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Kataria's revelation was that only laughter is needed to stimulate laughter – no jokes are necessary.
Madan Kataria of Mumbai, creator of something called "laughter yoga", contends that only laughter is needed to stimulate laughter – no jokes are required.
If you find it hard to stimulate laughter when you're all alone, many cities have "laughter yoga" groups, with a guided laughter practice.
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One of the best ways to stimulate laughter--and it's probably the most ancient way--is by tickling, forms of mutual play that include this kind of playful touch.
But over time the jokes fell flat or got smutty, so Dr. Kataria developed a catalog of comical expressions and sounds that he and his confreres used to stimulate and simulate laughter.
He watched as much comedy as he could, including episodes of Candid Camera and Marx Brothers movies and found that over time, laughter stimulated chemicals in his body which allowed him several hours of pain-free sleep.
Kataria also advises his disciples to laugh silently, and to laugh alone, and he has invented a number of simple mantras and games intended to create a nonjudgmental atmosphere within a laughter club, and to stimulate childlike playfulness.
"We need to bring people here to stimulate growth" - a claim that was greeted with ironic laughter by the audience members.
In the short term, laughter can increase the endorphins in your brain, cool down your stress response, and stimulate circulation to help reduce stress.
Stimulate it.
I can elicit laughter by electrically stimulating parts of the brain," the neurologist Richard Restak said the other night, onstage at the Rubin Museum.
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