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Tell me about your vision.

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So currently, so my working title is Kathy Crawley

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Laughing Bean Queen.

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I offer simple solutions for today's challenges,

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worms for amending the soil, sprouts for eating,

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and laughter for overall health and wellness.

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And it's the 22nd anniversary of my worm business, Harry.

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22 years selling worms by the pound for indoor composting.

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And in 2012, one more person said,

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ew, worms in the house, and I questioned everything.

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I have tons of energy and I knew that people needed

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what I had, but they didn't want what I had.

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And people don't buy what they need,

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they buy what they want, if that makes sense.

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And I wasn't listening.

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They say in business to pay attention

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to what the clients wanted, I wasn't.

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I was like, no, no, no, this is important, you need it.

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And so 2012, and I questioned everything.

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And I really was about to doff my important worm mission.

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And I was introduced to laughter yoga.

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And it changed my life, laughter changes everything.

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Laughter yoga is not about fancy pants or poses,

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it's laughter as an exercise,

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laughing as an intentional activity.

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Ever heard laughter is the best medicine?

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Right, everybody's heard that, it's a global expression

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and laughter is the universal language.

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Laughter is the best medicine.

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So we need to take the medicine,

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we need to have our daily dose, which is dopamine,

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oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.

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So I've been laughing since 2012

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to answer the question in a short way, chatty Cathy.

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And then, so I've been laughing since 2012,

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really laughing since 2020, when we got locked down

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and the world shut down.

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So now we have this global mental health tsunami.

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It was here before 2020, it's just bigger now.

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And so I'm being called now to bring laughter.

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I want people to care about the planet,

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but we can't care about the planet or our neighbor

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when we're in a mental crisis ourselves.

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So my vision in short is to bring more joy to the world

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because when we feel good, we do good.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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I think you answered quite a bit of my questions

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in that statement.

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So how did you get started on this path?

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I mean, there's two paths we can take.

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We can talk about your business side of things,

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and we can also talk about your laughing side of things,

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which is your vision now.

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That's my new business side.

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It's really my new avenue.

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It's really fascinating.

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Life is a trip.

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It is, yeah.

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So how did you get started on that path?

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So that was from the worm.

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So yeah, so because, so 2020,

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before 2020, I was doing about

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between 100 and 200 events a year for my worm business.

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And then we got shut down, I was locked in my house.

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And that's when I started my laughter club.

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And I realized I always have taken care of my health.

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And I really, I don't understand hitting rock bottom

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and then going up.

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I'm like, why don't we go up from here?

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It doesn't make sense to keep going down until you don't,

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you have no choice, you have to go up.

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All these expressions, I was like,

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no, I just wanna stay healthy.

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And I thought all along, I didn't have a story,

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but that's the story, Harry, is that I take care of myself

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and look at me, I'm 62, I'm high vibration.

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Yeah, I'm high vibration.

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I'm healthy, wealthy, I'm wise,

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and I'm living a dream life

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because I'm taking care of myself first.

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That's what we don't do in our journey.

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So how did I get started?

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It was through my own, when someone said,

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ew, worms in the house, I would take it personal.

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Like, oh, Cathy, something about you.

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I don't want what you have.

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And they didn't want what I had, that's fine.

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Laughter has given me strength to realize,

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oh, that's not my stuff.

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That's on them.

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And so I'm strong, I'm more resilient.

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I'm able to overcome challenges.

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And I took a deep dive in 2020 into the expression,

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laughter is the best medicine, what does it mean?

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And I've attended all kinds of summits on health

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and wellness and energy work.

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And so now with my laughter practice,

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I incorporate tapping, brain gym, chi-cong.

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Laughter goes with everything, it's complimentary medicine.

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And it changes everything, it's high vibration.

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So when we're laughing, we're up here,

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we're vibrating at a very high rate,

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versus when we're stressed or feeling anxious or frustrated,

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like during the cuckoo time when we were locked down, right?

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It was very stressful, very fearful.

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Laughter is the opposite of fear.

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It's the opposite of stress.

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We can't be laughing and afraid at the same moment.

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So how, what all did laughter change for you?

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It changed the chemistry in my body.

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So it's chemistry, it's electric,

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it's complete science for people that think it's frivolous.

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So laughter was pushed out by the Greeks,

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by the philosophers centuries ago,

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because laughter was considered frivolous.

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That if you were laughing, it was just ridiculous.

