{"id":1373,"date":"2012-09-11T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2012-09-11T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:43:11","slug":"the-naked-mystic-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/09\/the-naked-mystic-laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Mystic: Laughing"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So most people ask me after my talks wide ranging questions, on all different topics. Everyone is looking for an answer. \u00a0Here is a wonderful technique to help you out in case you find that you can\u2019t relax, or you are worried, or you are in any situation that you have allowed to bring you in a state of \u00a0unease. \u00a0When we find ourself in any stressful situation, we have given up power within ourselves. \u00a0So here is how you can get back.<\/p>\n<p>1. Take a breath in and exhale.<\/p>\n<p>2. Take a breath in and on the exhale, say \u201cHa Ha Ha Ha\u201d, repeat this process for three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>3. Take breath in and on the exhale, say \u201cHe He He He, repeat this process for three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>4. Take a breath in and on the exhale, say \u201cHa He Ha He Ha He,\u201d Repeat three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>You may notice yourself laughing. Wonderful. Keep laughing. Laughing reminds us of infinite possibilities and that life is funny and fun. When we take life serious, then it is called living and surviving. Life is spontaneous and fun. \u00a0The more you can achieve relaxation, the more you will laugh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2012\/09\/303897_10151192321779124_794328052_n.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1374\" title=\"303897_10151192321779124_794328052_n\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/221\/2012\/09\/303897_10151192321779124_794328052_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Take a breath in and exhale.<\/p>\n<p>2. Take a breath in and on the exhale, say &#8220;Ha Ha Ha Ha&#8221;, repeat this process for three rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[41,163,225,359,934,1008,942,1009,725],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual","category-uncategorized","tag-anxious","tag-david-matthew-brown","tag-fear","tag-laugh","tag-laughing","tag-stress","tag-the-naked-mystic","tag-who-cares","tag-wrestling-with-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}