Using laughter as a therapy

Laughing can not only cleanse unconscious blocks , but can also give you a higher sense of well-being.

From the schoolroom, where laughter is thought to undermine authority, to the five star hotels, where it is considered to be an embarrassment, humanity is conditioned to suppress its laughter. If we were allowed to laugh without restraint, we would then successfully subvert our conditioning, and save our natural intelligence. Laughter can be a great step to meditation and can cleanse the unconscious blocks and heal traumas, provided people sit silently and meditate after a healthy laugh. Osho has used laughter as a therapy that leads to meditation. Here are some useful tips you can incorporate in your daily schedule.

Involve your whole body in laughter. Let every cell participate in this celebration. Roll on the floor, jump and dance into a total let go.

Laughter brings strength. Now, even medical science says that laughter is one of the deepest medicines nature has provided man with. If you can laugh when you are ill you will get your health back soon. If you cannot laugh, even if you are healthy, sooner or later you will lose your health

It can cure many of your tensions, anxieties, worries; the whole energy can flow into laughter. Learn to laugh for no reason. Laughing at someone is not always pleasant but laughing at oneself reduces your seriousness.

Laughter brings some energy from your inner source to your surface. Energy starts flowing and follows laughter like a shadow. When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together. They are diametrically opposite: either you can laugh or you can think.

You laugh with abandon, suddenly the mind disappears. You can get a glimpse of the no-mind Zen talks about. And if you know a few moments of no-mind, those glimpses will promise you many rewards.