Intro: [00:00:00] Welcome to Energetic Advantage, the podcast where energy isn't woo, it's your edge. I'm your host, Jessica Cerato. Intuitive strategist, lifelong pattern decoder, lover of numbers, and energetic guide for visionary leaders. Around. Here we go. Energy first, strategy second. Every episode will give you a perspective, a tool, or a timeline shift that helps you lead from your power.
Because the truth is your energy is your most undervalued asset. Until you learn how to use it, get ready. You're about to have the advantage. Let's begin.
Okay, today we are starting with a joke. What kind of pants does a psychic wear? Paranormal pants. Okay, please, please don't turn it off. I will always continue to share jokes, whether they're funny for others or not, uh, because [00:01:00] that is exactly the point of today's episode. If you cannot laugh. You are probably gripping too hard, and today of all days is important to let go and laugh a little bit.
So it's April 1st, April Fool's Day, and if there was ever a perfect day to talk about humor, levity, and why you do not need to take yourself so seriously to do serious energetic work, this is it because. You know, somewhere along the way, especially in the spiritual and personal growth space, someone decided that depth had to mean heaviness, that if the work was real.
Using air quotes, it had to be intense, dark, serious, serious faces only here, and I just don't agree and I never have, which is probably why I've got kicked out of some of those spiritual spaces, but I [00:02:00] know that is not for me. Here's what I see all the time when people approach energetic work with only seriousness.
Yeah, everything starts to feel personal. Every delay feels like a failure. Every challenge feels like a test. Every moment of friction turns into, ah, what am I doing wrong? And then life starts to feel like it's messing with you. Like the joke is always on you. And that is exhausting. And I'm gonna be honest here.
It's not even how energy works by being serious. You are not working with energy more seriously. In fact, you are missing out on one of the energetic advantages that are most important for a lot of people. Which is humor. And so if life lately has felt a bit heavier than it needs to be or if you're just really wanting a good [00:03:00] laugh, this episode today is your permission slip to do it differently.
Today I'm gonna share why humor is integral to this work and why it's one of the most underrated tools we have for transformation, how humor makes. Energy work more precise. And I'm also gonna share some real life examples to get you laughing. Yes. Uh, but hopefully also to inspire you to bring in a bit more humor and levity, not only into your work, but your life.
You know, one of my greatest inspirations in this realm of my work is my grandma. Hi grandma. Well, she's dead. She, she's not listening to me. It via the regular way that you all are. But she does talk to me every day, and my grandma was born on April 1st, happy birthday, which is when I really think about it, it makes so much sense.
this is a woman. Who went back to high school [00:04:00] when we were kids and asked my brother, who I think it was in like grade three or four, to tutor her. We taught her how to drive later on in life, and I will never forget her behind the wheel of the car. My dad in the front seat, and me in the back, and we would get to a stop sign.
And my dad would say, you gotta go up a little bit further, mom. You gotta pull up a little bit further. And then he would make me get out, run to the middle of the street, put my hat down to where she should go. She would go there, turn away, and then I would run after the car to try to jump back in. And you know, she just kept expanding.
Even when, you know, society or life was like, you know enough now enough, she did it all with humor and she did it in a why not way. You know, she [00:05:00] told a lot of stories which always included. Lo and behold, I'll get back to that little saying in a second. And you know, this energy is really powerful and I really wanna say this clearly, spirit.
Is funny. It's not sarcastic, it's not cruel, but sometimes it can be really clever. It can be playful, and it can be cheeky. And if you've ever received guidance that made you laugh right after you cried or made you laugh right before you cried. You know what I mean? There's a reason for that. There's a reason why humor is so important and powerful when we're working with energy, you know, from a nervous system perspective alone.
Let's start there. Laughter lowers stress hormones. It pulls you out of fight or flight. It creates flexibility in the brain, which means when you [00:06:00] laugh, your brain literally sees more options. It reminds you that you actually have access to more options than what's right in front of you. So the translation here is if you can laugh.
You can shift. If you can laugh, you can transform. And I tell my clients this all the time. If you're laughing and crying in the same session with me, that is not confusion. This is integration, crying opens up the heart, laughing, releases control, and that's why someone can come into one of the sessions completely overwhelmed and leave lighter, even if.
