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Laughter yoga
Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter. Laughter yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. Laughter yoga is done in groups, with eye contact, jokes and playfulness between participants. Forced laughter soon turns into real and contagious laughter.
Health Benefits of Laughter Author: E.C. LaMeaux
1. Lowers blood pressure
People who lower their blood pressure, even those who start at normal levels, will reduce their risk of stroke and heart attack. So grab the Sunday paper, flip to the funny pages, and enjoy your laughter medicine.
2. Reduces stress hormone levels
By reducing the level of stress hormones, you're simultaneously cutting the anxiety and stress that impacts your body. Additionally, the reduction of stress hormones may result in higher immune system performance. Just think: Laughing along as a co-worker tells a funny joke can relieve some of the day's stress and help you reap the health benefits of laughter.
3. Works your abs
One of the benefits of laughter is that it can help you tone your abs. When you are laughing, the muscles in your stomach expand and contract, similar to when you intentionally exercise your abs. Meanwhile, the muscles you are not using to laugh are getting an opportunity to relax. Add laughter to your ab routine and make getting a toned tummy more enjoyable.
4. Improves cardiac health
Laughter is a great cardio workout, especially for those who are incapable of doing other physical activity due to injury or illness. It gets your heart pumping and burns a similar amount of calories per hour as walking at a slow to moderate pace. So, laugh your heart into health.
5. Triggers the release of endorphins
Endorphins are the body’s natural painkillers. By laughing, you can release endorphins, which can help ease chronic pain and make you feel good all over.
6. Produces a general sense of well-being
Laughter can increase your overall sense of well-being. Doctors have found that people who have a positive outlook on life tend to fight diseases better than people who tend to be more negative. So smile, laugh, and live longer!
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Fame, Money and Love: What We All Want Pamela Tanner Boll
We all want to be rich, famous and loved. But, how often does this happen? In popular culture, the heroine sacrifices her career for the man she loves; the entrepreneur is so single minded that he ends up with a fortune and maybe fame, but is alone; or the talented young man who can sing becomes a star on the stage, but can’t stay married.
Is there more to life than fame, money and love?
These are the primary drivers for most folks, but, the story is that you can have one or maybe two, but rarely all three. And yet, I would say that happiness is founded on achieving some measure of each.
But, if love, fame and money are competing goals, how can ordinary folks achieve all of them? After all, we only have so many hours in the day.
Maybe, we are going about this in the wrong way. Instead of thinking of love, fame and money as competing for our time and our energy, maybe we have to find the common thread that allows all three.
Three years ago, I began to make a documentary film that asks what is a “good” life. The film is called A Small Good Thing. It follows five stories of people in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts who have changed their lives so as to be happy and to live well.
What’s more important than money, love and fame?
Happiness is what we are all after and has something to do with having love, money and fame. But, we can only achieve the Big Three when we have done the work of figuring out what we value, what we are here for: purpose. Stephen Cope, yogi and author, says inA Small Good Thing that happiness is finding “what lights you up.”
If you are doing work that makes you miserable, even though it might pay well, you won’tbe much good to others. Miserable work is exhausting, making it hard to be presentfor family or friends. Or say you have work you love—if it doesn’t pay, then how long can that last? And fame is tricky—if it comes from doing the work you were meant to, okay. If not, fame won’t last.
So, what to do??
The folks featured in the five stories in A Small Good Thing each wrestle with this question of purpose in their work and with others.
Jen and Pete Salinetti started out as a young couple by working in landscape design. Both are hard workers and soon built up a client base for their ornamental gardens. The money came in and they had two babies. But, they found themselves stressed, exhausted and at odds.
Why? Well, they thought it might be because working for others was too demanding. And yet, how could they take care of their growing family without clients?
They decided to get out of the landscaping business and to concentrate on family. They grew a small plot of vegetables—just enough for their own needs. Through these actions, they realized that what mattered most to them was to nurture their family and loved ones. Growing the best food in the healthiest soil was part of this nurturance.
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Fame, money and love: What do you want?
Is there more to life than fame, money and love?
Do you want to be rich and famous?
Why is valuing material things bad?
What to do if you are doing work that makes you miserable?
Do you want to growing food in a garden by yourself?
Can money buy happiness?
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