Giggling aside, even meditating with a gentle smile can put practitioners in a better mood, contribute to stress management and brighten one's day.
Few things are as infectious as a good laugh, which is why many yoga programs offer classes that promote good use of the diaphragm, lungs and smiling muscles. Laughing out loud is a good way to use one's pent-up energy in a positive way, and instructors across the nation are making much of this fact.
Betty Herbst, a yoga group leader and founder of the Licking County Laughter Club, told the Newark Advocate that giving the world a good ha-ha can improve a person's state of mind while opening up their throat and lungs.
She added that engaging in laughing can help even the most mature of us reconnect with our younger, truer selves.
"Children laugh hundreds of times a day, and adults don't laugh very often," she told the news source. "But there are wonderful benefits to laughing."
The website estimated that the average adults laughs 15 times per day. Laughing yoga groups can ratchet that number up into the hundreds.
Giggling aside, even meditating with a gentle smile can put practitioners in a better mood, contribute to stress management and brighten one's day.
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Laughing is absolutely one of the best ways to release stress and even promote healing energy circulation in the body! In my experience, sometimes laughing for 5 minutes produces as much change as exercising for 1 hour!