It can be delightful to create a themed laughter session based on an imaginary story, even more so with our younger friends. Here is a fool-proof template for that end. Follow your imagination, but with a solid base! (To create the laughter exercises, pantomime a particular movement or behavior and simply add laughter to it.) [...]
I was recently challenged to name the happiness hormone. It turned into a challenge because there is more than one (listed below), so which to choose? For the record: Neurotransmitter: A chemical that is released from a nerve cell which transmits an impulse from a nerve cell to another nerve, muscle, organ, or other [...]
Laughter quotes for your walls 7 days without laughter makes one weak. Be a smile millionnaire! Do not believe everything you think. Got Joy? Hilarity Brings Clarity. I am a manifestation of love, abundance and joy. I don't laugh because I'm happy. I'm happy because I laugh. I may not be perfect [...]
The Tickle Machine developed at UCSD This is a little off the beaten laughter path, but believe it or not, some research is being conducted in the area of tickling. In fact, researchers at the University of California in San Diego have even constructed a “tickle machine.” Some scientists believe that laughing caused [...]
Dr. Annette Goodheart (1935-2011), a psychologist from Santa Barbara, California, specialized in laughter therapy starting in the late 1960s and was the first to create a theoretical framework for the use of voluntary simulated laughter. She created a whole set of techniques on how to use laughter to release (and thereby provide relief from) strong [...]
You are not limited to just one way of doing any particular laughter exercise. There is technically an infinity of possible variations for each. Here is how it works. First, understand that in Laughter Wellness we use laughter as a choice - you laugh just because (you want to be the cause of your health [...]
This page is a review of 55 landmark studies on happiness, a state of being that Laughter Wellness helps to temporarily experience (long-term happiness is a multi-faceted endeavor that requires a life-commitment): laughter uplifts your mood-states, directly impacting how you perceive the world around you and, therefore, how you react to what happens to you. When you feel good, [...]
15 different ways to describe laughter in the English dictionary: (Kuhn, 1994, as adapted by Berk, 2001) Smirk: Slight, often fleeting upturning of the corners of the mouth, completely voluntary and controllable; Smile: Silent, voluntary and controllable, more perceptible than a smirk; begins to release endorphins; Cachinnate: To laugh loudly. Grin: Silent, controllable, but uses [...]
Everyone loves the quote “laughter is the best medicine,” and you have probably even experienced the benefits of smiling and laughter. But did you know that the simple act of smiling can boost your mood and even your immune system? Here are 15 fascinating facts about smiling: It costs nothing, but creates much. [...]
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 [...]
