3rd May 2015 - WORLD LAUGHTER AND THERAPY DAY
WORLD LAUGHTER DAY
First Sunday Of Every May
Mission : World Peace Through Laughter
About World Laughter Day
World Laughter Day was created in 1998 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. The celebration of World Laughter Day is a positive manifestation for world peace and is intended to build up a global consciousness of brotherhood and friendship through laughter. Its popularity has grown exponentially with that of the Laughter Yoga movement now counting over 6000 Laughter Clubs in more than 100 countries.
The first World Laughter Day gathering took place in Mumbai, India, in 1998. Twelve thousand members from local and international laughter clubs joined together in a mega laughter session.
“HAPPY-DEMIC” was the first World Laughter Day gathering outside India. It took place in the year 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark where more than 10,000 people gathered at Town Hall Square. It was the largest ever gathering that laughed and bonded together and the event went into the Guinness Book of World records.
Why World Laughter Day
One of Dr. Kataria’s objectives for Laughter Yoga is to promote world peace through laughter. Some people find this idea fanciful, but an understanding of the science of emotions and emotional contagion in particular shows how this might be achieved. The practice of Laughter Yoga causes the body to release certain ‘Feel Good’ hormones into the bloodstream related to feelings of happiness, warmth, unconditional love, bonding, tolerance, forgiveness, generosity, and compassion. Let’s call this a joy cocktail. The presence of this ‘Joy Cocktail’ of hormones and neuro-peptides precludes the production of other hormones and neuro-peptides that correspond with hatred, fear, violence, jealousy, aggression and the emotions associated with war and oppression.
By practicing Laughter Yoga in groups, the level of this Joy cocktail is raised to high concentrations through the multiplier effect: people leaving Laughter Yoga sessions go forth and interact with many people who are in turn affected to varying degrees by this powerful emotional state of joy. They in turn ‘infect’ other people they come into contact with. You can experience this ‘chain reaction’ after your very first Laughter Yoga session. Not only will you cheer up your friends and family but you may also cheer up the bus driver and others on your bus, the people you work with, the staff at the shop and more. They in turn will cheer up others, and so on. By having tens of thousands of laughter clubs all over the world, it will create a positive energy which will change the consciousness of the globe for the better. Actually, the formula for world peace is very simple – one person at a time multiplies it and spread it...
“When you laugh, you change and when you change the whole world changes around you.” Dr. Madan Kataria
Nowadays, people face enormous stress and are at war with themselves. Laughter is a positive and powerful emotion which helps people to change themselves and to change the world in a peaceful and positive way. Laughter is a universal language which has the potential to unite humanity without religion. It establishes a common link between various religions and creates a new world order.
Format
The usual format of WLD celebration is the congregation of laughter club members, their families and friends at some important landmark in their city like big squares, public parks or auditoriums and laugh collectively. They pray for world peace and read out the message from Dr. Kataria.
In India, laughter club members gather in public parks and take out a procession or a Peace march.They carry banners and placards such as -
“World Peace Through Laughter”,
“The Whole World Is An Extended Family”,
“Laugh & Make Others Laugh”,
“Join Laughter Club – It’s FREE!” etc.
“The Whole World Is An Extended Family”,
“Laugh & Make Others Laugh”,
“Join Laughter Club – It’s FREE!” etc.
During the march all chant “Ho, Ho, Ha, Ha, Ha” and “very good, very good, yeah!”clapping and dancing. After walking some distance, they stop to do a few Laughter Yoga exercises and then move on. At the end of the march, they assemble on a stage or platform where laughter leaders conduct a brief 10 min laughter session followed by reading of Dr. Kataria’s message for World Peace.
This is followed by a variety entertainment program of music, dance and laughter contests. One can organize contests with prizes like: Best laughing man / woman / child / senior, Horrible singing contest, etc. Winners are those with the most infectious, natural and effortless laughter for no reason.
100s of Laughter Yoga Exercises To Get You Started
I was recently going through my archives and came across the following list of over 150 Laughter Yoga exercises that a few friends and I put together in 2005, a couple of months after I attended the first formal Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher training in India. All I had been given there was a list of 17 laughter exercises and it left me disappointed and hanging. Laughter Yoga was already in its 10th year by then, but only had 17 documented laughter exercises? That would change, quickly.
