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OUR TRUTH - Aha MOMENTS
I was in California last week. I spent two days with SG Christina in San Francisco – eating and laughing and walking around town. She then drove me across the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County to a town called Fairfax. I rented a little spot for my week in Fairfax where I was surrounded by tall trees and winding roads and hiking trails. The cool sweater weather in the morning and night gave way to warm temperatures which were bearable under the luscious shady trees.
I spent a week there studying with a fascinating woman (who just hahahappens to be WSM’s Noah’s second cousin) about Energy Medicine and Emotions. I met five OMazing SisterGoddesses and together we created safe sacred space to explore the feeling wisdom of our bodies and learn its language. WSM Noah's cousin, Julie Motz, wrote a book called Hands of Life. Julie pioneered the practice of doing energy healing in the operating room, working in heart transplant surgery with Dr. Mehmet Oz.
When I read her book, I was totally spellbound. My fingers could not turn the pages of her book fast enough. I felt like she was giving words to concepts and principles that I had always felt and known. By helping people get in touch with their feelings, she was freeing them to heal themselves and recapture a part that had been locked away – their inner child. Her book gave me A-ha moments as I put together what I knew and what I read and had deeper understanding of my body and what I knew to be true.
When I first saw laughter yoga on TV (sitting on my aunt’s couch in Germany), I had this same understanding. Something so simple and yet so profound – the practice of laughter in community – it blew me away. I could feel the power of laughter and the healing awareness it caused within. Starting my own laughter circles, I loved how it brought out my little girl and how free she felt to play.
Taking on this practice of laughter and building a strong haha muscle gives me access to my inner child and to my A-ha zone. It helps me be light hearted when the world around me can be so heavy. It also provides me with a new perspective to life. Over the years, laughing easy has helped me find Hahahappy – within. I grew up thinking I would be happy if I had or if I did or if I was….. Many books I read talked about this inner resource called Happy but I didn’t know how to access it. Doing the practice – showing up to laugh (week after week and year after year) and finding a tribe of peeps just like me who love to laugh for no reason at all – gave me access to my joy.
Hearty laughter is a full body exercise. It burns calories, increases heart rate, and works a variety of muscles, from our faces to our abs. It also encourages release of feel-good brain chemicals, like dopamine. Since motion creates emotion, shaking and dancing allows the laughter to flow. Laughter is an emotional response. It gives us access to the vast inner world within. And it gets the endorphins flowing and the sweet rush of oxytocin release in our body.
Emotions are the energies that run both our lives and the Universe. I remember growing up this song by Morris Albert called Feelings – nothing more than feelings….
(Click here for video)
Our laughter circles helps us access the Little One within. It helps us reactivate the feelings stored deep within our bodies and find ways to experience them, and eventually, release them (shakti shake and gibberish - woohoo). Healing ourselves while being playful and having fun. Yum!!!
I spent a week there studying with a fascinating woman (who just hahahappens to be WSM’s Noah’s second cousin) about Energy Medicine and Emotions. I met five OMazing SisterGoddesses and together we created safe sacred space to explore the feeling wisdom of our bodies and learn its language. WSM Noah's cousin, Julie Motz, wrote a book called Hands of Life. Julie pioneered the practice of doing energy healing in the operating room, working in heart transplant surgery with Dr. Mehmet Oz.
When I read her book, I was totally spellbound. My fingers could not turn the pages of her book fast enough. I felt like she was giving words to concepts and principles that I had always felt and known. By helping people get in touch with their feelings, she was freeing them to heal themselves and recapture a part that had been locked away – their inner child. Her book gave me A-ha moments as I put together what I knew and what I read and had deeper understanding of my body and what I knew to be true.
When I first saw laughter yoga on TV (sitting on my aunt’s couch in Germany), I had this same understanding. Something so simple and yet so profound – the practice of laughter in community – it blew me away. I could feel the power of laughter and the healing awareness it caused within. Starting my own laughter circles, I loved how it brought out my little girl and how free she felt to play.
Taking on this practice of laughter and building a strong haha muscle gives me access to my inner child and to my A-ha zone. It helps me be light hearted when the world around me can be so heavy. It also provides me with a new perspective to life. Over the years, laughing easy has helped me find Hahahappy – within. I grew up thinking I would be happy if I had or if I did or if I was….. Many books I read talked about this inner resource called Happy but I didn’t know how to access it. Doing the practice – showing up to laugh (week after week and year after year) and finding a tribe of peeps just like me who love to laugh for no reason at all – gave me access to my joy.
Hearty laughter is a full body exercise. It burns calories, increases heart rate, and works a variety of muscles, from our faces to our abs. It also encourages release of feel-good brain chemicals, like dopamine. Since motion creates emotion, shaking and dancing allows the laughter to flow. Laughter is an emotional response. It gives us access to the vast inner world within. And it gets the endorphins flowing and the sweet rush of oxytocin release in our body.
Emotions are the energies that run both our lives and the Universe. I remember growing up this song by Morris Albert called Feelings – nothing more than feelings….
(Click here for video)
Our laughter circles helps us access the Little One within. It helps us reactivate the feelings stored deep within our bodies and find ways to experience them, and eventually, release them (shakti shake and gibberish - woohoo). Healing ourselves while being playful and having fun. Yum!!!
