Vibrational Hack: WULFING (Wake Up Laughing With Tiffany Caudill)

If you’re someone who has ever woken up feeling exhausted or anxious, this episode’s for you.

Today’s guest, Tiffany Caudill, breaks down how you can bypass those lower vibration morning dread feelings and instead choose to wake up laughing (WULFING). 

WULFING raises your vibration, you feel better, and the rest of your day will unfold with more ease and joy. 

I’m excited for you to meet Tiffany, she’s a mirthologist, yoga instructor, caregiver, breathwork presenter, a laughter enthusiast, and joy practitioner. 

Tiffany’s giving a WULFING Webinar on December 13th, 2023, at 10am PDT where you can learn even more about this incredible practice.
You can register here: Www.WULFnow.com

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Learn more about Tiffany and her Wellness Modalities: www.mirthologist.com

Learn more about WULFING: Www.WULFnow.com

Follow Tiffany’s HaHa Laughter-Van journey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hahalaughtervan

Transcript

0:10

Welcome back to the Law of Happy Podcast. I'm your host, Lauren Tattler. I'm an attorney and I teach laughter as an exercise. When we laugh, we feel good, and we raise our energy. This allows more good fun things to flow into our experience. This is the Law of Happy, so let's laugh half fun and practice the law of Happy together. If you are someone who has ever woken up feeling exhausted or anxious, this episodes for you, today's special guest, Tiffany coddle breaks down how you can bypass those lower vibration morning dread feelings, which are quite common. And instead, choose to wake up laughing. The acronym for Tiffany's practice is wolfing. When you wake up laughing or wolfing, your vibrational rise you'll feel better and the rest of your day will unfold with so much more ease and joy. How amazing is this? I'm excited for you to meet Tiffany. She's a mythologist yoga instructor, caregiver. Breathwork presenter. The laughter enthusiast and joy practitioner. Please join me now and giving a warm welcome to tiffany

GMT20230220-191843_Recording_gvo_1280x720 1:10

Stephanie, welcome to the Law of Happy Podcast. I'm so happy that you're a guest today. Thank you so much for being

Tiffany 1:15

here. Thank you for inviting me.

Lauren 1:18

I'm really excited, you're a really special person and we're just meeting for the first time, virtually now, but I feel like I know you because our mutual laughter friend Duncan Cook, connected us. I also heard about you through our mutual laughter friend Albert Nuremberg. So you're, well known in the in the laughter community and respected and you do incredible things. Through your traditional yoga community. Is that how you

Tiffany 1:42

Yes. Found yoga? Yes there was a, moment when we studied all the different branches and we saw Dr. Ter introducing what Laughter yoga was. So in 2019, after I resigned for my job and happiness just wasn't in the air anymore, I had to go find what this, what is this laughter, I wanna know more about this'cause I'm really missing it and it's important to me. So I found a teacher and then a month later the world shut down. But the whole laughter community was online and it was ah, It saved my life. It was a life vest. It is a life vest, but I'm still wearing it.

Lauren 2:24

Yes. That's incredible how everything just unfolded the way that it did

Tiffany 2:28

I've been interviewing people on how laughter saved their lives, and it's interesting how the the laughter tree has so many different branches that I've discovered. People use laughter to heal from cancer grief addiction. Stress, anxiety. P t ss it, the branches go on and on. But the branch of laughter yoga from Madonna Katar back in 1995, you got a group of people to laugh in the park for self studies and to, check it out. But they were relying on comedy and jokes to laugh as we do. And, that worked for a little while, but then it became a little bit the, dark side people were using jokes about other people. And so it didn't, it wasn't resonating as well. And so he Transformed it into something that could be more of an exercise because the body doesn't know the difference from what our mind is, powerful to direct feelings in our body, but we can also tell the body to laugh for no reason. And so we use, instead of comedy and jokes, we use exercises to make ourselves laugh. And, as Albert says, you, you are what you act. That documentary that he created is that you can pretend to laugh. Your body doesn't know what's going on. It thinks it's laughing, if it, and so we still are reaping all those beautiful benefits, those happy hormones that are dumped out into our system that. Why we laugh is to feel good. And so we go through laughter exercises and before you know it, once you're into the practice or you're with other people and there's some contagion going on with the laughter, you are really harvesting health is the wealth and health of laughter inside your body. And one of my favorites is the drinking laughter. And so we have some drinks here and we're gonna do a mix and we pronounce long vowels and then we kick it back with the laugh. So we go, yes. Oh,

Lauren 4:45

and I just wanna mention, I don't wanna catch up, but I just wanna mention, because a lot of people are, I think, are gonna be tuning in audio only. To describe this so they can follow along

