Swami Visnudas
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- Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
- We are pleased to introduce Swami Vishnudas to you, a yogi from the Himalayas who has practiced spiritual yoga sadhana for the last thirty five years and who has gained spiritual experiences and a great yoga vision. Swami Vishnudas's Teaching for the sake of society is to attain a physical and a psychological synthesis which abundantly benefits mankind, be it physically, psychologically or Spiritually. This Yoga sadhana can be very easily integrated into our daily lives as it requires only ten to fifteen minutes of practice to attain beneficial results quickly. We hope that every kind of person will adopt these yoga teachings which are taught in a perfect manner and every human being utilize the merits of yoga to make his or her life physically invigorating and psychologically sound. This yoga, a special and an exceptional yoga is very useful in curing and preventing many ailments. The result is that the body turns into a healthy body and the mind turns sound throughout the day. Secretary IRMI ZWIRCHMAYR AUSTRIA. Email:alexander.zwirchmayr@utametat
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WHAT IS LAUGHING?
1 "In the Navajo tradition we have what we call Chi Dlo Dil, or a Laughing Party, for a newborn. The Laughing Party is the first laugh you hear from a child. It's usually around six weeks.
It's the baby's first expression to the world, saying 'I'm ready to interact.'
Before that, the baby is still in the soft world and you aren't supposed to put anything hard and fixed on the body, or they may take on those qualities. But after the laughing party, you can give the baby jewelry or bracelets or other decorations.
At the party everybody sits around the baby and has a big meal and plays with the baby. The person who makes the baby laugh first plays an important role in the child's life."
Nancy Evans, Shiprock, NM (Navajo Nation
2 Laughing means being cognizant of your surroundings. When you laugh you become a part of something---you join in, you become part of the crowd.
Sometimes the joke relates to you. It takes a little bit of humility when you can laugh at yourself---get off your high horse, relax, and let it go. It's a way of saying 'You can have this one on me. Enjoy yourself. I'll get even.'"
Malcolm E. Stitt, Albuquerque, New Mexico
3….."I don't know where the hell laughing comes from. It's good for your health, I know that much. There's so much sadness in the world, it's a wonder you can even laugh at all.
Like when I lost my lady. I was 25 years with her. I cried plenty. I still wake in the morning and I think, 'Where is she?'
But life goes on. You can't go around being an old grump all the time."
Bob, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
4………"People can laugh when they can cooperate and share an experience together."
"People can laugh when they can cooperate and share an experience together."
Ahwed Abd El Rahwan, Waly (outside El Fayoum), Egypt
5. "Laughing is the smile of the World."
Weerashon Puttrpadit, Mahasarakham, Thailand
6. "Laughing is enjoyment. This is very strange. I have never seen this before. It looks like feathers."
Turkana woman, Kakuma, Kenya
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Laughter is an audible expression, or appearance of merriment or happiness, or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure (laughing on the inside). It may ensue (as a physiological reaction) from jokes, tickling, and other stimuli. Inhaling nitrous oxide can also induce laughter; other drugs, such as cannabis, can also induce episodes of strong laughter. Strong laughter can sometimes bring an onset of tears or even moderate muscular pain.
Laughter is a part of human behaviour regulated by the brain. It helps humans clarify their intentions in social interaction and provides an emotional context to conversations. Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a group — it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. Laughter is sometimes seemingly contagious, and the laughter of one person can itself provoke laughter from others as a positive feedback.[1] This may account in part for the popularity of laugh tracks in situation comedy television shows.
The study of humor and laughter, and its psychological and physiological effects on the human body is called gelotology.
