Mr.Kishore Kuvavala has been practicing LAUGHTER THERAPY since 1995.He has been conducting this every morning at any one of following places 1 Chowpatty Next Nana Nani Park 2 S.K. Patil Udhyan Charni Road 3 Priyadarshani Park Nepean Sea Rd. Timing is 6:45 A.M. On Friday at Vallabh Sadan Bhuleshwar timing at 8:00A.M.
Education Qualification : B.Sc.,L.L.B.,C.A.I.I.B.Retired As an Officer From BANK OF BARODA in 2001.He is also a Cricket Coach.

LAUGHTER THERAPY EFFECTS ON DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY & MEDICAL ASPECTS

ALL THE PRACTICAL OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH ON EFFECT OF LAUGHTER ON INDIVIDUAL HAS WONDERFUL RESULT.THEY ARE AS UNDER

1 FACEAL EFFECTS: LAUGHTER IS SIMPLY A MOVEMENT OF MUSCLES OF THE FACE, PARTICULARLY OF THE LIPS WITH A PECULIAR EXPRESSION OF THE EYES, INDICATING HAPPINESS, SATISFACTION,OR DERISION AND USUALLY ATTENDED BY A SONOROUS AND INTERRUPTED EXPULSION OF AIR FROM THE LUNGS. 

LAUGHTER IS AN EXCELLENT EXERCISE FOR YOUR FACIAL MUSCLES. IT TONES THE MUSCLES AND IMPROVE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS.WHEN YOU LAUGH YOUR FACE TURNS RED DUE TO AN INCREASE IN BLOOD SUPPLY.IT MAKES YOUR FACE CHEERFUL,ATTRACTIVE,WRINKLE AND BULGE FREE.LAUGHTER SQUEEZES THE TEAR GLANDS AND MOISTENS THE EYES ADDING A LITTLE SPARKLE TO THEM.

2 MIND-BRAIN :LAUGHTER THERAPY CAN CHARGE UP THE BATTERY OF A PERSON’S MIND & SOUL. IT OFFERS A MEDICINAL AND HEALING SOLUTION TO ANY AILMENT,FITNESS OF BODY AND EXUBERANT JOY OF THE MIND.WHEN YOU LAUGH, IT NOT ONLY LIGHTENS YOUR MENTAL LOAD BUT ALSO INDUCES PHYSICAL CHANGES IN THE BODY.

WITH A ROBOTIC LIFESTYLE, LAUGHTER THERAPY IS THE ANSWER FOR ALL THESE.IT STRENGTHENS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, IN FACT,IT INCREASES THE INTELLUCTIAL PERFORMANCE AND ALSO HELPS PSYCHOLOGICALLY. IT HELPS YOU TO THINK POSITIVELY AND WORRY LESS.IT ALSO MAKE YOU FORGET NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND HELP YOU FEEL BETTER.

3 STRESS: WITH TODAY’S FRANTIC LIFESTYLE, PERSONAL LIFE HAS TAKEN A BACK SEAT.THE DOCTORS SAY THAT ABOUT 90% OF DISEASES ARE RELATED TO STRESS & A HECTIC LIFE. THE INITIAL SYMPTONS OF STRESS COULD BE ANXIETY,ANGER,LACK OF SLEEP.ACIDITY, CONSTIPATION OR INDIGESTION AND IN LONG RUN PERSON BECOME VICTIM OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, DIABETES, HEART DISEASE, PEPTIC ULSERS, NERVOUS BREK DOWN, ARTHRITIES, SPONDYLITIES, SLIP DISC, ALLERGIES, INSOMNIA, PARKINSON’S AND CANCER.IF LAUGHTER IS USED EFFECTIVELY & RGULARLY CAN WORK AS A STRESS –BUSTER SO IT HAS BECOME MEDICINE OR ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT TO FIGHT THESE AILMENTS.

4 LUNGS: LAUGHTER THERAPY IS GOOD FOR THE LUNGS IT BRINGS RELIEF TO PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM VARIETY OF LUNG RELATED AILMENTS LIKE ASTHAMA, BRONCHITIES & BRONCHIAL ASTHAMA AND MORE. THE CHOKED LUNGS & WINDPIPE(MUCUS) GET CLEARED AND PERSON FEELS ENERGETIC. ADDITIONALLY THE BREATHING TROUBLE DISAPPEARS.LUNGS BEGIN TO BREATHE EASILY AND WITH MORE INTAKE OF AIR MUCH MORE OXYGEN IS  INHALE THAN BEFORE.