Tiffany 4:55

listening, hold up here as you're holding two, two mugs. And you're going to tip your top hand into your bottom hand as if you were pouring drinks into other cups. And you do them. You take an inhale and you exhale as you pour a, then you get back. You pretend to drink it with a laugh as you go through the motion of that. That's pretty practiced for me, and it didn't sound like a real laugh, but that's good because your body is practicing letting yourself do it, getting outta the emotion, getting out of the judgment. There's when you're in the beginning of practice, you feel really dumb. You're just like, this is dumb. I feel dumb. But let's do it again. And, I'm just gonna go right into laughter. And you're a laugher too, so we'll make it more real. Here we go. Yes. A

Lauren 6:14

We're drinking and laughing.

Tiffany 6:21

And that one's my favorite because alcoholism's in my family and alcoholism sucks and it's ruins everything so much better without it. So that's my favorite laughter drink because I can have control over my body and with the choices that I make to be healthy. I don't have to be an alcoholic. I don't need to go drink. I, don't, I can heal that family wound of alcoholism with laughing. It really is a life fact of how we can change the way we feel with things.

Lauren 7:03

And we're not laughing at anyone or, we're not laughing at a at an upsetting situation, but we're choosing to find the laughter within ourselves so we can move up in our own emotional scale. And to, just to feel more grounded and better and to use it as yeah, a cathartic experience. Yeah.

Tiffany 7:22

There's some, there's really something into it That's what laughter does it, it's a vibrational hack, life hack, a safety vest, however you wanna describe what it really does as a medicine, as a prescription. Laughter to me, is creating a new vibration that brings us out of stuff. Like the worrying that we can go into about the wolfing. Yes.

Lauren 7:50

Thank you. I wanted to learn more about what you've created this new concept. Can you please share? Yeah. Start

Tiffany 7:57

sharing. So in, in the journey of depression, chronic depression that I was severely developing as a caregiver, I went to bed worrying. I was chronic worry. Oh I'm just so exhausted from the day. In that process, I discovered I was celiac. So the food I was having, dietary issues raising five children, they all are young adults having problems. Alcoholism's in the family, drug use is in the family. It is just, everything sucks. And I decided that once laughter was starting to help me float,'cause it was becoming that life jacket, I said, I gotta do something with this. I'm, smart enough to know that I have control over what I do. Stop worrying about everybody else and what they are doing and what they're not gonna do for you. I need to do for me. And that starts right now with this chronic stress. So the word stressed, S T E Ss, ss e d is a back acronym. If you flip that word, it spells the word desserts. And I said, that's exactly what I'm gonna do. So I decided instead of worrying, you're gonna wake up laughing. Wolfing, wake up, laughter. Fun wolf. And then I put the I n G, so the full acronym is Wake Up, laughter, fun, and now Gratitude. I am grateful I'm alive. I am grateful for this pillow. I'm grateful for the food that I can eat. Oh, boy did I starve. Is this wolfing idea that I'm going to wake up smiling, I'm gonna chuckle in my throat, I'm going feel gratitude for my pillow, and I'm gonna conquer this day. I'm gonna put my feet on the ground with a ho ha and I'm gonna sing, and I'm gonna move. I'm gonna show up. I'm gonna show up today. I'm gonna show up online with my laughter friends. And when I'm not laughing online, I'm going to turn to this picture on the wall of my child when he was four years old, and go, ho Ha with him. I don't care who thinks I'm crazy, I don't care because you know what? I'm not worrying anymore. I'm not worrying anymore. I'm gonna go to bed smiling, and I'm gonna wake up smiling and I'm gonna anticipate, oh, that's, there's so much joy and anticipation. I'm gonna wake up. I'm gonna laugh and I'm gonna feel good. Now, when the body's soar, when you have a headache and, or you've injured yourself. When we wake up, we feel our body, we feel, ugh the, to-do list or the argument and when we laugh, it doesn't mean that all this stuff goes away. All that stuff. Real life is still happening. It's just we get to decide what attitude we're gonna do with it. That to-do list can really stress somebody out, or they don't get the privilege to wake up whenever they want to. The alarm's, waking them up. Laugh at the alarm. Laugh at the to-do list. The monkey mind, it doesn't stop. That's its job. It's supposed to do that. So when the thoughts come in the to-do list or the person you had an argument with or whatever feeling you're having, you just say, I see you. I feel you. I know you're there and I know you're here to help me, protect me and keep me safe. Thank you. I'm safe, I'm healthy and I'm protected. We can talk later. I'm gonna come back to doing my laughter practice and, yeah. So Wolfing is a very interesting life hack to help propel you to have a good seat in the day.