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About the author: Sebastien Gendry is the founder and CEO of the Laughter Online University as well as The Laughter Consultants, Inc., a business dedicated to helping those organizations who wish to boost moral and productivity, or reduce stress and costs. A leading global expert on Laughter Therapy, he helps individuals and businesses introduce and/or re-establish the energy of laughter in their lives and work for better health, wellbeing and peak performance. Sebastien has over 10 years of full-time experience in his field working with 1000s on four continents.
As you are about to see, the following list is filled with the essence of what I had been taught at the time, which is lots of playful silliness. It’s interesting, but if you are planning on using it beware. Many of these exercises will be (negatively) judged rather than experienced if you practice them too early in your laughter sessions. Here is my advice: don’t get too weird too fast. Wait at least 10 minutes. (Watch this video for more explanations of what I mean.)
What I now practice has greatly evolved and is much easier to use (see www.laughteronlineuniversity.com/planner). In the meantime, enjoy!
- 1 cm. Laugh: only one short “ha”. People usually laugh because this is unexpected.
- 1 meter laugh
- Age Laughter: Imagine how your laugh would sound when you are double your current age; half of your current age; 10/20/30 years older; ten years younger; as a child; as an infant; 95 / 5.
- Airline Safety Instruction Laugh: first in English, then in French
- Airplane laughter
- Alphabet Laughter: letter off from A to Z; vowels come forth and sound; consonants sound.
- Animal Laughter: donkey; pig snorts; dog woofs; Cheshire cat caterwauls; hoot owls; chimpanzees; gorillas
- Ants in Your Pants
- Apology Laughter: see Forgiveness Laughter
- Appreciation Laughter: look at others as you laugh and appreciate each other. This is a value-based laughter, reminding the participants how important it is to appreciate others. The tip of the index finger is joined with the tip of the thumb, making a small circle. The hand is moved forward and backwards in jerks while looking at different members and laughing in a very gentle manner, appreciating your fellow beings
- Argument Laughter: The leader presents an absurd scenario and seeks a number of volunteers. Two volunteers begin by arguing with each other with laughter and pointing at each other. Substitutes can take their places, or, eventually, two teams can argue against each other, pointing index fingers. Alternately, you don’t need a scenario and you can argue hypothetically.
- Balloon-popping laughter: 2 people try to pop each others’ imaginary balloons that you imagine are attached to their ankles.
- Basketball Throw: someone throws an air basketball and everyone either cheers or groans, depending on whether the shot sunk or missed.
- Beethoven’s Fifth: Ha ha ha haaaaaaaa, ha ha ha haaaa
- Belly Laughs
- Bite a Towel
- Body Scan Laughter: be aware of and/or laugh from hair, scalp, forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, throat; shoulders, arms, chest, stomach, gut, hips, legs, feet, toes, toenails, skin. Body scan can also include: nasal laughter, humming, yawning, coughing, etc.
- Boo-Hoo Laughter: stand, then fake a sad “boo-hoo” while sliding down into a crouch, then laugh while you stand up; repeat a few times
- Bored Laughter: Fake it until you make it (sic).
- Boss Quit Today: cheering is allowed
- Bouncing tiger laughter (from Winnie the Poo), both hands together, palms down, ahead of chest
- Bowling Laughter
- Break March Laughter: A Sergeant-major starts by leading a group of soldiers in standing on the spot, directing them to “march left, … left, … left, right, left” and then, “ha, … ha, … ha ha ha”. The sergeant-major then instructs the soldiers to ‘break march’ when crossing a bridge, that is, everyone steps at their own random pace. The Sergeant-major takes the soldiers on a march where laughter is structured at first then becomes more spontaneous when they ‘break march’ when they cross the bridge
- Broken Motor
- Bus Stop: teen resists laughing or smiling while others take turns telling jokes or in other ways trying to make subject laugh.
- Celebration Laughter: get everyone in the group to come close together and then tell them a secret, for example, “no work tomorrow” and then give high fives and jump around celebrating.
- Cell Phone Laughter: Hold imaginary cell phones; move around to meet different people and interact while laughing; point to cellphone as if pointing to the person you’re talking to
- Cha Cha Cha Ha Ha: Laugh as you dance a la cha cha cha.
- Cheesecake Laughter: throw an imaginary cheesecake into someone’s face (cream pie can substitute; better still, a banana cream pie).
