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LAUGHING LIFE COACH

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER 2005

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“My laughter fills the empty spaces.”

-Wanda Gail Campbell

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Music is love in search of a word.

Sidonie Gabrielle

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Humor brings Laughter, Laughter brings Breath, Breath brings Essence……

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JUST A THOUGHT

SOUND AND ENERGY

Exerts taken from

The Book of Sound Therapy

By Olivea Dewhurst-Maddock

Sound exists as a result of the vibrational movements of objects……it is a form of kinetic energy. This energy can be chaotic or ordered, weak or powerful. All the sound energy produced by the cheering, clapping crowd at a major sporting event would, if converted to heat energy, barely boil enough water for a cup of coffee. In modern medicine a powerful, high-pitched beam of sound can be so precisely focused that it can vibrate and shatter mineralized stones in the kidneys or gall bladder. It is the nature of sound at this energetic level that accounts for the wide range of its effects on the body and mind.

Primoridal sound is the mysterious link

that holds the universe together

in a web that is the quantum field.

--Deepak Chopra

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The kind of humor I like

is the thing that makes me

laugh for five seconds

and think for ten minutes.

--- William Davis

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Music takes us out of the actual

and whispers to us dim secrets

that startle our wonder as to who we are,

and for what, whence, and whereto."

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A smile starts on the lips,

A grin spreads to the eyes,

A chuckle comes from the belly;

But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,

Overflows, and bubbles all around"

---Carolyn Birmingham

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“Who are you?” Said the Caterpiller… “I – I hardly know, Sir, just at present,” Alice replied rather shyly, “at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” --- Lewis Carrol Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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JUST ANOTHER THOUGHT

TRANSITIONS

Making sense of Life’s Changes

Exerts from William Bridges

Endings:

Endings are ……experiences of dying. They are ordeals, and sometimes they challenge so basically our sense of who we are that we believe they will be the end of us. This is where an understanding of endings and some familiarity with the old passage rituals can be helpful. For as Mircea Eliade, one of the greatest students of these rituals, has written, “In no rite or myth do we find the initiatory death as something final, but always as the condition sine qua non of a transition to another mode of being, a trial indispensable to regeneration; that is, to the beginning of a new life.” Not everything vanishes in the ending process, of course, some people find it very important to experience the continuities in their lives when so much else is changing.

The Neutral Zone:

The neutral zone is a time of inner re-orientation…..whether it overlaps with the old situation because inwardly some ending has already taken place, or whether it overlaps with the new situation because an inner new beginning has not yet been made. The transition process is really a loop in the life journey, a going out and away from the main flow for a time and then a coming around and back. It is meant to be only a temporary state. It is a journey into emptiness and a time to cultivate receptivity. The more you leave behind, the more room you have to find something new. Do what you do attentively, rather than distractedly while you wait for the real experience to come along. This places you in the observing role rather than the participatory role and opens up an awareness as to where you are in the moment, what is affecting you in the moment, what you are attached and unattached to in the moment, and what path you might want to take.

The Beginning:

When the neutral zone has done its work, you come back from the disengaged state and the wilderness to set about translating insight and idea into action and form. This return may take the form of new commitments. The process of return brings us back to ourselves and involves a reintegration of the new identity and elements of the old one. This connection is necessary if one is to be grounded and not “up in the clouds.” It is the phase of the transition process that the modern world pays least attention to. Genuine beginnings depend upon a kind of inner realignment rather than on external shifts, for when we are aligned with deep longings, we become powerfully motivated.

To make a successful new beginning, it is important to do more than simply persevere. It is important to understand what it is within us that undermines our resolve and casts doubt on our plans.

· First, timing is important in any new undertaking. Until you are really ready, you probably won’t make a real beginning. When the time comes, stop getting ready to do it – and do it!

· Second, begin to identify yourself with the final result of the new beginning. What is it going to feel like when you’ve actually done whatever it is that you are setting out to do?

· Third, take things step by step and resist the siren song that tells of some other route where everything is exciting and meaningful. In making any beginning, you can become so invested in the results that whatever you have to do to reach them looks very insignificant. It is when you shift your attention from the intended goal to the process of investigation that you sense what elements work and don’t work.

It is when the endings and the time of fallow neutrality are finished that we can launch ourselves out anew, changed and renewed by the destruction of the old life-phase and the journey through the nowhere. This aspect of the beginning is as natural as the disintegration was back in the termination phase. Inwardly and outwardly, one comes home. As a wonderful Zen saying expresses it, “After enlightenment, the laundry.”

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“A laugh is a smile that bursts."

--Mary Waldrip

“Smile –

It's the second best thing

you can do with your lips."

--Anonymous

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AND JUST ONE MORE THOUGHT

RUSSIAN DNA DISCOVERIES EXPLAIN

HUMAN 'PARANORMAL' EVENTS

Summarized by Baerbel

Exerts

Fifty percent of children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse this adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.

At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born. Something in those children is striving more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it can no longer be suppressed.

In their book Vernetzte Intelligenz, Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times humanity had been just like the animals: very strongly connected to group consciousness and thereby acted as a group. In order to develop and experience individuality, however, we humans had to forget hyper-communication almost completely.

Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group consciousness - namely one in which we attain access to all information via our DNA without being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that just as we use the internet, our DNA can feed proper data into the network, can retrieve data from the network, and can establish contact with other participants in the network. Remote healing, telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of another can thus be explained. Some animals know from afar when their owners plan to return home. This can be freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hyper-communication.

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Enjoy life and the laughter it brings………

….Helene, Laughing Life Coach…