Laughing All the Way– to Wellness

What’s so funny about the notion that laughter can make us happier people? Perhaps it’s the conviction that laughter is generally the effect of happiness, not the cause. Many people, apparently, most of them more broad minded than Geezer, believe the current can be reversed, or perhaps has always run both ways at once. The Washington Post reports on the popularity of group that gathers regularly to laugh about laughter, as well as their own antics, which include “donning pirate hats, wigs and Hawaiian leis and forming a conga line
that parades down the aisles for more than five minutes to the strains
of Celebration,” and to perform role playing and relaxation exercises. And while only the 15-minute deep-breathing and body-awareness routines at the end of the session recall typical yoga, the class is sold under the rubric of “laughter yoga,” which is said to have been invented in 1995 by Dr.
Madan Kataria, a physician from Mumbai, Today, the practice allegedly has has more than 6000 social
laughter clubs in 60 countries.  Laughter yoga master Nina Berry tells the Post that ten minutes of sustained laughter, she says, boost endorphin levels and
are the cardiovascular equivalent of 30 minutes on a bike.
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