Laughter releases stress from the body and mind. It’s true, isn’t it? After a good laugh, we feel better. Through the laughter meditation technique, you can make a conscious practice of using laughter to release your stress and help you to drop deeper into inner silence and stillness.
Laughter meditation:
Stage one: start laughing and laugh for no reason.
Stage two: sit in silence and watch with non-judgment. You can do this for any amount of time that you choose, just do the same …
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How Laughter and Play Lead to Deep Meditation and Silence
Hotei the Laughing Buddha
The enlightened mystic most associated with laughter is Hotei, also known as the laughing Buddha. Hotei was a large man with a big belly who traveled from village to village in sixteenth-century Japan. He had no desire to call himself a Zen master or to gather disciples. Instead he walked the streets carrying a sack full of candy, fruit, and doughnuts, which he gave to all the children who gathered around him. And he laughed—a lot!
At first people would gather around him because they …
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How do Laughter, Tears, Silence Help Us Find Inner Peace and Enrich Our Lives
LAUGHTER is good for us in every way: physically, emotionally, spiritually.
Among its many benefits laughter:
* stimulates physical healing,
* enhances our creativity,
* is rejuvenating and regenerating and keeps us …
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Q and A with Pragito About Her New Book
Can you explain the point of the expressive techniques? The Gibberish meditation seems intriguing…
The point of the expressive techniques is to dump out our stress and inner turmoil into a meditation technique instead of taking it out on others or ourselves. These techniques allow us to transform our anger, grief and fear into creativity, inner peace and wisdom. The Gibberish meditation, created by the Sufi mystic Jabbar, is a good example. Stage One: Close your eyes. Put on a blindfold if …
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Pragito Dove's meditations are an invitation to come home to that 'quiet place' that offers rest and restoration far from the rapid pace of modern life. Her book is truly transformational, jam-packed with insights and wisdom...useful and empowering.