- Chicken Hat Laughter: flaunt it if you’ve got it
- Clean / skin / dry hands while chanting ho ho ha ha ha
- Cocktail Party Laughter: What do you imagine people talk about at cocktail parties ? How do people stand? How do they Sound ? What do you talk about at cocktail parties ? Pick one topic to talk about. Group into threes and snicker with each other over imaginary drinks. Grasp one another’s fingers as if you had been told something just too precious
- Constipation Laughter: squat on an imaginary throne and let go with laughter.
- Cookie Monster Laugh
- Crying laughter (cry on the way down, laugh on the way up)
- Dancers: “We’re all skilled dancers”. Everyone dances skillfully and with style while laughing
- Deck the Halls: … with boughs of holly, ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha
- Don’t Laugh Too Hard Laughter: sometimes we need quiet or medium-volume laughter to not ‘bust a gut’.
- Donkey Laugh: “ee-haw, ee-haw”.
- Dr. Evil: raise a pinky to your chin and snicker. Similar to Evil Laughter where you rub your hands in a mischievous way
- Drinking Straw Laugh place plastic drinking straw between your teeth.
- Driving laughter (with 2 hands first, then putting one hand over eyes)
- Dyslexic Laughter: swing both hands gently from side to side chanting ho ho ha ha ha, which engages both left and right brains.
- Electric Shock: shake hands and imagine receiving an electric shock from touching the person’s hand.
- Embarrassing Scenario: Recall an embarrassing incident and retell it, laughing at the end or throughout. For example, demonstrate a story of raising your hand while in the middle of a very large meeting and say : “I want to say something ……… but I seem to have forgotten what”, then laugh hysterically out of embarrassment or nervousness.
- Emotional Release Laughter: get hit by a wave of emotion, such as insanity laughter, angry laughter, sad laughter or scared laughter.
- Eyes Closed Laughter (when group trusts)
- Face in Belly, Imagine: imagine a face painted on your belly and that it is laughing uproariously.
- Fake Laughter: insincere; “I don’t feel like laughing today”, then do it anyway. Grimace, smile, giggle.
- Fall Down Dead Laughter, or Fall Down Laughing and Go To Sleep: similar to the childhood game of pretending to shoot a person dead and the victim over-dramatizes the death. Alternately, the victim is ‘poofed’ by throwing imaginary magic dust; victim laughs self to death or to sleep.
- Finiculi Finicula: … ha ha ha ha ha …
- Forgiveness Laughter. Greet people one-by-one and both apologize to each other, offering forgiveness to each other. See “Laugh For No Reason”, Kataria, pp. 140-149.
- Freezing Laughter: “It’s winter outside and I’m shivering with cold” (shivers turn into laughter).
- Goalkeeper Laughter: Goaltender stops every shot, laughs and throws it back..
- Golf Laughter: swing an imaginary club
- Gradient Laughter: Fake a frown; fake a smile; giggle, then laugh slowly and gradually increase in tempo and volume.
- Greek Restaurant Laughter: raise an imaginary plate in the air and then smash it on the floor laughing.
- Greeting Laughter – Greet one another in as many cultural styles as you want (indian, japanase, …)
- Guru Laughter : Put one hand over your head and say : “I learn from my mistakes, Ha , Ha, Ha.” Put the second hand over your head and say : “ I learn from others’ mistakes, Ha, ha , ha.”
- Hand on Throat Laughter: Put your hand on your throat, laugh and observe the vibrations. Put your hands on different body parts and observe how they vibrate differently or not at all.
- Happy Birthday Laughter : (to the tune of ‘Happy Birthday To You’): Happy Ha ha to you / Happy ho ho it’s true / Happy tee-hee dear _______ / Happy hey hey ha who ?
- Hawaiian Laughter: Sing aloha ha ha ha as you swing your hips side to side and hands above your head
- Head phone laughter: act the action of putting headphone on, plugging it in taking short deep breath and then jump because the sound it too loud
- Heart to Heart Laughter: (Intimacy Laughter) Hug each other and laugh by feeling the vibrations in each others’ bodies; alternatively, you can hold hands and laugh. The participants come closer and hold each others hands and laugh with compassionate eye contact. One can shake hands and hug each other while laughing if convenient.
- Hearty Laughter: Spread the arms up, pointed to the sky, with head tilted a little back or with chin raised; laugh heartily. Direct your laughter to come straight from your heart. Arms can be brought down as needed.
