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February
Healthy
Laugh-Style
Newsletter
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Congratulations
on making it this far by using your tenacity to hold onto
hope!
When we start to place our attention on the past and future, and forget
the present moment, our hope seems to get distracted. If
we're not filling our lives with opportunities to bring and
expand our hope, especially now, we'll starting sinking...
possibly into depression and anxiety.
I don't want to sink. Not even a little bit. I've had enough
of that! It's a time to band
together, to help each other in new ways, and to practice
self-care, lovingkindness, intensely.
This requires a different kind of love - love for no reason.
The unconditional kind. The love of the good Samaritan in
the New Testament. The love that doesn't come around only if
we know each other well, approve of each other's lifestyles,
histories, beliefs, and political ideologies. We have the
opportunity to expand our experience of lending a helping
hand - both to ourselves and others - in these times
of disruption and uncertainty.
The best way that I've found to access and expand love for
no reason is to laugh for no reason. Laughter yoga is
self-forgiving and opens forgiveness towards others. It's
hard to think and laugh at the same time. We temporarily let
go of our self-analysis in laughter sessions while being
silly, laughing with others being just as silly, then
entering a silent meditation, in deep relaxation.
Oh, if we would practice Laughter yoga each day! It
would completely transform our perspective of life and heal
our bodies and our relationships.
If renewed hope and love are what you're craving, please
come laugh at a laughter yoga class or try it out at during
the Valentine's Celebration (info below). Put your laughter
to the test!
The more we laugh, the more we laugh. (even in long grocery
store lines) The more we laugh, the more we love. (even
THOSE people in our lives) The more we love, the more
fortitude and clarity we have to sustain peace. (even in the
midst of uncertainty and stress)
laughlovepeace,
Leigh
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The Senior
Center Laughter Club
Meets Every Sunday, 3-4 p.m.
Laugh Yourself to Heath!
ALL ages and non-members welcome.
No
Member Fees. Suggested $5 Donation.
Studio
206 Laughter Yoga
Every Sunday!
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Parking @ 4th/Market St.
Garage Validated
Suggested $5 Donation.
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Butt
Prints in the Sand
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some strange prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat,
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."
"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you along.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."
"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt."
"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."
(This doesn't necessarily reflect anything about my beliefs,
but it does reveal my somewhat twisted sense of humor.) |
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Post-Election Song
We need one
another right now
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Interrested in Becoming
A Laughter Yoga Leader?
Laugh-a
Yoga Certification Program:
Combining the Joy of Laughter
and the Bliss of Yoga
with Bharata Wingham
March 6-8, 2009
at Yogaville
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"Love is the product of every season."
-- Mother Teresa
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