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"When considering lifestyle changes to improve health, people often overlook the benefits of laughter," Michael Richardson, M.D., a family physician with Carbon Health in Boston, told Fox News ...
Laughter has been used as a therapeutic tool for many years because it is a natural form of medicine. Laughter is available to everyone and it provides benefits to a person's physical, emotional, and social well being. Some of the benefits of using laughter therapy are that it can relieve stress and relax the whole body. [32]
Scientists theorize that humans started laughing a long time ago; they say it was our first form of verbal communication before we developed true language!
Gelotology (from the Greek γέλως gelos "laughter") [1] is the study of laughter and its effects on the body, from a psychological and physiological perspective. Its proponents often advocate induction of laughter on therapeutic grounds in alternative medicine. The field of study was pioneered by William F. Fry of Stanford University. [2]
A Pubmed search for "laughter therapy" finds over 350 articles; PMID 21280463 is a recent review. A lot of the research was motivated by a book by Norman Cousins called Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient, in which he described the use of laughter therapy to treat a very serious illness. Looie496 03:10, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Study is first randomised clinical trial to evaluate laughter therapy on patients with coronary artery disease First-of-its-kind study finds laughter is indeed good medicine, especially for the ...
A laughter yoga event in the United Kingdom Laughter Yoga Training. Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a laughter exercise program which emphasizes three elements: laughter & playfulness, yogic breath-work, and mindfulness meditation. [1] Laughter Yoga was introduced in Mumbai, India in 1995 by family physician Madan Kataria and his wife Madhuri. [1]