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Humans……
Recently researchers have shown infants as early as 17 days old have vocal laughing sounds or spontaneous laughter. Early Human Development 2006This conflicts with earlier studies indicating that babies usually start to laugh at about four months of age; J.Y.T. Greig writes, quoting ancient authors, that laughter is not believed to begin in a child until the child is forty days old. [2] "Laughter is Genetic" Robert R. Provine, Ph.D. has spent decades studying laughter. In his interview for WebMD, he indicated "Laughter is a mechanism everyone has; laughter is part of universal human vocabulary. There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but everyone speaks laughter in pretty much the same way.” Everyone can laugh. Babies have the ability to laugh before they ever speak. Children who are born blind and deaf still retain the ability to laugh. “Even apes have a form of ‘pant-pant-pant’ laughter.”
Provine argues that “Laughter is primitive, an unconscious vocalization.” And if it seems you laugh more than others, Provine argues that it probably is genetic. In a study of the “Giggle Twins,” two exceptionally happy twins were separated at birth and not reunited until 43 years later. Provine reports that “until they met each other, neither of these exceptionally happy ladies had known anyone who laughed as much as she did.” They reported this even though they both had been brought together by their adoptive parents they indicated were “undemonstrative and dour.” Provine indicates that the twins “inherited some aspects of their laugh sound and pattern, readiness to laugh, and perhaps even taste in humor.” WebMD 2002
Raju Mandhyan states "The physical and psychological benefits of laughter come second only to the physical and psychological benefits of sex."
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Laughter and the brain
Principal fissures and lobes of the cerebrum viewed laterally. (Frontal lobe is blue, temporal lobe is green.)
Modern neurophysiology states that laughter is linked with the activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which produces endorphins after a rewarding activity.
Research has shown that parts of the limbic system are involved in laughter[citation needed]. The limbic system is a primitive part of the brain that is involved in emotions and helps us with basic functions necessary for survival. Two structures in the limbic system are involved in producing laughter: the amygdala and the hippocampus[citation needed].
The December 7, 1984 Journal of the American Medical Association describes the neurological causes of laughter as follows:
"Although there is no known 'laugh center' in the brain, its neural mechanism has been the subject of much, albeit inconclusive, speculation. It is evident that its expression depends on neural paths arising in close association with the telencephalic and diencephalic centers concerned with respiration. Wilson considered the mechanism to be in the region of the mesial thalamus, hypothalamus, and subthalamus. Kelly and co-workers, in turn, postulated that the tegmentum near the periaqueductal grey contains the integrating mechanism for emotional expression. Thus, supranuclear pathways, including those from the limbic system that Papez hypothesised to mediate emotional expressions such as laughter, probably come into synaptic relation in the reticular core of the brain stem. So while purely emotional responses such as laughter are mediated by subcortical structures, especially the hypothalamus, and are stereotyped, the cerebral cortex can modulate or suppress them." Laughter and the body
Main article: Gelotology#Study results
Gelotology is the study of physiological effects of humor and laughter.
Therapeutic effects of laughter
Main article: Gelotology#Types of therapy
While it is normally only considered cliché that "laughter is the best medicine," specific medical theories attribute improved health, increased life expectancy, and overall improved well-being, to laughter.
A study demonstrated neuroendocrine and stress-related hormones decreased during episodes of laughter, which provides support for the claim that humour can relieve stress. Presenting their findings at the 121st Annual Meeting of the American Physiological Society, researchers have also found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones, cortisol, epinephrine and dopac. The stress hormones were reduced 39, 70 and 38 percent, respectively[3]
Writer Norman Cousins wrote about his experience with laughter in helping him recover from a serious illness in 1979's Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient. In 1989, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article, wherein the author wrote that "a humor therapy program can increase the quality of life for patients with chronic problems and that laughter has an immediate symptom-relieving effect for these patients, an effect that is potentiated when laughter is induced regularly over a period". [4]
Some therapy movements like Re-evaluation Counseling believe that laughter is a type of "bodily discharge", along with crying, yawning and others, which requires encouragement and support as a means of healing.
