{"id":13372,"date":"2012-06-07T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=13372"},"modified":"2015-07-18T21:02:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T04:02:38","slug":"june-7-wake-up-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/june-7-wake-up-laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the pills.  Laughter is the best medicine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swami3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13422\" title=\"swami\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swami3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"swami3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Show Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part 1: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Laughter is the best medicine<\/span>: Why are spiritual folks so serious all the time?\u00a0 What are we forgetting?\u00a0If you can&#8217;t smile naturally, then just fake it at first.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crQKXW6lgB4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bridging the political divide<\/span>:\u00a0 How can we have bring the parties together?\u00a0 A spiritual perspective on how we can evolve the conversation to another level during the upcoming elections.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DqcBbqQnnRk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About our Guest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 23 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the &#8220;Cosmic Comic.&#8221; Swami&#8217;s comedy has been called &#8220;irreverently uplifting&#8221; and has been described both as &#8220;comedy disguised as wisdom&#8221; and &#8220;wisdom disguised as comedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the Swami, Steve is the author of Driving Your Own Karma (1989), When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It&#8217;s Worth (1993), Duck Soup for the Soul (1999) and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction (2004).<\/p>\n<p>In his &#8220;past life&#8221; (before Swami), Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School. A political science major, he later taught history to autoworkers at Wayne State University in Detroit as part of the Weekend College. In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, and politics. Subsequent to Pathways, Steve was a freelance writer and co-author with Don McMillan of Friends and Lovers: How to Meet the People You Want to Meet (Writer&#8217;s Digest Books, 1986).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, Steve has written a political blog with a spiritual perspective, Notes From the Trail, hailed as an encouraging voice &#8220;in the bewilderness.&#8221; His latest book, written with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (Hay House, 2009). Steve is active in transpartisan politics and the practical application of Spontaneous Evolution. He can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakeuplaughing.com\">www.wakeuplaughing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/wakeuplaughing.com\">http:\/\/wakeuplaughing.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Events: <a href=\"http:\/\/wakeuplaughing.com\/swamis-calendar.php\">http:\/\/wakeuplaughing.com\/swamis-calendar.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show Highlights: Part 1: Laughter is the best medicine: Why are spiritual folks so serious all the time?\u00a0 What are we forgetting?\u00a0If you can&#8217;t smile naturally, then just fake it at first. 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