What is the difference between ordinary laughter and Ho-Ho-Holy Laughter?

Laughter is the Universal language that warms the heart and brings people (and animals) together. Although ordinary laughter may be helpful, Ho-Ho-Holy Laughter has long-term transformational power to help us become the masters of our world.

Ordinary laughter is laughing at a joke to feel good. Although ordinary laughter can be extremely healing to our body, mind, and spirit, a big component of the potential therapeutic properties of laughter is missing. Ordinary laughter is like taking a narcotic for pain. It often provides short term symptomatic relief but does little for the underlying condition.

Ho-Ho-Holy Laughter, on the other hand, has long-term transformational power to help us become the masters of our illusory world. According to a growing number of quantum physicists, the world we experience is an illusory reflection of our thoughts and beliefs. The facts, implications and humor about this ‘minor detail’ are discussed in detail in my book, The Ho-Ho-Holiest Medicine. The Ho-Ho-Holy Laughter I describe is a way of laughing our way out of our illusory world, within which all political division, violence and global chaos originate. Once we Laugh our way out, we are ready to take back our power to live in a type of Heaven on Earth.

Once we understand the True nature of reality according to the quantum physicists, we will understand why Nobel Prize Laureate Niels Bohr said, “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about it.” Once we wholeheartedly laugh at ‘God’s’ sometimes seemingly cruel jokes from this giddy perspective of Niels Bohr, we will see the world from a perspective beyond our ordinary reality of competition, chaos and fear, and enter a world of cooperation, love, and Divine Power. The Ho-Ho-Holiest Medicine will show you how this very powerful, yet light-hearted perspective is not only possible, but the way we are intended to live.

Here are some powerful effects of Laughter:

• Laughter has the power to make problems smaller and easier to handle.
• Laughing at our thoughts helps us achieve a state of Deep Inner Peace wherever we go, a state that, without laughter, could take several decades of meditation to achieve.
• Trying to second guess the infinite intelligence of ‘God’ with the tunnel vision of our itty-bitty three-pound brain is quite funny!
• The popular book of spiritual transformation called A Course in Miracles refers to laughter an impressive 43 times. It essentially says that forgetting to laugh causes us to believe that the illusion, which we call our reality, is real. We may infer from this that perhaps laughter is the way out of this illusion.
• Laughter feels good – it floods the mind, body, and spirit with a waterfall of positive energy and blissful feelings.
• Laughter at our thoughts can take us to a realm beyond thought, where we can function more powerfully – in ‘The Zone’.
• Laughter allows us to change our thoughts and beliefs, which is key to changing our reality.
• Laughter acknowledges how funny it is that we diligently try to change our reflections in the outer world without even trying to change what is being reflected.
• Laughter allows us to take a step back to a perspective in which we can be quietly entertained by our thoughts. Eventually, we may see our thoughts and the world around us as the greatest comedy skit on Earth.
• Why should we be moaning, groaning, and suffering when we can laugh at our thoughts that create the suffering and change to a biochemistry that is healing?
• If laughter really is the best medicine, why not take several daily doses? (Glad to report that the only possible side-effects at extremely high doses of laughter are maybe a bit of soreness in your well-exercised abdomen, and possibly a few strange looks from people who don’t get the Joke).

After contemplating all these reasons, why not laugh at the reason that we don’t need any reasons to laugh.

Laughing at jokes is fun, but according to these quotes, Ho-Ho-Holy Laughter is profoundly powerful, transformational, and may help you know God:

“If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing with you even the trees and stones and stars.”

– Osho

“Real Religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”

– Alan Watts

“Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore.”

– Osho

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

– Mark Twain

“If a person can laugh totally, wholeheartedly, not holding anything back at all, in that very moment something tremendous can happen because laughter, when it is total, is absolutely egoless, and that is the only condition in which to know God, to be egoless.”

— Osho

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

– Voltaire

“Beneath this entire universe is the Cosmic Joke, and tapping into that level of the game is almost like going beyond enlightenment. You’re tapping into the very bliss of God, applauding His grand dance, appreciating Her intricate set-ups, and of course, rolling in the aisles at the magnificent punch line.”

– Sharon Janis (author of Spirituality For Dummies)

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is Bliss beyond measure.
Let’s Laugh our way there.)

– Rumi..…….and modified by Mitchell J Bloom, MD

Once we laugh at these Jokes and see “God” as a misunderstood comedian, we laugh our way out of our world of suffering and into “God’s” World of Heaven on Earth. Until we learn to laugh along with God’s Jokes, as described in my book, the joke’s on us.