Laughing for the Health of It

Speaker: 00:00:04

Rev. Rose Hope: This is When Spirit Calls and you on your journey, are in the right place. This show is about magic, miracles and meaning shared through stories, interviews and channeled messages. We have so much to share about who you are and your divine mission here on the earth, let's get to it When Spirit Calls is right now.

Speaker: 00:00:32

We have a wonderful and unique guest on our show today. Our guest today is Cathy Nesbitt. Cathy is a Health and Wellness Advocate, and she happens to be the founder of Cathy's crawly composters, Kathy sprouters and Cathy's laughter club. She is a busy woman, a multi award winning visionary. She inspires individuals to live more joy filled sustainable lives. Kathy is a certified laughter yoga teacher and also appointed laughter ambassador in 2017 by Dr Madan Kataria, the pioneer of laughter, yoga, tapping, brain gym and other healing modalities are also incorporated in Kathy's work. She helps people get out of stress and into joy when we feel good, we do good. She's an enthusiastic cyclist and gardener, and Kathy has been leading transformative laughter yoga sessions since 2015 in diverse settings such as corporations assisted living facilities and schools. Please help me to welcome our guest today. Cathy Nesbitt.

Speaker: 00:01:40

Oh, hello everyone. Oh, we have a fun episode in store for you. I cannot wait. There's gonna be some laughter as we go through today's experience. I got the beautiful Cathy Nesbitt here. Hi, Cathy.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:01:54

Hello, D. How are you?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:01:55

Rev. Rose Hope: Doing So good, and I'm so happy you're here with me. I just love your energy, and I love to laugh. So there's a reason why you're here, and as we dive into things, you know, everyone's kind of learned a little bit about you in the bio that we shared just a moment ago, but I really want to invite you to dive into your story. Like, how the heck did you become a laughter yoga expert? You know, how did you step into this field? What was that story that led you here? Because I'm truly curious about how one falls into a career of laughter.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:02:32

Right? Oh my gosh, imagine if I could have just been laughing all this time instead of having all the trial before. Oh well, it's all part of the process, right? The journey, yeah. So I'm located in in Canada, just north of Toronto, largest city in Canada, and in 2002 the landfill for the Greater Toronto Area closed, and we started to export our garbage to the US, and I had a solution. So it's the 23rd anniversary of Kathy's crawly composters selling worms by the pound for indoor composting.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:03:04

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow. And so even though you specialize in laughter, you also got into worms.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:03:12

That that was how I got into the laughter was from the worms.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:03:16

Rev. Rose Hope: Ah, okay, so how did that happen? What happened there?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:03:20

So I believed I had this great solution for something that we all do is create food waste, and we're exporting our garbage. And when we compost, we take the stink out of garbage. And so I started my business, Kathy's crawly composters, so that I could educate people about the benefit of having worms in the house. But little did I know, people didn't want rooms in the house, and people don't buy what they want. They buy what they need, and they didn't want what I was flogging. I do have a ton of energy, and I really believed in my mission. I still believe that it's really important. And so I was going ahead. I have all this energy. So I was like, no, no, you need this. It's important. And I wasn't paying attention to what the client wants. That's what they say to do. Whoops, I bypassed that part of the entrepreneur program, I guess. And so in 2012 one more person said, Ooh, worms in the house. Although I'd heard it hundreds of times, I heard at that time, I felt it, and I questioned everything. And the very next day, I was introduced to laughter, yoga,

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:04:27

Rev. Rose Hope: wow. So it was, it was that spirit calling, if you will, of, you know, it's so fascinating to me, because one would not think that you having this passion for, you know, the earth and our processes and making it healthier environment for us to live in that that would lead to a laughter yoga experience falling onto your lap, you know. And had you not gone the whirl route, maybe you would have never ended up in this laughter space either. Mm. Yeah. So, okay, so you go to this laughter experience Kathy, and what happens there?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:05:07

