A Laughing Meditation To Free The Soul

In this practice, Sah guides you to laugh — not at your pain, but through it.
You’ll be invited to meet your heaviest stories, wounds, and memories with compassion and humor, allowing laughter to soften what once felt unmovable. This isn’t about pretending everything’s fine — it’s about freeing the soul trapped beneath sorrow.
Through laughter, breath, and presence, you’ll rediscover the lightness that’s been inside you all along.

Transcript

Welcome to Day 11 of Establish a Positive Mindset,

A challenge here on Insight Timer crafted to help you break free from negative thought patterns,

Overcome self-limiting beliefs,

And embrace a mindset of abundance and possibility.

Let's jump into today's session.

What's up my loves and welcome to Establishing a Positive Mindset,

A challenge here on Insight Timer to help you break free from negative thought patterns,

Overcome limiting beliefs,

And embrace a mindset of abundance and possibility.

Listen,

In case you're wondering who I am,

Maybe you're not,

I'm just going to give you a brief intro.

My name is Sadi Simone.

I'm a mystic,

An artist,

Transformational speaker,

Author,

And the creator of the Somatic Activated Healing Method.

And in today's session,

I'll be talking to you about moving from a scarcity mindset into an abundance mindset.

Maybe just a little bit,

But maybe that little 5% that we're going to move together is going to be enough because sometimes it's all we need,

Right?

5,

10,

20%.

That's like a massive,

Massive change.

And listen,

My darling,

I just want to first establish something.

Abundance mindset does not mean endless resources,

Does not mean endless money.

I think a lot of people are equating their capacity,

Air quotes,

Capacity to manifest the life of their dreams,

Meaning the life of their conditioned dreams,

The life of their copy and paste dreams,

The life that they see someone else living on Instagram dreams as a capacity to have spiritual superpowers.

Manifesting stuff is not related to a spiritual superpower,

Okay?

When you want a specific outcome for your life,

I'm sorry to tell you that is magic.

Now,

When you're opening yourself up to an abundance life that's beyond your wildest dreams,

That's beyond your specific desire outcome,

That's a miracle.

An abundance mindset is a miracle mindset,

And that's what we're working towards.

Going from trying to manipulate resources,

Manipulate circumstances,

Manipulate people and place in things to achieve a specific goal,

A specific outcome,

That's scarcity mindset,

My darling.

Now,

We're working much bigger,

Much wider,

Much more vast energies than trying to manipulate some stuff to get this specific colonized,

Indoctrinated,

Limited conditioned little goal that we have for ourselves because we believe that unless we have that specific goal,

We're not going to be happy.

A scarcity mindset,

To show you to a degree,

A scarcity mindset is when we are engaging with people in the world,

If they go off the script that you wrote for them in your mind,

You get triggered,

You know?

So,

When you can actually release this script and enter the world as an improv actor and allow everyone to be an improv actor as well,

That is a mindset that's flexible.

A flexible mind is an abundance mind,

Okay?

An unflexible mind,

An uncreative mind,

A selfish mind,

A mind that's focused on negativity,

A mind that's focused on drama,

A mind that's constantly,

You know,

Gossiping and putting people down and glorifying and exaggerating.

These are all qualities of a scarcity mindset,

You know?

What we have to practice in abundance mindset,

It's a mindset that's flexible,

Creative,

Selfless,

Focused on what's working.

It's a mind that is hopeful,

It's a mind that's optimistic,

And people might say,

Oh,

That's toxic positivity.

No,

It's not.

Enthusiasm and hope is vital to live in this painful world.

Now,

You see how I said in this painful world because being human is painful,

Period.

However,

It's what the historical Buddha said,

Pain is inevitable,

Suffering is a choice.

A mindset of scarcity goes into pain and ruminates on the suffering,

Creates an entire life,

An entire identity based on the suffering,

Okay?

Now,

An abundance mindset experiences pain because it's inevitable for all of us.

However,

An abundance mindset does not create an entire narrative around the pain,

An entire identity around the pain,

You know?

It stops itself on this track.

That doesn't mean that you're not experiencing the pain.

That doesn't mean that the pain is not real.

Yeah,

Of course.

It's all real.

It's all happening.

However,

An abundance mindset does not allow one aspect of our reality,

One aspect of who we are to become our identity.

A scarcity mindset,

On the other hand,

Yes,

Will allow one problem,

Even if it's a capital P problem or capital T trauma,

To become their entire identity.

An abundance mindset does not opt into that,

Does not allow itself to be kidnapped,

Hijacked,

Intoxicated,

Seduced by one aspect of reality as the entire definition of their biography.

