Posted by: Laughable Lynda on: July 31, 2010
As the Laughter of the 31 Flavors of Laughter and the Getting Jolly in July Laughter Experience end today, take a moment and share your experiences from a physical, mental, emotional or spiritual point of view. What have you noticed from the experience of adding one minute more of laughter everyday?
Some may notice a tug on the idea of committing to something everyday even if it is only for a month, it can represent a change in the way of doing, feeling or being and can muster up some interesting effects. This was a change for a way to be more joyful everyday and to build it to create a consistency.
It may have shifted something emotionally as an open mouth while laughing intakes oxygen through the mouth more and heats up the brain, where as inhaling through the nose can cool it. What can happen as well may be the experience of catharsis, where issues stored in the tissues have been shaken loose in the laughing and come up to surface level on their way out of the body. Bid a fond farewell to anything that is ready to go and be appreciative for its teaching while present.
You may notice a physical strength or resiliency, an expansiveness in the lung capacity or a stronger diaphragm. In all laughing everyday and adding more each day up past 15 minutes is exercise as we elevated the heart rate just like in exercise. Since July 15th, everyone who connected received a wonderful benefit of the 15 minutes and more as we added a minute each day, so that would have been 16 days worth of wonderful expansive benefit.
However it affected those who joined us even in a modified way, laughing only a few days, laughing longer than normal or laughing consistently for a period of time…there was a benefit to note.
Share your experiences by posting a comment and note that it is only the experience we are looking for so that comparisons and contrasts can be made in the different experiences. The results will be tallied in August and presented at the Laughter Yoga Conference in Albuquerque and in October in Chicago’s Laugh Fest in the Midwest.
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