{"id":492,"date":"2020-03-30T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/?p=492"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:17:47","slug":"laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">published in the Republican April 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are living during a time of anxiety, nervousness and helplessness. &nbsp;Many of us are being told to stay home while practicing social distancing. &nbsp;With all the news, it is hard to find happiness and laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A doctor in India, Madan Kataria,&nbsp;developed&nbsp;a system known as laughter yoga.&nbsp;It&nbsp;is a way to release tension and allow us to enjoy a simple laugh. &nbsp;The belief is that a voluntary laugh has many psychological benefits. &nbsp;It has been proven to improve your attitude while improving your health and quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laughter yoga consists of warming up and clapping while chanting an affirmation, followed by breathing exercises. &nbsp;Yoga poses are done in a silly and playful manner with laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laughter yoga is found in 53 countries, with 5,000 laughter yoga clubs around the world. &nbsp;Of those, two hundred are in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty minutes of laughter is&nbsp;recommended&nbsp;to fully receive the psychological benefit. &nbsp;Everybody can laugh with techniques from comedy and jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laughter can also be contagious when done in a group. &nbsp;Laughter yoga combines breathing exercises with laughter exercises that oxidates our bodies and brains to make us healthier and more energetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>published in the Republican April 2020 We are living during a time of anxiety, nervousness and helplessness. &nbsp;Many of us are being told to stay home while practicing social distancing. &nbsp;With all the news, it is hard to find happiness and laughter. A doctor in India, Madan Kataria,&nbsp;developed&nbsp;a system known as laughter yoga.&nbsp;It&nbsp;is a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}