If you’re lucky enough to be around infants, watch how they grin at six weeks, then laugh at four months, a natural instinct. Don’t be fooled trust your energetic assessment.Ĭhildren have PhD’s in play their lack of inhibition is contagious. They’re laughing, yet you’re being slimed with negative vibes. The other extreme are people who have grins on their faces, but whose laughter often stems from malice or psychic pain. Take the Dali Lama’s infectious giggle which comes from a place of love and wonder–its healing energy goes straight to our hearts. What counts most, though, is the energy behind the laugh, not just sound or facial expression. Hearty laughers spread those positive vibes to us. Peruse the newspaper’s leisure section, ask friends what’s funny, check out genres of comedy from standup to radio. Second, see what sorts of fun your inner child responds to now. Memories can get rusty laughter synapses cranking. The fast-forward chipmunk voice you get from inhaling a helium balloon. First, recall activities from your youth that made you smile. Find activities your inner child loves.Įxplore what your inner child genuinely finds fun or funny.The tip offs? Perhaps you’re laughing less, feeling overtired or overworked. Also, begin to recognize when your inner child is in jeopardy. Recall ordeals you had to endure vow no repeats. For example, I promised mine: “You’ll never have to smile for a camera again unless you want to–”an expectation I despised when growing up. Next, with photo in hand, promise to honor that child’s needs. The photos can rematerialize shelved energy. (Having kids often naturally spurs this reconnecting process in parents who otherwise might never get there.) For starters, bring out your baby or childhood photos. Your inner child may need urging but it wants to be embraced. For full vigor, each must be accounted for. Both are distinct energetic aspects of our life force. Sometimes laughing has become so alien, it helps to have a plan.ĥ Strategies to Reconnect with Your Inner Child and Laugh More Įvery grown-up has an inner child. In this exercise be authentic, have fun, and feel the positive energy. Here are some pointers from my book Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and LoveI give patients to help them reconnect with their inner child to get them laughing. We don’t ordinarily equate lack of laughter with deprivation, but, from an energy perspective it is. Otherwise, laughter-less, they’re unknowingly living in energetic poverty. With my patients, laughter’s absence never gets by me I make it my business to notice when it’s missing, and help them recoup it. I consider loss of laughter a crime against psyche and spirit. I get a huge kick out of quirky little things such as children squealing as they pop bubble wrap. Although jokes often elude me, I really respond to the spontaneous comedy of life itself. However, each of us, even the crotchety, must locate our sense of what’s funny, raucous or wry. Now I just make a joke out of my not getting it: that feels more authentic and relieves me of the negative fallout of pretending to be something I’m not.Įnergy comes from humor. Since I’ve never gotten most conventional jokes, I know the awkward position of hating to fake a smile but being afraid to offend or seem clueless. But faking laughter is like faking orgasm no positive energy to be had there. Also, notice that prior to a joke, there’s an air of expectation, a subtle shift in consciousness and attention, the promise of mood transformation. You feel it in your chest, or your whole body may shake. True laughter is a surrender to hilarity a sound, a smile, a heart opening. Just as I guide patients, I’d like you to sense when your funny bone is legitimately hit, an energetic place that resonates. Not the contrived or canned kind, but laughter from the soul. Are you an empath? To learn coping skills, get my PDF “Life Strategies for Sensitive People” here.Īs a psychiatrist, I’m a big prescriber of laughter.
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