- Heimlich Maneuver laughter (make a fist and push inward on abdomen, hold breath, then burst out laughing
- Hold Yourself Laughter
- Hot Soup Laughter: Move your hands up and down as if you have had very hot and spicy soup and say: “Hee .. Hee .. Hee” (or, eat sushi with a hidden lump of wasabi, with heat escaping from your nostrils).
- Hugging Laughter
- Hum and Laugh At The Same Time : don’t close lips too tightly; hum and laugh simultaneously. Look at others, making gestures to stimulate each other. Shake hands. Be Playful.
- I Don’t Know Where to Hold Myself, I’m Laughing So Hard
- Ice Cube Down the Back Laugh:
- Imitation Laughter : imitate someone else’s voice, such as a celebrity.
- Insanity Laughter: it can be a lot of fun but be careful to not stay too long
- Intimacy Laughter (see Heart to Heart Laughter): Participants come closer, hold each others hands and laugh with compassionate eye contact. One can shake hands and hug each other while laughing.
- Karate Brick Laughter: hold both hands in front of head (they are a brick); hit the imaginary brick with your head and then laugh as if in great pain.
- Karate Chop Laughter: hold one hand in front of you, imagining that it is a board; hit the imaginary board with your other hand and then hold it as if you are in great pain.
- Laughter bomb (start hands up, whistle on the way down and then “explode” laughing
- Lawn Mower Laughter: start the engine in three laughs.
- Left Side of Mouth Laughter:
- Lemonade laughter: squeeze lemon, add sugar (can be sticky), then drink (can be too sour)
- Lion Laughter: stick tongue out; pose with hands held like lion’s paws; roar and laugh; from belly – no gagging – helps us open up and stretch our psychological boundaries/barriers
- Look Into Someone’s Eyes, Smile and Giggle : The other will laugh without even knowing why.
- Lose Control of Your Knees
- Milk Shake Laughter: Hold two imaginary glasses of milk and mix them by saying Aee .. Aeeee … Ah .. ha .. ha … Alternately, the milkshake spills or participants could throw the imaginary milkshake over each other.
- Motorcycle Starting
- Mouth Wide Open
- Nasal Laughter
- No-Sound Laughing, like Silent Laughter
- Open the Curtains: Go to your window and open the curtains, saying: “Hit me with all the sunlight you’ve got” while spreading arms wide open.
- Opera Singers: “We’re all fantastic opera singers.”
- Orchestra Conductor Laughter: Practice low volume, medium volume and loud laughter; conductor directs volume, intensity and tempo with hands and arms just as an orchestra conductor would direct music. The orchestra could be split into two or more sections. You could also invite ‘guest conductors’.
- Overhead laughter (Pick up a heavy weight on a high shelf and then almost fall back, arms outstretched, laughing)
- Paired Clapping: clap with another person’s hand along with one of your hands
- Party: while at a party you encounter someone you haven’t seen for fifteen years – hug and laugh.
- Paul’s Laugh: guffaw, chuckle and snort like a 3-year-old.
- Pee Laugh: you can’t pee here so cross your legs and laugh
- Penguin Walk
- Pigeon flying laughter (take off flying like a pigeon laughing, going up and down)
- Pigeon Laughter: act like a pigeon, puffing up, moving head and arms while walking around;
- Pigeon poop laughter: wipe imaginary pigeon poop off your clothes
- Plotting To Take Over the World Laughter: somewhat like Sinister, Evil or Villainous laughing
- Pound Your Chest Laugh
- Pull Down Oxygen Mask: three times laughing
- Pull Open the Curtains and let the sun shine on you while you laugh. Alternately, you could imagine that it’s a rainy day, there’s snow, the mailman just arrived, your new refrigerator is just now being delivered or that there are pink flamingos on your lawn.
- Put seatbelt on (3 times laughing ha ha ha ha ha)
- Quiet Laughter: as someone is sleeping in the adjoining room laugh very quietly so as to not awake the sleeping person. End with normal volume when the sleeper awakes and requests a good laugh. (Giggles; Cough; Evil/Sinister; 100/Newborn; left side of mouth).
- Rainy Day Laughter:
- Raising Hands Up Laughter: Observe whether it is easier to laugh with hands up or down. Point upwards; touch the sky; flap hands while they’re up.