Nothing has technically changed yet. They haven't done anything different, but their relationship to the thing changed and that's the work. So, let's go to what happens when humor is missing First. Where I tend to see things go sideways. So when humor is missing [00:07:00] from identity work and energetic work, you know, people start to over identify with their wounds.
Everything becomes heavy. It becomes really meaningful, it becomes serious, and at some point the work stops feeling supportive and starts to feel. A little bit like punishment. And that's usually when people burn out 'cause they're working really hard at healing and they're trying to take their business and their life really seriously.
And it's not because they're doing anything wrong, it's just because it becomes too heavy to carry without burning out. So energetic work. Yes. And also leadership. You know, levity is leadership, levity is not bypassing. Levity when we think about leadership is saying, I can see clearly without collapsing.
I can do this deep work without drowning in it. And you do not need to take yourself so seriously to be powerful or make serious impact. This is one of the [00:08:00] favorite. Sayings I say, I can do really serious, impactful work and not take it so seriously because actually taking yourself too seriously is often the thing that slows everything down.
And you know, one thing I know for sure is that the biggest breakthroughs in my life have. Almost never come through those solemn serious moments, right? They've come through humor, they've come through levity, through those moments. That really made me laugh out loud and like immediately go, okay, message received.
You know, it reminds me of a time I was very earnestly asking for a sign. I was very sincere. I was very focused. I was 20 years old and I was in Venice, Italy. I had just gotten off the train and I had nowhere to stay and. That was a summer, which I'll share about in another episode where I planned my entire itinerary on flipping a coin.
I really had no idea [00:09:00] where I was going until I got there. And when I got there and I realized there was a big festival that weekend and everything was booked, and so I asked for a. And within about 30 seconds, not one, but two birds pooped on my head back to back, and instead of spiraling into, oh, what does that mean?
What is happening to me? I just burst out laughing me a huge backpack. Bird poop on my head. And in that moment the message was obvious. Lighten up. Stop trying to control it. You're supported. You're not doing anything wrong. 'cause of course I was going into, why did I choose to come here, blah, blah, blah. I should have had a plan and at that moment.
Two nuns came around the corner and they took one look at me with bird poop all over my head and they laughed and wouldn't you know it? Long story short, I slept in a nunnery [00:10:00] that night. You can't make this up. You know, another one of my. All time favorite stories in my work is maybe two years ago now, I was hired to do readings at a bachelorette party.
so fun, light, celebratory, and I didn't know anyone there and so I went to the home. We were having a great time. I did a reading for all the bridesmaids, and then I get to the bride and she asked a very serious question about her wedding, like what feels really important that she needs to know about her wedding.
I remember thinking, She's wanting a very serious, impactful answer, right? I just, there was a yearning in her question. I wasn't sure for what, but I was like, okay, I gotta tune in. I gotta pull a card. And what popped into my head and flew outta my mouth [00:11:00] before I could stop it was, please make sure that there are no pickles on the sandwiches, at the reception, or I will personally come down and cause problems.
I remember putting my, hand over my mouth and being like, oh my gosh. I think that I, that was not the serious answer she was looking for. I can't believe that just flew outta my mouth. I thought it was ridiculous. And then the bride starts crying and it turns out that her mom had passed away a few months earlier.
She hated pickles and the way I said it was exactly the way she would've shown up. And as we talked more, we realized that her mom and myself, we shared the same birth card. So of course that message came through me, You know, a lot of people doing my type of work would've scoffed at doing a bachelorette party like that was beneath them.
They're more for the [00:12:00] serious things. And when I got that booking request, I was like, hell yes, I'm doing this bachelorette party. Like how fun is this? if I had judged that opportunity, or even that message that came through me as too silly or not serious enough. This bride never would've received that incredibly meaningful confirmation that her mom would still be there on her wedding day.
You see how pickles is literally bringing me to tears, as I remember that energy when we talked on that day. And this is what I mean when I say humor is not the opposite of depth. Humor is often the delivery system. If I had tried to be polished or profound, I would've missed the truth entirely. Levity is how the message lands and that moment taught me if I sensor the delivery, I block the transmission.