5 THE DIAPHRAGM ( SEPARATING THE ABDOMINAL AND THORACIC CAVITIES) ABDOMINAL AND SPINAL MUSCLES BECOME STRONG WHICH HELPS IN SITTING AND STANDING ERECTLY. WITH LAUGHTER EXERCISES THE ABDOMINAL MUSCLES & THE DIAPHRAGM REGULARLY RHTHEMETICALY MOVE UPWARDS AND DOWNWARDS WHICH GIVE ABDOMINAL ORGANS MASSAGED THIS AMOUNT TO IT INCEASES LUNGS VITAL CAPACITY AND OXYGENATION.

LLOYD SHOWED THAT LAUGHTER IS A COMBINATION DEEP INHALATION AND FULL EXHALATIONI.E. THREE STEPS OF PRANAYAM 1 INHALE AIR 2 RETAIN IN LUNGS 3 EXHALE AIR WITH FORCE. DR. FRY HAS SAID IT IS GOOD AEROBIC EXERCISE.

WHEN LAUGHTER MEMBER CHANT ‘HO’ THROWING BOTH THE HANDS IN FRONT REPEATEDLY WILL HELP IN REMOVING THE RESIDUAL AIR LYING IN THE LUNGS AND FILLING THEM WITH FRESH AIR – MORE OXYGEN.

6 HEART:  NORMAN COUSINS OF AMERICA IS A CELEBRATED AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS ‘‘ANOTOMY OF ILLNESS’ AND ‘HEALING HEART’. HE SAID THAT WHILE SUFFERING FROM HEART TROUBLE AND CERVICAL SPONDYLITIS HE MADE IT A POINT SEE CHALIE CHAPLIN MOVIES TWO TO THREE TIMES A DAY.THIS DAILY DOSE OF LAUGHTER CURED HIM TWO SERIOUS AILMENTS.

THE LAUGHTER CAN BE POWERFUL MEDICINE FOR THE HEART,STRESS AND ANXIETY IT HAS GROWN IN ALARMING RATE DUE TO IMPROPER DIET,HARRIED LIFE STYLE,OBESITY,SMOKING,EXCESSIVE INTAKE OF SATURATED FATS AND STRESS.LAUGHTER ACTS AS A THERAPEATIC REMEDY IN THE TREATMENT IT HELPS TO CONTROL BLOOD PRESSURE BY REDUCING THE RELEASE OF STRESS HORMONES & BRINGING RELAXATION.

7 EFFECT OF LAUGHTER ON HORMONES: IT HAS MANY POSITIVE EFFECTS ON THE HORMONIAL SECRETION IN THE BODY.

ENDOTHELIUM: LAUGHTER HAS AN EFFECT ON THE INTERNAL LINING OF BLOOD VESSELS, WHICH EXPANDS RESULTING INCREASE IN BLOOD FLOW. THIS REDUCES CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEM.

ENDORPHIN: IT HAS PAIN RELIEVING AND HEALING PROPERTIES. LAUGHTER TRIGGERS ITS RELEASE & PRODUCES A GENERAL SENSE OF WELL- BEING.

IMMUNOGLOBULIN:  IT IMPROVES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. SO PEOPLE ARE LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO A VIRUS OR BACTARIA.

SAROTINE: THIS PROVIDES POSITIVE ENERGY TO FIGHT DISEASES.

LYMPHOCYTES: IT CONTAINS CELLS THAT DEAL WITH CANCER CELLS OF THE PERSON.

CORTISOL- EPINEPHRINE-NOREPINEPHRINE: LAUGHTER REDUCES NEGATIVE HARMONES THAT MAY HARM THE BODY BY PRODUCING STRESS HORMONES 

8 STOMACH: THE LAUGHTER CREATES AN INTERNAL JOGGING SENSATION & MASSGE IN THE STOMACH I.E. A BIOCHEMICAL REACTION TAKES PLACE IN THE BODY PRODUCING POSITIVE HORMONES. 

