Michael Murphy | Laughter Yoga And The Poetic Dissection Of Chaos

 

Healing The Self Is Hilariously Simple

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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.”