Health & Wellness

Are you feeling stressed, bored, not able to sleep and tired due to ongoing nationwide Lockdown (Coronavirus global crises)?

Staying at home all day can be tiring, stressful, and boring. Lockdown has especially impacted those people who have lost the life of loved ones, whose business is closed, who lost their jobs and who don’t have food to eat .Its normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, frustrated, scary or angry during a coronavirus global crisis.

You need to keep calm and keep a positive mindset to stay safe and fight this global crisis by Laughter Therapy. This is the right time you really need to laugh the hardest.

The best way to reduce stress and lighten up the mood is just laughed or Laugh for no reason. Laughter therapy/Laughter Sound Therapy is the best way to reduce stress and anxiety.

Laughter Therapy: This is a unique concept wherein anyone can laugh for no reason without relying on humor, jokes, or comedy. We need to give 100% Laughter without reason.

Laughter + Yoga (Breathing Exercise): Laughter with Breathing exercise increases oxygen supply in the body and brain which makes us feel more energetic and healthy.

The science behind Laughter Yoga:

As per researchers, our body cannot distinguish between fake and real laughter. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits.

Laughter Yoga can change your mood within minutes by releasing endorphins from your brain cells. This makes you feel good and if you are in a good mood you do everything well. It makes you cheerful all throughout the day.

The benefit of Laughter Therapy:
Elevates Mood – Laughter can change your mood within minutes by releasing endorphins from your brain cells.
Corporate Benefits – Laughter exercises increase the supply of oxygen in the body and brain which helps to improve efficiency and performance.

Social Connector – Laughter is a great connector of people and brings a lot of good friends with caring and sharing relationships.
Laughing through Challenges – Laughter provides strength in adversity, a coping mechanism to help people keep a positive mental attitude regardless of circumstances.

Physical Health Benefit:
Immunity Booster: Improves immune system
Cardiac Exercise: Best Cardiovascular exercise
Blood Circulation: Increase Blood circulation in the body

Psychological Health Benefits
– It helps in depression
– A very unique tool for stress management
– It is helpful in Anxiety and Panic Attacks
– It helps in Insomnia

Sharing Laughter Exercise here:
Practical Laughter Exercise which is very helpful in this Lockdown period, try to do this 30 minutes every day to see the benefits.

1) Clapping laughter ( 5 Minutes)
2) Breathing exercise with Laughter (10 Minutes)
3) Laughter Yoga Exercise (10 Minutes)
4) Laughter Dance /Laughter Music and Positive laughter Affirmation (5 Minutes)

1) Clapping laughter: (5 Minutes)

1. Simple clapping: A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans Start with simple clapping
2. Eyes Closed clapping Laughter: Eyes Closed clapping Laughter Closed your eyes and take a long deep breath in and laugh loudly ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha with normal joyful clapping

Benefit: Clapping with Laughter improves Immunity: Clapping with Laughter helps boost white cell production, which is essential for fighting germs and therefore reduces the occurrence of frequent infections.

2) Breathing exercise with Laughter (10 Minutes)
1) Equal Breathing: Inhale through your nose for the count of 4 and exhale through your nose for the count of 4. Repeat 4 to 5 time
2) laughter Exhale Breathing: Straighten your arms in front of your chest with the palms facing upward. Inhale through the nostril and bring your fists closer to your chest. Hold your breath for three to four seconds and then burst out laughing while exhaling with sound Ha Ha Ha
3) Lion Breathing: Hold your hands out like a lion’s paws. Take a deep breath, hold it for three to four seconds, and then stick your tongue out and laugh from your belly.

3) Laughter Yoga Exercise (10 Minutes)

1. Namaste Laughter –Due to coronavirus global crises now NAMASKAR is globally accepted now we can add laughter in that and make more joyful and fun. Greet each other by joining both the hands and looking into the eyes and laughing Ha Ha Ha He He He
2. Hand Wash Laughter: Hand washing is one of the simple ways to protect ourselves and our family from getting sick from infectious viruses.
3. Wet your hands with clean, running water (warm or cold), turn off the tap, and apply soap with Laughter with adding Laughter Ha Ha Ha Ha
4. Lather your hands by rubbing them together with the soap. Lather the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails with adding Laughter Ha Ha Ha Ha
5. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds. Need a timer? Hum the “Happy Birthday” song from beginning to end twice with adding Laughter Ha Ha Ha Ha
6. Rinse your hands well under clean, running water with adding Laughter Ha Ha Ha Ha
7. Dry your hands using a clean towel or air dry them with adding Laughter Ha Ha Ha Ha
8. Mobile Phone Laughter: Nowadays due to lockdown we spend more time on phone calls so let’s add laughter in our calls. Imaginary Mobile phones “rings,” put it to your ear and laugh as though you heard the funniest joke ever or got a call from your boss Ha Ha Ha Ha
9. Super Brain Laughter Yoga: Cross your arms and hold your ear lobes with index finger and thumb. Bend at the knee, bow down, and laugh.
10. Pray Laughter: Open your both arm up in direction of the sky with a deep breath in (thanks to god to give this beautiful life, once down your hand with the breath out with spread laughter (Two Deep Breath in and Let Go)

4) Laughter dance and Music with Positive affirmations: (5 Minutes)

Sing and Dance alone or with family members on your favorite song with loud laughter

Positive Affirmations with Laughter:
1. I am Happy – With Laughter, You are happy (with Laughter), we all (Universe) are Happy
2. I am Healthy- With Laughter, You are Healthy (with Laughter), we all (Universe) are Healthy and free from coronavirus
3. Laughter with happiness comes easily and naturally to me
4. I feel calm, relaxed, and hopeful around other people.

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin
Keep laughing Be Happy

Dr. Harish Rawat is an international Laughter wellness Coach, Guinness World Record Holder, and Founder of Lot of Laughter Yoga Foundation in India; who engaged in conducting Laughter wellness sessions in different sections of society including school, colleges, corporate, slums, defense, societies, and even prison. More than 35 k people took beneficially from his sessions.