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What if the most powerful healing tool you have is already inside you, costs nothing, and works even when you fake it?

In this joyful, science-packed, and deeply moving episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah sits down with twin sisters Sarah Routman and Rachael Siegelman, authors of "Discover the Power of Laughter: Jump Start Your Journey to Health and Joy" a book 10 years in the making. These two women have spent decades researching, living, and teaching the transformational science of intentional laughter, and what they share in this episode will change the way you think about joy forever.

This is not about being funny. Only 20% of laughter even comes from humor. This is about choosing laughter as a practice, a medicine, and a superpower you can access anywhere, anytime, no jokes required.

"Sarah Routman discovered the power of laughter while living in a hospital room with her seriously ill daughter, turning every day into a fun day by deliberate choice. She also created smile-ups, a deceptively simple exercise that rewires your nervous system one smile at a time.

Rachael Siegelman spent years convinced laughter was not safe for her, until she found herself teaching Sarah's smile-ups to a doctor right before her own breast biopsy, and walked out with new friends and a completely shifted nervous system."

In this episode you will discover:

• Why the body cannot tell the difference between fake laughter and real laughter and why that changes absolutely everything
• The smile-ups exercise, Sarah Routman created, that you can do right now to flood your brain with endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin in under two minutes
• How laughter massages every organ in the body through the diaphragm and why deep belly laughter is one of the most powerful physical medicines available to you
• The science behind Norman Cousins, the man who used laughter to turn a terminal diagnosis into 25 more years of life
• Why laughter shuts down the inner critic and creates the same brain state as deep play, presence, and creative flow
• How to use laughter to regulate your nervous system, shift relationship dynamics, and carry a higher frequency into every room you walk into
• The simple formula: smile, breathe, play, and the laughter glasses exercise you will want to use every single day

Sarah, Rachael, and their guests do several live laughter practices together in this episode. You are invited to play along.

As Sarah always says on The Magic in the Middle, this is where science and spirit meet. Laughter is the bridge. And it is waiting for you right now.

Find Sarah and Rachael's book and free weekly laughter calls at DiscoverThePowerOfLaughter.com.

Join Sarah's free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom. Learn more at marrvelouslife.com.

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