Well, the first, my first intro, was just a five minute it was a speaking series, and it was a five minute introduction to laughter yoga. And I don't happen to practice yoga. I know it's a great thing not dissing yoga. I just jump to the fun yoga. And so that same week, I was at a networking event hundreds of people. The very first person I met was a laughter yoga teacher. Oh, come on, right? I was divinely guided. There's no question.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:05:33

Rev. Rose Hope: You're the red crumb, right there, right? It's like, oh, this. Don't think again, yeah.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:05:39

And I said to her, Oh, laughter yoga is mainstream, because I do pay attention to the signs, yeah. And she said, No, it isn't 2012 so I spent that night trooping around with her and everyone we met, I said, Have you heard of laughter yoga? Have you? Have you? And nobody had so I was like, oh. And here's another beautiful piece to this story, her laughter club. Toronto is a massive city. Yeah, her laughter Club was five minute walk from my mother in law's house. Wow. And my mother in law, she passed in 2021 but she would do whatever. We trooped around. We were best friends. We really had a wonderful relationship, and she would always say yes when I asked her if she wanted to do something. And so I said, Hey, Mary, you want to go to laughter yoga? And she said, What's that? And I said, I don't know, but I don't want to go alone. And we went, and it was, you know, it was weird, because if you haven't done it before, it's just laughing, we'll, I'll take you through something in a few minutes. But if you haven't done laughter yoga, it may be awkward the first time. It's not jokes or comedy. It's not doing yoga and laughing. It's laughing. It's laughing as a cardiovascular exercise. So those that are logical in their head, they might, you know, try to think their way. How do I laugh? What? What? And then the ego is piping off. What's happening here? Why you can't laugh? You look ridiculous. Wow, right. So there's a lot of processing going on, and what we want people to do in a laughter club is get out of your head, get into your body and just play, just have fun.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:07:11

Rev. Rose Hope: It sounds really fun to me, and you know, I think back, I did have one experience with a laughter yoga expert many, many, many years ago, but it felt like so long ago. And so when you kind of came into my radar, I was like, Oh, this still exists. So it was so exciting to me to see that there is still a movement here to bring people into more laughter. And what a fun way to get Did you say cardiovascular exercise? Yes, please. Can I just laugh every morning for an hour instead of sweating on my treadmill?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:07:50

Absolutely, I have rock hard abs. If we were close, I'd let you touch me, but you can't touch you can't feel me through the screen. You can feel my energy, but not my abs. Yes. So no, you don't need to laugh for an hour. 1015, minutes of sustained belly laughter is sufficient. That's all you need. So here are the beautiful benefits for laughter is we're secreting the love drugs, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins versus cortisol, adrenaline, epinephrine. Laughter is the opposite of stress. When we're laughing, we're completely present. We're right here, right now. We're not even thinking. We can't even run away if we wanted to. So we can only laugh when we feel safe, right? So another beautiful benefit, we're obviously in our beautiful parasympathetic nervous system when we're laughing and our brain requires 25% more oxygen than the rest of our body as an operating principle. When we're stressed, we're not breathing properly, right? Our body's not getting what it needs. For sure, our brain isn't ever lost, your keys, phone, glasses, and you're flapping around.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:09:01

Rev. Rose Hope: That's daily for me. Oh,

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:09:04

well, here's a tip next time you're flapping around, your brain is literally deprived of oxygen. It's like, I know where it is. It's trying to help you, but it can't, right? So what you need to do is stop, take a deep breath in, which is always beneficial, laugh it out. Hahaha. Apologize to all the people you just yelled at, and your phone, keys, glasses, whatever it is, whatever you were searching for, will be right there.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:09:30

Rev. Rose Hope: Yes, indeed. Okay, so what does it look like? What does the experience look like like? How do we tune into this like? What if I don't feel like laughing? How do I go through the process? Can you give me a breakdown of what that would look like

