• Ebodying Joy – It turns out that the gateway to Joy can be opened through the integration of conscious awareness with whole-body practices such as breathing, movement, laughter, and play
• Glimpsing Joy – “A detached person experiences such joy that no one would be able to tear it away from him.” Meister Eckhart
• Half-Smile and Serenity – The purpose of this exercise is to create an environment in which serenity can be cultivated and enhanced using a technique known as half-smile.
• Laughing as a Spiritual Practice – Fred K. trains emergency medical technicians, and he’s certainly the kind of person we’d like to meet in an ambulance. We call him a “jollytologist.” He’s got a great sense of humor and laughs easily and heartily.
• Laughter is the Best Medicine – “Your sense of humor is one of the most powerful tools you have to make certain that your daily mood and emotional state support good health.” Paul E. McGhee, Ph.D.
  
• Left Field Song: Play as a Spiritual Practice – A story about a women’s life of playing baseball and how it is a spiritual practice for her.
• Playing the Piano as a Spiritual Path – It took me all these years to figure out what was most important in life, and to use the keyboard to practice — not just playing the piano, but living according to my highest values and purposes. Living this way is what I call following a spiritual path, and briefly it means for me to love, to learn, and to pour good energy into the world.
• Play is a Spiritual Act – Life is not about being productive and about being ‘grown-up’. Life is about returning to our true selves, which are wonderfully creative and deliciously playful at their core.
• Smiling as a Spiritual Practice – Many years ago I learned that smiling gives your face a workout and helps retain the muscles in your face. Smiling makes you much more beautiful on the outside and on the inside as well.
• The Health Benefits of Laughter – Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Get Well!
• The Inner Smile: Letting Love In – The Inner Smile meditation is often taught as a stress management technique or for physical healing. However, with modification, it can also be a valuable method of getting in touch with the love that surrounds us all the time.
• The Power of a Smile: Mindfulness Practice – Smiling has the power to transform you, not just a power to effect others responses to you.
• The Smiling Meditation – Ready? Wherever you are simple take a deep inhalation saying to yourself “This breathe I take is relaxing.  And as you begin to exhale smile and say to yourself, “This breathe makes me happy.”…..
• The Stress Management and Health Benefits of Laughter – Health Benefits of Laughter: Stress Relief, Immunity and much more.  Hormones, Physical Release, Internal Workout, Distraction, Perspective, Social Benefits, etc…
  

AIPTWW – Spiritual Practices