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So the more education you had,

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the less you laughed, because you weren't taken serious.

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Like here, even the words like serious and stuff

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and frivolous, like when we're laughing,

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we open our creativity, our mind is expanded,

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because we're vibrating up here.

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So what has it changed for me?

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I take life lighter now.

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There's an expression in laughter yoga from Dr. Kuterian is,

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when we laugh and we practice laughter,

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we become it, we know it, and then we are it.

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We just go around at that high vibrating level.

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People say to me that I don't know at the grocery store

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when I'm out and about and they say,

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wow, you're happy today.

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And it's that's my everyday because,

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and it's not, you know, people are like,

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oh, how can you be happy all the time?

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It's a feeling, it's a vibration so we can change.

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We can change our state in an instant.

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It's not that I don't have the other feeling,

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it's not that I don't have the other feels, I do.

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Things happen.

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I'm able to overcome stress way quicker than before.

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Stress is just an electrical process too, chemical.

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When we're stressed, we're secreting the adrenaline

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and cortisol and we're not breathing.

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When we're laughing, we're breathing fully,

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oxygenating our beautiful vessel.

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That's awesome.

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I've never heard the science behind it before.

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I knew there's something like that that works in laughing,

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but let's talk about the other side of things.

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that you started doing the laughing therapy for yourself,

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it was probably hard, different, weird.

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What was that journey like?

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Oh, let me tell you the first time I went.

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I went with my mother-in-law and it was walking,

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the laughter club was walking distance

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from my mother-in-law's place.

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So I said to her, hey, you wanna go to laughter yoga?

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She said, what's that?

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And I said, I don't know, but I don't wanna go alone.

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So we went, I love my mother-in-law.

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So we went to laughter club.

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It was so weird.

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I mean, we were obedient.

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We're sitting in a circle and you do these silly games.

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It's not jokes or comedy, just laughing.

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So the laughter leader leads the games

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and there's little fun things.

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like, oh, this is strange, what's happening here?

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But we were playing, so we were laughing, breathing,

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doing the thing.

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It was an hour session.

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When we were done, we're walking back,

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we're like, wow, that was really odd.

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That what it was.

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And I, wow, I feel great.

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How do you feel?

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Yeah, I feel great too.

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And it became our monthly date night.

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The club was only monthly.

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So it was kind of like a fun hobby at that time, Harry.

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Now, and then in 2020, I really decided to take it serious.

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So that was just fun, 2012.

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Oh, what a fun thing to do.

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Monthly, and it was fun.

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And then 2020, and I became a laughter fanatic.

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I laugh every day.

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I have a laughter buddy in the morning.

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She calls me at 730 in the morning.

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I don't answer hello.

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We start laughing.

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Two minutes, full on belly laughter.

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One minute of deep diaphragmatic breathing

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and two following minutes of belly laughter.

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Five minute practice.

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It changes everything.

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Starts the day with a whew, right?

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Secreting all the love drugs, fully oxygenated,

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ready to take on the world.

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Versus when people wake up in the morning,

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sometimes the alarm goes off.

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They start going through their to-do list

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and they start getting stressed.

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Ah, that meeting with the boss or this, that,

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all the things, all the things I have to do.

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All the stress sets in right at the beginning.

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Then you stub your toe, right?

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You start your day in a crappy way.

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Versus oxygen, taking a moment.

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The alarm goes off.

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Take a moment.

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Take a few deep breaths.

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Be grateful for, just don't think about the to-do list.

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There's time for that.

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After your coffee and your breakfast, whatever.

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Yes, so that's how I got started was at a club in 2012.

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So it was at a very busy intersection in Toronto.

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20,000 people live at that corner.

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the woman had to close the club

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because she was renting space

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and the numbers were dwindling.

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We started out, maybe there was eight people

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and then it went, there were seven, six.

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And so she said, I can't keep my club open.

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I can't, you know, it's a business.

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And I was sad.

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I was like, these people don't know.

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We only need six, you know, six, 10, 12 people.

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They just don't know this super fun thing is here.

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And so I got trained as a leader.

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I love that so much.

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I got trained as a teacher.

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So now I teach leaders.

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And I was appointed laughter ambassador

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by Dr. Kateria in 2017.

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And Harry, I wear that badge proudly because it's energy.

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Imagine Dr. Kateria's goal is world peace.

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If we just think about that for a moment, you know,

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there's a lot going on in the world always.

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And people think, oh, it's not possible.

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It is possible.