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:09:45

be, for sure, if you don't feel like laughing, you need laughter more than ever. So come to a club and online is better than ever. I mean, it's not that it's better than ever. Online is fine in person is to find that's my expression. I love it now. Prior it's it's the 30th anniversary of laughter. Yoga started in 1995 by a medical doctor, Dr Madan kateria, and his goal is world peace. We need it more than ever. Prior to 2020, even, Dr kateria believed it needed to be done in person for the benefits. And now we know zoom works, great. These online platforms are beautiful. You have it in gallery view rather than speaker view. So there we are. We're all looking at each other. It's making eye contact, and we're playing together. I can take you through something. So if somebody doesn't feel like laughing, you need it more than ever. It's time to find a club, and people will say to me, it's so stressful right now. How can I laugh? And I say it's so stressful right now, we have to laugh. Yeah, we're not laughing at we're laughing because of so it's a cardiovascular workout. So there's little games to inspire the laughter. And when we're clapping, We're clapping palm to palm. We're activating meridians, so we get energy just by clapping. Whenever I go to a show, I clap like a seal. Now,

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:11:09

Rev. Rose Hope: even that makes me feel like laughing, right? We

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:11:13

Okay, so the rhythm is 12123, and here are the words, they're easy Ho, ho, haha. Easy people. And what that does. When I first started going to laughter, I was like, What is going on here? This is so random because it's not explained. When you go to a laughter club, they don't explain what you're doing. They just say, Do this and you do it. The premise behind the laughter is it gets us out of our head. For those that are logical, it gives you something to do, and then you get it's like Pavlov's dog, right where we get trained, like our brain goes, Oh, it's happy time. I'm clapping and I'm making that happy sound, ah. So you start secreting those happy chemicals already, and you raise your energy so you don't feel like coming to a club come anyway. Our body doesn't know the difference between real and imagined laughter. How wonderful. How wonderful. How wonder. It's a built in mechanism to help us. Why Do People laugh at inappropriate times at a funeral or if we see somebody trip, why it's that stress response. It's the body saying you're too stressed, you're too tight, you're going to blow up. So So you need to laugh to release that stress. And sadly, our society has frowned upon that, instead of embracing it and saying yes, let us laugh and enjoy. And really,

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:12:38

Rev. Rose Hope: I just I love that you're talking about this because I remember being in church when I was younger, I got the giggles so bad, like I could not stop, and it was because the priest kept saying A at the end of every sentence. And so, you know, then we caught in and then, so every time you would finish a sentence and do it again, you know, the giggles would go but then I remember getting the looks and the stares and then feeling so ashamed for having fun. And that brings me to another quick little story. I remember helping a friend do some work. Their family owned a business, and so we were working in the back, and she had left to go get something, and I thought, Oh, I'm just gonna hide around the corner and I'm gonna jump out and surprise her. It'll be so fun. And so when I jumped out to surprise her, it wasn't her, it was her father. And so we got in trouble for that. And so for me, and I'm sure for some people listening, you know, we've been told, like, be serious, you know, don't have so much fun, or you need to get the work done so you can't have fun, or whatever that is. And so for me, I had this attachment that if I was having fun, I wasn't worthy. I wasn't doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I was bad. And so I had to do a lot of healing for myself in shifting that energy so that I could come into joy and laughter and fun. But I know there's a lot of other people that have some of these blocks and these resistances, and so what you're doing is creating this beautiful safe container that says, have at it. You can do all of that here, which I really love.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:14:15

And that's the thing, our society has so much emphasis on work, work, work, work. Course, get, get your work done, and then you can play. What if we not play instead of work? What if we're playing while we're working? Yeah, what if it's not separate? Yeah? What a gift

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:14:34

Rev. Rose Hope: or bad for us to do right?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:14:36

or bad for us to do right? You talked about shame and shame only. It suffers in it thrives in silence. So when we feel ashamed, I know you know this, we need to voice it. And as little children, we don't know that, we just feel bad, and we're like, Oh no, i Mom and Dad are mad, or the teacher's mad, somebody's mad at me, yeah? So that's why we stopped those activities.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:14:58

