’ve become attached to.
Which is why laughter is a simple, fun, and very effective way to lighten the load. It brings in the higher frequencies that heal. This is not just New Age woo woo stuff; this is physics. But don’t just take it from me; try it. There’s lots of laughter yoga videos online and ones you can attend in person. I actually wasn’t in the mood for this earlier today but once I started watching and laughing, I felt my mood immediately lift. My husband thought I was a nut job, but that’s nothing new for me, right?!
So how does this apply to the everyday reality of dealing with something unpleasant? I read an article in People magazine not long ago about Saturday Night Live comedian Vanessa Bayer, and how she overcame cancer as a teenager. What struck me about the article was this quote:
“I wasn’t really that scared,” Bayer says in PEOPLE. “My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over we would joke about it too. It’s sort of messed up out of context, but it put everybody at ease. Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.”
I’m sure her parents were terrified, but to read this quote and hear about the power of laughter they gifted her with to deal with the pain and uncertainty of a disease – it brings tears to my eyes. What a hard thing to do, and not necessarily the easy way, yet look how it altered her life.
Below is an example of a laughter yoga class for people facing challenges. I’ll admit it kind of shocked me at first. To laugh at disease seemed a little uncomfortable – but the teacher explains it well in this first clip:
Here is Gita’s intro:
Now here’s the yoga clip with her included note:
“The exercise in this video may appear insensitive or even disrespectful to some, but it most definitely isn’t. This is about the affirmation of power over, not submission to what ails you. It is a most powerful exercise because you cannot both laugh about something and hang on to feelings of depression and powerlessness about it at the same time. The ability to laugh about your aches and pains is a sign of maturity and brings great emotional freedom. Being challenged is a time for action, not submission.”
Notice they aren’t saying “yes, I deserve to be sick!” Nobody deserves to be sick. They are acknowledging the situation and taking their power back. It’s feeding the issue with light instead of fear.
Maybe once you start you’ll laugh until you cry. That’s also a wonderful, healing, release of energy. Laugh. Cry. Let the emotions and the energy go free into the universe to be transmuted back into light. By letting go of your attachment to whatever it is (an illness, a painful memory, a person who hurt you), and visualizing it as a mass of energy you want to dis-assemble, you are then free to release it and fill that freed up space with higher frequency.
If instead you continue to hold a strong attachment to something in your life that makes you feel anger or fear – the universe will continue to give that back to you – as it does not know that it’s bad for you. It just thinks “oh, she sure is thinking about how stressed she is – let’s keep giving her the same stressful energy since that’s what she’s sending out”. What you send out – the universe gives you back.
By laughing and letting go you are literally lightening up and opening up your energy field to allow a new outcome to manifest. So don’t keep your worries, fears, and ailments close and tethered to you like a mantra you repeat all day.
Let them go with love and compassion.
Shower them with laugher!
In gratitude,
Nicki