- Roller Coaster Ride: 1. Low moan 2. Hands over head; shrill shriek; scream; laugh.
- Running Through Sprinklers with Cold Water or with water that is the ‘perfect temperature’.
- Santa Belly Laugh or Sanity Clause (Marx Bros) Laughter
- School House Burned Down: there’s no school tomorrow, you know what to do
- Serious Laughter, or Try To Be Serious Laughter: Talk with a straight face while trying to not smile or laugh.
- Shake Hands Laughter
- Shake Your Foot Laughter Caution: shake both feet simultaneously only when sitting or lying.
- sheep laughter (or woody-wood pecker laughter)
- Show fire exits (3 times laughing ho ho ho ho)
- Shy Laughter: Hide your face behind your palms and look sheepishly left and right towards other people, then laugh as if you are a shy person and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself or take up any space.
- Sign language laughter: chant ho ho pointing at yourself, then ha ha ha pointing at others and making sure index & hands are pointing down (not aggressive)
- Silent Laughter with Mouth Wide Open: look into others’ eyes and make funny gestures;
- Silly Laughter: goofy Laughter, helping us identify and confront our personal limitations and uneasiness in acting and appearing silly. Act like you did as a child and observe whether it is enjoyable and comfortable for you. Explore the absurd, the ridiculous and the unbelievable.
- Skipping Games Laughter: pick and rehearse a skipping rhyme
- Slow Motion Laughter: move very slowly while greeting people and shaking hands, laughing with slowed-down sound as if you had been filmed and the action is being played back in Slo-Mo.
- Sour Lemon Laughter:
- Sports Audience Reactions: at baseball, hockey, basketball games, tennis, football, volleyball etc.: the group responds to imaginary game events with cheers, sighs, oohs, ahhs, groans, derision, heckling, disappointment or elation.
- Standing Ovation: Direct everyone to stand. Declare a ‘standing ovation’ for yourself or for someone who wants one and lead everyone in clapping, cheering and laughing.
- Stand-up / Sit-Down Laugh: Stand up and smile; sit down with straight face (3–4X)
- Straw Laugh : give straws to hold sideways in mouth, held between teeth, while leader talks.
- Stuck Smile: your face is stuck in a smile pose, like Batman’s Joker; laughter is optional.
- Subway: Group stands in a clump and has a rough ride on a crowded subway, banging into each other and laughing (if participants have signed releases).
- Superhero Laughter: While breathing, spread out super-hero cape while spreading your hands up back and sideways, then hide your inner spirit of laughter as you reverse
- Swinging Laughter This has a lot of playfulness. All the members move outwards by two meters to widen the circle. On instruction from the anchor person people move forward by making a prolonged sound of Ae Ae- Aeeeee, simultaneously raising the hands and they all burst into laughter while meeting in the center and waving their hands. After the bout of laughter, they move back to their original position. The second time they move forward by saying Oh- Oooooo and burst into laughter.
- Tarzan Laughter:
- Tax-Free Laughter: 100% tax-free
- Telescope laughter (making imaginary binoculars with hands
- Throwing Football Laughter (and catching it or not catching it)
- Throwing Frisbee Laughter: (group or individual) If outside, laugh while actual frisbee is in the air, or, laugh while imaginary frisbee is in the air.
- Throwing Magic Laughter Dust: Die Laughing after being hit by Magic Laughter Dust or Magic Laughter Goo.
- Throwing Snowballs and Slushballs Laughter
- Toboggan Ride Laughter: Some people laugh when they hit a bump.
- Trampoline Laughter
- Triad Laughter: sing the notes of the musical triad, ascending and descending (do, mi, sol, do, sol, mi, do), using “ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha”
- Truck Driver Laugh: pretend to drive a big rig, honk your horn and let out hearty guffaws
- Trying to Get to The Ocean While Walking On Very Hot Sand Laughter
- Unconditional Laughter: “Two minutes of unconditional, thought-free laughter, 1.. 2.. 3 .. Go”
- Vowel Movement : laugh with “a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y”.
- Whisper Laughter
- Windmill laughter
- Winnie the Pooh Laughter, or Bouncing Tiger Laughter: put both hands together, palms down, ahead of chest.