9 OTHER BENEFITS: APART FROM PHYSICAL ,MENTAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS LAUGHTER THERAPY HELPS IN THE FOLLOWING TO ALL.

A)IMPROVES THE CONCENTRATION   B) STAMINA  C) SELF CONFIDENCE  D) POSITIVE ATITTUDE E) INTERPERSONNEL RELATIONSHIP  F) LEADERSHIP QUALITY G) PERSON CAN DIGEST THE FAILURE IN THE LIFE. H) WITH SMILING & PLEASANT FACE YOU ARE ACCEPTED BY ALL AGE GROUP.                                                                                                                                        

LAUGHTER EFFECTS ON DIFFERENT PARTS OF BODY.

WARM UP LAUGHTER : 

1) HO HO HAA HAA: ALL PARTICIPANTS CHANT ‘HO HO, HAA HAA’ WITH CLAPPS KEEPING GAPS IN THE FINGERS AND PALMS OVER EACH OTHER. WE KNOW THAT ALL THE ACCUPRESSURE POINTS OF TOTAL BODY LIES IN BOTH THE PALMS.THIS 3 TO 5 MINUTES EXERCISE MAKES ALL THE POINTS ACTIVE GIVING WONDERFUL FEEL TO EACH MEMBERS.IT HAS BEEN SAID BODY GET CHARGED.

2) CHANT HO :  WHEN WE THROW BOTH THE HANDS IN THE FRONT CHANTING HO REPEATEDLY WILL HELP TO REMOVE  RESIDUAL AIR LYING IN THE LUNGS AND FILLING WITH FRESH AIR AND OXYGEN.

3) CHANT HAA HAA HEE HEE :IT IS WONDERFUL FACIAL EXERCISE PLUS DIAGHPRAM WILL MOVE UPS & DOWN WITH RHYTHEM OF RAISING HANDS WITH HAA HAA AND BRINGING HANDS DOWN WITH HEE HEE.

SPONTANEOUS – PATIALA LAUGHTER : WHEN WE DO THIS LAUGHTER MOUTH WILL BE WIDE OPEN MIXIMUM SOUND BOTH THE HANDS UPWARD AND CLAPPING WITH EACH OTHER HAVING EYE CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER TO ACT AS A STIMULANT FOR A LONGER LAUGHTER.THIS LAUGHTER CREATES AN INTERNAL JOGGING SENSATION TO UPPER STOMACH I.E.EFFECTING WIND PIPE, LUNGS,HEART,LEVER AND PANCREAS OF THE BODY.

 JOKER’S LAUGHTER: THIS IS SAME AS SPONTANEOUS LAUGHTER ONLY DIFFERENCE NO SOUND,THERE SHOULD BE FEELING EXPRESSION ON THE FACE LIKE JOKER’S IN THE CIRCUS.THIS WILL GIVE INTERNAL JOGGING TO MIDDLE PORTION OF THE STOMACH I.E KIDNEY

MUMBAI- OFFICE –ETIQUETTE LAUGHTER:  IN THIS LAUGHTER MOUTH CLOSED GENTLY MAKING HUMMING BEES OR PIGEON SOUND. THIS WILL GIVE INTERNAL MASSAGE TO LOWER PORTION OF STOMACH I.E. SMALL AND BIG INTESTINE, SEXUAL ORGANS AND BLADDER.

BELLY LAUGHTER & KAPALBHATI LAUGHTER ALSO HAS GREAT EFFECT ON ALL INTERNAL ORGANS OF THE STOMACH.

APART FROM ALL THE ABOVE ALL THE PARTICIPANT DOES 45 MINUTES EXERCISE EVERY DAY BEFORE DOING LAUGHTERS.AFTER THAT PALMING,OHMKARS FOR THREE TIMES,PRAYEER AND AT THE END POSITIVE SLOGAMS. THESE CUMULATIVE EFFECT MAKES DIFFERENCE IN EVERY INDIVIDUAL GIVING THEM I.E. PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS FITNESS.

BY KISHORE H. KUVAVALA,

CHAIRMAN: PRIYADARSHANI LAUGHTER CLUB INTERNATIONAL