3. What is Humor
What is Sense of Humor
Styles of Humor
What is Laughter
Health Benefits of Laughter
Psychological Effects of
Laughter
Healing through Humor
How to Laugh
Practicing Laughter
Laughter Workshop
4. HUMOR
is a form of
entertainment
and a means of
coping with
difficult or
awkward
situations and
stressful
events.
5. HUMOR can be defined as state of
mind, as the quality of causing amusement
and as ability to understand and enjoy
what is funny and makes
people laugh.
6. HUMOR can help :
1. releasing tension
2. protect your
heart health
3. give your
immune system
a boost
4. improve your
health,
5. help diffuse
difficult
situations.
7. A sense of humor
can be a person's
greatest asset.
This skill can
help you interact
easily with others
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8. You don’t need
to be Funny
To have a sense
of humor, you
just have to
learn to see
the lighter side of
things
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9. 1. Self deprecating Humor is putting yourself
down or “poor me” fashion
Styles of Humor
10. 2. Puns & Plays on Words
A pun uses word play for humorous effect
25. When you Laugh
the pattern of brain
wave activity in
subjects responding
to humorous
material.
26. EEG (Electroencephalograph)
measures brain activity and
researches saw that the brain
produces a regular electrical
pattern.
Within 4/10 of a seconds of
exposure to something
potentially funny, an electrical
waved moved through the
cerebral cortex, the largest part
of the brain
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32. "LAUGHTER IS THE BEST
MEDICINE"
• 75 percent of doctors would prescribe
laughter as a therapy
• 95 percent have seen the benefits of
laughter in working with patients.
42. How to Laugh
❑ Finding Humor
1. Smile More
Studies have shown that people laugh
harder while holding a straw in their teeth,
rather than holding a straw in their lips.
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44. 3. Watch funny movies and TV programs
Find the things that make you laugh the hardest
and spend time laughing.
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4. Switch off the news
You can download comedy
podcasts or listen to humorous
radio programs and get your
news fix by reading the paper
later in the day.
If you're a newspaper
addict, start with the
funnies and the human
interest stories before
you get too deep into
the depressing stuff
47. Don't worry about the sound
of your laugh
Everyone's laugh is unique, so as long as
yours is polite and the source of legitimate
joy, you don't need to worry about having
an "ugly" laugh
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48. PRACTICING LAUGHTER
1. Force a few chuckles
2. Even if you don't find
something
particularly funny to
laugh at, just making
yourself laugh can
get you started on a
healthy giggling fit.
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Start with three short
"ha" sounds and
do several sets of forced
laughs to get started
with
Think of something you
found funny in the past
and laughed at.
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Commit to laughter.
1. If you decide that you're
going to laugh more,
make yourself laugh at
least once every day.
2. Practice sets of laughing
on your way to work, or
after you get home and
you want to unwind a bit.
52. Try laughter yoga.
Laughter yoga is
forcing oneself to
laugh, and the
silly, forced
laughter becomes
real laughter that
gets blood flowing
and endorphins
released into the
body
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53. 2 primary techniques
for Laughter Yoga
1. Breathing= the focus is
filling our diaphragm
increasing our oxygen
and help our blood flow
2. Laughter =the focus
here is a deep belly
laughter and it jumps up
our immune system
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54. LAUGHING WORKSHOP 1
LAUGHING HA , HA, HA
1. Deep Breath in
2. Raise your
hands over
3. Let your breath
out in audible
“HA, HA, HA””
4. LAUGH
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56. LAUGHING WORKSHOP
SILENT LAUGHTER
Silent Laughter with
Mouth Wide Open:
1. Find a partner
2. Look into others eyes
3. Make a funny gestures
4. Deep Breath in
5. Feel up your lungs
6. From the bottom of your belly
7. LAUGH with out SOUNDS
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57. LAUGHING WORKSHOP 6
SHAKING HAND LAUGHTER
Shake hands with those
around you and look at their
face and Laugh
1. Take a deep breath in
2. Shake hands
3. Look at the your partner
face and
4. Laugh
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58. LAUGHING WORKSHOP
STRESS OUT LAUGHING
I want you to decide what to LAUGH
ABOUT………….
THINK things that make you stress out….
Reflect that something that stressing you in
the past few days…………..
Take a minute AND PUT IN OUR MIND..
We can NOT always change the
outcome of life but WE CAN
CHANGE HOW REACT to it.
We can Laugh at the moment and HAVE
Fun of it
1.Deep Breath in and
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59. LAUGHING WORKSHOP
CELEBRATION LAUGHTER
1. Get a partner
2. and then tell “ Yes!TAPOS
NAANG webinar NI MAM,”
3. Give high fives
4. Wave your hands and
celebrating
5. LAUGH
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