Did you know that your current physiological position largely determines how you think and feel? This means that you can at any moment change your body posture to resemble the state that you´d like to be in and in so doing access the thoughts and feelings that you´d like to have.
One of the things that participants at our courses enjoy learning, is how to quickly shift a negative state into a resourceful state.
Laughter is one of those fun and healing states that can be used to diffuse fear. Good news is that you can induce your own state of laughter just by pretending to laugh and persisting until you laugh from within. Once you’ve got a good laugh rolling, you can transfer this energy to the part of your consciousness where the fear exists, and then notice how your fear subsides.
Here is how this works:
Laugh away your fears
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One cannibal turns to the other and asks:” This taste funny to you?”
- Recall a time when you were laughing uncontrollably. Bring that funny moment to mind as vividly as you can. Feel the laughter in your body now.
. - Begin laughing out loud. Force it, if you must, until you are laughing naturally.
. - While you´re laughing think about one of those situations that causes you fear. Continue laughing and notice how your perception of that situation changes in your mind. Keep your laughter rolling until your thoughts and feelings about that old fear transform completely.
Of course there are different kinds of fears. Some you’ll be able to overcome using the simple process above, and others will be better dealt with using other methods.
In many cases, FEAR is simply a Fantasized Experience Appearing Real, which is quite funny if you stop and think about it 😉
Written by Jevon Dangeli – MSc Transpersonal Psychology, Coach & Trainer
