Laughing can be an acknowledgement of LOVE, humour can connect you to YOU again” – Tammy Williams
THE LINKS BETWEEN MINDFULNESS INTUITION + LAUGHING
“To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it comes to our problems and melodramas that we disconnect from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls—we withdraw from life instead of enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life.”
~ Sonia Choquette from Trust Your Vibes
Evidence has shown that Mindfulness Practice can help us connect to our intuition also. Being intuitive of course has many benefits from being able to keep ourselves safe, to choosing who and what is right for us, to making decisions based on our deepest truth.
Funnily enough Mindfulness Meditation (and the practice of YOGA) also requires having a ‘sense of humour’ in fact for our practice of Mindfulness to be sustainable a sense of humour is vital.
This can mean not to fall into the trap of taking your mind (your thoughts) or your Yoga postures too seriously – after all if its one thing that nature teaches us is that things are always changing (especially our mind + body) So it seems a waist of time to get all dramatic, reactive or withdrawn about what your mind is thinking, weather it be about yourself or others (because its going to change!)
The great thing about Mindfulness Practice is that it trains in the attitudinal qualities of Curiosity + Kindness. These are great foundations to help cultivate a sense of humour – especially when it comes to observing your own mind.
I know there is the saying those that don’t go within go without right! However when you go in (to look at your mind) take your sense of humour not a stick.
Remember Mindfulness + Yoga Practice are tools to hep you enjoy life not serious sticks to beat you into Sainthood!
Mindfulness Based Yoga can become one of our greatest allies in our endeavour to enjoy life because it teaches us how to develop Intimacy.
It teaches us how to be-friend the mind through being curious and kind and loving. When we sit in meditation and observe our own minds with deep interest (like the kind of attention you would give to someone you care about) along with a sense of humour, you come to realise that the mind itself is giving you so many opportunities to laugh! The stuff that goes on in there – far out!.
The great thing about studying Mindfulness and Practicing Yoga with others and sharing our experiences is it gives us all a chance to laugh at the shit that goes on in our minds. Sharing with a sense of humour, having a laugh is an acknowledgement of what it means to be human.
“Laughing is actually a form of Mindfulness, because it is LOVE in action”
– it’s like saying – ah I get it my mind is not there to be taken seriously, my mind can actually teach me INTIMACY!
(IN-TO-ME-I-SEE)
Make friends with your Mind! BE KIND – MEDITATE
and remember to have a laugh.
Namaste
Laugh and have a HAPPY SUNDAY
xox Tammy