How to Use Laughter Therapy

One doesn't usually think of laughter as therapy, but a chuckle a day can prevent stress buildup, enhance physical and mental performances and strengthen the immune system. It also promote the release of mood-enhancing hormones, such as endorphins and help oxygen pump better throughout the body. Learning to use laughter therapy can even enable the body to produce an antibody to ward off colds and flu.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Plan a night out for a nice dinner and a visit to your local comedy club. Get dressed up, get out there with your significant other and share some laughs with a person who makes others laugh for a living.
2. Rent or buy a humorous video with actors who always make you laugh. Besides the varied personalities of comediennes, there are many genres of humor. If you really want to know how to make laughter work in your life, do a short study to learn which types of comedy make your funny bone happy. Research satire, parody, slap stick, adage, irony, fantasy and black comedy.
3. Get a joke-a-day calendar for work and home. From that, you can start a daily joke email to share with friends and family.
4. Buy a joke book and memorize a few to pass along to others throughout the week. Don't over do this one or you'll become known as a p-e-s-t.
5. Try a laughing meditation. At least once a day, take two deep, cleansing breathes, stretch your arms up over your head and lower them back down to your sides. Smile and then start to giggle and work up to a good, hearty laugh.
6. Decide to have a sense of humor at home, at work, in the grocery store or a restaurant. Everyone make mistakes, including you, so learn to laugh at yourself a bit. The best way to use laughter therapy is to let the joke be on you once in a while.