HAhaHAllelujah

Yesterday, I went to Hopewell Baptist Church for a Fifth Sunday service.  

Any time there are Five Sundays in a month, the women of the Hopewell Community take over the stage, the pulpit and the choir.  

An all female choir dressed in white, prayers and messages from the pastor's wife and the Sisters - the energy is electric and eclectic. The women light up the sanctuary with joy and music.  When that sound permeates your soul, you can see and feel the fervor of their devotion to
their song and God. 

I sit amongst the Elder Sisters, Queens, as they are respectfully called.  We sit in the first three pews and we belt out our Hallelujahs and Amens as we sing along.

SisterGoddess Alice (gorgeous Goddess in purple, below) and I hold hands and share our HAhaHAllelujahs and then look at each other and crack up laughing.

We have so much fun and get totally energized by joining our voices as one with the Women of Victory on the stage.

There is something about singing and laughing together, in community, that is so very powerful and replenishing to the soul.

A great big thaHAhank you to SisterGoddess Susan for inviting me to join her Hopewell family and for being up on the stage shining her light bright.

Raising the Pleasure Bar

Swimming in the ocean - every day.

Coming to her shore in the afternoon and entering - low high tide red flag waves calm waters clear and cool.   

I bring her all my emotions and concerns and stressors and feelings and shaHAhakti shaHAhake in her waters.    ShaHAhaking it all about and letting it all out.

Yesterday, I did it twice.   HahAha

In the morning on Hollywood Beach the seagulls and I sat feet in the sand and watched the sun rise up in the horizon.  I entered her cool clear waters - a current an undertow and bobbing waves - shallow for 1/2 mile into her vastness.  I floated on my back eyes wide open to witness the clouds.  I OMed as I floated -letting her cradle me - hearing my ripples underwater vibrating heat around me.    I haHAhaHAhaHAha'd on my back until there were no more and then there was the song of the sea. 

I came back again in the afternoon. She was stronger and warmer.  Had to walk through the crashers and wade deeper to float.  I practiced my HAHA meditation again and OMed to my heart's delight.  Me, the sea and Jonathan Livingstons floating around.  

The birds, they laughed with me.   Hahaha.

This hahahabit of mine is keeping me calm and relaxed.    Too blessed to be stressed.  As I explore and experiment I am finding easy peasy ways to raise my Pleasure Bar.  

ThaHAhank you SGofMirth Christina for inspiring me to explore HER daily.

ThaHAhank you SG Regena and the School of Womanly Arts for reminding to find my Pleasure and raise the Pleasure Bar.  Woohoo.

HAHAircut

After all these years (7) I went for a HAHAircut.  

I was a scaredy cat about cutting off 

what had been so close to me for so many years 

(on my scalp by my skin).  

I found the courage to overcome

because I had a purpose - 

a place to shaHAre my HAHAir - LOCKS of LOVE

a Florida organization which provides 

hairpieces to children suffering from medical hair loss. 

I called my favorite hairdresser, SisterGoddess Colleen,

artistic director and Team Leader of Salon Enchanted 

I came in for a head massage and deep lather and cut

and conversation and hugs and HAHAs.

I made this experience pleasureFULL and fun.

I made a little video of Before & After

LAUGH out LOUD

I spend time looking for things that make me laugh out loud.   A giggle or chuckle is good.  However, I prefer the breath knocked out of me as I hold my belly and sputter from the mouth and exhaHAhale my HA HAs.  WhaHAhat an invigorating feeling.


I scour YouTube for feel good moments and pleasure practices that activate the right side of my brain and allow me to tap into my belly laughter.  


I mean, why think when you can feel?  


And that is what the essence of Laughter is truly all about.   An inward feeling of joy that bursts out of your mouth and creates sound waves - ripples that touch others.  Allowing sound vibration to emanate from within.  ShaHAharing enerchi, breath, PRANA, just by exHAhaHAling what is inside of us.   


