Why LY in Business
The work place is a serious and stressful environment. People believe that being serious equates with being responsible and more productive. This is not true. Well-balanced, productive and successful people take their work seriously but take themselves lightly.
Scientific research shows that laughter can help reduce workplace stress and help resolve many related issues, but until now there has been no reliable and effective system to deliver laughter. Humor was the only tool available, but it is not reliable and seldom leads to continuous hearty laughter. Much of humor is hurtful and negative.
Laughter Yoga is a breakthrough delivery system that enables a person to laugh continuously for 15 to 20 minutes with short breaks of deep breathing.
To get the scientifically proven benefits, laughter has to be:
• Hearty - coming from the belly (diaphragm)
• It has to be extended for a period of time, at least 15 minutes.
Natural laughter in daily life lasts for a few seconds and that is not enough to bring about powerful physiological changes. Laughter Yoga is the ideal system where laughter can be extended as a conscious practice. All that is needed is to give oneself permission to laugh as an exercise and to release self-conscious thoughts and have fun. As adults we grow serious and forget how to relate to our inner 5-year old.
