I Love to Laugh

Good Morning DearHearts,

“I Love to Laugh” is not only a personal statement it is also a song from the movie Mary Poppins. The song is performed during a tea party on the ceiling. I have not participated in an aerial tea party, but I do share the song’s sentiment.

Laughter is one of the best ways to pass through this thing we call time. It is beneficial for both the body and spirit. We laugh when we are filled with joy and it just spills over and out of us. In addition, laughter is one of the most enjoyable ways to exercise your core stomach muscles. It is considerably more fun than 100 crunches.

I am having the experience of a baby in the family and my granddaughter laughs often. There is pure joy in her little laughs that are still for the most part soundless. However, even without a soundtrack the elation is completely evident. The facial bliss is quite contagious because seeing a laugh brings a laugh. There is no need to know what tickled the funny bone of a baby who has only been here for four months. Laugh just because.

I have given the statistics in an ACIM gathering before and still I find them amazing. There have been psychological studies that found a child laughs an average of 300 times each day. The same study found adults laugh a paltry 20 times each day. How did the humor of life escape us?

There is great emphasis in spiritual teachings of the importance of being in the here and now. Laughter accomplishes this, as does meditation.

It is impossible to be laughing at a movie, TV show, a joke or with friends and not be in the now. The act of laughing must mean that for that moment only the now exists, because the mind cannot be focused in two places at one time.

The ego mind believes there is a past and a future where we should spend our time. Fear, which is the condition of the ego mind, resides in the future. Resentment and regret are the by products of the egoic mind’s view of the past.

The possibility of joy is not what the ego mind has in store for us. Joy and its signature sound of laughter destroys the plans of destruction and death that the ego has worked so hard to build. We can not be sad and happy at the same time. We can not be in the past or future and be ROFLMAO
(Rolling On Floor Laughing My A**Off) or LOL (Laughing Out Loud).

If we accept the premise that Pure Joy is what Creator meant for us, then every un-joyful moment is one in which we deny our birthright. How long will we allow this to continue when we could be laughing instead?

“In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen.” ACIM Lesson 156 “ I walk with God in perfect holiness.”

And one more thing—have you heard the one about…………

In Love, Light and Peace
Janet Weissman
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