Causes
Common causes for laughter are sensations of joy and humor, however other situations may cause laughter as well
A general theory that explains laughter is called the relief theory. Sigmund Freud summarized it in his theory that laughter releases tension and "psychic energy". This theory is one of the justifications of the beliefs that laughter is beneficial for one's health.[6] This theory explains why laughter can be as a coping mechanism for when one is upset, angry or sad.
Philosopher John Morreall theorizes that human laughter may have its biological origins as a kind of shared expression of relief at the passing of danger.
For example, this is how this theory works in the case of humour: a joke creates an inconsistency, the sentence appears to be not relevant, and we automatically try to understand what the sentence says, supposes, doesn't say, and implies; if we are successful in solving this 'cognitive riddle', and we find out what is hidden within the sentence, and what is the underlying thought, and we bring foreground what was in the background, and we realize that the surprise wasn't dangerous, we eventually laugh with relief. Otherwise, if the inconsistency is not resolved, there is no laugh, as Mack Sennett pointed out: "when the audience is confused, it doesn't laugh" (this is the one of the basic laws of a comedian, called "exactness"). It is important to note that the inconsistency may be resolved, and there may still be no laugh. Due to the fact that laughter is a social mechanism, we may not feel like we are in danger, however, the physical act of laughing may not take place. In addition, the extent of the inconsistency (timing, rhythm, etc) has to do with the amount of danger we feel, and thus how intense or long we laugh. This explanation is also confirmed by modern neurophysiology (see section Laughter and the Brain)
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LOUGH HOUR WAY TO BETTER HEALTH
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1....IMPORTANT OF LAUGHING EXERCISE- MRS SUZZIE
For the past twenty years medical researches have proved beyond a shadow of
doubt that laughter has a positive effect on the human body and mind. Laughter is born PREVENTATIVE AND THERAPEUTIC.
When a lady named Jag ghuman walked in to the health centre where I work, I know how meeting her could change my life in such a short space of time. Jog handed me a leaflet with the heading YOGIC LAUGH by Laughter. The next words that caught my imagination were ' ho ho ha ha ha' some how these would reminded me of my childhood days and is only make me laugh. I said to Jag I would love to come on a teachers training session.
I have always smiled a lot and intuition known it was good therapy for me and also for other people. As I have deserved for many years when you pass someone in the street and smile they nearly always smile back and I believe it makes you both feel good about life, its an exchange of happy energy which come how has been lost in the turmoil of a materialistic and stressful world we live in today.
I realised I had not laughed from the depths of my being for a very long time and now was the time to change all that. The universe has an amazing way of placing that magic back into the special of our life's when we most need it.
After going on Laughter course I felt a different person; so much stress and anxiety lifted from my body and I felt so much lighter and so very happy . I knew I had to share it with the world. So I can share all the health benefits with you.
Laughter helps to combat STRESS (which is number one killer today). Most illnesses like HIGH BLOOD PRESS SURE , HEART DISEASE, PEPTIC ULCER, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, INSOMNIA, MIGRAINE HEADACHE, ALLERGIES AND EVEN CANCER HAS SOME RELATION TO STRESS.
Laughter helps to boost IMMUNITY. Dr Lee S berk from Loma Linda University had done landmark research on effects of laughter on our immune system . Laughter helps to increase the antibodies levels and increase the number of NATURAL KILLER CELLS N K CELLS. Our immune system holds the secret for maintaining good health, preventing infection, allergic disorders and preventing cancer.
Other health benefits of laughter include sense of well being, less of aches and pains (due to release of ENDORPHINS, a hormone released from brain cells), muscle relaxation, reduction in depression , fevers, coughs and colds , anxiety, removes inhibitions, enhances communication and improves inlet personal relationships.
In another experimental study, a French neurologist found out that by smiling some areas of the brain get stimulated and there is heightened electrical activity in the left side of the Interior part of the brain cortex. Smile is also deliberate expression of happiness. Therefore if a smile can cause chemical changes in the body imagine what laughter can do. In laughter clubs, start with self induced laughs and it soon gets converted in spontaneous laughter because of grasp activity and child like play fullness.
