10 Health Benefits of Laughter! Robert Rivest Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Wellbeing Laughter CEO

Improvised Laughter Follow Along Session exploring 10 Health Benefits of Laughter. Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Wellbeing Laughter CEO and Comic Mime Robert Rivest helps motivate us to embody these 10 Health Benefits of Laughter. He reminds us to laugh often, for the health of it. He inspires us to create a daily laughter practice for our health, happiness and overall wellbeing. Links below.
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10 Health Benefits of Laughter
1. Lifts Your Mood: Laughter releases chemicals that make us feel good. (See DOSE below). When we feel good, we can do just about anything a little easier. Laughter helps us have a positive mindset. It can help us diffuse anger and conflict allowing us to see the humor in life.
2. Laughter Releases DOSE! D.O.S.E. is the acronym for all the major “Happy” chemicals in our brains. These chemicals are Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins. The release of these chemicals makes us feel happy, motivated, significant, and connected, while at the same time, reducing pain, stress, and anxiety.
3. Boosts the Immune System: Laughter reduces our primary stress hormones by increasing our intake of oxygen and stimulating our circulation. What’s more, laughter increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies (like T and B lymphocytes) improving our resistance to disease, bacteria, and viruses.
4. Decreases Stress: We produce serotonin when we laugh. That helps reduce stress hormones like cortisol, which build up when we experience sustained stress over time. Laughter stimulates circulation, reduces inflammation, and aids in muscle relaxation, which helps relieve the physical symptoms of stress. Laughter can ‘switch on’ the calming effects of our parasympathetic nervous system.
5. Improves Creativity & Productivity: Laughter can instantly relieve our body’s stress response, soothing any tensions we are holding. It can help us be more creative and productive by improving our overall emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. Laughter can lessen brain fog and enhance our problem-solving skills. A deep belly laugh can help our brain focus and concentrate, allowing us to stay on task.
6. Increases Oxygen Levels: Laughing alone, or with others, can provide a great workout for our pulmonary, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems. Laughter makes our lungs work harder in a good way. When we laugh, our diaphragm, chest, and abdominal muscles tighten. This forces stale air out as we exhale, allowing fresh air to go deeper into our lungs when we inhale. Laughter expands the tiny air sacs in our lungs, giving us an expanded area for oxygen exchange.
7. Regulates Blood Pressure: Laughter is aerobic. When done enthusiastically, laughter is equivalent to other aerobic exercises. Laughing stimulates our muscles, heart, and lungs, and can even lower inflammation. This helps reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems such as strokes and heart attacks. Laughter works our muscles and stimulates several organs. The increased amount of oxygen entering our circulation dilates our blood vessels. Our blood flow rises and blood pressure increases a little, then drops down to baseline when we stop.
8. Manages Pain: Laughter relaxes the muscles and helps the body to produce natural painkillers called endorphins. Endorphins promote an overall sense of ease and wellbeing. They essentially turn off our pain by blocking the nerve cells that receive the pain signals. Endorphins can also help us relieve moodiness and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Plus, laughing is fun.
9. Reduces Depression and Anxiety: Laughter practices are gaining popularity as a noninvasive and non-pharmacological alternative or additional treatment for anxiety, stress, and depression. When we have a good laugh, it reduces muscular tension and overall stress. Laughter can lower anxiety and irritation, which contribute to feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression.
10. Brings Us Together: Laughter is a universal activity that fosters closeness in a group, contributes to group bonding, and helps us build trusting relationships. Humans use different types of laughter as social clues. We can even use laughter to negotiate a better way to live and work together. When strangers, friends, family members, and coworkers unite in laughter, they feel more connected and more at ease with one another. The release of feel-good chemicals like endorphins, allows us to open and share more with others.
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[@katarzynabobowiec2314]

A better day Thanks to You Robert😊💪

[@RobertRivest1]

Thank you too! Yay! Keep on Laughing

[@katarzynabobowiec2314]

🤣🏋️‍♀️from Poland 🤸‍♀️🤣💪

[@georgiewood8599]

It's so good to laugh with you every day on waking.❤ I spread quite a bit of love, light, and smiles around folk daily, but it's great to fill my laughter tank every morning so i dont go empty because that leaves me stranded and inert🥴 So yes, daily giggle is the best.❤😂

[@RobertRivest1]

Love that! Happy you like these vids and get out in the world spreading love, light, and smiles. Awesome

[@georgiewood8599]

❤Thank you. It was great laughing with you and Joe today​@RobertRivest1 😂

[@subhashkhadka-wd6fn]

Thank You Robert Sir

[@RobertRivest1]

My pleasure, I will be making more on the Health Benefits of Laughter

[@katarzynabobowiec2314]

You are my favorite Robert with Ajahn Brahm - to deal with everyday life nicely🤣🏋️‍♀️🤸‍♀️welcom to Poland 💪

[@brigittejanin4205]

Thanks à lot!,,!

[@RobertRivest1]

Happy you liked this improvised first draft version. I will make a more pro version soon.

[@rosewetzel8284]

@@RobertRivest1 Hey your a professional at this and I love hearing that love and joy in your laughter💞

[@RobertRivest1]

Thank you so much! @@rosewetzel8284 Happy holidays

[@cynthiacurtis9616]

Can I buy that script? I'd like to use it in my club. I'd like to publish it. This is one of your best and they are all s😀 wonderful.

[@RobertRivest1]

Thanks I don't have a script because I improvised it. But I do have the 10 Health Benefits on my Website: wellbeinglaughter.com/wellbeing-laughter/#HealthBenefitsofLaughter Feel free to share it with your friends. Please also invite people to share, like, comment and subscribe to my youtube channel so more people can enjoy the benefits of laughter.

[@danyalkhan1172]

Can laughter relief our anxiety?

[@RobertRivest1]

Yes, here is a good article on it: www.healthyplace.com/blogs/anxiety-schmanxiety/2014/12/laughter-can-chase-away-anxiety

[@BOB-ir5xd]

Sure it can !!

[@danyalkhan1172]

@@BOB-ir5xd thanks for answer

[@danyalkhan1172]

@@RobertRivest1 thank you so much

[@RobertRivest1]

I was thinking more about this. When people are anxious, it negatively affects their body, breathing and mind. Laughter can break the cycle. Lowering body tension, changing breathing, and freeing up the mind. Laughter as a daily practice can help lower overall stress and anxiety. But in the thick of it, like in an anxiety attack, my feeling is doing something to change the anxious breathing cycle is very important with something like Box Breathing (4 in, 4 hold ,4 out, 4 hold) or 4 in 6 out or one that you have practiced ahead of time. Also mindfulness, being aware of what is happening in the body, breathing, and mind. Being curios, witnessing what happens early on. Everything has a beginning, middle and end. Hope that helps.