Is Laughter the New Meditation?

[Lodestar]

No time to just sit and breathe? Then at least pull up a quick YouTube video of "goats yelling like humans"—a good laugh now and then may give you a mental boost similar to meditation, suggests new research presented today at the Experimental Biology 2014 conference in San Diego.

"Joyful laughter immediately produces the same brain wave frequencies experienced by people in a true meditative state," says Lee Berk, lead researcher of the study and associate professor of pathology and human anatomy at Loma Linda University.

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http://www.prevention.com/health/healthy-living/laughter-new-meditation

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Laughter Yoga:
http://www.laughteryoga.org/english

Contagious!

[dhill926]

1. gotta admit....

that video made me laugh...

[Warpy]

2. Giggling Snake

We did this one as kids. Everybody gets down on the floor head on somebody else's stomach, on down the line. Somebody is going to laugh. As soon as that happens, the whole room will be in hysterics, heads bouncing up and down on laughing stomachs.

Now that's "laughter Yoga."