Lauren 12:12

Yeah, Wow. That's powerful. You mentioned so many people go to sleep worrying about stuff that went on in the day Yeah. And, about the future and the past. And then we wake up in that same pattern again, where we're just, we wake up worrying with, anxious thoughts. What's your routine? So you go to sleep feeling better and wake up feeling better?

Tiffany 12:35

Thank you. So I think there's many different practices that a individual can choose from and find what works best for them. What works best for me is feeling more in the body, feeling A little bit more than yoga nidra.'cause yoga nidra is, an activity. But I like to enjoy the feeling of falling into sleep. And I've noticed that it comes in layers and it takes time, and I have to allow myself time. And when I go to bed, I am in a state of, oh, this is when I get to feel my body. I get to rest, I get to reminisce about the days, whether I can choose to reminisce about the good parts of the day or reminisce about the bad parts of the day. It, all comes down into a different type of meditation. The meditation is going down down, deep, and there's anticipation of the joy of waking. So I go to bed anticipating the joy of wolfing in the morning. And my body's time is sleep time. That's when our cells rejuvenate. That's when our body gets to start over. So there's almost an anticipation of joy, of getting into the bed, smiling. There's nothing to smile about. I am putting a smile on my face. I could find something in my mind to smile about, but when I change the, Cece of my face, it tells my brain I'm safe. And if my face can tell my brain, my body can tell my brain I'm safe, then my whole body is set to be able to go into those layers of sleep, anticipate waking, anticipate what's gonna happen next. So that's been my meditation, is feeling the layers of sleep and healing the body and knowing this is my body's time. It's been traveling with me all day today. This is my body's time. And, then the gratitude really starts to come in, even if it's hurting. Yeah.

Lauren 14:58

Thank you for sharing that. That's very helpful. And I think it can help a lot of let's say night owls wind down. Yeah. And really embody or understand the importance of sleep and get into bed faster so that you can anticipate all the good things gonna be going on while you're sleeping. And then anticipate waking up smiling and laughing. So how do you, do that? I just, if you can walk us through that. So

Tiffany 15:24

there is a process. So we, upon waking, we feel our body, we come into the sense of, in a natural wake up scenario. We feel our body, we hear our ear, my or something in our ears turns on and all our senses are there to protect us. So we're, feeling our body. Where in I. And then we hear the environment Sarah Tiger in the bushes. And then that we we, our eyes might flutter open or we open and shut them open and shut them. And we're breathing naturally. We don't have to think about breathing. And then our voice might be a little bit cold, so we warm up the engine. And you can do that in several ways. You can slightly just and if you are in the practice of gratitude, you can, your pillow or my blanket. Just get the, engine warmed up in the throat. Also yawning. Yawning is a beautiful antidote. We stretch, we make noises. And I like to make funny noises when I yawn. It feels good. And there's different ways you can play with yawning. Once you get into the practice of wolfing, play with the yawn, play with the It just makes silly, funny noises, really. You let the veil off and connect with your inner child. What's fun is that when you notice, when you're waking up and your audio nerve turns on, when you start making funny sounds silly, sounds loving sounds, pleasurable sounds, your ears are resonating into your brain, sending a signal that you're safe and that you're having something pleasurable going on, or whatever that is. If the body don't know at that time, but your mind is hearing something in the environment, that's delicious. Okay, so there's a dessert out there. Okay? We're taking the stressed and putting it into dessert. The dessert is right here in your throat. Or the yawn or the silly noise. I'll, yeah. Once you get into the warmup and the practice, you can, before your feet hit the floor you're yawning, you're stretching, you're making silly noises, you're squeezing your pillow and you are ready to conquer the day. You can do that other height that life hack of going Yes, yes. do power poses? Yes, I'm ready for the day.

Lauren 18:27

So after you've done the warmup sounds and the yas and the silly sounds, then you can just allow your laughter to, to flow with the power

Tiffany 18:35

poses. All the laughter to flow is a great way to, describe that. It takes a minute, but when your engine's warmed up, there you go. You can do it in the shower. You when the alarm, if you don't have the you know it's not a Sunday morning and you're sleeping in, you have to get up and that alarm's coming on. You can actually, if your alarm's on the phone, you can get an app where the laugh, you can have a laughing alarm. Or something that you think is funny. There's a friend that loves goats and so he put his alarm to be goat and he wakes up the goats and he, wakes up laughing because there's his environment is, helping him do that. That's part of wolfing. So wake up laughing. Some of us, we need coffee first. Get your cup and drink. Ha And drink your coffee. Ha, bring my coffee. The, like we were doing with our drinking, laughter laughter, yoga, exercise. Some people laugh in the shower and yes, some people do cold shower. It really is the embodiment of getting that throat to open up, to tell your ears you are happy and you are safe. And that's.

