Laughter Therapy

Why LAUGH ?

Healthy, non-ridiculing and connecting laughter provides physiological, psychological and spiritual benefits you probably never realized or imagined.We are born with the gift of laughter -it's being serious that we learn. So, learn to laugh, and live, all over again.

 

Laughter Therapy

MANILA, Philippines - If Carlos 'Caloy' Atayde had his way, clowning around would be part of every doctor's prescription. Citing medical reports, he points out that hearty laughter burns calories faster than traditional aerobic activities like biking, while improving blood circulation and promoting a more restful sleep.

But then again, Atayde has always been in the business of making people happy. An animated stage performer at De La Salle College in the sixties, his high school classmates recall his boundless creative energy and unflagging optimism.

"Maybe it's in the genes," he says of his obsession to entertain people and make them laugh. "My father was an entertainer before he joined the army. He used to be a stage actor, tap dancer and pianist. I had a great time singing along with him and talking about the shows that we watched."

Those genes are still at work today, helping Atayde conduct what he calls 'happyshops,' workshops meant to bring out the inner clown in people to make them more effective and inspiring as communicators and workers... Philippine Daily Inquirer

Documentary on Laughter

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Laughter Qoutations

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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.  ~Woody Allen


At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.  ~Jean Houston


Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.  ~Author Unknown


Mirth is God's medicine.  Everybody ought to bathe in it.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.  ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.  ~e.e. cummings


Laughter is an instant vacation.  ~Milton Berle


What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!  ~Agnes Repplier


So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.  ~Gordon W. Allport


Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  ~Victor Borge


What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.  ~Yiddish Proverb


When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.  ~Alan Alda


Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.  ~Kurt Vonnegut


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.  ~Irish Proverb


Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.  ~Bob Newhart


A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.  ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan


There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.  ~Françoise Sagan


I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."  ~Quincy Jones


Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.  ~Henri Bergson


Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.  What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.  ~Max Eastman


A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.  ~Raymond Hitchcock


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.  ~Kurt Vonnegut


Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.  ~Anna Fellows Johnston


No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.  ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4


You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.  ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis


A good time to laugh is any time you can.  ~Linda Ellerbee


With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.  ~Abraham Lincoln


Watching a child's laughter teach a candle's flame how to dance.  ~Dr. SunWolf


Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea.  ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006


Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.  ~Ken Kesey


It is bad to suppress laughter.  It goes back down to your hips.  ~Author Unknown


It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.  ~Author Unknown


Seven days without laughter makes one weak.  ~Mort Walker


A laugh is a smile that bursts.  ~Mary H. Waldrip


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  ~Victor Hugo


[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.  ~Hugh Sidey


Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.  ~Josh Billings


Carry laughter with you wherever you go.  ~Hugh Sidey


Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.  ~Arnold Glasow


Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.  ~Author Unknown


We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.  ~Joseph Heller


Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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