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, yeah. I. Think it's so brilliant and beautiful to be able to lean into this. All right, so we did the Ho, ho, ha, ha, and so we go through that's that would be like what we would do if we came to a yoga session, we'd start with that.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:15:15

You start with that. Then there's deep breathing. So put your arms out in front. Breathe in. Deep through your nose. Breathe in, hold it, smiling, smiling, hold it, hold it, hold it. And then, because it's the deep breathing too, and then release with a sigh. Ha, when we release with a sigh, it's another signal. It's an auditory signal to our brain. Hey, I must be happy. I'm sighing. I must be relaxed. I must be at peace, because again, back to I'll use running for the bus. If you're late for the bus and the bus is there, you're never running for the bus. Like, huh, right? You're straight, like, oh yeah. Or looking for the keys, right? You're never looking for your keys. Like, huh? I'm so relaxed, like, frantically searching for my keys, right, right. So these are wonderful things that are, again, built in so well, let's go through an exercise, and there's a series of like, there's a ton of them, and because it's in about 120 countries now, it's a global movement. Yes, it is, and we need it more than ever. Each country adds its own flavor. So we have milkshake laughter in North America. In India, they would call it Lassie laughter like a yogurt you know, Lassie is a yogurt drink. So they all call it yogurt laughter. We call it milkshake same movements. Okay, so let's do an activity. And I'll preface this white by saying, Hey everybody, there's a new product on the market. Yes, there is Who doesn't love that. It's so exciting. This one is called laughter cream. Wow. How wonderful cream. And this is a great thing, because we can laugh by ourself, and this laughter cream gives us permission whenever we're putting on our cream or you're doing our makeup, we can pretend like it's laughter makeup or it's laughter cream, right? And you could even put laughter cream like a label on your cream, saying laughter cream to remind yourself. Okay, so here's a laughter

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:17:11

Rev. Rose Hope: and I just thought about putting my deodorant on and assuming it's laughter deodorant.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:17:19

Oh, really, we're laughing about it. So they all love it, right? Laughter, shampoo, laughter, perfume, laughter, bug spray, laughter, sunscreen. It's endless. Okay, so laughter cream, it comes in a pump. How convenient. So we're just going to pump out as much as we want, and then wherever we put it, we start laughing. Okay, so here we go, on, 3123, laughter cream. Just pop it out. Take as much as you want. It's free. It's a big jar. You just glow them out a bunch. And if you're working with someone, you can put laughter. I do a lot of work with folks with dementia in long term care. Then we put laughter cream. We ask permission, of course, but we ask, Hey, would you like some laughter cream on your back? Wow, how wonderful. Oh, hahaha. Here's some for you. Maybe they can do it, you know, put some on each other's back. It's so wonderful because then we get the touch, yeah, I'm getting the energy. We feel good. We're playing together.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:18:25

Rev. Rose Hope: Well, I'm gonna give my kids laughter cream when they get home today.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:18:29

Yes, do

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:18:31

Rev. Rose Hope: again for those of you listening, we're imagining the laughter cream. Okay, this is an also an imaginative experience. Yes, there's not actual like, actual lotion that

