Monday, February 20, 2012

Know About the Benefits of Laughter Yoga

Yoga has many types to practice like the regular yoga poses, breath exercises and different asanas. Unlike these things there are another thing which are practiced using some yoga techniques which is nothing but laughter yoga. Laughter yoga is nothing but laughing out loud by following instructions in yoga. Many people found that it is an effective way to cope up with stress and depression and hence it is used as a medicine for the patients suffering from stress and anxiety. Following are the few benefits of doing laughter yoga regularly.

Relaxes the whole body: Laughter yoga really proves to be an effective medicine in relieving the whole body as the laughter practiced during these yoga sessions involves immense physical movement and hence decreases the stress levels. Even after we stop doing this yoga our muscles feel relaxed till the next 45 minutes.

Anti Stress: Laughter helps in expanding the blood vessels and sends more blood in to the muscles all over the body. This improves blood circulation helps in relaxing every muscle and hence relieves the body from stress and strain.

Increases Emotional Intelligence: This feature especially happens in case of children. More socialization plays a major role in the development of social skills and emotional intelligence among the kids. As there is no restriction during these laughter yoga classes children will feel much happy and reap more benefits than adults.

Strengthens the Immune system: It is already proven that relief from emotional imbalances such as strain, anxiety, tension and depression directly affects the immune system. But doing regular yoga helps to get relief from all those imbalances and hence strengthens the immune system indirectly.

Saves from cardiovascular disorders:Laughter promotes the blood flow and makes the heart healthy by reducing tensions and stress and by maintaining normal blood pressure levels and hence yoga protects the body from various ill effects.


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