Pain 10% more bearable after laughing with friends
Laughing with friends for around 15 minutes boosts a person’s pain threshold by an average of 10%, an international study has found.
5 great news articles that can make your day
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News / Chicago Tribunes: Laughter yoga promises to relieve stress and strengthen the immune system
Laughter yoga or laughter therapy promises to relieve stress and strengthen the immune system. Dozens of instructors from as far away as Zimbabwe and Venezuela recently gathered for a training session in Rosemont with Madan Kataria, an Indian doctor widely credited with starting laughter yoga in 1995.
News: Yoga teacher brings laughter to seniors in Michigan
Joan Dietrich, 67, of Norton Shores signed up for Laughter Yoga, hoping to lower her high blood pressure. After just one night of class, her blood pressure dropped into the normal range. "The next day, I had a happy, wholesome feeling," she says. That's the point, says Cheryl Oliver, the class instructor. Since she's been doing Laughter Yoga, she handles stress better -- whether someone cuts her off in traffic or ...
LY does wonder in a pain management program
Dr Topher Stephenson, who specializes in physical medicine and runs the spine program at Mercy in Sacramento, says laughter yoga promises to do for the psyche what bikram yoga does for muscles.