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because crying has become very much associated with sadness. People rarely cry when they are happy; they cry only when they are unhappy, so it has become associated with unhappiness. Unhappiness is cold, happiness is warm. People laugh when they are happy.
Laughter is going to help you right now, so stop crying completely. Whenever you feel crying comes, start laughing. Mm? -- tickle yourself and start laughing. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh so much that sometimes laughter brings tears, and that will be of tremendous help. Then tears will start becoming associated with laughter... and that is one of the revolutionary steps -- to make tears come out of laughter.
After one month report to me. After one month we will see whether now crying will be good; but right now laughter is good. In the morning when you get up, the first thing to do is laugh.
Just sit in your bed and start laughing for no reason at all. And really laugh so hard that you start feeling that the belly will burst: hold your belly and laugh. You will find it difficult only for two, three days, then it will become very easy -- because the whole thing is so ridiculous that one starts laughing at one's own laughter! But that is the first thing to start in the morning.
And in the night the last thing before you go to sleep, have a good laugh, mm? -- that will warm your belly. It is cold, but nothing to be worried about; it will be warmed up!
[Another group member says: In the group many people told me that they love me and I was seeing that I don't love myself enough.]
There are very few people in the world who love themselves -- only very rare people -- so relax! You are a normal person; very abnormal people love themselves! People don't become aware of it, but this group has made you aware of it. You have a clear-cut intellectual understanding: that's why it became very very crystal-clear to you that you don't love yourself. Even others could see it, mm? It is on your face, written on your face, that you don't love yourself. You are an honest person.
It is very rarely that people love themselves, but it is not written on their faces. They keep two books:
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