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:18:44

I'm working on that is coming out soon, folks. So there's all kinds we another one like this is one that I actually really love. It's kind of one that just helps us get over ourself. So there's a couple of ways to do this. Put your arms out in front, and then curl your fingers forward, and then you've got your thumbs, and then turn your thumbs toward yourself, and then start laughing. And sometimes I say, Okay, put one finger up, and then just point at yourself and start laughing. Because when we make a mistake, we get all stressed. We're all in our we get a judge ourselves and we beat ourselves up, and that hurts instead. Yeah, laugh. How wonderful. It frees, oops. I made a mistake. Hahaha. Whoops. He here's another one. This one is really great. When you're driving, if somebody cuts you off, it's never personal or rarely. Maybe it is sometimes, I don't know there's Kathy, let's get her. No if somebody cuts you off, it's because they were paying attention, they were distracted, and their land ran out. That's all okay. So if somebody cuts me off, instead of getting mad, ra, I'm like, Oh, time to. Do laughter yoga, and I flail my arm around, and I'm laughing. And the person, when you cut somebody off, you know it, you're looking in your rear view mirror, like thinking, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, glaring. Yeah, right. And they're looking, and they're going, oh my gosh, right. I'm wailing my arm around. I'm laughing. They can only see, oh my gosh. She's mad. Like, I'm mad at them. No, I'm laughing. So I get more space. They give me more room thinking that I'm cuckoo, and I arrive at my destination. All all zen like, Oh, yay, laughter. You'll go. You. It's a shift in perspective, right? It's just changing our mind, yes.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:20:38

Rev. Rose Hope: And really, I mean, this is, like, one of the most glorious alchemization techniques. I think there is right, because we can alchemize anything with laughter. You know, I think about my kids, and sometimes when they're fighting, you know, I'll just start making up a song, or I'll, like, make up a rap, and I'd be like, I hate it when you're good, you're so mad. It makes me so sad, and smiles come to their faces. Oh, mom, Yeah, Mom, you're so embarrassing, right? But then at least we're laughing, and we've shifted the energy. And so I think we're lacking laughter, and we are not giving ourselves enough permission to laugh. And as we move through our day, you know, I think of as I moved through my day, I remember, you know, noticing, becoming very consciously aware of, like, how much I had that serious face, you know, on all the time. And so I started to just practice smiling. And I actually, as I'm typing emails, I'm smiling, yes, I have to tell you that, like the response like that I get from people, and even on the phone, even when I hop on a zoom smiling. And I have clients all the time that say, Oh, wow, I wish I had your joy, you know. And I like, Here have some, you know. And so it's contagious. It's contagious. There's a vibration to it that shifts the energy, which I think is just so beautiful.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:22:05

It is. It's scientifically proven to be beneficial for us, and it is contagious. It's contagious because of a thing called mirror neurons. Have you heard of mirror neurons? Well, mirror neurons were, I don't know, discovered. I mean, they were always there, but they were kind of found the same years laughter yoga, which is really fun. In 1995 they came across mirror neurons. And it's if you smile at someone, they generally will smile back. If you see somebody sad, you may feel sad. It's those mirror neurons. So very few mammals have them people, the humans, apes and a few birds have mirror nerds. Wow, and that's what kind of separates us. So if you want to be happy folks, hang out with happy people, because it really is contagious.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:22:56

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah. Oh, brilliant. So Cathy, you know, what are some ways that we can tune in to more laughter? And you mentioned that there's laughter clubs available, and we're going to share a link at the end. But you know, what are some of the things that we need to know, or that we can know about making laughter more present in our lives or more consistent in our lives? Like, are there some techniques or some tips so that if we don't have a laughter club, or we don't have the capacity for that, that we can still be bringing in more of that joy and the benefits

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:23:28

Absolutely. Well, first of all, I would say, Watch Less news, because that's really stressful when we're seeing all those images we can't unsee and we can't unhear all that powerful talk of the news cycle, and same with social media, not to send people completely away, they're still going to be there. So spending time in nature will automatically make us more joyful. It's a practice. I really don't want to encourage people necessarily to be watching funny things, because that's conditional. Laughter is like when we hear jokes, they go through a whole whack of filters, and it's very fast. It's not conscious, you know, is it funny or it isn't funny? I'm not laughing at that, or is that offensive? Offensive? Is it safe to laugh? What are these people going to think if I laugh at that joke? You know, two people going somewhere, it's not funny for those two people. So for sure, if you can get to a club, there's lots online, there's lots in person, that's a wonderful thing. I have a laughter buddy. I have a laughter buddy every morning. It's three and a half years every morning she calls me, and this is such a simple anybody can do this. I don't say hello. I start laughing. We laugh for two minutes full on just belly laughs, one minute of deep diaphragmatic breathing, and followed by two additional minutes of laughter. Dr kataria says that when we laugh. A full on switch between laughter and breathing. Our laughter enhances our deep breathing in our silence, and our silence enhances our laughter. So it's this complimentary practice that kind of helps us. And then we're we also secrete all those love drugs, and we start the day, like, five minute practice, and it's like, I'm ready. World. What have you got for me?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:25:26