How easy and wonderful we can do this.  And so I do - LAUGH out LOUD - because I can.  And what a sound - a delightful human vocal expression - spontaneous human music (thank you SG Christina)

Simplicity of the HAHA

When I first started this HAHA journey, I was having issues with my weight and my anger management.     

 

I had already let go of work and the toxic environment it created for me.  I chose to simplify my life - coming from a body based approach - giving my body what it needs to function optimally.  

I taught myself to work out - WALK daily for a minimum of 30 minutes so that my engine could turn over.

I reminded myself how to LAUGH - for no reason, just BEcause, as a response to everything and anything in my life. And STRETCH - so that the enerchi can flow through my body and energize me.

The Simplicity of the HAHA appealed to me because it is an ATTITUDE (the ONLY thing of which we have total control over at any time) - a physical response I DO and BE.

I taught myself to cook (pescatarian, vegetarian, vegan), juice and Uncook (RAW).      

And then I practiced.   Daily, weekly, monthly - a HAHAhabit is engrained - becomes muscle memory - once we do it over and over and over again.

A little HAHAHA in every situation makes life easy peasy.  It clears up my mind and opens my heart space so I can connect with the flow and find a solution.

Of course, a little HAHAHA in a body that is well tuned and healthy makes it HAHAHAppy too.

Noticing how much AbunDANCE I have - whatever I need at this   

moment, I haHAhave - I give thaHAhanks for all these blessings in my life.  I appreciate how a daily choice brings me more of everything I desire.

P.S.   Last week's Raw Meetup had two laughter Yoginis in the mix.  Two wonderful Omazing women who shaHAhare my passion for laughing and eating RAW.    ThaHAhank you SG Roni and SG Jan.

Planting Seeds

Yesterday, a seed I planted bloomed.  

Two months ago, I signed myself up as administrator of the Raw Food Meetup in Broward County. My passion for raw food lifestyle pushes me to shaHAhare what I know and learn more.  

Yesterday, 35 of us met at Urban Farmer and took a Farm Tour with John.  He let us taste and smell and touch fresh vibrant fruit, vegetables and herbs.  I tried raw okra, and smelled chamomile on the flower and chomped on the longest thinnest green bean I've ever seen.

I met some OMazing people as well.  Peeps who showed up for the Farm tour and to share their wisdom and raw food passion with me.  A new tribe of peeps who are as committed to their welfare as I am and who love to share what they know.

I shared oatmeal cookies and banana bread  - all raw - no milk, no sugar, no flour, no eggs -and homemade beet chips.  I tasted jackfruit for the first time (delicioso) and gained 12 new recipes to try at home.  

I am passionate about raw foods because I love how food can become superfuel in my body.  I love how raw foods create vitality and how a little goes a long way.  I love nourishing myself with enzymatic rich food.  I love giving my digestive system a gentle workout and pooping easily and effortlessly.  

WhaHAhat I put into my body converts to enerCHI to laugh with WE. And helps me stay healthy and be HaHAhappy. 

CLARITY

  

Over the years, I have prayed for CLARITY twice.  As the outer world around me gets busy with demands and obligations, my inner world screams for attention.

 

In order to get clear about ME and my purpose, I get out of my head and into my body.  I shaHAhakti shaHAhake - my fingers, my arms, my hips, my hair.  From the top of my head to my toes, I release it into the ground.  I stomp it out my feet so there is no residue and then I take a deep breath in.

 

Laughing is an internal shaHAhakti shaHAhake.  There is an eruption of air from the inside out - a convulsion of oxygen that explodes over your lips and out your mouth.

I practice my HAHA muscle every day - creating an internal volcano of blood streaming, energy coursing, water moving through my torso - allowing all my internal organs to feel the massage of movement.

 

As I explore my inner state, I can express myself with clarity.    I am at peace with me.  And from this open heart, I can find what I am seeking and know what next step to follow.

This is not for the faint of heart - this is another way of BEing. Hands on - eyes wide open.  From the inside out - where our wisdom within guides the way.