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And it starts with us.

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If everybody's laughing.

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You know, before 2020, I was doing laughter online on Skype.

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And there was several countries that had Skype clubs.

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It wasn't a video, just audio.

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And I would laugh every day,

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20 minutes just laughter professionals.

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One day Dr. Kateria came on and he said,

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we're starting Skype Pakistan tomorrow.

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Can you come for the launch?

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Like not just me, everybody that was on.

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So we went and it's not talking, it's just laughing.

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But in the chat box, somebody wrote,

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wow, Dr. Kateria, your goal is world peace.

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And look, you have India and Pakistan laughing together.

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Yeah, it's awesome.

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That's amazing.

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That's a great, that's a little great,

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that being small things that can actually change people's

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life and all about that.

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And it's in us.

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That's the beautiful part.

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This is free.

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We can all laugh.

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But here's the beautiful thing or the thing that we can

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ponder is laughter is the best medicine.

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We've all heard that.

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There's about 50 years of research proving that laughter

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is the best medicine.

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That it's good for our health.

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Various, you know, for people going for cancer,

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through cancer, in corporations,

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for long-term care, all areas of research.

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So if that's true, 50 years of research, and it is true,

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why is it so challenging for us to achieve abundant,

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sustainable, reliable laughter?

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It's our frontal lobe, like our critical mind.

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As children, we can laugh, ha ha ha,

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what are those kids doing?

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we need stimulus.

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Laughing for no reason, I mean, there's health benefits,

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but no, like no joke or no funny story, no input.

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We're just laughing, oh, that's weird.

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Is it funny?

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Do I like this humor?

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What are these people gonna think if I'm laughing?

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Can I laugh with them?

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Is it safe to laugh here?

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All of these questions very quickly.

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Rrrr.

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When our mind decides that the joke is funny,

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the joke is okay to laugh at, it's conditional.

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So laughter yoga bypasses all of that,

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and we just jump to the funny,

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which supports our immune system,

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connects us on a deeper level,

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oxygenates our beautiful vessel.

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Did you know that cancer can't even survive

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in an oxygen-rich body?

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Right, like all of these things, it seems frivolous.

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It is not, it was squished out,

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so now we need to reintroduce it.

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so that we could be ready for 2020.

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That's amazing.

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Big.

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And there might be worse things coming than COVID,

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we don't know.

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Oh, there is, there totally is.

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And we need to laugh,

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that's why we need to come together and laugh

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and not be afraid.

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Because when we're afraid, we're shut down, we're closed,

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we're not breathing,

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we're secreting all the stress hormones,

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we're not resting and digesting,

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we're fighting and fighting and fleeing.

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That's awesome.

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Thank you for sharing all this today.

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I have one more question for you.

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I think this will be incomplete without you sharing.

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How does someone get started on the laugh therapy?

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What tips would you give those leaders?

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Thank you.

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They can do that.

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They can start too.

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Yes, well, for corporations listening, I'm for hire.

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For anyone, this is open to everybody.

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I have a free online laughter club every Tuesday,

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9.30 a.m. Eastern.

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It's 30 minutes of super fun self care on Zoom.

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Come and check it out.

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Plan to come twice,

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because the first time will be weird, or could be.

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You know, we're just in the Zoom room.

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Just look for things to laugh at.

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I'm not laughing at from a mean way.

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I mean, from a joy-filled, intentional, healthy,

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wonderful connecting way.

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Just look for things that bring you joy

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rather than bringing you down,

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because we only have so much energy.

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We might as well use that energy for good,

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because it is contagious.

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So we might as well be looking up,

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because if we're not looking up, we're looking down,

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and when we're looking down, we see all the junk.

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Look up and see all the goodness,

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all the things that are available to us,

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because they're here.

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And yeah, and I'm also,

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if I can just plug my laughter training,

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I do an online laughter training.

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It's two days, and it's ongoing throughout the year.

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The next one's in, well, I won't say dates,

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because then this podcast will be dated,

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but it's ongoing.

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The information's on my website, kathysclub.com,

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and it's two days, and it'll be the most fun workshop

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you've ever taken.

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It's interactive, and then you get a certificate

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that you can go and lead laughter for pay,

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or just learn it for yourself.

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You don't have to want to lead laughter club.

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You don't have to.

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Even just coming to learn it for yourself,

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because when you know it, you become it, then you are it.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is gonna get more and more fun,

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and we'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show,

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and thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.