Liberated Laughter Exercise

The liberated laughter not only provides a full-scale workout for your muscles, it unleashes a rush of stress-busting endorphins. What’s more, your body can’t distinguish between real and fake laughter – any giggle will do.

Contrary to what many of us think laughter therapy is not laughing right away from beginning to end. Instead it’s done in phases focussing more on enjoyment and good feeling.

Generally these exercises are done outdoors like parks. Ask your group to follow the instructions below.

Stand in front of a colleague and look seriously at your face. Then, begin to practice different smiles – big ones, little ones, crooked ones, quick ones, long ones, pretty ones, silly ones, etc.

After smiling, begin to practice laughs. Pretend you are an actor and need to laugh for a part you are playing.

Try short laughs, loud laughs, titters, chuckles, cackles and snorts. Work at laughing until you feel it becomes real.

In time you will become a “liberated laugher.” Notice how positively it affects your day and other people.

Fake laughter can be just as effective as real laughter. People who lead laughter therapy sessions have found that these fake laughs usually give way to the real kind.

The topics of this publication: health, relaxation, wellbeing, self