Brigitta and Speaker A lead a live session on using laughter to handle frustration and anger, especially during lockdown. They use rain as a metaphor for difficult emotions and guide participants through singing, dancing, and interactive exercises to shift perspective and choose joy over stress.
And we are live. We are 10 minutes late, 10 minutes late, 10 minutes late. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I had some computer issues and, um, they drove me slightly mental, and then, then I was totally okay with it. You know, sometimes we are choosing how we feel and sometimes we are not choosing how we feel. And if we're not choosing how we feel, then we know about it because we get really angry about technology. So sometimes we can choose and sometimes we can't. When we can, that's great. When we can't, that's great too. It is not our fault if we get mad with technology. It simply means that we are not choosing our feeling. So let, uh, today we are back with the lovely Brigitta, the, uh, the pocket rocket of laughter, the laughter liberator, the human dynamo from North Carolina, the chipperish champion. We'll be talking about chipperish tomorrow, uh, and it is On Monday we did L for laughter. On Tuesday we did A for accelerating our laughter. Today we are doing U for umbrella. Is that what we're doing, Brigitta?
That's what we're doing, but first I think we should just laugh a little bit about this technology.
Yeah, we would choose to laugh. If we could choose, we could laugh.
Exactly.
I can choose right now. 10 minutes ago I couldn't choose, now I can. We'll just laugh about it. I can't believe— I can't believe that it made me angry. Now it doesn't.
Oh yeah. You know what? Laughter just dissipates our laughter. So anyway, so Umbrella. So what is you? Tell us, tell us.
Tell us what's the umbrella? Well, it's about an umbrella, and despite all the sunshine behind Brigitta's— in Brigitta's background in the lovely forest, Today, you need an umbrella, you need an umbrella when you are singing in the rain. Does anybody know, can anybody remember that song? We've got 7 people joining us live wondering what I'm gonna do.
Yes, yes, I remember!
They're wondering what we're gonna do. We, are we gonna sing in the rain? Are we gonna laugh in the rain? What are we gonna do?
We're going to laugh in the rain and we're going to also Why the rain makes bitter better, bitter better, bitter better, bitter better, bitter better, bitter better. And then also slow bitter better, bitter better, bitter better, bitter better. And good thing we have an umbrella and we have some music, right?
We have some music. Okay, so it took me— you can't believe how long it took me to find it. I've tried, I've told I've told Brigitta already. It took me literally two minutes. Didn't take me two seconds. Here we are. I'm singing. I'm singing in the rain. You're singing in the rain. What a furious feeling. Happy again.
You're happy.
It's bad luck to undo them on twice.
Come on, let's dance in the rain.
Is good job isn't right? Then I can't get open. Is it fun?
Is it fun? It does not. It does not matter if we are— if it's raining because we're still having fun.
It's still raining. Yeah, this strange thing. I don't know if you have this in Germany and in America. Do they have this thing called miserable weather? They say, how's the weather? They say, it's miserable. Isn't that absolutely nuts? If we could choose, would we choose to think that the weather is miserable? Why, why would anybody— why would anybody pass this down to their children? They wouldn't do that on purpose, would they?
You know what, I have noticed that the birds, for example, they don't care if it's raining. They still come out and, and they still sing and they, they still are hungry. And, you know, and, and it's just, it's just us. It's, it's our attitude, because rain can be really Really cool because remember when we were, uh, little, we were just— we were stamping in the water and, you know, it was splashing and we were feeling so good about it.
So somewhere along the way we thought that the rain should make us miserable. We didn't think that when we were children, so we— when we were a child, so we picked that up somewhere. I wonder if we could, you know, we need, we, we need a forgettery, don't we? As well as a memory, we need a forgettery.
That's right.
To forget the rubbish that we picked up along the way.
Yeah, so exactly. Uh, my friends, rain is just there. Nature needs rain. We all need rain. And just just yes enjoy the the wonder of all these raindrops falling on our head. Remember raindrops raindrops falling raindrops keep falling on my head.
We could do that next week, couldn't we?
Da da da da da da da. Yeah, it's you know what friends have fun. Let's have fun. No matter. What? What happened from the outside? Because inside, we inside are having the sun is always shining. That's right. It it is shining because laughter, laughter is the connection to our soul. So let's just remember that's let's do what we did. Ho ho ha ha ha.
Have you got any instructions of what they should be doing at home?
Well, I think we can make rain sound, that is.
Repeat after us, boys, girls, ladies and gentlemen.
And then we go.
Uh, slow.
Then it slows down. And, and then, oh, the rain stops! And you know what comes out? The itsy bitsy spider climbs up the spout again. Out comes the sun and And out comes the rain, and then out comes the sun, and the itsy bitsy spider climbs up the spout again.
So can I share something, Brigitte?
Sure.
This is a little bit deep, but it's a great metaphor. The sun is always shining somewhere in the world. The sun is always shining. It's just that a rain cloud has come in front of it and it hides the sun.
Yeah.
But we are the sky.
That's right.
In which the sun and the clouds appear.
Yes, and so let's just, uh, remember that next time we see rain. And, and let's laugh because our time is over, and so let's just laugh it out. See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow, boys and girls. Bye-bye.
Bye.
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