- Winter Car Laughter: “chug chug ha ha” when starting a cold engine
- Wiping the Feet Laugh: When you were a kid and you ran through the house your parent yelled: “wipe your feet !” Back then you spread mud all over the kitchen floor and felt ashamed. Now you can finally laugh about it. Wipe your feet and laugh.
100s More Laughter Exercises
Laughter Online Session Planner Demo (Over 100 laughter exercises)
LOU TV Channel (Videos of over 100 exercises.)
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About the author: Sebastien Gendry is the founder and CEO of the Laughter Online University as well as The Laughter Consultants, Inc., a business dedicated to helping those organizations who wish to boost moral and productivity, or reduce stress and costs. A leading global expert on Laughter Therapy, he helps individuals and businesses introduce and/or re-establish the energy of laughter in their lives and work for better health, wellbeing and peak performance. Sebastien has over 10 years of full-time experience in his field working with 1000s on four continents.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. -- Norman Cousins
Steps
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1Learn about the purpose of Laughter Yoga. Laughter Yoga was started by Dr Madan Kataria in 1995.[3] It combines gentle yoga breathing (Pranayama),stretching, and simulated unconditional laughter.[4] When the laughter is practiced in a group setting, the laughter soon becomes genuine.[5] Some of the benefits from laughter and Laughter Yoga include:
- Health benefits: The health benefits of laughter are extensive. After laughing, the positive effects of laughter last up to 45 minutes, benefiting the cardiovascular system and reducing blood pressure;[6] indeed, studies have shown that people suffering from heart disease are 40 percent less likely to laugh in many situations compared to people without heart disease.[7] Laughter even speeds healing.
- Stress relief: Laughter is a means to reduce anxiety and stress, as well as fostering a positive attitude and feeling of happiness.[8] Within minutes of laughing, stress levels drop.
- It's an aerobic workout. Laughter Yoga workouts are good for your heart, diaphragm, abdominal, intercostal, respiratory, and facial muscles.[9] As part of the "workout", endorphins are released, giving you a sense of well-being.
- It restores playfulness in your life. Children laugh up to 300-400 times a day during their formative years, and this reduces to 10-15 times a day as an adult.[10] And, it helps reduce wrinkles to leave you looking and feeling younger![11]
- Laughter can make you more attractive to others, improving your communications, relationships, and maybe even your dating life!
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2Accept that you don't need a reason to laugh – just start laughing.[12] Perform the Laughter Yoga exercises. The following steps will explain the Laughter Yoga exercises that make up each class or session. Your teacher or group may develop their own variants, but these basics are standard and knowing them will help you to practice at home as well as within the group.
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3Clap your hands in front of the heart chakra.
- Focus on your stomach and laugh "Ho, ho."
- Focus on your chest and laugh "Ha ha."
- Change constantly between your abdomen and your chest up and down, and shout, "Ho ho, Ha ha, Ho ho".
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4Lay your hands on your head. Laugh inside your head "He he he", to clean your head of tension.
- Then lay your hands on your chest and shout "Ha ha ha".
- Lay your hands on your stomach and yell "Ho ho ho".
- Concentrate on your feet and trample with your feet on the ground, saying: "Hu hu hu".
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5Do the laughing wave. Bow your upper body to the earth. Have your hands facing down. Focus on the ground. Send your hands upward to heaven. Wail like a siren: "Ha ha ha ha." Perform the laughing wave several times. Through your laughter, connect heaven and earth.
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6Do the welcome laughter. Within a group, keep eye contact and laugh, until all people in the group are happy. At home, look in the mirror and welcome yourself. When you look into the mirror there is always something to laugh about.
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7Extend your hands to heaven. Concentrate on your chest and laugh "Ha ha ha" for a minute.
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8Think the mantra: "May all beings be happy. Let there be a world of laughing." See all people in the world and see ourselves as laughing Buddhas, laughing gods, or laughing holinesses.
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9Sing the Om Song. At the end of your Laughter Yoga, sing the mantra "Om" for one minute. Sing it with your own melody. Sense in which part of your body the Om resonates best. Sing the Om until you are calm. Then proceed optimistically through your daily life.Ad
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Tips
- Laughter Yoga is suitable for everyone, but it will be of especial benefit to people under high pressure and who are stressed or unwell.
- You don't need a yoga mat, or yoga gear. Just comfortable clothing that allows you to laugh!
