General Education For Laughter Professionals
- Laughing With Skype Laughter Clubs
- Notes on The Theology of Play by Pastor Seth Pierce
- The Laughing Dogs Laughter Club
- 10 laughter gift ideas for your loved one.
- Flyer inspiration (create a new pattern of stress relief!) flyer #1, flyer #2
- How I promote the Pasadena Laughter Club
- 2015 LOU Facebook Group Best Of: 10 posts most liked, most commented, and most shared
- Should doctors medicate people who laugh too much?
- Miscellaneous (legal) laughter documents you will have to think about sooner or later if you offer laughter programs or run your own laughter club (Sign-in sheet + legal disclaimer + a photo/video release form.)
- A bit of history: Today I learn that Steve Wilson started to offer programs on how to create (humor-based) Therapeutic Laughter in 1973. The three building blocks for his course were (and still are) "Knowledge & Theory, Skills, and Values".
- World Laughter Day is around the corner. Get ready!
- What is a typical music therapy session like?
- The three stages of playfulness and why timing matters.
- Group discussion: Is therapeutic laughter a form of integrative medicine?
- Group discussion: How do you promote your Laugher Club/events online?
- Group discussion: I’ve just been booked to do a (paid) laughter presentation to the International Congress of Natural Medicine later this year. I have always presented laughter as a "complimentary" and not "alternative" medicine, but now I’m thinking that I should change my approach to "natural" or "natural complementary". Any thoughts?
- Group discussion: Is it ok to lead a laughter session at an event where alcohol will be served?
- Group discussion: I am a self-proclained Laughter Therapist…
- Group discussion: On Gibberish and the way of the paradox
In the news
Just for fun
- 27 free group activity games
- Exercise: How I feel…
- Animals laugh. They sing too. Someone Recorded Crickets then Slowed Down the Track, And It Sounds Like Humans Singing
- Talking knot debrief technique, and more by the most amazing Roger Greenaway
- The daily laughers
- Group activity: 1) Highlight all of your good qualities in the attached list, 2) find someone who shares 3 of the same.
- Activity and Treatment Ideas for Recreation Therapy.
- 59 Employee Engagement Ideas
Miscellaneous Blogs
- The Positive Benefits of Creativity
- The Surprising Secret to Aging Well. In summary, the path to healthy aging begins early. Good posture and good walking habits can optimize bone density, muscle strength and body balance — and are essential to safe mobility in vision loss.
- The best way to deal with stress, according to Matthieu Ricard, a 69-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk: Don’t worry about things you can’t change or control
- Money can buy happiness, especially when you invest it in others.
- 2 Ways to Beat Your Fear of Rejection. Reframing things playfully with humor is no small thing. It kills stress
- How Groundhog Day changed my life – Paul Hannam believes the film holds the 3 secrets to happiness (practice makes perfect, improve the quality of your inner life, appreciate that you have everything you need to be happy now.)
- A team of researcher claims that people are happiest on week-ends.
- 10 Traits of Emotionally Strong People (Summarized: Flow and be at peace with what is.)
- 5 Lifestyle Tips To Help Your Brain
- What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness. The key message this study delivers is this: good relationships keep us happier and healthier. And laughter promotes excellent relationships between people.
- Difference between inspiration and motivation
- The difference between emotions and feelings, and why you should care
- 5 Benefits of Laughter for Health and Happiness
- Expert behind survey on middle-age misery says it’s better to be outdoors with friends – and to throw away the self-help books
- Author Mary Kay Zuravleff suggests recess for adults, and explains why it’s important.
- Winter Blues vs Winter Excitement – It’s a dopamine thing. (Laugh and feel the difference!)
- A Harvard psychologist says your success in any situation hinges on 3 things: 1. You believe your story 2. You’re confident without being arrogant 3. Your verbal and nonverbal communication is in sync.
- A team of researcher claims that people are happiest on week-ends
- The four components of well-being that are supported by neuroscience are: 1 Resilience, 2 Outlook, 3 Attention, 4 Generosity. Train your brain!
Videos
- How stress affects the brain
- The laughing heart (Tom Waits reads a Charles Bukowski poem)
- Every massive reaction starts with a small, first step
- Clip of a Laughter Yoga session in St Albans with Lotte Mikkelsen
- Testimonial (12 minutes): ESL Teacher Loves Laughter Yoga because…
- Testimonial (60 seconds): Laughter Wellness taught me so much about being fluid and owning my presentations…
Science Corner
- The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you.
- Laughter Yoga: The Trouble With Research.
- Interesting article on the role and importance of stimulating the vagus nerve (which naturally happens when you laugh). "Research indicates that a healthy vagus nerve is vital in experiencing empathy and fostering social bonding, and it is crucial to our ability to observe, perceive, and make complex decisions." And later "…There is ample scientific evidence suggesting that both laughing and sobbing are extremely beneficial for our health and in the context of Vagus nerve research, it is obvious how these two acts can promote healing and wellness through the increase in vagal stimulation."
- The winter blues is a myth – it’s official! (The Brain Actually Works Better in Winter)
- Researchers at UCL have revealed that a change in sense of humour could be an early sign of dementia.
- Study says mirthful laughter produces brain wave frequencies similar to true state of meditation
- It may be possible to exercise to happiness. It has been shown that physically active people recover from mild depression more quickly, and physical activity is strongly correlated with good mental health as people age.
- What Happens to Our Brains During Exercise (and Why it Makes Us Happier). Also very interesting on this subject is the article "Understanding The Background of Exercise, Happiness and Brain Chemicals"
- The Duke SMILE studies: Can exercising replace antidepressant?
- Gorillas sing and hum when eating, a discovery that could help shed light on how language evolved in early humans. Singing seems to be a way for gorillas to express contentment with their meal, as well as for the head of the family to communicate to others that it is dinner time.
- Effectiveness detection of laughter yoga as a group therapy in acute psychiatry.
- Image: Difference of heart rate when frustrated and when appreciative
- Study says mirthful laughter produces brain wave frequencies similar to true state of meditation
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