SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What do you need to laugh authentically? Can you share a personal experience of a time when you laughed authentically? How do you inculcate the ability to laugh authentically?
Was smiling as I read and laughed at the 1st comment. Let us share this joyous contagion :)
Thanks, RR
Simple things in life make me laugh. Not many share a laugh when i do so but it's impossible to stop smiling or laugh aloud. I love animals and little children whose expressions seem similar ...ha ha...sounds cruel to you perhaps....lack of inhibition and innocence makes them seem so vulnerable and divine.
Pain in inevitable - suffering is optional. Cancer patient who can smile and say it's a good day. Listening to spiritual leaders and remembering their beautiful smile more than their words. When someone hits you, to reach past your pain and stay connected to your inner calm and say: "brother you don't need to do this - come visit my home". Infant's and grandmother's genuine smile, for they don't worry about what other's will think of them. The Dalai Lama and Rev. Desmond Tutu are always ready with a laugh, that I am envious of. Lovely circle of sharing creating ripples of joy all around. Thank you all.
I think, it necessary to let go of one's ego, in order to laugh authentically. When you can laugh at yourself as others would, there seems no difference who the subject is. The other aspect of laughing authentically comes up when one learns to let go of control in life, or one figures out that you really don't have control on most anything. You might think you are holding the reigns really tight but you fail to see if the reigns are attached to anything on the other end. Once the realization dawns that its someone else holding the reigns and its okay by me, that's when you can laugh about anything from the bottom of your heart.
hi, my name's marta and I'm from Poland. I can, again, definitely confirm that nothing happens accidently. Talking/reading about true smiles, I've just received via post mail 10 smilecards from United States. I'm grateful for it and for the opportunity to be the Kindness Revolution Agent. Sending all of you honest kind and loving smiles from Poland. Be gentle with yourselves and others. marta.
To laugh authentically one needs to be authentic oneself. I feel fortunate that Laughter comes easy in my llfe. As someone who does her best to live her true self including not caring so much what others think I allow laughter to bubble up and release. this laughter is often infectious. I do my best to laugh or at least smile Every Day. Service space helps because of so many of the positive articles, events, and stories shared. Always there is something to smile about. And as Dalai Lama says, our enemies can often help us smile and laugh too, if we let them in. Hugs to all of you for making me smile.
Authenticity (be it in the form of a laugh, smile, hug or word) always comes from "the core". Unique, personal and passionate is something/someone authentic. REAL is the word that comes to mind.
It is terribly difficult to laugh when one passes through a bad and awful phase of life. This is rarest of rare quality one can possess and I think it is possible only with extra-ordinary people like Dalai Lama. For a common man, if he does not pass on his cries to his friends and family and is just able to cope up, bear with and contain the problems to himself, he can be considered to be a laugher.