The 9 Benefits of Humor

For the last 2 weeks, I’ve been writing about humor and laughter.

I started the discussion by writing about how humor and laughter can be beneficial for health and can allow you to feel lighter of body, mind and spirit.

The next article was about Laughter Yoga and how people get together in Laughter Yoga clubs to laugh together.

From there, I just started writing articles designed to make you laugh, whether it was on the new depressant medication Despondex, the 1-minute book classics, or about my allegiance to the Marx philosophy.

Tomorrow, to close the series, I will return with another humorous article. But today, I want to review how humor is a positive influence in our lives by listing 9 benefits of humor and laughter.

Of course, I could just narrow it down to one – that humor and laughter are essential traits of living a Low Density Lifestyle.

But, I’ll still give you 9 benefits. Here they are:

1. Humor lessens fears.

2. Humor comforts and helps you get through difficult times.

3. Humor helps you to relax.

4. Humor reduces pain.

5. Humor boosts the immune system.

6. Humor reduces stress.

7. Humor spreads happiness.

8. Humor cultivates optimism.

9. Humor helps with communication.

And so, in conclusion, humor and laughter make you feel lighter, like you’re carrying less of a load in your body, mind and spirit. And when you feel like that, you know what that means, don’t you?

It means you’re living a Low Density Lifestyle.

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You Wanna Laugh? Do Some Laughter Yoga!

I told you in yesterday’s article that laughter and humor is good for your health, it makes you feel lighter of body, mind and spirit, and is an essential component of living a Low Density Lifestyle.

So, if laughter is something that is good for your body, mind and spirit, doesn’t it seem natural that it could become a form of yoga?

Absolutely! Welcome to Laughter Yoga.

It’s guaranteed to make you laugh, make you lighter, and make you healthier. Who couldn’t ask for more?

Laughter Yoga was the brainchild of an Indian doctor, Dr. Madan Kataria, who while researching an article on the health benefits of laughter, realized that he was too serious for his own good.

So he gathered some people one day in a park in Mumbai and began a Laughter Yoga club. The idea caught on and now there are Laughter Yoga clubs all around the world.

Watch the above videos and learn for yourself about Laughter Yoga. In the first video, a man who knows a thing or two about laughter, John Cleese of Monty Python fame, visits Dr. Kataria and his Laughter Yoga club.

Cleese even goes into a prison for a session of Laughter Yoga with the inmates. You’ll notice while the prisoners are whooping it up and having a grand old time, the guards look deadly serious.

Probably because they’re worried that there might be a prison outbreak of laughter that would infect them.

And in the second video from CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at Laughter Yoga and its health benefits.

After you watch the videos, make sure you let out a belly laugh or two. And if you can’t find a Laughter Yoga club in your area, here’s the website to go to find out more: http://www.laughteryoga.org

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