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, wow. And so you said earlier, I think you said, like, 15 minutes a day of laughter can enhance our cardiovascular like you said, you also have abs of steel now. So like, all these other benefits and 15 minutes and does it have to be all together with

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:25:43

it does not. It does not, but it needs to be deep. Belly laughs, okay, just like little chuckles, hahaha, okay, you do the deep because our diaphragm is attached to all our organs. So even just saying Ho, Ho and hahaha, those sounds move our diaphragm

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:26:00

Rev. Rose Hope: right. Okay, so that's why we start with that, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha. And then as you go further, then you're inviting people, you know, and forgive me if this is wrong, but my understanding was like, you just start kind of like fake laughing, like hahaha, and then it turns into a real laugh, often,

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:26:18

yes, with the little games.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:26:21

Rev. Rose Hope: Right.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:26:22

right for laughter professionals, you could say, Okay, let's laugh, and we're all laughing. It's fine. We don't need priming, okay, but those games make it more fun. So you do jackpot laughter. Hey, everybody just won the jackpot. So you're like, yay. You're sold high fiving, woo. You're making eye contact. You'll be and maybe you're giving some out, who wants some yay, right? It's a celebration. So there are the little games, which maybe just laughing might get boring after a while, like people would have a hard time sustaining that, right? So, and I also incorporate music, which a lot of laughter professionals do, because music and dance, it's another way for us to move. It's another way for us to hear different modalities. And I recently heard from Lynn McTaggart that The Beatles has been scientifically proven to raise our vibration listening to The Beatles.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:27:17

Rev. Rose Hope: You know, it's funny. I just got the shivers because this morning I felt called, and I went on Spotify and I played the Beatles this morning. Can you freaking believe that? Wow, yeah, talk about Spirit at work right there,

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:27:36

and it raised your vibration, right?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:27:37

Rev. Rose Hope: And it did, yeah, was feeling a bit low, and I was like, I'm just gonna search the Beatles and play the greatest hits. And that's what I listened to for my workout this morning. Isn't that? Oh my gosh, yeah, so funny. You would say that. See, our spirit does know what it needs. And I think, I think oftentimes we just, we push that aside. You know, I could have easily been like, why would all listen to The Beatles for my workout like that doesn't make sense, but I did it anyways, you know. And there was a reason for that. So I love that, you I just that, in itself, is just so funny to me. Okay, so, you know, you talked about, like, less of the news, less of the negative, social stuff. I also found myself recently, you know, watching some of the crime documentaries, because there's so many of them, you know, and it doesn't feel good. And so really reminding people that you know what they're consuming, not just in food, but in the environment, in the people you're spending time with, the stuff that you're feeding yourself, emotionally, intellectually, is also impacting that. You suggested getting out to the late nature. You suggested getting a laughter buddy, which I think is so fun. I love that idea of just giggling with a friend in the morning to start the day. Anything else that we can be doing that can really help to shift that frequency and bring in more laughter.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:29:02

