LAUGHTER as THERAPY

What does laughter therapy do to your body and mind?

● Laughter can strengthen your immune system, alleviate pain and best of all, changes your energy!

●Laughter is also a powerful antidote to stress, pain and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh.

●Laughter can even heal your social relationships because, when laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy.

Below you’ll discover 5 ways to practice laughter therapy:
1.] Make Yourself Laugh
Don't wait for someone else to make you laugh. Enjoy your own company. Make laughter part of your daily health regimen. For example, start your morning off by smiling at yourself in the bathroom mirror and laughing at least five times. Or, hum a song that makes you laugh when you are taking a shower. Just laugh at yourself 1-2 minutes a day without any reason. It changes your mood immediately and you’ll start to feel the benefits of laughter.

2.] Watch your favorite comedy film or television show When it comes to the laughter, the sillier or more stupid the movie or show is, the better. The best laughs often come from the least amount of thinking!

3.] Share a good joke or a funny story 
So what if you've told this one a thousand times. Some things never stop being funny and they're good reminders that you still have your sense of humor.

4.] Play with puppies! 
Cute little animals can add some laughter medicine and joy to your life (and theirs, too).

5.] Pencil in some fun time
Make time for activities that are just for fun— non-competitive—like bowling, miniature golfing, plate spinning, karaoke, or face painting. 

5 steps to feel better in 45 seconds

      
5 steps to feel better in 45 seconds. 

1.) Close your eyes.

2.) Take a deep breath through your nose for about 6 seconds.

3.) Breathe out gently through pursed lips for about 8 seconds & let it all go.

4.) Repeat breathing excercise 3 times.

5.) Realise that your inner peace is more important than worries you are having right now. Calm mind is your super power. Own your super power & bring it with you wherever you go. If you feel need to recharge just pause and repeat this exercise again.

3 Tips to make your children feel loved

3 Tips to make your children feel loved 


1.) Children need minimum of 8 touches during a day to feel connected to a parent. If they are going through a particularly challenging time then your need of minimum 12 hugs a day. It could be as simple as the straightening of a collor, a pat on the shoulder or a simple hug.

2.) Each day, children need minimum one meaningful eye to eye conversation with a parent. It is especially important for babies to have that eye contact but children of all ages need to look them into eyes.

3.) There are 9 minutes during the day that have the greatest impact on the child:

* First 3 minutes after they wake up in the morning.

* The 3 minutes after they come home from the school.

* The last 3 minutes of the day before they go to bed.

It is the duty of a parent to make these moments special and help our children feel loved.

Know Emotional causes of obesity

Food addiction : Obesity 

Food addictions are combination of genetic factors coupled with distorted emotional coping. Food addictions are clear syndromes of toxic shame. Figures range from 34 million, with 60% women and 50% of men being overweight. Generally strong defensive rationalisations are used to "excuse" obese behaviour and deny its life-damaging consequences. In some cases, children learn to repress emotional expression and to stuff their feelings with food. Obese people feel empty, lonely and eat to be full and filled (fulfilled). Anger manifests in the gut and eating and being full take away the feeling of loneliness. Obese people often act jolly and happy to cover up their fear of the potential shame if they expressed deep sorrow or anger. 95% of people who diet gain the weight back within 5 years. In dieting, one has the sense of controlling and fixing the problem. Control is one of the major strategies of cover- up for shame. Covering up is the attempt to control the outside so that the inside will not be exposed. 

Control and release are natural polarities in human activity. What an obese person actually need to release is their anger by expressing it. 

Know yourself through your perception of others

If we take any random person then pick five people in their life and interview them about said person we are bound to hear five different perceptions about them. One person may perceive them as funny, kind and warm-hearted while another person may see them as irresponsible, immature, and unintelligent.
So whose perception is the correct one?

We frame our own perception about people that we meet based on our own relationship with ourselves and our own personality traits. For example, let’s say a person has never experienced the feeling of envy, how could they recognize this trait in another person if they have never experienced it? It means turning our attention outward and blaming or judging others is pointless.

If we pay close attention to who or what brings about a strong emotional reaction from us,we can utilize this to our advantage. Negative reactions indicate either one of two things. One that either we are attached to an idea or belief about the way things SHOULD be or the way someone SHOULD behave which means we are trying to force our own agenda on to other people, when in fact, no one has to behave the way we think they should. Anytime we hold people to our expectations of them instead of accepting them as they are, we are sitting in resistance of the present moment. The other thing a negative emotional reaction can indicate is that there is an aspect of our self that we are not wanting to look at, so we are literally finding it in other people as a clue to us that we need to bring awareness to this trait in ourselves.

As Carl Jung said, “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.” 


To truly heal a part of our self that we have become conditioned to hide from the world we must start to practice 100% honesty with ourselves. If we are experiencing anger, we admit and allow our self to experience anger, when we experience fear, we identify the fear and only become aware of it. It doesn’t mean we have to judge ourselves as good or bad because of the emotions it only means that we are aware of it and are then able to send unconditional love to these parts of ourselves. Although, it may sound terrible to always see ourselves as the “problem” and always have to turn our hand and point the finger back at ourselves when we so badly want to point it at another person, it actually is the most empowering move we can make. When we see our self as the “problem” we automatically become our own solution. When we start to see our self in everyone we automatically start making an honest and authentic relationship with ourselves. And when our relationship with ourselves is loving and accepting, we start not only seeing these same traits in other people but we realize that things or people that used to bring about a strong negative reaction from us are now met with forgiveness and compassion. We quite literally change and heal our relationships with others by changing and healing our relationship with ourselves. 

3 fastest ways to relax

Neuroscience shows there are 3 things that will take you into a conscious state of serenity in less than a minute or two:
1.) Slow deep breathing through your nose.
2.) Slow conscious streching of your body.
3.) Believe it or not- yawning.
There are, to date 43 published studies showing that yawning ( which brings more oxygen to your brain) is the fastest way to temporarily alleviate neurological symptoms like headaches, exhaustion, anxiety and anger.