Dr. Kataria’s Laughter Yoga Diary

Yoga Nidra - The Ultimate Relaxation Technique by Dr. Madan Kataria

In this highly stressed out world today, people have no time to relax and sleep. As a result, they are irritated throughout the day which adversely affects their work performance and lowers their potential.

Just 30 minutes of Yoga Nidra is equivalent to two hours of ordinary sleep. It is the fastest way to recharge and relax both body and mind. Read more…

After ten years I discover a new technique for using Dr Madan KatariaLaughter yoga to cope with high-stress events & situations.

I want to share with you an experience I had on 26th of November 2006.

Since developing laughter yoga in 1995 I have dreamed of doing my own research to produce quantifiable research of the benefits of laughter yoga in the workplace. Most medical and scientific research on laughter has used humor-induced laughter. I wanted to research using laughter yoga only to measure the difference in benefits if any between mental and body induced laughter.
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This story comes from laughter professional Eva in Zurich.

This event happened just a few months after i started my laughter club. Gradually more people were coming to our sessions and we all were very happy. People brought their stories of everyday life which often touched me deeply.

It was these stories that made me realize how important my work had become. Read more…

Depression, sadness, anger, frustration, drug addiction and alcoholism all stem from an inability to effectively deal with life’s problems and an inability to express pent-up emotions. This is caused by our having too many wants and desires, and unrealistic expectations of comforts and pleasures, and an expected sense of gratification.

To deal with emotions we need to understand how our thinking mind and our emotional mind differ.

Our thinking mind is also known as our intellect or logical and rationalizing mind. It judges and evaluates what is good and bad for us. It is slow in making decisions and is very calculative. It does not believe in taking risks. Decision-making is based on past experiences, value systems and our knowledge-base.

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I am in Bangalore for a laughter yoga research project. There are 160 laughter clubs in Bangalore city each with 50-100 members meeting every morning.On 14th November I visited Harehreshwara laughter club.

I met a lady named Nehatra Ramachandra, who is 52 years of age. She lost her husband from brain hemorrhage three weeks ago. She was driven to despair and was very depressed.

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When I was in Berlin on 14th October 2006 for the European Laughter Yoga Conference, a newspaper journalist asked me how you can laugh if you are not in a mood to laugh?

I am asked this question often by people all over the world. Here is the answer. Read more…

In normal life it is very difficult to express your anger because it might affect other people. Psychotherapists introduced shouting and screaming exercises to release the energy of anger but these often have strong negative side effects.
Laughter yoga breathing and laughter exercises open the layers of your subconscious mind and allow you to release pent-up emotions including anger and strong emotions with no dangerous side effects. Read more…

Dr Kataria discusses three types of stress that are prevalent in today’s world, and how they leave us feeling physically, mentally & emotionally exhausted. Emotional stress is especially difficult to release.
He explains how laughter yoga releases all three types of stress and provides a fast energy recharge, and why laughter yoga works faster and more effectively than other forms of stress release. Read more…