Some people who witness laughter sessions, have doubts in their minds that laughter in Laughter clubs is not real, but it has been proved by scientific studies that even if you laugh for the laughter sake of pretend laughing laughing, out body does not come to know the difference. The same set of happy chemicals are released and one gets all the benefits of real laughter. The fact was validated by the experience of an American Stage actress, who played sad roles for ten years and she fell sick. She was investigated thoroughly and Doctors found no abnormality. Doctors came to the conclusion that she was sick due to her acting sad parts for ten years. They advised her to do some comic roles . All her symptoms disappeared without medication. In other word "FAKE IT, FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT"
We spend a lot of time crying and hovering today and believe the time has now come for us to unite together across all nations with no barriers on religion, culture, colour, gender. Laughter let is a common language we can all communicate together harmoniously..Laughter is a powerful emotion, and a social bonding of oneness.
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NO 2....................IMPORTANT OF LAUGHING EXERCISE
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For the first time, we have developed a new technique of group laughter based on Yoga where anyone for 15-20 minutes every day without taking help of jokes. These laughter exercises, when practised in a group, get converted into spontaneous laughter because laughter is contagious in a group.
Each laughter session starts with deep breathing, ho-ho-ha-ha- ha warm exercise, followed by a variety of stimulated laughter like Hearty Laugh, Silent laugh, Medium laugh, One Metre laugh , Lion laugh, Argument laugh and many others. All the members of Laughter Clubs, not only practise group laughing exercises but also follow the way and means of sensible living like paying compliments and practising forgiveness.
Normally people believe that one must have a good sense of humour to be able to laugh but the reverse is also true. You try to laugh in a group for no reason, your inhibitions are broken and your sense of humour will start flowing. Laughter Club provides an ideal platform to remove your inhibitions and be playful like a child.
Laughter Club is an ideal example of group dynamic. We have wealth of Eastern and Western wisdom but problem with most of us is, that knowledge, about so many things in life, does not manifest for the lack of motivation. Because of group effort, laughter club members motivate and inspire each other.
Some people, who witness laughter session, have doubts in their minds that laughter in Laughter Clubs is not real., but it has been proved by scientific studies that even if you laugh for the laughte5r sake or pretend laughing, our body does not come to the difference. Same set of happy chemicals are released and one gets all the benefits of real laughter. This fact was validated by the experience of an American Stage Actress , who played sad roles for 10 years and she fell sick. She was investigated thoroughly and there was no abnormality found. Doctors came to the conclusion that she was sick because she was acting sadness. Therefore they advised her to do same comic roles. All her symptoms disappeared without any medication. The laughter club idea is based on the same philosophy of acting happiness. In other words ''FAKE IT, FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT'
In an other experimental study, a French Neurologist found out that by smiling some areas of the brain get stimulated and there is heightened electrical activity in the left anterior part of the brain cortex. Smile is also a deliberate expression of happiness. Therefore if a smile can cause chemical changes in the body\, laughter certainly will do the same. But in laughter clubs, we do start with self induced laughter and it soon gets converted into spontaneous laughter because of group activity and childlike playfulness.
People, who should not participate in laughter exercises, are those suffering from hernia, angina chest pain, advanced piles, uteri Vaginal prolapse, pregnancy and acute infections of the throat and chest. If anybody experiences any discomfort during laughter exercises should discontinue and consult a doctor before joining the laughter session
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1 "In the Navajo tradition we have what we call Chi Dlo Dil, or a Laughing Party, for a newborn. The Laughing Party is the first laugh you hear from a child. It's usually around six weeks.
It's the baby's first expression to the world, saying 'I'm ready to interact.'
Before that, the baby is still in the soft world and you aren't supposed to put anything hard and fixed on the body, or they may take on those qualities. But after the laughing party, you can give the baby jewelry or bracelets or other decorations.
