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Laugh Yoga - It's Good For You!

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Can Laugh yoga help build a strong immune system, and lead to a healthier you?

 

By Sharon Stajda,

This Is A Laughing Matter...

Laugh Yoga, is a form of yoga that combines breathing exercises with laughter. A physician by the name of Madan Kataria developed the technique simply known as "laughter yoga in the mid-1990s." And recently this unusual form of yoga has become very popular. With Laughter Clubs popping up all over the place! There are over 5000 Laughter Clubs in 40 countries. With multitudes of members that are reaping the benefit of laughter combined with simple yoga breathing exercise.

If you have a good sense of humor, and can sustain a hardy laughter for 15 to 20 minutes without depending upon humorous stimuli, you may be a good candidate for a Laugh Club?

Is there any better feeling than that wonderful feeling you gets after you have laughed so hard you almost cried? It a feeling hard to described. It feels like a ton has been lifted off your shoulders, a feeling of total relaxation, and total well-being.

Plus Research studies have shown that when you laugh you use your stomach muscles along with chest , neck, and facial muscles. The muscles that are involved in laughing are tense while aiding you to produce that laugher. After you are spent, and you are all laughed out, not only the muscles that aided in the production of the laugh, but all the surrounding muscles relax. Leaving you feeling physically relaxed.

The results of the studies also support the theory that laughter can produce feelings of well being. These good feelings are due to a decrease in stress hormones that come with the action of laughing. For example, levels of harmful stress hormones such as, epinephrine, cortisol, dopac, and growth hormone were shown to be much lower in a group that were exposed to humor that resulted in laughter, then the group that was left without the stimulation of humor.

Laughter also appears to have a positive effect on the immune system. Along with other health benefits such as, lowering blood pressure, killing some forms of viral cells that cause various types of cancer, and in some cases even been known to reduce different forms of body pain.

So what could it hurt, get laughing and laugh yourself healthy...

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A hearty laugh - the kind that sends a stream of tears from your eyes - does more than warm the soul. Research has shown the guffaw can cause the lining of blood vessel walls called endothelium to relax, increasing blood flow for up to 45 minutes after the laugh attack. Damage to the endothelium can lead to the narrowing of blood vessels and eventually cardiovascular diseases. That's no laughing matter...or maybe it is...

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It Is To Laugh - Created Through Socializing Games
This article was published in the 1920's... The article gives good example of adult party game's, along with instructions. Game's that "got the party started" in the fashion of the roaring twenties!

Need a few unique party game's, for your next party, if so check out this link. Its a hoot!

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A few very interesting reference article on laughing and its benefits on health...

Habits Of Health --Laughing...
This article was written in 1918... Check out how laughing was recommended for good health--- way back in the early 1900s...

"Health, Strength, and Happiness.-It is interesting to know how the body does its wonderful work. The study of hygiene should result in much more, however, than the storing of your mind with knowledge. It will fail in its main object if it does not lead you to form habits of health which will help you throughout your life. You should think of health as something splendid and worth while. Health means strength, and beauty, and power to do things well, and cheerfulness, and happiness, and usefulness. read more...
Humour And Analysis...
" But if you come to one's daily calling and make the two exceptions of literature and caricature in Art, who has not suffered through the affliction of humour? If the humorist, and I am not now speaking of a merely jocose person, but of one who has a real palate for comedy, happens to be a clergyman, then he runs the greatest risk in his association with good people, for with a few exceptions, ---- " read more
Yoga Breathing...
There is a mysterious "inner breath" known to a few highly developed American Indians and practiced by them when going through fire, under water, through dense smoke or during profound spiritual meditation. Please read more...

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Laugh Yoga...
" Live life laughing
and feel the difference

When the choice is to think or to laugh, laugh.
Fake laughter is just fine.

While laughing you cannot think of anything else,
either you think or you laugh, but not both.

And yes it is perfectly okay to laugh for no reason.
Of course you'll do this privately,
or have the phone to your ear and laugh,
as if someone is telling you a funny one. read more...
Ha ha yoga ---
"Groups gather for forced laughter to gain health benefits, and, no joke, they get it..."
Yoga Laugh Club Locator...
"This Laughter Club directory is offered as a public service by the Dr. Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga. Please understand that all Laughter Clubs worldwide are locally managed and fully independent from us, and we have no control over them. Most Laughter Clubs are free and public. Some may charge or invite for donations. We strongly encourage you NOT to participate or stop participating to activities you feel uncomfortable with."

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