I’d like to invite you to remember something amusing. Perhaps something you saw, or did, or heard. Now deepen that feeling, set your intention for a fuller experience of amusement, and let go. Distill it down. Notice the images or words and let them fall like leaves in the autumn. Notice the feelings of amusement, the emotional aspects, releasing any other feelings and flowing to something beyond words.
Feel the laughter, in your throat, in your belly, in your heart. If anything limits your laughter, intend to release it. Stay with the physical experience of amusement, and keep distilling. Let yourself be led into the vibration of amusement that bubbles up out of your very cells. Full of play and joy.
Let that feeling expand in you. Dive deep. Through this portal of amusement you are opening into life force itself. Amusement is the tip of the iceberg of love.
Remember a sight in nature that caused you to be so alive that you laughed out loud; a child playing, something a friend said. You couldn’t even say why you laughed, and you knew that it didn’t matter why, just that you felt alive and joyful and the laughter was how it expressed through you.
Let yourself expand, feeling the bubbling of amusement, the deep power of love welling up in your every cell, filling the space between the cells. Relax into this and breath it deeply. Release any limitations. Allow yourself to feel alive in all your being.
True amusement is a state of being that is expansive, it creates space and allows spirit to enter in. It helps us to heal by helping us to let go, to find a little distance from things that are challenging. It is not about making lite of something serious, but it reminds us that we can always invite life in, even when we are dying.
We need no reason to laugh, to love , to feel alive. It is a portal to your essence. Carry it with you and practice it often.
(© 7/2009)
