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Michael Murphy | Laughter Yoga And The Poetic Dissection Of Chaos

2019/5/27
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Healing The Self Is Hilariously Simple

Michael Murphy is a live poet, performance dancer, and transcendental joker who spreads the cosmic giggle everywhere he goes. Today we're diving into Laughter Yoga, a powerful practice that Michael teaches in festival workshops. 

Follow Michael on Instagram @smurphythesquizzard) 

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We Talked About…

  • Basic rules of engagement with Laughter Yoga
  • Transforming trauma and stiffness into joyful healing with wordless laughter
  • The Cosmic Giggle
  • How Laughter Yoga uncovers the psychology of the joker archetype 
  • Magical laughing from the heart instead of laughing in judgment
  • 15 minutes of sustained laughter a day for optimal health 
  • Examining sitcoms and mainstream humor
  • Internet trolling and the polarization of social media communication
  • 4-Chan and deep internet culture
  • Technology and the Global Brain Theory 
  • Internet avatars and game characters as digital spirit guides
  • Comparing video game experiences with internal shamanic spirit journeys
  • Transcendental Sound Healing experiences
  • Star nations and guidance from high vibration light beings

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  • The adaptability of sound healing to fit the needs of the individual
  • Michael shares inspiring synchronicity from YAM (Yoga-Art-Music) festival
  • Magical games with Smurphy the Squizzard
  • Dissection Chaotica and rememing, amplifying and transmuting words through poetry
  • A live reading of poems about Neutrality and a Cherokee word: Gadugi 
  • The difference between spiritual time and circular artificial time
  • Michael turns the tables and questions me about the geometry of the Cosmic Egg model of the universe
  • Becoming the serpent tamer of the Kundalini force

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INTERESTING QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE

  • “It’s a deep form of healing when you are able to pull things into your awareness and laugh at them.”
  • “Laughter is a transmutation, it takes whatever energy you feed into it and transmutes it into joy.”

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