Leader:

Sacred Laughter

Sacred Laughter

Sacred Laughter

Sacred Laughter

Instructions

Look into your physical and emotional body. Locate

a feeling of anger, fear or contraction. Find its

physical location. Now, take that feeling and invite

it into your heart center. Slowly, open your eyes,

and look up. Inhale deeply and, as you begin to

exhale, bring the feeling up and let its expression

be laughter. Stay connected to the feeling.

Experience the difficulty of laughing instead of your

normal habitual response. Let the laughter build

and then die out on its own. Observe the quality of

your consciousness during and after the process.

Recognize the insight of how you have transformed

and expressed your habitual negative reactions to

feelings through laughter. Be aware of the resulting

experience of freedom. Do three rounds of laughter.

First round, stay connected

to the feeling state itself.

Second round, laugh with the realization

of how foolish it is to habitually react to feeling

with emotional immaturity.

Third round, laugh from the depth of your being

for no reason other than joy, start with a subtle

smile connected to the core of your spirit.

Intention

The intention of sacred laughter is to develop

the skillful means for changing our reactions to

negative feelings and emotions. We can respond to

negative feelings with more desirable conscious

alternatives such as humor and loving-kindness.

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