How Laughter Heals Us
In our Rare Mothers in Relationships Workshop this past week, we looked at how laughter can ease the tension in your life. Have you ever noticed how laughter serves to change how you’re feeling? It shifts the energy in your body and your mind as it opens the heart.
The truth is it takes discipline not to go down those negative rabbit holes and a commitment to being playful helps a lot! We need to be willing to play rather than get bogged down by life‘s heaviness.
Humor is a way to strengthen your relationship. In challenging moments, humor can help you find a silver lining and transform painful situations. What if you could find ways to laugh and play together and write a tough narrative in a positive light?
Bring Humor
One Rare mother described how she brings humor in as she cheers her Rare child on saying, “Bend your knees Barbie!“ The reality is that these differently-abled kids are round holes in square pegs and it’s inevitable that they will fail. How can you shift the feeling of failure into one of growth?
Humor makes you feel more buoyant and if you bring humor into your own head, it can override the voice of the inner critic.
Include Everything
It has been said that there’s room for sorrow in a house of joy and there is room for joy in a house of sorrow. Consider how you can bring more joy into your life?
How can you include “the bothness of joy and sorrow? Change your self-talk, get regular exercise, sleep, meditate and laugh a lot. They say that “laughter is better than kale” and kale is good stuff.
Laughter makes us vulnerable and creates space for you to accept the things that are hard to accept. It breaks up the crustiness and sometimes it makes room for you to cry. Have you ever noticed how you can laugh and cry at the same time?
I invite you to set the intention to bring more humor into your life. Decrease the seriousness and increase the silliness. Laughter increases your capacity to live fully.
Coming up this week: Unconditional Acceptance
Mutual acceptance creates safety in relationships. As a Rare Mother, you have had a lot of practice accepting the things that you cannot change or are not as you would like them to be. What if you were to offer that same flavor of acceptance to the people in your life? What would change? Come and share your experience with other Rare mothers in our community of amazing, wise women.
Join us
Our next meeting is Tuesday at 10 AM PST. We would love to have you there. Being together in this way is an opportunity for you to share your heart and have authentic connections with other Rare mothers who know what your life is like and understand you.
Come as you are. Your presence is a contribution.
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Warmly,
Padma
