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Why Laughter?

Laughter is the "Best Medicine."

Grandmothers have always known: LAUGHTER is the BEST MEDICINE.   Humor and laughter make a significant contribution to both your physical and mental health.  Learning to adopt a lighter attitude and how to see the funny side of everyday situations gives you resilience.  

Laughter Therapy is our portal for emotional balancing and achieving inner and outer peace.  It is essential for creating a sense of well-being.  Laughter has the ability to  improve our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social  health and strengthen our immune system.  It is also a way to bring together the mind, body & spirit in perfect harmony.  It is one of our innate tools for self-healing.

Facilitated laughter brings about different experiences.  There is laughter that can be meditative and can bring a sense of calm and peacefulness, giving us a fuller sense of self worth and belongingness.   We can optimize our health with laughter, build our self esteem, build confidence, relieve stress, energize our senses.  The benefits are enormous and realized dimensionally.

Even our hearts are healed with joy!

What is a Laughter Club?

A Laughter Club is a group that meets regularly to consciously engage in the process of laughter.   A Laughter Club is facilitated by a Certified Laughter Leader or Leaders.  A Certified Laughter Leader organizes the group and demonstrates step by step strategies for using laughter to bring significant change.  The Certified Laughter Leader demonstrates and models the various programs developed by Steve Wilson, Psychologist and founder of the World Laughing Tour, for optimizing the benefits of laughing.

During a Laughter Club, you are encouraged to be playful, have fun, and to allow your innate ability to heal the soul, the opportunity to balance your mental & emotional processes toward self healing while you effortlessly improve your overall well being and increase the depth and connectedness of the social group.  

Why a Laughter Club?

Laughter clubs provide the opportunity to reserve some time especially for you.  In 4 weekly 1 hour sessions, you can expect to learn 

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How to use a belly laugh.

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Techniques to break down defenses and reduce fear.

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Learn about your strengths and how to use them.

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Discover true power and how to get it back if it has been lost.

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Realize how personal change affects professional change.

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how to raise energy when your energy seems low or scarce.

Benefits from Attending a Laughter Club

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Increase energy

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Improve enthusiasm

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Decrease loneliness

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Relax muscle tension

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Reduce stress and pain

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Decrease symptoms of depression

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Improve respiration, oxygenation & blood circulation

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Improve self esteem & self confidence

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Promote restful sleep

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Induce a meditative alpha state for making lasting change

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Increase positive interactions

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Have fun!!

What do you do in a Laughter Club Session?

Laugh

A Laughter Group Session consists of a variety of different healthy practices.  It is light to moderate exercise for increasing mental and physical flexibility, generating positive mood, and stress reduction.  Among learning all different kinds of laughter and how laughing exercises energize your life experience, we will 

 

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Follow guidelines for the Good -Hearted Living Program developed by Steve Wilson, Psychologist and founder of the World Laughing Tour

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Do breathing & stretching exercises

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Bring down inhibitions with laughter

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Use laughter meditations

Who should attend?

General public, health workers, trainers, group leaders wanting to lead Laughter Clubs, children, adults, seniors and anyone else that just needs a good laugh!

 

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"Laughter To Go!" is an Official Affiliate of the World Laughter Tour.   Laughter Clubs and Certified Laughter Leaders (CLL) use methods based on the work of World Laughter Tour, Inc, and Laughter Club International, and are registered with the World Laughter Tour, Inc.   CLLs have been professionally trained and agree to abide by the ethical guidelines

 

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