Contents

Laughter Yoga

Jokes

Laughter Yoga for Absolute Beginners

Happiness Research

Yoga with Positive Thinking

Get Positive in Five Minutes

Chair-Yoga with Laughing

Sayings from Yogi Nils

The Goddess

Shake Meditation with Laughing

Poems from Drugpa Künleg

Laughing Wave

The Fool

Breathing Meditation

Mulla Nasrudin

Healing Meditation

The enlightened being

The Laughing Buddha

Guru Yoga

Laughter Meditation

Laughter Yoga

 

 

Laughter yoga helps you to concentrate on the funny side of life. Laughter Yoga was started by Dr Madan Kataria in 1995. It combines gentle yoga breathing (Pranayama), stretching, and laughter.

 

Wikipedia: Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter. Laughter yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter.

Laughter yoga was made popular as an exercise routine developed by Indian physician Madan Kataria. Kataria's first Laughter Yoga Club began on 13 March 1995 in Mumbai, with five people in a local public park. The concept rapidly spread worldwide, and as of 2011, there were more than 8,000 Laughter Clubs in 100 countries. Each group is run by a "Laugh Captain" and operates independently.

Fake laughter quickly becomes real. Anyone can laugh without needing to rely on humor, jokes or comedy. Laughter is initially simulated as a physical exercise while maintaining eye contact with others in the group and promoting childlike playfulness. In most cases this soon leads to real and contagious laughter.

Laughter yoga sessions start with gentle warm-up techniques which include stretching, chanting, clapping and body movement. These help break down inhibitions and develop feelings of 'childlike playfulness'. Breathing exercises are used to prepare the lungs for laughter, followed by a series of ‘laughter exercises’ that combine the method of acting and visualization techniques with playfulness. These exercises, when combined with the strong social dynamics of group behavior, lead to prolonged and hearty unconditional laughter. Laughter exercises are interspersed with breathing exercises. A laughter yoga session may finish with "Laughter Meditation". This is a session of unstructured laughter whereby participants sit or lie down and allow natural laughter to flow from within.

 

Jokes

 

 

Women are laughing about:

 

In every man there’s something good. Even if it is just the kitchen knife.

Why can’t men get mad cow disease? Because men are pigs.

What does a man consider helping with the housekeeping? Lifting the legs up so that she can vacuum better.

Getting married is like a trip with friends to a restaurant. You order what you want and when you see what the others have gotten, you would rather have that.

Him: “Honey, I’m going to make you the happiest woman in the world!” She: “I’ll miss you!”

 

And now, jokes for men:

 

When men work with their heads, one calls that thinking. When women work with their heads, we call that hairstyling.

How many brain cells does a woman have? Four, one for each stovetop.

If God had wanted women to be pilots, the sky would be pink.

Two men are talking: “ my wife died last week!” “Yeah, and?” “ The bed looks the same as always, only the kitchen is a chaotic mess!”

 

Live your life

 

A younger man goes for a walk and sees a shriveled, wrinkled old woman who is sitting happily in her rocking chair on the porch. “Excuse me,” he speaks to the woman, “but you look so happy and satisfied. What is the secret to your life?” The woman answers: “60 cigarettes, at least one bottle of schnapps, no exercise, and lots of younger men… that is the secret of my life!” “Unbelievable!” The man is amazed, “ and can I ask how old you are now?” “39….”

 

Daily harassment

 

Another school day, yet another day full of annoying offensive comments and humiliations. Hesitantly, I get up. Should I really listen to this crap every day and do nothing about it? Yes, what else can I do? Who wants to speak out against the majority of the pubescent teens on their ego trip? No one. Not the teacher. They try to help you, but that usually makes things worse. I am not angry with them, actually I feel bad for them. I feel bad that they direct the attention to themselves. I know who I am and what I can do.

I have another tip: don’t let it get to you, because it is just not worth it. Just be yourself and be happy with yourself because that is all you can do.

Nils: Very good. The situation in the schools, on the job and over the net is difficult. Anchor yourself in the way of inner happiness (in happiness philosophy), give yourself enough time to relax, live healthily, and save yourself with spiritual exercises (thought work, oracle, reading, Yoga, walking, meditation) and enjoy something nice often. Follow your goals and do something for yourself. You can also live in the light in a world of suffering.

 

Thoughts from an aging man

 

You can start to worry about it, but when you look more closely, I don’t think it’s too bad! Because “I am just turning 60 now!”

If you don’t know your own telephone number, no reason to panic! You only need to say- “ I am 60!” If you spill your soup on yourself, no problem, because- “ I am 60!” At that age, everyone expects that you will have developed into a grumpy old fart because “ I am 60!” If you make it to your sixtieth birthday, then everyone is amazed that you are still alive, that you can still stand and walk and still have a few bright moments. “ I am 60!” At the age of 59 people are still angry with you for whatever reason. At 60, they forgive you for almost everything.

“ I am finally 60!”

 

Hello, anyone out there? (from Agnes)

 

Is someone there? For days, there hasn’t been any mail in the mail box, no emails, no telephone calls. Why hasn’t anyone taken contact? I feel like I have been cut off from the world. I haven’t been snowed in, the electricity hasn’t gone out, and the battery on my cell phone is fully charged. It’s like I don’t exist anymore. The line of a song comes to mind: “ no one is calling me, no one cares for me…” My ego is irritated, you could say. On days like these, I feel like I have been sucked into a black hole and no one notices that I live. Is there no one out there who wants to talk to me, or even write me a short message so that I know that I am not totally shut off from the outside world. If someone hears me, then please let me know. I have to see if there’s an obituary for me in the newspaper tomorrow, if not.

Opinion: Good that you make yourself seen! You don’t really need to worry until no one responds to you if you say hello to them out on the street. Only then have you really become invisible. ;)

 

My dream

 

I’m Maike and I am 13 years old. My hobbies are playing sports and listening to music as well as singing or dancing. When I am alone at home, I am mostly very bored. Then I can sing. I love to sing. I go to middle school. I met my best friend Victoria there, she is very nice. She and I are searching for a boyfriend. But that can still wait. Sometimes I think otherwise, but it doesn’t matter really. I keep it under control. Like every child, I have a dream. I want to become a superstar.

Yogi Nils: My senses also sometimes play tricks on me. I also have a dream. I wish for a happy world without hunger or suffering. If you try to save the world, you will never be bored. That is very good. I don’t want to be a superstar. It is enough for me to be a little Yogi. I can see the superstars and popstars in the TV. I know that I must save the world.

 

The sad life of a 16 year old

 

My life is so bad, simply awful. I think and I stuff cookies into my mouth. I look at the cookies that only consist of a few crumbs after I have eaten them all up and I have to

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Publisher: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Images: Wikimedia Commons, WikiHow and own pictures
Publication Date: 06-14-2015
ISBN: 978-3-7368-9979-7

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Dedication:
May all people be happy. May the world be happy.