No,

We're not doing that.

Okay,

So I hope we have established a little bit about what it means to have scarcity mindset versus what it means to have an abundance mindset.

Okay,

Now let's talk about a practice,

Right?

And again,

This practice might be,

You know,

Edgy and controversial and it might just be like,

Oh wow,

I feel awful doing it.

But listen,

Sometimes we got to get out of our comfort zone for true liberation to happen,

To happen,

Right?

So I want to teach you something that is edgy,

That is a little controversial,

That is a little,

A little bit,

Ooh,

This is fresh,

You know?

This is really pulling me out of my comfort zone.

It's laughter yoga.

And you're like,

Okay,

Cool,

I can laugh,

That's fine.

But I want us to laugh at things that we don't normally laugh.

And the reason why I want us to laugh at things that we don't normally laugh,

It's because we can have that break,

That shatter,

That crack that helps us to see our problems in a new lens.

You know,

Because two people can experience the same problem and one of them could go into an entire spiral about it.

And another one could be open and see as an opportunity for growth,

As an opportunity to develop their resilience,

To flex their resilience,

You know?

So it really varies.

So I want you to be able to develop the capacity to be resilient in the face of any problems,

Any challenges,

Any painful events.

And this laughter practice that I'm going to teach you,

This laughter yoga practice I'm going to teach you,

It is edgy.

I'm not saying it's not,

But it will help you to go,

Oh,

Wow,

I am so rigid.

I am so restricted in various ways in my life.

That's fine,

Honey,

I've been there too.

Okay?

And the first time I did this too with my teacher,

I was like,

Whoa,

This is weird.

But it works.

It really does move you outside of your comfort zone.

And listen,

We're not laughing at our problems to neglect,

Bypass,

And pretend that they're not happening.

We are laughing at specific things in our lives that I'm going to guide you through as a way to soften our limited perspective,

As a way for us to open up and see something else that we're not seeing,

You know?

When you walked on the street with someone who is in a rigid mindset,

In a scarcity mindset,

And you walked on the street with someone who's in an abundance mindset,

Abundance mindset is seeing opportunities.

It's seeing beauty.

It's seeing,

You know,

The sunshine,

You know,

Touching the leaves and seeing how the leaves dance on the wind.

A scarcity mind is only seeing,

It's only criticizing and judging and listening into gossip and listening into negativity and kind of like their minds are,

It's almost like they're walking through two different streets.

So I want us to be able to walk the streets of life with laughter,

With joy,

Not as a means of bypassing,

But as a means of liberation.

Because we are not allowing the pain that's inevitable in life to bring us down.

We are not.

We are learning how to ride the waves of life and that's what makes you a spiritual warrior.

Recognition that pain is inevitable and suffering is a choice.

Recognition that stuff will continue to happen,

But it's how we relate to it that dictates our next moment and our next moment.

Okay,

So with that in mind,

Let's just take a deep breath and an exhale.