Lauren 19:55

I love it. And and the key is to start that process as early in the day as possible, right? So the rest of your day early,

Tiffany 20:03

within the first unfolds, within the first, before your feet even hit the floor, the first 10 minutes Okay. And then continue, right? Continue

Lauren 20:12

right.

Tiffany 20:14

Yeah.'cause the, stresses are gonna come in, how can I flip the script now? Social convention, right? We don't laugh at people. We don't there's a serious situation. We don't laugh at that. You can choose when to laugh, but it's what I discovered in the, laughter interviews, it's our antidote in life that we've been born with. We're born knowing how to cry and communicate through our cries and our laugh. Those are the only two things we have when we're here. And they keep us surviving. They, help us survive and laughter as well as crying. But laughter is that anecdote that we get to use to shift the vibration into a higher level. To feel safe, protected,

Lauren 21:13

and happy. I l love how you've broken it down and shared what you shared. Thank you. So there's so much that I wanna just keep burning from you and Yes. But I, wanted to I don't know if, how if, we can get into this briefly now, but your, project and what you're doing, but with interviewing people about how laughter Yeah. Saved and changed their lives is, incredible. H how did when did you start this and are you doing this and how can people learn more about it?

Tiffany 21:47

Thank you so much. On Facebook, I created a page called the Haha Laughter Van. And on there I am posting snippets of my interviews. I have about 45. And I traveled the whole west coast down from Santa Fe, New Mexico, all the way up to British Columbia and Alberta to a place called Prince George was my highest peak. And I interviewed people who use laughter professionally as laughter yoga enthusiasts that help transform other people's pain, as well as some people who are discovering what laughter is really doing for them. People who've had chronic seriousness, cancer, recovering addiction, grief loss, relationships, P t ss stress, chronic depression, suicidal tendencies. It goes on and on because laughter saved my life from chronic depression, I felt as, a teacher, my dharma is, to teach I needed to find something more about this. I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one. And I believe that here in this Earth School, we are each other's teachers, and I wanted more information. And these interviews really started from the core of my depression, my transformation, and now my derma as a teachers to go out and get more information and share it. Do I wanna say that I got to laugh and enjoy my life? Or do I get to worry about what I worried about? That never really existed anyway. What really exists? The laughter or the worry, they both exist, but their vibrations are different. I wanna spend my time in joy. Yes. And I need to create it because my environment isn't always gonna give it to me. I have to create it to get it out. Joy isn't just gonna come to me. I have to create it just like I create worry. But worry pulls me down and Joy pushes me up. Great. And I can do that for myself. And in the big picture, I can help other people have it be witnessed, be shared, just like we're doing right now. It, is a fire enough to just say, I love you. How can I just say I love you? Because laughter brought joy to me to say, I love you to me, and now I have the power to say I love you. And then it gets bigger and more people. And more people. If we all had that same vibration and we all love, we all joy, we all laugh and the world begins to be a better place and it's full of desserts.

Lauren 25:10

I love you. You're an incredible teacher and inspiration and I. Everything you're doing is so important and so needed and, is just a blessing.

Tiffany 25:21

I bought a van and I toured the whole co I drove, I've driven like 12, 12,000 miles. But in the process of that, I woke up and I was like, it's a new day. A new way. New way, new day. And it just was this mantra that, wow, it is a new day. And as part of that anticipation of when you're going to bed, anticipating waking up, there are many people in hard situations, addiction, abuse. Homelessness, disease. And it's hard. It's so hard. But we have an internal antidote. It's possible to find it. It's so right there. And I was in the trenches and now I've gotten outta that rutt. Getting out of the trenches through laughters floated me up. I'm here to help other people find their way out too. And and yeah so, I'm just here, I'm here to, serve my gifts.

Lauren 26:50

You've got amazing gifts and So Tiffany, thank you so much for having been a guest and for sharing everything that you've shared. And I, there's so much more to talk about and so one day I'd love to have you back so we can continue this conversation.

Tiffany 27:06

I'll just come over. Yes

Lauren 27:09

I'm in Montreal right now and I dunno whether that's along your route Thank you so much Stephanie. This was amazing. Yeah, I just wanna keep thanking you and talking and laughing and thank you for everything that you're doing, for being here and for being you. And we can do our goodbye laughter wave and laugh,

Tiffany 27:32

queen laughter.

27:47

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