At the party everybody sits around the baby and has a big meal and plays with the baby. The person who makes the baby laugh first plays an important role in the child's life."
Nancy Evans, Shiprock, NM (Navajo Nation
2 Laughing means being cognizant of your surroundings. When you laugh you become a part of something---you join in, you become part of the crowd.
Sometimes the joke relates to you. It takes a little bit of humility when you can laugh at yourself---get off your high horse, relax, and let it go. It's a way of saying 'You can have this one on me. Enjoy yourself. I'll get even.'"
Malcolm E. Stitt, Albuquerque, New Mexico
3….."I don't know where the hell laughing comes from. It's good for your health, I know that much. There's so much sadness in the world, it's a wonder you can even laugh at all.
Like when I lost my lady. I was 25 years with her. I cried plenty. I still wake in the morning and I think, 'Where is she?'
But life goes on. You can't go around being an old grump all the time."
Bob, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
4………"People can laugh when they can cooperate and share an experience together."
"People can laugh when they can cooperate and share an experience together."
Ahwed Abd El Rahwan, Waly (outside El Fayoum), Egypt
5. "Laughing is the smile of the World."
Weerashon Puttrpadit, Mahasarakham, Thailand
6. "Laughing is enjoyment. This is very strange. I have never seen this before. It looks like feathers."
Turkana woman, Kakuma, Kenya
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Laughter is an audible expression, or appearance of merriment or happiness, or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure (laughing on the inside). It may ensue (as a physiological reaction) from jokes, tickling, and other stimuli. Inhaling nitrous oxide can also induce laughter; other drugs, such as cannabis, can also induce episodes of strong laughter. Strong laughter can sometimes bring an onset of tears or even moderate muscular pain.
Laughter is a part of human behaviour regulated by the brain. It helps humans clarify their intentions in social interaction and provides an emotional context to conversations. Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a group — it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. Laughter is sometimes seemingly contagious, and the laughter of one person can itself provoke laughter from others as a positive feedback.[1] This may account in part for the popularity of laugh tracks in situation comedy television shows.
The study of humor and laughter, and its psychological and physiological effects on the human body is called gelotology.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Humans……
Recently researchers have shown infants as early as 17 days old have vocal laughing sounds or spontaneous laughter. Early Human Development 2006This conflicts with earlier studies indicating that babies usually start to laugh at about four months of age; J.Y.T. Greig writes, quoting ancient authors, that laughter is not believed to begin in a child until the child is forty days old. [2] "Laughter is Genetic" Robert R. Provine, Ph.D. has spent decades studying laughter. In his interview for WebMD, he indicated "Laughter is a mechanism everyone has; laughter is part of universal human vocabulary. There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but everyone speaks laughter in pretty much the same way.” Everyone can laugh. Babies have the ability to laugh before they ever speak. Children who are born blind and deaf still retain the ability to laugh. “Even apes have a form of ‘pant-pant-pant’ laughter.”
Provine argues that “Laughter is primitive, an unconscious vocalization.” And if it seems you laugh more than others, Provine argues that it probably is genetic. In a study of the “Giggle Twins,” two exceptionally happy twins were separated at birth and not reunited until 43 years later. Provine reports that “until they met each other, neither of these exceptionally happy ladies had known anyone who laughed as much as she did.” They reported this even though they both had been brought together by their adoptive parents they indicated were “undemonstrative and dour.” Provine indicates that the twins “inherited some aspects of their laugh sound and pattern, readiness to laugh, and perhaps even taste in humor.” WebMD 2002
Raju Mandhyan states "The physical and psychological benefits of laughter come second only to the physical and psychological benefits of sex."
[……………………………………………………………………………………………
Laughter and the brain
Principal fissures and lobes of the cerebrum viewed laterally. (Frontal lobe is blue, temporal lobe is green.)
