General Education For Laughter Professionals
- Worldwide Skype LY in Country and Chronological Order – Google Sheets
- Why Laughter Wellness is an Effective Recovery Activity for Emotional Labour
- Laughter Wellness 101 – pdf
- Corporate Wellness Program Return on Investment
- Laughter Fusion
- The Psychological Process of Laughter (laughter and lymphatics) – by Sue Carter Ansari
- Laughter Yoga on the Phone
- On Physical Fitness Through Laughter: Jogs Internal Organs, Makes Working Out Fun
- Group discussion: Laughter sessions where alcohol may be served
- Group discussion: What to do for short laughter sessions eg 5-15 minutes
- Group discussion: Happiness Badge for Girl Scouts – share a laughter class and help them earn a happiness badge
- Group discussion: laughter sessions and essential oils
- Group discussion: Laughter session in a women’s prison
- Group discussion: Laughter session in a women’s prison (continued)
- Group discussion: What are your favourite birthday themed laughter exercises?
In the news
- The best medicine? Man given one week to live after being diagnosed with a rare disease just days after becoming a millionaire is still going strong 12 years on… and insists he was cured by LAUGHING
- IDEO’s Employee Engagement Formula
- Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body
- Bron Roberts, the laughter lady, features in an article on laughter in the Autumn edition of Slow Magazine
Just for fun
Miscellaneous Blogs
- 10 Traits of Emotionally Strong People
- Learning a New Sport May Be Good for the Brain
- Why playing peekaboo with babies is a very serious matter
- Sebastien Gendry: There is a Buddhist teaching that says that when you get hurt, say, by an arrow, that is pain. The arrow hitting your arm, it hurts. Pain. However, there is a second arrow, which is your reaction to the arrow, the getting angry, the planning revenge, that is beyond pain, that is suffering.
- Watch your language: Word Power
- A meditation teacher’s 4 tips for calming down and refocusing in just 30 seconds
- Table of Urgent, Not Urgent, Important, Not Important tasks
- Revamp Your Thoughts and Take Charge of Your Happiness
- Letting Go Of Perfectionism Through Laughter
- International Day of Happiness
- How To Scientifically Train Your Mind To Be Happy
- List of Personal Strengths – Psychological research
- Swiss President goes viral with sombre speech about laughter
- The Positivity Project – Teaching good values to kids in schools
- Remedies for your anxious mind
- Laughter in difficult times
- Here are 7 things that will make you happier in 7 seconds, according to research
- Laughter and Tears: Healing for the soul – how are laughter and tears important in today’s hospital setting?
- 8 ways you can survive and thrive in midlife
- International Day of Happiness – see PDF guidebook on “Ten Keys to Happier Living”
- Happy International Day of Happiness (infographics)
- 10 Best Houseplants To De-Stress Your Home And Purify The Air
- International Day of Happiness – If there is any day to be happy, this is it
- Gelos, God of Laughter and Warriors
- How to be a good listener
- Four Daily Habits That Will Make You Happier
- 5 ways to make your workplace fun
- 10 ways to increase dopamine in your brain
- What can I expect on a laughter yoga retreat?
- What pre-schoolers can teach universities – playful learning
Videos
- The Laughing Man (Merv Neal)
- Paolo Martin Trinidad’s work in the Philippines with his own method called Pinoy Laughter Yoga
- Smile – contagious laughter on a train
- Laughter Yoga in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
- Certified Laughter Wellness Teacher Training Video
- Daily Laughers – Laugh of the Day Video #88 – Dave Berman with Lotte Mikkelsen (silent laughter)
Science Corner
- The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you
- Happiness Can Be Heard: New Study Reveals Our Voices Affect Our Mood
- ‘Love hormone’ is two-faced: Oxytocin strengthens bad memories and can increase fear and anxiety
- Diagram – shallow breathing vs deep breathing
- Exercises is ADHD Medication
- How moods affect our health
- Health Risks Increase Sick Leave Use
- Health Risks Increase Health Costs
- The ups and downs of cortisol: what you need to know
- 100 million Americans have chronic pain
- Percent of U.S. Adults 55 and Over with Chronic Conditions
- Why one in four women is on psych meds
- It’s official, the happiness gene exists: forget your job and your relationships, your genetic makeup can determine your mood
- Creating stress free schools and taking control – 5 things you should try
- Traffic Management and Business Performance: The Oudehaske red light experiment – In a nutshell: When you treat people like idiots, they will behave like idiots. Let them use their brains and figure things out one with another (force communication) and everything will improve.
- More Happiness for Young People and Less for Mature Adults: Time Period Differences in Subjective Well-Being in the United States, 1972–2014
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