I have been in lots of pain on and off over the past few months which is just one of the reasons I decided to try out this laughter Yoga with the lovely Maria. I have been doing a little googling and came across an article in the New York Times which describes really well why I am doing what I am doing and the benefits.
Well worth a read guys and it might encourage more laughing if you do.
It starts...Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good. The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral humor, but the physical act of laughing. The simple muscular exertions involved in producing the familiar ha, ha, ha, he said, trigger an increase in endorphins, the brain chemicals known for their feel-good...Click here for the full report :)
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