Suffering from stress MD Madan Kataria tried to get relief by laughing. So, he started to engage people in laughing founding a laughter club and meet in a park each day. First the laughter club started with telling jokes, but after a few weeks they ran out of good jokes and he had to try something different. Therefore, he started a group for laughing without any reason. This was the beginning of Laughter Yoga. During his work as MD Madan Kataria fell sick with flu for about five to six times a year. Since practicing laughter yoga, he never had a flu again for the last 25 years. Laughing is one of the easiest ways to stimulate the immune system and to do cardiovascular exercise. When you laugh you are creating healthy vibrations in almost every cell of your body by the stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. Laughter Yoga is scientifically proofed to relief stress symptoms and other negative influences on the sympathetic nervous system of the body.

Bullets:

• Positives effects of real laughter without reason last longer than the effects of forced laughter through jokes or comedy
• Laughing enables your body to store and keep more oxygen within its cells
• The more you laugh, the more spiritual you can get

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Quote:
“The World is serious, Life is serious, now it’s time to take laughter serious.”

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Dr. Madan Kataria is the founder and originator of the Laughter Yoga movement worldwide. A medical doctor from Mumbai, India is popularly known as the ‘Guru of Giggling’ (London Times), started first laughter club with just 5 in 1995.