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Get Health and Happiness in a “Laughter Yoga Club”

Hey,,,are you laughter everyday?? Do you think laughter can get health and happiness?? Read my article. People the world over spend huge amounts of money seeing doctors and buying pills to stay healthy, but the best medicine can be found inside oneself and it is free of charge, according to an Indian-born doctor. That medicine is laughter. Since Madan Kataria, a doctor in Mumbai, India, decided to use laughter to improve health and launched the first laughter yoga club in 1995, his laughter yoga, or LY, movement has spread like wildfire around the world.

“Now there are some 16,000 clubs throughout India, and another 6,000 in about 60 countries. My goal is have one million LY clubs around the world within 10 years,” he said in an interview in Taoyuan, 20 kilometers west of Taipei. Kataria, 53, was in Taiwan to inspect island’s 13 LY clubs, give a speech and attend a discussion on the benefits of laughter with Taiwanese psychiatrists. He was also scheduled to discuss with Chen Ta-cheng, founder of the Taiwan Laughter Yoga Club, on how to expand the LY movement to China.

One recent morning, Kataria joined two dozen Taiwan Laughter Yoga Club members in a park in Taoyuan to practice group laughter and share innovative ways to bring out a belly laugh. One woman squatted, sticking up her fingers and pretending she was a firecracker. Other members stood around her and touched her fingers as if they were lighting up the firecracker. The woman shouted “Bang!” and the other members dashed off laughing and screaming, like a bunch of kids playing hide-and-seek. The half-hour session was a laughing party for everyone, with every member making faces or doing funny moves to get the others to laugh.