Modern neurophysiology states that laughter is linked with the activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which produces endorphins after a rewarding activity.
Research has shown that parts of the limbic system are involved in laughter[citation needed]. The limbic system is a primitive part of the brain that is involved in emotions and helps us with basic functions necessary for survival. Two structures in the limbic system are involved in producing laughter: the amygdala and the hippocampus[citation needed].
The December 7, 1984 Journal of the American Medical Association describes the neurological causes of laughter as follows:
"Although there is no known 'laugh center' in the brain, its neural mechanism has been the subject of much, albeit inconclusive, speculation. It is evident that its expression depends on neural paths arising in close association with the telencephalic and diencephalic centers concerned with respiration. Wilson considered the mechanism to be in the region of the mesial thalamus, hypothalamus, and subthalamus. Kelly and co-workers, in turn, postulated that the tegmentum near the periaqueductal grey contains the integrating mechanism for emotional expression. Thus, supranuclear pathways, including those from the limbic system that Papez hypothesised to mediate emotional expressions such as laughter, probably come into synaptic relation in the reticular core of the brain stem. So while purely emotional responses such as laughter are mediated by subcortical structures, especially the hypothalamus, and are stereotyped, the cerebral cortex can modulate or suppress them." Laughter and the body
Main article: Gelotology#Study results
Gelotology is the study of physiological effects of humor and laughter.
Therapeutic effects of laughter
Main article: Gelotology#Types of therapy
While it is normally only considered cliché that "laughter is the best medicine," specific medical theories attribute improved health, increased life expectancy, and overall improved well-being, to laughter.
A study demonstrated neuroendocrine and stress-related hormones decreased during episodes of laughter, which provides support for the claim that humour can relieve stress. Presenting their findings at the 121st Annual Meeting of the American Physiological Society, researchers have also found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones, cortisol, epinephrine and dopac. The stress hormones were reduced 39, 70 and 38 percent, respectively[3]
Writer Norman Cousins wrote about his experience with laughter in helping him recover from a serious illness in 1979's Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient. In 1989, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article, wherein the author wrote that "a humor therapy program can increase the quality of life for patients with chronic problems and that laughter has an immediate symptom-relieving effect for these patients, an effect that is potentiated when laughter is induced regularly over a period". [4]
Some therapy movements like Re-evaluation Counseling believe that laughter is a type of "bodily discharge", along with crying, yawning and others, which requires encouragement and support as a means of healing.
Causes
Common causes for laughter are sensations of joy and humor, however other situations may cause laughter as well
A general theory that explains laughter is called the relief theory. Sigmund Freud summarized it in his theory that laughter releases tension and "psychic energy". This theory is one of the justifications of the beliefs that laughter is beneficial for one's health.[6] This theory explains why laughter can be as a coping mechanism for when one is upset, angry or sad.
Philosopher John Morreall theorizes that human laughter may have its biological origins as a kind of shared expression of relief at the passing of danger.
For example, this is how this theory works in the case of humour: a joke creates an inconsistency, the sentence appears to be not relevant, and we automatically try to understand what the sentence says, supposes, doesn't say, and implies; if we are successful in solving this 'cognitive riddle', and we find out what is hidden within the sentence, and what is the underlying thought, and we bring foreground what was in the background, and we realize that the surprise wasn't dangerous, we eventually laugh with relief. Otherwise, if the inconsistency is not resolved, there is no laugh, as Mack Sennett pointed out: "when the audience is confused, it doesn't laugh" (this is the one of the basic laws of a comedian, called "exactness"). It is important to note that the inconsistency may be resolved, and there may still be no laugh. Due to the fact that laughter is a social mechanism, we may not feel like we are in danger, however, the physical act of laughing may not take place. In addition, the extent of the inconsistency (timing, rhythm, etc) has to do with the amount of danger we feel, and thus how intense or long we laugh. This explanation is also confirmed by modern neurophysiology (see section Laughter and the Brain)
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