Now take another deep breath in and I want you to exhale and I want you to start saying these words ho ho ha ha ho ho ha ha ho ho ha ha ho ho ha ha ho ho ha ha breathing in and then exhaling ho ho ha ha ho ho ha ha ha ho ho ha ha ha ha ho ho ha ha ha ho ho ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha it's already starting to kick in for me okay but let's go breath in ha ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho if it becomes contagious don't stop it okay now breath in and then hold you release that breath once you release that breath you can tell that I'm still holding it I'm going to laugh out loud at least try to fake that laughter okay okay that's a good one that's a good one so let's start with something that you are afraid of and you may say I am afraid of blank and then see if you can just allow maybe allow is not the the right word maybe if you can see if you can like fake a big laugh here and see what happens and we can go as far as saying I am afraid of dying I'm afraid of death and then let's see what happens I'm afraid of death I'm afraid of death ha ha ha ha oh my god I'm afraid of dying oh my god I'm afraid of dying ha ha ha ha I'm afraid of death ha ha ha ha ha see if you can do it okay see if you can do it I'm going to give you two minutes on the clock actually no I'm going to give you one minute to name your problem and and excuse me no name your problem say what you are afraid of and laugh out loud so go starting now okay I hope you got a good laugh good job now let's try another one something that you don't like about yourself so I can go first I don't like my acne scars on both of my cheeks I don't like my acne scars ha ha ha ha ha I don't like my let it come let it be contagious let it take over you name what you don't like about yourself and then allow the laughter to become contagious okay go three two one let's do it together I'm going to continue to laugh a little bit to try to get you going and then I'm going to give you one minute for you to just like indulge yourself in laughter so I don't like my acne scars acne scars I know I broke a sweat honey your turn if you haven't started yet go one minute of practice here good job my darling good job beautiful let's try one last one the last one might be the edgiest this one is a problem that you are currently having so let that problem come to mind it could be a symbol as actually let me refrain from doing that let the problem that you're currently having come to mind name that problem and then see if you can you know bust up into full contagious laughter you gotta fake it till you make it but this is a practice so let's see if we can give ourselves the full experience of what the practice can offer us by turning up the laughter so I can start the problem currently having is I am extremely heartbroken because of my mother's death and extremely heartbroken because of my mother's death and like how can I laugh at that this is the challenge this is the edge it's not laughing at that as putting it down or or being ridiculous about it no it's a choice to open up and not let the heartbreak consume me but let the heartbreak open me up and the power of laughter can offer us that a perspective shift try it see what happens for you so I'm gonna do it and I feel if I feel uncomfortable even doing it too but I want we're doing it together right so I the problem my the problem currently having right now is I'm so heartbroken because of my mother's death I'm heartbroken I'm so I'm so heartbroken I am so heartbroken oh my god I am so even I almost lost my breath here honey okay 30 seconds for you and then we gotta start bringing this into a close okay my darling listen well done good job now take a moment to reflect how do you feel I feel alive I feel energized I feel like I have the energy to go on a long walk I feel like I can call someone and share how awkward this practice was but how alivening it was how life-affirming was so how are you feeling and please share um how you doing how this practice was for you in the discussion forum and um take good care of yourself I love you very much and thank you thank you thank you for practicing

Reviews

Bit opened mouth to start with and thinking “nah it’s not for me” and attached a story but I stuck with it and let go of a lot of stuff. Thank you 🙏

Yes. This was just what my brokenheart needed this morning. I had a hard time sleeping last night bc if stress. Opened this app and said to guide me to what I truly needed and this was it. Thank you

This practice does make me feel lighter by the end and more optimistic. Thank you. I also hope you feel better about the loss of your mom. I wish I knew how to turn the pain of loss into happy memories, but at least there is hope in that it is not as frequent or gut wrenching as when it was fresh. >>HUGGS<<

Excellent! Laughter is the best medicine. It’s been long time ago I’ve laughed so much. Thank You

This was such a release, I was laughing then crying. Thank you for sharing this practice 🙏🏻💖

It felt so good to have a good laugh about our pains in life. Loved it! 😂

Love the authenticity. Felt like they were in the room with me, receiving their unconditional love.

Love this so much. What a radical practice. And I love you Sah.

The message you shared is very helpful. Thank you. I'm going to try laughter yoga with my kids at home and at school. 😆🤣

What a gas! Harder than I thought but a practice I want to do on the regular!

I found it easier than I thought I would as I rarely find something funny enough to laugh out loud. Yet at the end when I was thinking about not wanting my dad to die, tears were rolling down my cheaks as I laughed. So I realised how quickly you can flick the switch between happiness and sadness and therefore vice versa with the power of choice and mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you 💜

Wow!! Yes!!! This was crazy! And I loved it. You are amazing Sah!!
I heard my laughter for the first time in a long time. My real laugh. Not the fake one I use to appease people. I love you! You are an excellent teacher and I enjoy the spiritual messages you have been gifted to share with us, through you.
You are a gift from heaven. Please know that. 🤗❤️🤗❤️😘

Thank you! Grateful for your guidance and sending love to your heart.

One of the most authentic and edging practices I've ever had. It was stimulating and really made a change in my personal obstacles. Thank you so much!! I'd like to know you!!! You're such a great human being!! Thanks for sharing this challenging meditation!!! By the way where do you live? I hope you can read this one day!!! Have a magnificent and abundant life, you deserve it!

This was my first meditation I’ve had with you and I absolutely loved it! It was a little different but that’s what I loved about it. Gained a new follower 💗💗

What a wonderful practice! It felt very refreshing to laugh at my fears. Some tears did surface but I was happy for the release. I will definitely be returning to this practice. Thank you Sah!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Esta práctica me dejó sorprendida congelada!!!!
Me encanta la seguiré practicando hasta lograr la carcajada 🤣. Muchas, muchas gracias por estos significativos regalos 🎡

You have a very very good laugh. Your topics were very funny indeed. Well done. 🙏🏼❤️

Holy shit! So good! What a different way to approach things! 😂😂

Challenging but I loved laughter yoga and as always your beautiful emebrrgy. I will be doing this practice more often