Yes, you could be trained as a laughter leader, and it's a two day training. And I do the training not just apply. There's lots of people that do the training. I'm just really good. And once you take the two day training, you do get a certificate which allows you to go out and and lead laughter club. Not everybody wants to lead laughter club, I would say, take this two day training. It's offered online and in person for yourself. Learn why you want to add laughter to your daily repertoire of healing practices. When we feel good, we do good, and laughter is the fastest happiness hack, and it's too important to leave to chant. So when we become trained as a leader, we learn the history, we learn the practice, we learn why it's so important. And it is scientifically proven that laughter is the best medicine for people going through. Cancer. Imagine, I mean, this is proven, but having your cancer team and your family, everybody laughing you're going for your chemo treatments and you're laughing with the team. Everybody feels good. The vibration is high, that medicine is going to be better absorbed into your beautiful vessel when you're oxygenated and secreting the love drugs versus being tight and worried. Yes, you know, it frees us, because stress is really a killer. It just compounds any ailments that somebody may be struggling with.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:30:34

Rev. Rose Hope: You know, I love this so much I want to take your class. When's your next one?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:30:38

The next online one is in October. It's a Tuesday and Thursday.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:30:42

Rev. Rose Hope: Okay, I would love for you to send me those dates. And we're, of course, going to put some links in the show notes. You know, I keep hearing that phrase, you know, laughter is the best medicine, and I'm sure something that's used within, you know, the laughter yoga space. But I also heard it was a quote, I'm going to butcher it. I don't even know where it came from, but they said that, laughing at yourself is one of the highest forms of wisdom, or something. And so I think that's also such a poignant way to look at life and say, if I can laugh at myself, then I'm doing all right. Right?

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:31:19

Instead of beating yourself up, going, oops, I aired right. Yeah, I forgot that thing. Whoops.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:31:25

Rev. Rose Hope: Oh boy. And you know, you're speaking to a person who has been very self critical of herself, because I thought that by being self critical, that would make me better. But in fact, it's just caused me to feel some shame and some guilt about not being perfect, rather than looking at it from the perspective of like we all make mistakes. It's okay. I'll do better next time. And so what you know it is what it is. So that's fantastic. So I know that you have a special offering for our audience today. Will you tell us about that.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:32:01

Absolutely yes, I am celebrating five years of my free online laughter club. Wow, started in June of 2020, wow. Yeah. So everybody, please come it's on Zoom. It's 9:30am Eastern 30 minutes of super fun self care. I incorporate tapping, brain gym, Qigong, just to help people get out of stress and into joy, we regularly get 30 zoom squares now for people from around the world, wow. And four of those zoom squares are often groups, community, living, long term care, everybody's welcome. I don't record my sessions, because I want the people attending to come feel safe, that they can come and play and they're not going to show up somewhere totally on the internet. So it's really beautiful space.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:32:52

Rev. Rose Hope: I think that's I'm like, this is a great way for me to wake up. I'm going to start tuning into these because at 730 in the morning. So when I don't have kids, and we're not like rushing around. Yeah, I want to tune in. I think that's fantastic. So that link is going to be in the show notes, folks, so that will be available to you just underneath the audio of this podcast. So please look for those links. Go and try it out. What have you got to lose other than some laughter and maybe a few inches around your waist? The This has been so fantastic. I've been smiling the whole time. Kathy, you really do bring the joy and the laughter. So thank you so much for lighting up my day today and bringing that energy in. It has been a true privilege and joy. And I can't wait, because I think you're gonna also do a session on spirit minds, if I remember correctly, and come and take us through our activity there. So we'll do a full laughter yoga on our spirit minds as well. Yes, I'm there amazing any final words, anything that you feel is on your heart to share with our audience today.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:33:58

I just a quote. Since you mentioned a quote, I want to say a quote from Charlie Chaplin, which is a day without laughter is a day wasted.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:34:06

Rev. Rose Hope: Ah, wow, how hard hitting is that. It's like, okay, I'm now going to be consciously aware of every day that I have some laughter in my day.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:34:18

Lots of it.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:34:19

Rev. Rose Hope: Lots of it. I love it. Thank you so much, Cathy, and thank you all for tuning in to another edition of When Spirit calls until next time. Laugh away.

Cathy Nesbitt: 00:34:34

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