Podcast - Episode 0166 - Becoming A Laughing Freeman

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• Timothy Leary quote: “I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
• A Laughing Freeman is somebody who shows up to the world who can laugh about things not happening how they want and you are still free. You’re not bound to a rigid way things have to happen. You take things as they come.
• It’s interesting how much “energy” really matters.
• A Laughing Freeman moves through the world in a free way and goes with the flow.
• What defines happiness?
• How can you keep that sense of being a Laughing Freemen all the time?
• You have permission to do that all of the time if you want to, even in the worst scenarios in any moment, even if it is less than ideal.
• Ties in with a past podcast we did on Presence Work.
• Taking it to the next level: I’m going to have fun no matter what.
• You can be empowered to have fun.
• An experience can change because of this mindset shift.
• Choose to be happy and expressive or choose to be miserable.
• Test how well you can “show up” in any situation.
• Emotional resilience: you have become almost untouchable, it’s almost impossible to disrupt your calm.
• There’s pride and discipline in becoming a Laughing Freeman; more skill and practice is developed.
• This doesn’t necessarily mean being happy in all circumstances.
• It’s not happiness; it’s more a sense of Joyful Expression in the midst of unhappiness.
• It’s a state of being, no matter the circumstance.
• A frame shift.
• This is not the same as pushing down or hiding authentic emotions.
• It’s not about the happiness.
• It’s the expectation of the happiness, of getting the circumstance that will get you happy.
• Once you have an expectation of happiness, it can be a let down.
• It was never the “thing” — it was actually the pursuit of happiness that was important.
• Biblical reference to hope: the assured expectation of things hoped for; the evident expectation of reality is not beheld.
• There’s a component of joyfulness associated with hope, an assumption that things will eventually get better.
• An important part of happiness, or being a Laughing Freeman, or hope or rule to have: attach yourself to some hope.
• The emotion of hope itself is very rewarding.
• It’s not about the emotion of happiness, it’s about all the other emotions that create a system where happiness is a frequent emergent.
• If you can tend to things in the system, happiness is most likely going be an emergent of situations most often.
• “But you have no idea what my life is like, it’s terrible!”
• How can I still be a Laughing Freeman?
• You have full and complete control as to how you show up in situations.
• You may not know how yet or have the skill set built or have permission yet.
• But your emotions show up in yourself and you can choose to show up as a joyful expressed self no matter your circumstance.
• No one can put emotions in you; you do that yourself.
• Skill development: you might not be able to show up like this right away, but if you put the work into it, you will. It’s hard, but you can do it.
• Movie: Life is Beautiful.
• You can get a high proficiency in this even if you’re not born with it.
• You gain resiliency by not letting stressful situations own you.
• Allow yourself to just be present in the moment.
• Remove negative judgement just for a moment. And then next time, do it for a little bit longer and then a little bit longer.
• Eventually you can just sit in the absurdity of it all and eventually you can sustain it, almost like a meditation.
• This skill is available to everybody, but it is work.
• Most of the time, we’re given this blueprint that when we don’t like something, we fight against it.
• There’s a difference between The Fight and The Work.
• The Fight: I’m not at all OK with the reality of this situation and I will resist.
• The Work: All of the micro transactions you do everyday to become a better version of yourself and transcend the need to Fight.
• Doing The Work allows you to build emotional and intellectual resilience.
• As humans, we work so hard to build systems to avoid feeling unhappy and we spend so much time doing this that we don’t even know how to deal with it. All in a an attempt to avoid dense energy and negativity.
• Own how you show up.
• Life happens to you and around you in ways that you can’t always control.
• There’s so much power and choice in this.
• Feel your authentic expressions.
• Sometimes it’s good to fight.
• But with skill building, ignoring your authentic expression if it’s negative, and to pretend it doesn’t exist would be fighting.
• So feel your natural expressions, and sit with the emotions that would take you out, allow yourself to not have the knee-jerk reaction.
• We can be programmed; take over the programming and decide to feel something else, accept reality and do your own inner work.
• Get present. Reality is reality.
• This can happen no matter what your personality type or cognitive stack is.
• Even if your introverted process is not thinking or feeling.
• You go to your driver or co-pilot and you calibrate to where you’re at and allow yourself to sit there for a few minutes and then another few and then another few.
• Find that place inside yourself you can rest into.
• Ask yourself what is the introverted cognitive function of your type?
• What is the space you can get into that doesn’t have judgement necessarily, isn’t trying to find the bad guy, and is just trying to figure it out?
• That’s developing discipline; just be there.
• It takes discipline, time, and practice and a lot of energy out of you so you have to have recovery periods.
• You have to build a practice around it.
• Recovery might be easier for judgers, especially introverted judgers.
• It will be difficult for ExxJs to put in recovery time because you might think you should just be a machine.

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