And [00:13:00] honestly, this is why we are all obsessed with memes, right? Think about it. How many Scorpio rising memes have you seen? Or you know, tell me your chart without telling me your chart, or tell me your sign without telling me your signposts, right? We don't share those with our friends, or we don't share them with each other or to our feed because they are academically impressive.
We share them because they land. They say something true in a way that slips past our defenses. Humor is a delivery system. A meme can transmit insight faster than a five page explanation because it bypasses the mind and go straight to recognition. People laugh. Then they pause, then they go, oh, that's me, and that's how this work spreads.
That's how it becomes accessible. Not by being heavier, but by being human enough to share. And you know, I think this is also why my work circulates so naturally. I am not [00:14:00] trying to make energy work feel exclusive or mysterious or heavy. I let it be human. I let it be funny. I let it be relatable when something is shared with levity.
People don't feel like they need permission or credentials to engage with it. They recognize themselves in it. They send it to a friend. They laugh. They say, ah, this is so me. And suddenly the insight has moved. Humor lowers the barrier to entry, and once that door is open, the depth will take care of itself.
That is why this work travels. And that is why I encourage you to embrace more of your humorous side, not because you're trying to simplify something, because you can make it more accessible. And you know, I also want to chat here about humor as its own energetic advantage, because everyone's sense of humor is completely unique.
Think of it like a fingerprint. [00:15:00] So the way you laugh or what you find funny, uh, your timing, your delivery, that's all encoded within you. And that's one of the reasons why humor is such a clear channel for me, because when something comes through with a very specific tone or punchline, I can immediately tell when it's not mine.
spirit does not sound generic and it does not sound like the person it is coming through. Spirit uses recognizable frequency and humor can cut through the noise because it is so precise, it bypasses performance, it bypasses overthinking, and it goes straight to recognition. So when humor is used well, it is not a distraction from the message.
It is the message and that is why it moves faster. It lands cleaner and it sticks longer. Right, and that's why, [00:16:00] going back to these specific things you remember people saying, or even your own cadence, you know, whenever I hear lo and behold, can you believe this is how I'm like, hi grandma.
Grandma has entered the group chat, right? Because I would never say that and I don't know anyone else who says it. so when it comes through like that and makes me laugh. It's not always a flippant or funny message. Sometimes it is a very serious message that I so appreciate her bringing to me, but she has to catch my attention with that snap of the finger, that energetic fingerprint, that humor that I know is uniquely hers.
So as you were listening, I want you to think about the last time you laughed at yourself. Like truly laughed at yourself. And then I want you to think about the things that shifted afterwards. Not [00:17:00] because you minimized the situation, but because you stopped fighting against it. You went in on the joke instead of fighting against it.
This is the energy that I'm talking about, and I know it's only April 1st, but a little bit of a heads up here. In June, humor is gonna be out in full force, and if you can embrace it, play with it instead of fight against it again, if you can play with the universe like you're in on the joke that you can laugh at yourself versus feeling like the joke's on you, June is gonna feel so much lighter.
So. For today though, on April 1st, here is the invitation for you. Where can you loosen your grip just a little bit more. Where could humor bring perspective? Where have you made things so serious [00:18:00] that you forgotten how intelligent and sometimes ridiculous life actually is? And. You know, remind yourself that when you bring levity back online again, we stop feeling like things are happening to us and we know that things are happening through us.
And if this episode made you laugh or smile, or just breathe a little bit easier, send it to someone that you love to share a laugh with. And if you've got a funny, energetic story. Or just a moment where a message came through in a really ridiculous way. I would love for you to come over to Instagram and message me and tell me that I love those stories.
I live for those stories because I am so thankful that I get to do serious work every day while also still laughing at the absurdity of how it works. So. That's it for [00:19:00] today. Go laugh at something, even if it's a bad psychic pants joke. Remember back to how we started this conversation and you know, April Fools Grandma, I'm ready for you.
I know today is just gonna be one of those days where she comes through loud and clear and today I have a feeling it's going to involve some flour and sugar. It's gonna happen in the kitchen, and when it does. I am so grateful and thankful that I recognize humor as my energetic advantage, so I will laugh then maybe cry, but I know I won't cry first.
So happy birthday grandma. Happy April fools to all of you, and spam me with all the memes, all the messages, all the funny stories, because doesn't life just feel so much better. When we can laugh together. Talk to you soon. Mm-hmm.
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