Laughter Yoga: E-Book

Nils Horn

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Laughing is healthy. Laughing makes you happy. Be happy. Become a Buddha. Enlightenment is happiness without a reason. You do not need a specific reason to be happy. Laugh Yoga is a good way to get happiness energy flowing. There are various methods to do laugh Yoga. You can watch funny videos. You can also read jokes on the internet until you laugh. Or you can just laugh without a reason. That's the main form of laugh Yoga. You reach the energy of humor, and at some point the laughter is in you.

Leseprobe

Nils Horn

Laughter Yoga:

Exercises, Jokes and Spiritual Stories

May all people be happy. May the world be happy. BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 Munich

Contents

Laughter Yoga

Jokes

Laughter Yoga for Absolute Beginners

Happiness Research

Yoga with Positive Thinking

Get Positive in Five Minutes

Chair-Yoga with Laughing

Sayings from Yogi Nils

The Goddess

Shake Meditation with Laughing

Poems from Drugpa Künleg

Laughing Wave

The Fool

Breathing Meditation

Mulla Nasrudin

Healing Meditation

The enlightened being

The Laughing Buddha

Guru Yoga

Laughter Meditation

Laughter Yoga

Laughter yoga helps you to concentrate on the funny side of life. Laughter Yoga was started by Dr Madan Kataria in 1995. It combines gentle yoga breathing (Pranayama), stretching, and laughter.

Wikipedia: 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 was made popular as an exercise routine developed by Indian physician Madan Kataria. Kataria's first Laughter Yoga Club began on 13 March 1995 in Mumbai, with five people in a local public park. The concept rapidly spread worldwide, and as of 2011, there were more than 8,000 Laughter Clubs in 100 countries. Each group is run by a "Laugh Captain" and operates independently.

Fake laughter quickly becomes real. Anyone can laugh without needing to rely on humor, jokes or comedy. Laughter is initially simulated as a physical exercise while maintaining eye contact with others in the group and promoting childlike playfulness. In most cases this soon leads to real and contagious laughter.

Laughter yoga sessions start with gentle warm-up techniques which include stretching, chanting, clapping and body movement. These help break down inhibitions and develop feelings of 'childlike playfulness'. Breathing exercises are used to prepare the lungs for laughter, followed by a series of ‘laughter exercises’ that combine the method of acting and visualization techniques with playfulness. These exercises, when combined with the strong social dynamics of group behavior, lead to prolonged and hearty unconditional laughter. Laughter exercises are interspersed with breathing exercises. A laughter yoga session may finish with "Laughter Meditation". This is a session of unstructured laughter whereby participants sit or lie down and allow natural laughter to flow from within.

Jokes

Women are laughing about:

In every man there’s something good. Even if it is just the kitchen knife.

Why can’t men get mad cow disease? Because men are pigs.

What does a man consider helping with the housekeeping? Lifting the legs up so that she can vacuum better.

Getting married is like a trip with friends to a restaurant. You order what you want and when you see what the others have gotten, you would rather have that.

Him: “Honey, I’m going to make you the happiest woman in the world!” She: “I’ll miss you!”

And now, jokes for men:

When men work with their heads, one calls that thinking. When women work with their heads, we call that hairstyling.

How many brain cells does a woman have? Four, one for each stovetop.

If God had wanted women to be pilots, the sky would be pink.

Two men are talking: “ my wife died last week!” “Yeah, and?” “ The bed looks the same as always, only the kitchen is a chaotic mess!”

Live your life

A younger man goes for a walk and sees a shriveled, wrinkled old woman who is sitting happily in her rocking chair on the porch. “Excuse me,” he speaks to the woman, “but you look so happy and satisfied. What is the secret to your life?” The woman answers: “60 cigarettes, at least one bottle of schnapps, no exercise, and lots of younger men… that is the secret of my life!” “Unbelievable!” The man is amazed, “ and can I ask how old you are now?” “39….”

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