Let`s laugh together!

I love to laugh.  And I guess that most of the people love it too.  Children love it, for sure. Researchers say that a small child laughs about three hundred times each day. And what a wonderful and joyful laugh!

They laugh unconditionally. They don’t even need a sense of humor to do this. Humor is a culturally shaped trait. The small children don’t have it. They live in a magical world and laugh from their being with joy and playfulness.  It is like they have a superpower.

As adults, we laugh less: just about 30 times on a day. Maybe less.  We lost our superpower and we are trapped in a daily life that looks so dull and hard so often. We are carrying an invisible weight on our shoulders.

And it is a big loss because laughing is one of the most beneficial things that we can do for ourselves. Laugh helps us to improve our mood, our health. It helps us in all the aspect of our lives. On a personal level, we unleash a healthy playfulness that allows us to face more graceful all the challenges that life present to us. We become healthier, more positive, more confident, more creative and more joyful.  On the interpersonal level, our relationships with family, friends, co-workers become more meaningful. Our capacity to deal with people and situation increase.

And the best part is that these changes are contagious, - like laugh itself. Our good mood affects the others, and they can feel better just by laughing with us. 

We haven't really lost this superpower. We just forgot it.

There is still in us, and we can bring it again at the surface. We can learn how to laugh without no reason, and how to wake up the childish playfulness within us. 

We can do this with Laughter yoga session.

Here you have a short movie called ”Happier in 5 Minutes” Enjoy it!

And let's laugh together this week! :)

PPDC2 - Portughese Permaculture Design Course - part 2

The Permaculture Design Course at O Fojo it was one of most beautiful learning experience since five years ago, when I left the city trying to start a community in Transylvania, Romania.
I didn`t  know at that time, but that was the beginning of a long, intense and beautiful journey that brought a lot of joyful moments  in my life, and a lot of amazing people.
This particular PDC helped me to create deep connections with the people.
I was amazed to look at myself and see how much I enjoyed to be around all of the participants. Before, I was more into a doing energy. I was more a to-do-list, a human-doing then a human-being.
One particular moment is very alive in my mind in my heart. I already shared this in the morning-circle and now I want to write about it because I gain a lot of joy from what I learned then.

Let`s start with the beginning:
I had a great time with the BAD kitchen team: Barak, Ana, Dalia. The best work-relationship that I had ever. And not just work. The way we feel together, the flow, the hugs, the daily joke, it was like a dream.And one day, in the morning, I wake up with an awful thought:
”This PDC will be soon over, and they will go, and I might never see them again!” And I felt so sad... (even now, when I am writing this, I feel a little bit sad). 

And then, it was that voice that speak to me sometime and help me to see the things differently. And șhe said to me:
”But now they are here!”

And that was all. I knew before that they are still there, with me. But I knew it mentally. In that moment, I embodied it. I felt their presence with my whole being. 
And then, something extraordinary happened: the time extended, and stood still. No tick-tack, nothing. It was just me and the moment.
Since then, I try to stop the time whenever I can, whatever I am doing. I may be walking on a street of Lisbon and watch the sunset reflected in the windows of the buildings. I may be eating an ice cream, or talk with somebody. What I am doing it is not so important. Important is the place where I am when I am fully in the moment.

There is a wonderful place to be!

Thank you, BAD team! And thank you all! I miss you.