How do you practice
Laughter Yoga every day when you have no access to a local laughter
club, or your local laughter club only meets once in a while?
The answer is easy, and the obvious second best: you call someone
and laugh with them on the phone!
Laughing on the phone is easy. Nothing can stop you if / when you
are willing to laugh. The format to use is the same as a laughter
session. Here are a few ideas:
- greet one another and laugh at the same time;
- do an "echo" laughter - each one of you laughing in
turn while the other "echos" the same laughter sound
as quickly as s/he can.
- occasionally chant "ho ho ha ha ha" together
- both stand up, look up and laugh at the ceiling (this will open
your chest and make it easier to laugh)
- tell yourselves the punch line of a joke in gibberish (a language
that has no meaning) and both laugh as if it was the best thing
you had ever heard. Do that a few times both in turn, as if you
both had many very good jokes.
- point at any part of your body that is painful / uncomfortble
and laugh about it as if the person on the line could see it.
You could turn that into a (phone) competition of who has the
most scars / hurts (the winner gets to laugh more).
- try a silent laughter, laughing with your eyes and mouth (open
or closed) and without making sounds
The main thing to remember is that this is an exercise. Simulate
(read "fake") laughter first and progressively let it
turn into real laughter.
Option 1: you already know someone / have friends willing
to experiment with this. Just do it.
Option 2: you don't know anybody. Well, if you don't say
so, nobody will find out. Post your
request in our online forum. We would strongly suggest you do
not leave your phone number there, only an email address. Interested
people will contact you and you can take it from there.
May you be blessed with zillions of daily belly rippling laughter! |