- Laughter clubs are free, non-profit, non-political, non-religious, and are run by volunteers.[13] The most you should expect to be charged is costs coverage for venue hire, or similar overheads.
- Laughter Yoga is also known as "instant yoga" as it is thought to bring about changes much more rapidly than
Warnings
- Do not laugh at others, only with them. Prefer jokes about yourself in place of humiliating another person for the sake of a joke.
Related wikiHows
- ↑ Harriet Barovick, What's so funny?, http://laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5019:laughter-yoga-in-time-magazine-again&catid=571:news-flash&Itemid=1245
- ↑ Laughter Yoga, http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:what-is-laughter-yoga&catid=85:about-laughter-yoga&Itemid=265
- ↑ Laughter Yoga, http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:what-is-laughter-yoga&catid=85:about-laughter-yoga&Itemid=265
- ↑ Laughter Yoga, http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:what-is-laughter-yoga&catid=85:about-laughter-yoga&Itemid=265
- ↑ Brigid Delaney, The benefits of laughter, http://articles.cnn.com/2007-06-04/health/pl.laughter_1_laughter-club-laughter-yoga-blood-flow?_s=PM:HEALTH
- ↑ Laughter Yoga New Zealand, What is laughter yoga?,http://www.laughteryoga.org.nz/
- ↑ Brigid Delaney, The benefits of laughter, http://articles.cnn.com/2007-06-04/health/pl.laughter_1_laughter-club-laughter-yoga-blood-flow?_s=PM:HEALTH
- ↑ Laughter Yoga, http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:what-is-laughter-yoga&catid=85:about-laughter-yoga&Itemid=265
- ↑ Laughter Yoga New Zealand, What is laughter yoga?,http://www.laughteryoga.org.nz/
- ↑ Laughter Yoga New Zealand, What is laughter yoga?,http://www.laughteryoga.org.nz/
- ↑ Laughter Yoga New Zealand, What is laughter yoga?,http://www.laughteryoga.org.nz/
- ↑ Laughter Yoga International, Concept and Philosophy,http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182:concept-and-philosophy&catid=85:about-laughter-yoga&Itemid=265
- ↑ Laughter Yoga, http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:what-is-laughter-yoga&catid=85:about-laughter-yoga&Itemid=265
- ↑ Laughter Yoga New Zealand, What is laughter yoga?,http://www.laughteryoga.org.nz/
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या पानाचे भाषांतर करा... World Laughter Day - Laughter Yoga
www.laughteryoga.org/english/eventsWorld Laughter Day was created in 1998 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. The celebration of World Laughter Day is a
या पानाचे भाषांतर करा... Laughter Yoga International | World Laughter Day
www.laughteryoga.org/.../world_laught...World Laughter Day, created by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga International, takes place on the first Sunday of May of every year.
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World Laughter Day 2015 - May 03, 2015 - Cute Calendar
www.cute-calendar.com/.../world-laugh...World Laughter Day 2015 takes place on May 03. The first celebration was on January 11, 1998, in Mumbai, India, and was arranged by the ...
या पानाचे भाषांतर कराWorld Laughter Day with UnitedMind and Laughter ...
www.worldlaughterday.co.uk/World Laughter Day was created in 1998 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. The celebration of World Laughter Day is a
या पानाचे भाषांतर करा... [PDF]Important Days January 9 NRI Day January 10 World ...
saidaiduraisamysmanidhaneyam.com/...NRI Day. January 10. World Laughter Day. January 12. National Youth Day. January 15. Army Day. January 26. India's Republic Day, International Customs Day.
या पानाचे भाषांतर कराFollow The Laughter - World Laughter Day
www.followthelaughter.com/WLD.htmMake your plans to join us for the 15th Annual World Laughter Day Event Sunday May 5th, 2013. Celebrated world wide the first Sunday in May. The first World ...
या पानाचे भाषांतर कराLaughter Arts and Sciences Foundation (501.c.3)
www.laughterfoundation.org/Purpose: Children and families are encouraged to laugh, express their silliness through a uniquely creative .... World Laughter Day Proclamation Proclamation.
या पानाचे भाषांतर कराWorld Laughter day- January 10th - National Academy of ...
www.nays.com.pk/world-laughter-day-...२५ जाने, २०१३ - Celebrated for the first time on 10th January 1998, world laughter dayaimed to promote peace and love in the world. It was announced by ...
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